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<title>linux.git/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c, branch v5.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:01+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo</title>
<updated>2019-03-08T02:32:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Rodgman</name>
<email>dave.rodgman@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-08T00:30:44+00:00</published>
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To prevent any issues with persistent data, separate lzo-rle from lzo so
that it is treated as a separate algorithm, and lzo is still available.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190205155944.16007-3-dave.rodgman@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Rodgman &lt;dave.rodgman@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer &lt;markus@oberhumer.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Sealey &lt;matt.sealey@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;nitingupta910@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Purdie &lt;rpurdie@openedhand.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sonny Rao &lt;sonnyrao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
To prevent any issues with persistent data, separate lzo-rle from lzo so
that it is treated as a separate algorithm, and lzo is still available.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190205155944.16007-3-dave.rodgman@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Rodgman &lt;dave.rodgman@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer &lt;markus@oberhumer.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Sealey &lt;matt.sealey@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;nitingupta910@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Purdie &lt;rpurdie@openedhand.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sonny Rao &lt;sonnyrao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zram: remove zlib from the list of recommended algorithms</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T02:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T01:33:53+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
ZSTD tends to outperform deflate/inflate, thus we remove zlib from the
list of recommended algorithms and recommend zstd instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912050005.3247-2-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
ZSTD tends to outperform deflate/inflate, thus we remove zlib from the
list of recommended algorithms and recommend zstd instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912050005.3247-2-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zram: add zstd to the supported algorithms list</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T02:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T01:33:49+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Add ZSTD to the list of supported compression algorithms.

ZRAM fio perf test:

                      LZO         DEFLATE         ZSTD

#jobs1
WRITE:              (2180MB/s)   (77.2MB/s)      (1429MB/s)
WRITE:              (1617MB/s)   (77.7MB/s)      (1202MB/s)
READ:                (426MB/s)   (595MB/s)       (1181MB/s)
READ:                (422MB/s)   (572MB/s)       (1020MB/s)
READ:                (318MB/s)   (67.8MB/s)      (563MB/s)
WRITE:               (318MB/s)   (67.9MB/s)      (564MB/s)
READ:                (336MB/s)   (68.3MB/s)      (583MB/s)
WRITE:               (335MB/s)   (68.2MB/s)      (582MB/s)
#jobs2
WRITE:              (3441MB/s)   (152MB/s)       (2141MB/s)
WRITE:              (2507MB/s)   (147MB/s)       (1888MB/s)
READ:                (801MB/s)   (1146MB/s)      (1890MB/s)
READ:                (767MB/s)   (1096MB/s)      (2073MB/s)
READ:                (621MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1009MB/s)
WRITE:               (621MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1009MB/s)
READ:                (656MB/s)   (125MB/s)       (1075MB/s)
WRITE:               (657MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1077MB/s)
#jobs3
WRITE:              (4772MB/s)   (225MB/s)       (3394MB/s)
WRITE:              (3905MB/s)   (211MB/s)       (2939MB/s)
READ:               (1216MB/s)   (1608MB/s)      (3218MB/s)
READ:               (1159MB/s)   (1431MB/s)      (2981MB/s)
READ:                (906MB/s)   (156MB/s)       (1457MB/s)
WRITE:               (907MB/s)   (156MB/s)       (1458MB/s)
READ:                (953MB/s)   (158MB/s)       (1595MB/s)
WRITE:               (952MB/s)   (157MB/s)       (1593MB/s)
#jobs4
WRITE:              (6036MB/s)   (265MB/s)       (4469MB/s)
WRITE:              (5059MB/s)   (263MB/s)       (3951MB/s)
READ:               (1618MB/s)   (2066MB/s)      (4276MB/s)
READ:               (1573MB/s)   (1942MB/s)      (3830MB/s)
READ:               (1202MB/s)   (227MB/s)       (1971MB/s)
WRITE:              (1200MB/s)   (227MB/s)       (1968MB/s)
READ:               (1265MB/s)   (226MB/s)       (2116MB/s)
WRITE:              (1264MB/s)   (226MB/s)       (2114MB/s)
#jobs5
WRITE:              (5339MB/s)   (233MB/s)       (3781MB/s)
WRITE:              (4298MB/s)   (234MB/s)       (3276MB/s)
READ:               (1626MB/s)   (2048MB/s)      (4081MB/s)
READ:               (1567MB/s)   (1929MB/s)      (3758MB/s)
READ:               (1174MB/s)   (205MB/s)       (1747MB/s)
WRITE:              (1173MB/s)   (204MB/s)       (1746MB/s)
READ:               (1214MB/s)   (208MB/s)       (1890MB/s)
WRITE:              (1215MB/s)   (208MB/s)       (1892MB/s)
#jobs6
WRITE:              (5666MB/s)   (270MB/s)       (4338MB/s)
WRITE:              (4828MB/s)   (267MB/s)       (3772MB/s)
READ:               (1803MB/s)   (2058MB/s)      (4946MB/s)
READ:               (1805MB/s)   (2156MB/s)      (4711MB/s)
READ:               (1334MB/s)   (235MB/s)       (2135MB/s)
WRITE:              (1335MB/s)   (235MB/s)       (2137MB/s)
READ:               (1364MB/s)   (236MB/s)       (2268MB/s)
WRITE:              (1365MB/s)   (237MB/s)       (2270MB/s)
#jobs7
WRITE:              (5474MB/s)   (270MB/s)       (4300MB/s)
WRITE:              (4666MB/s)   (266MB/s)       (3817MB/s)
READ:               (2022MB/s)   (2319MB/s)      (5472MB/s)
READ:               (1924MB/s)   (2260MB/s)      (5031MB/s)
READ:               (1369MB/s)   (242MB/s)       (2153MB/s)
WRITE:              (1370MB/s)   (242MB/s)       (2155MB/s)
READ:               (1499MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2310MB/s)
WRITE:              (1497MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2307MB/s)
#jobs8
WRITE:              (5558MB/s)   (273MB/s)       (4439MB/s)
WRITE:              (4763MB/s)   (271MB/s)       (3918MB/s)
READ:               (2201MB/s)   (2599MB/s)      (6062MB/s)
READ:               (2105MB/s)   (2463MB/s)      (5413MB/s)
READ:               (1490MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2238MB/s)
WRITE:              (1488MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2236MB/s)
READ:               (1566MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (2434MB/s)
WRITE:              (1568MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (2437MB/s)
#jobs9
WRITE:              (5120MB/s)   (264MB/s)       (4035MB/s)
WRITE:              (4531MB/s)   (267MB/s)       (3740MB/s)
READ:               (1940MB/s)   (2258MB/s)      (4986MB/s)
READ:               (2024MB/s)   (2387MB/s)      (4871MB/s)
READ:               (1343MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2038MB/s)
WRITE:              (1342MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2037MB/s)
READ:               (1553MB/s)   (238MB/s)       (2243MB/s)
WRITE:              (1552MB/s)   (238MB/s)       (2242MB/s)
#jobs10
WRITE:              (5345MB/s)   (271MB/s)       (3988MB/s)
WRITE:              (4750MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (3668MB/s)
READ:               (1876MB/s)   (2363MB/s)      (5150MB/s)
READ:               (1990MB/s)   (2256MB/s)      (5080MB/s)
READ:               (1355MB/s)   (250MB/s)       (2019MB/s)
WRITE:              (1356MB/s)   (251MB/s)       (2020MB/s)
READ:               (1490MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2202MB/s)
WRITE:              (1488MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2199MB/s)

jobs1                              perfstat
instructions                 52,065,555,710 (    0.79)    855,731,114,587 (    2.64)       54,280,709,944 (    1.40)
branches                     14,020,427,116 ( 725.847)    101,733,449,582 (1074.521)       11,170,591,067 ( 992.869)
branch-misses                    22,626,174 (   0.16%)        274,197,885 (   0.27%)           25,915,805 (   0.23%)
jobs2                              perfstat
instructions                103,633,110,402 (    0.75)  1,710,822,100,914 (    2.59)      107,879,874,104 (    1.28)
branches                     27,931,237,282 ( 679.203)    203,298,267,479 (1037.326)       22,185,350,842 ( 884.427)
branch-misses                    46,103,811 (   0.17%)        533,747,204 (   0.26%)           49,682,483 (   0.22%)
jobs3                              perfstat
instructions                154,857,283,657 (    0.76)  2,565,748,974,197 (    2.57)      161,515,435,813 (    1.31)
branches                     41,759,490,355 ( 670.529)    304,905,605,277 ( 978.765)       33,215,805,907 ( 888.003)
branch-misses                    74,263,293 (   0.18%)        759,746,240 (   0.25%)           76,841,196 (   0.23%)
jobs4                              perfstat
instructions                206,215,849,076 (    0.75)  3,420,169,460,897 (    2.60)      215,003,061,664 (    1.31)
branches                     55,632,141,739 ( 666.501)    406,394,977,433 ( 927.241)       44,214,322,251 ( 883.532)
branch-misses                   102,287,788 (   0.18%)      1,098,617,314 (   0.27%)          103,891,040 (   0.23%)
jobs5                              perfstat
instructions                258,711,315,588 (    0.67)  4,275,657,533,244 (    2.23)      269,332,235,685 (    1.08)
branches                     69,802,821,166 ( 588.823)    507,996,211,252 ( 797.036)       55,450,846,129 ( 735.095)
branch-misses                   129,217,214 (   0.19%)      1,243,284,991 (   0.24%)          173,512,278 (   0.31%)
jobs6                              perfstat
instructions                312,796,166,008 (    0.61)  5,133,896,344,660 (    2.02)      323,658,769,588 (    1.04)
branches                     84,372,488,583 ( 520.541)    610,310,494,402 ( 697.642)       66,683,292,992 ( 693.939)
branch-misses                   159,438,978 (   0.19%)      1,396,368,563 (   0.23%)          174,406,934 (   0.26%)
jobs7                              perfstat
instructions                363,211,372,930 (    0.56)  5,988,205,600,879 (    1.75)      377,824,674,156 (    0.93)
branches                     98,057,013,765 ( 463.117)    711,841,255,974 ( 598.762)       77,879,009,954 ( 600.443)
branch-misses                   199,513,153 (   0.20%)      1,507,651,077 (   0.21%)          248,203,369 (   0.32%)
jobs8                              perfstat
instructions                413,960,354,615 (    0.52)  6,842,918,558,378 (    1.45)      431,938,486,581 (    0.83)
branches                    111,812,574,884 ( 414.224)    813,299,084,518 ( 491.173)       89,062,699,827 ( 517.795)
branch-misses                   233,584,845 (   0.21%)      1,531,593,921 (   0.19%)          286,818,489 (   0.32%)
jobs9                              perfstat
instructions                465,976,220,300 (    0.53)  7,698,467,237,372 (    1.47)      486,352,600,321 (    0.84)
branches                    125,931,456,162 ( 424.063)    915,207,005,715 ( 498.192)      100,370,404,090 ( 517.439)
branch-misses                   256,992,445 (   0.20%)      1,782,809,816 (   0.19%)          345,239,380 (   0.34%)
jobs10                             perfstat
instructions                517,406,372,715 (    0.53)  8,553,527,312,900 (    1.48)      540,732,653,094 (    0.84)
branches                    139,839,780,676 ( 427.732)  1,016,737,699,389 ( 503.172)      111,696,557,638 ( 516.750)
branch-misses                   259,595,561 (   0.19%)      1,952,570,279 (   0.19%)          357,818,661 (   0.32%)

seconds elapsed        20.630411534     96.084546565    12.743373571
seconds elapsed        22.292627625     100.984155001   14.407413560
seconds elapsed        22.396016966     110.344880848   14.032201392
seconds elapsed        22.517330949     113.351459170   14.243074935
seconds elapsed        28.548305104     156.515193765   19.159286861
seconds elapsed        30.453538116     164.559937678   19.362492717
seconds elapsed        33.467108086     188.486827481   21.492612173
seconds elapsed        35.617727591     209.602677783   23.256422492
seconds elapsed        42.584239509     243.959902566   28.458540338
seconds elapsed        47.683632526     269.635248851   31.542404137

Over all, ZSTD has slower WRITE, but much faster READ (perhaps
a static compression buffer used during the test helped ZSTD a
lot), which results in faster test results.

Memory consumption (zram mm_stat file):

zram LZO mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33566720        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0

zram DEFLATE mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25190400        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25190400        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0

zram ZSTD mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16785408        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16785408        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0

==================================================================================

Official benchmarks [1]:

Compressor name         Ratio   Compression     Decompress.
zstd 1.1.3 -1           2.877   430 MB/s        1110 MB/s
zlib 1.2.8 -1           2.743   110 MB/s        400 MB/s
brotli 0.5.2 -0         2.708   400 MB/s        430 MB/s
quicklz 1.5.0 -1        2.238   550 MB/s        710 MB/s
lzo1x 2.09 -1           2.108   650 MB/s        830 MB/s
lz4 1.7.5               2.101   720 MB/s        3600 MB/s
snappy 1.1.3            2.091   500 MB/s        1650 MB/s
lzf 3.6 -1              2.077   400 MB/s        860 MB/s

Minchan said:

: I did test with my sample data and compared zstd with deflate.  zstd's
: compress ratio is lower a little bit but compression speed is much faster
: 3 times more and decompress speed is too 2 times more.  With different
: data, it is different but overall, zstd would be better for speed at the
: cost of a little lower compress ratio(about 5%) so I believe it's worth to
: replace deflate.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912050005.3247-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add ZSTD to the list of supported compression algorithms.

ZRAM fio perf test:

                      LZO         DEFLATE         ZSTD

#jobs1
WRITE:              (2180MB/s)   (77.2MB/s)      (1429MB/s)
WRITE:              (1617MB/s)   (77.7MB/s)      (1202MB/s)
READ:                (426MB/s)   (595MB/s)       (1181MB/s)
READ:                (422MB/s)   (572MB/s)       (1020MB/s)
READ:                (318MB/s)   (67.8MB/s)      (563MB/s)
WRITE:               (318MB/s)   (67.9MB/s)      (564MB/s)
READ:                (336MB/s)   (68.3MB/s)      (583MB/s)
WRITE:               (335MB/s)   (68.2MB/s)      (582MB/s)
#jobs2
WRITE:              (3441MB/s)   (152MB/s)       (2141MB/s)
WRITE:              (2507MB/s)   (147MB/s)       (1888MB/s)
READ:                (801MB/s)   (1146MB/s)      (1890MB/s)
READ:                (767MB/s)   (1096MB/s)      (2073MB/s)
READ:                (621MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1009MB/s)
WRITE:               (621MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1009MB/s)
READ:                (656MB/s)   (125MB/s)       (1075MB/s)
WRITE:               (657MB/s)   (126MB/s)       (1077MB/s)
#jobs3
WRITE:              (4772MB/s)   (225MB/s)       (3394MB/s)
WRITE:              (3905MB/s)   (211MB/s)       (2939MB/s)
READ:               (1216MB/s)   (1608MB/s)      (3218MB/s)
READ:               (1159MB/s)   (1431MB/s)      (2981MB/s)
READ:                (906MB/s)   (156MB/s)       (1457MB/s)
WRITE:               (907MB/s)   (156MB/s)       (1458MB/s)
READ:                (953MB/s)   (158MB/s)       (1595MB/s)
WRITE:               (952MB/s)   (157MB/s)       (1593MB/s)
#jobs4
WRITE:              (6036MB/s)   (265MB/s)       (4469MB/s)
WRITE:              (5059MB/s)   (263MB/s)       (3951MB/s)
READ:               (1618MB/s)   (2066MB/s)      (4276MB/s)
READ:               (1573MB/s)   (1942MB/s)      (3830MB/s)
READ:               (1202MB/s)   (227MB/s)       (1971MB/s)
WRITE:              (1200MB/s)   (227MB/s)       (1968MB/s)
READ:               (1265MB/s)   (226MB/s)       (2116MB/s)
WRITE:              (1264MB/s)   (226MB/s)       (2114MB/s)
#jobs5
WRITE:              (5339MB/s)   (233MB/s)       (3781MB/s)
WRITE:              (4298MB/s)   (234MB/s)       (3276MB/s)
READ:               (1626MB/s)   (2048MB/s)      (4081MB/s)
READ:               (1567MB/s)   (1929MB/s)      (3758MB/s)
READ:               (1174MB/s)   (205MB/s)       (1747MB/s)
WRITE:              (1173MB/s)   (204MB/s)       (1746MB/s)
READ:               (1214MB/s)   (208MB/s)       (1890MB/s)
WRITE:              (1215MB/s)   (208MB/s)       (1892MB/s)
#jobs6
WRITE:              (5666MB/s)   (270MB/s)       (4338MB/s)
WRITE:              (4828MB/s)   (267MB/s)       (3772MB/s)
READ:               (1803MB/s)   (2058MB/s)      (4946MB/s)
READ:               (1805MB/s)   (2156MB/s)      (4711MB/s)
READ:               (1334MB/s)   (235MB/s)       (2135MB/s)
WRITE:              (1335MB/s)   (235MB/s)       (2137MB/s)
READ:               (1364MB/s)   (236MB/s)       (2268MB/s)
WRITE:              (1365MB/s)   (237MB/s)       (2270MB/s)
#jobs7
WRITE:              (5474MB/s)   (270MB/s)       (4300MB/s)
WRITE:              (4666MB/s)   (266MB/s)       (3817MB/s)
READ:               (2022MB/s)   (2319MB/s)      (5472MB/s)
READ:               (1924MB/s)   (2260MB/s)      (5031MB/s)
READ:               (1369MB/s)   (242MB/s)       (2153MB/s)
WRITE:              (1370MB/s)   (242MB/s)       (2155MB/s)
READ:               (1499MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2310MB/s)
WRITE:              (1497MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2307MB/s)
#jobs8
WRITE:              (5558MB/s)   (273MB/s)       (4439MB/s)
WRITE:              (4763MB/s)   (271MB/s)       (3918MB/s)
READ:               (2201MB/s)   (2599MB/s)      (6062MB/s)
READ:               (2105MB/s)   (2463MB/s)      (5413MB/s)
READ:               (1490MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2238MB/s)
WRITE:              (1488MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2236MB/s)
READ:               (1566MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (2434MB/s)
WRITE:              (1568MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (2437MB/s)
#jobs9
WRITE:              (5120MB/s)   (264MB/s)       (4035MB/s)
WRITE:              (4531MB/s)   (267MB/s)       (3740MB/s)
READ:               (1940MB/s)   (2258MB/s)      (4986MB/s)
READ:               (2024MB/s)   (2387MB/s)      (4871MB/s)
READ:               (1343MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2038MB/s)
WRITE:              (1342MB/s)   (246MB/s)       (2037MB/s)
READ:               (1553MB/s)   (238MB/s)       (2243MB/s)
WRITE:              (1552MB/s)   (238MB/s)       (2242MB/s)
#jobs10
WRITE:              (5345MB/s)   (271MB/s)       (3988MB/s)
WRITE:              (4750MB/s)   (254MB/s)       (3668MB/s)
READ:               (1876MB/s)   (2363MB/s)      (5150MB/s)
READ:               (1990MB/s)   (2256MB/s)      (5080MB/s)
READ:               (1355MB/s)   (250MB/s)       (2019MB/s)
WRITE:              (1356MB/s)   (251MB/s)       (2020MB/s)
READ:               (1490MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2202MB/s)
WRITE:              (1488MB/s)   (252MB/s)       (2199MB/s)

jobs1                              perfstat
instructions                 52,065,555,710 (    0.79)    855,731,114,587 (    2.64)       54,280,709,944 (    1.40)
branches                     14,020,427,116 ( 725.847)    101,733,449,582 (1074.521)       11,170,591,067 ( 992.869)
branch-misses                    22,626,174 (   0.16%)        274,197,885 (   0.27%)           25,915,805 (   0.23%)
jobs2                              perfstat
instructions                103,633,110,402 (    0.75)  1,710,822,100,914 (    2.59)      107,879,874,104 (    1.28)
branches                     27,931,237,282 ( 679.203)    203,298,267,479 (1037.326)       22,185,350,842 ( 884.427)
branch-misses                    46,103,811 (   0.17%)        533,747,204 (   0.26%)           49,682,483 (   0.22%)
jobs3                              perfstat
instructions                154,857,283,657 (    0.76)  2,565,748,974,197 (    2.57)      161,515,435,813 (    1.31)
branches                     41,759,490,355 ( 670.529)    304,905,605,277 ( 978.765)       33,215,805,907 ( 888.003)
branch-misses                    74,263,293 (   0.18%)        759,746,240 (   0.25%)           76,841,196 (   0.23%)
jobs4                              perfstat
instructions                206,215,849,076 (    0.75)  3,420,169,460,897 (    2.60)      215,003,061,664 (    1.31)
branches                     55,632,141,739 ( 666.501)    406,394,977,433 ( 927.241)       44,214,322,251 ( 883.532)
branch-misses                   102,287,788 (   0.18%)      1,098,617,314 (   0.27%)          103,891,040 (   0.23%)
jobs5                              perfstat
instructions                258,711,315,588 (    0.67)  4,275,657,533,244 (    2.23)      269,332,235,685 (    1.08)
branches                     69,802,821,166 ( 588.823)    507,996,211,252 ( 797.036)       55,450,846,129 ( 735.095)
branch-misses                   129,217,214 (   0.19%)      1,243,284,991 (   0.24%)          173,512,278 (   0.31%)
jobs6                              perfstat
instructions                312,796,166,008 (    0.61)  5,133,896,344,660 (    2.02)      323,658,769,588 (    1.04)
branches                     84,372,488,583 ( 520.541)    610,310,494,402 ( 697.642)       66,683,292,992 ( 693.939)
branch-misses                   159,438,978 (   0.19%)      1,396,368,563 (   0.23%)          174,406,934 (   0.26%)
jobs7                              perfstat
instructions                363,211,372,930 (    0.56)  5,988,205,600,879 (    1.75)      377,824,674,156 (    0.93)
branches                     98,057,013,765 ( 463.117)    711,841,255,974 ( 598.762)       77,879,009,954 ( 600.443)
branch-misses                   199,513,153 (   0.20%)      1,507,651,077 (   0.21%)          248,203,369 (   0.32%)
jobs8                              perfstat
instructions                413,960,354,615 (    0.52)  6,842,918,558,378 (    1.45)      431,938,486,581 (    0.83)
branches                    111,812,574,884 ( 414.224)    813,299,084,518 ( 491.173)       89,062,699,827 ( 517.795)
branch-misses                   233,584,845 (   0.21%)      1,531,593,921 (   0.19%)          286,818,489 (   0.32%)
jobs9                              perfstat
instructions                465,976,220,300 (    0.53)  7,698,467,237,372 (    1.47)      486,352,600,321 (    0.84)
branches                    125,931,456,162 ( 424.063)    915,207,005,715 ( 498.192)      100,370,404,090 ( 517.439)
branch-misses                   256,992,445 (   0.20%)      1,782,809,816 (   0.19%)          345,239,380 (   0.34%)
jobs10                             perfstat
instructions                517,406,372,715 (    0.53)  8,553,527,312,900 (    1.48)      540,732,653,094 (    0.84)
branches                    139,839,780,676 ( 427.732)  1,016,737,699,389 ( 503.172)      111,696,557,638 ( 516.750)
branch-misses                   259,595,561 (   0.19%)      1,952,570,279 (   0.19%)          357,818,661 (   0.32%)

seconds elapsed        20.630411534     96.084546565    12.743373571
seconds elapsed        22.292627625     100.984155001   14.407413560
seconds elapsed        22.396016966     110.344880848   14.032201392
seconds elapsed        22.517330949     113.351459170   14.243074935
seconds elapsed        28.548305104     156.515193765   19.159286861
seconds elapsed        30.453538116     164.559937678   19.362492717
seconds elapsed        33.467108086     188.486827481   21.492612173
seconds elapsed        35.617727591     209.602677783   23.256422492
seconds elapsed        42.584239509     243.959902566   28.458540338
seconds elapsed        47.683632526     269.635248851   31.542404137

Over all, ZSTD has slower WRITE, but much faster READ (perhaps
a static compression buffer used during the test helped ZSTD a
lot), which results in faster test results.

Memory consumption (zram mm_stat file):

zram LZO mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33566720        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33558528        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 23068672 33558528        0 33562624        0        0

zram DEFLATE mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25190400        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25190400        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 16252928 25178112        0 25178112        0        0

zram ZSTD mm_stat
mm_stat (jobs1): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs2): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs3): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16785408        0        0
mm_stat (jobs4): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs5): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs6): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs7): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs8): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0
mm_stat (jobs9): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16785408        0        0
mm_stat (jobs10): 2147483648 11010048 16781312        0 16781312        0        0

==================================================================================

Official benchmarks [1]:

Compressor name         Ratio   Compression     Decompress.
zstd 1.1.3 -1           2.877   430 MB/s        1110 MB/s
zlib 1.2.8 -1           2.743   110 MB/s        400 MB/s
brotli 0.5.2 -0         2.708   400 MB/s        430 MB/s
quicklz 1.5.0 -1        2.238   550 MB/s        710 MB/s
lzo1x 2.09 -1           2.108   650 MB/s        830 MB/s
lz4 1.7.5               2.101   720 MB/s        3600 MB/s
snappy 1.1.3            2.091   500 MB/s        1650 MB/s
lzf 3.6 -1              2.077   400 MB/s        860 MB/s

Minchan said:

: I did test with my sample data and compared zstd with deflate.  zstd's
: compress ratio is lower a little bit but compression speed is much faster
: 3 times more and decompress speed is too 2 times more.  With different
: data, it is different but overall, zstd would be better for speed at the
: cost of a little lower compress ratio(about 5%) so I believe it's worth to
: replace deflate.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912050005.3247-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zram: use __sysfs_match_string() helper</title>
<updated>2017-07-10T23:32:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-10T22:48:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ed8a555323a6fddadfd9e259fc4e9c41c191ca6c'/>
<id>ed8a555323a6fddadfd9e259fc4e9c41c191ca6c</id>
<content type='text'>
Use __sysfs_match_string() helper instead of open coded variant.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170609120835.22156-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Use __sysfs_match_string() helper instead of open coded variant.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170609120835.22156-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zram: Convert to hotplug state machine</title>
<updated>2016-12-01T23:52:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna-Maria Gleixner</name>
<email>anna-maria@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-26T23:13:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1dd6c834fa4a75a86fecefb6d1f1525f1cb755c7'/>
<id>1dd6c834fa4a75a86fecefb6d1f1525f1cb755c7</id>
<content type='text'>
Install the callbacks via the state machine with multi instance support and let
the core invoke the callbacks on the already online CPUs.

[bigeasy: wire up the multi instance stuff]
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161126231350.10321-19-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</content>
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<pre>
Install the callbacks via the state machine with multi instance support and let
the core invoke the callbacks on the already online CPUs.

[bigeasy: wire up the multi instance stuff]
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161126231350.10321-19-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zram: drop gfp_t from zcomp_strm_alloc()</title>
<updated>2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-26T22:22:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=16d37725a042cc66f9ee95889dd40e734264508e'/>
<id>16d37725a042cc66f9ee95889dd40e734264508e</id>
<content type='text'>
We now allocate streams from CPU_UP hot-plug path, there are no
context-dependent stream allocations anymore and we can schedule from
zcomp_strm_alloc().  Use GFP_KERNEL directly and drop a gfp_t parameter.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-9-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
We now allocate streams from CPU_UP hot-plug path, there are no
context-dependent stream allocations anymore and we can schedule from
zcomp_strm_alloc().  Use GFP_KERNEL directly and drop a gfp_t parameter.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-9-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zram: add more compression algorithms</title>
<updated>2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
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Add "deflate", "lz4hc", "842" algorithms to the list of known
compression backends.  The real availability of those algorithms,
however, depends on the corresponding CONFIG_CRYPTO_FOO config options.

[sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: zram-add-more-compression-algorithms-v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160604024902.11778-7-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-8-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add "deflate", "lz4hc", "842" algorithms to the list of known
compression backends.  The real availability of those algorithms,
however, depends on the corresponding CONFIG_CRYPTO_FOO config options.

[sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: zram-add-more-compression-algorithms-v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160604024902.11778-7-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-8-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>zram: delete custom lzo/lz4</title>
<updated>2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-26T22:22:54+00:00</published>
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Remove lzo/lz4 backends, we use crypto API now.

[sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: zram-delete-custom-lzo-lz4-v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160604024902.11778-6-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-7-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove lzo/lz4 backends, we use crypto API now.

[sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: zram-delete-custom-lzo-lz4-v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160604024902.11778-6-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-7-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>zram: use crypto api to check alg availability</title>
<updated>2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-26T22:22:48+00:00</published>
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There is no way to get a string with all the crypto comp algorithms
supported by the crypto comp engine, so we need to maintain our own
backends list.  At the same time we additionally need to use
crypto_has_comp() to make sure that the user has requested a compression
algorithm that is recognized by the crypto comp engine.  Relying on
/proc/crypto is not an options here, because it does not show
not-yet-inserted compression modules.

Example:

 modprobe zram
 cat /proc/crypto | grep -i lz4
 modprobe lz4
 cat /proc/crypto | grep -i lz4
name         : lz4
driver       : lz4-generic
module       : lz4

So the user can't tell exactly if the lz4 is really supported from
/proc/crypto output, unless someone or something has loaded it.

This patch also adds crypto_has_comp() to zcomp_available_show().  We
store all the compression algorithms names in zcomp's `backends' array,
regardless the CONFIG_CRYPTO_FOO configuration, but show only those that
are also supported by crypto engine.  This helps user to know the exact
list of compression algorithms that can be used.

Example:
  module lz4 is not loaded yet, but is supported by the crypto
  engine. /proc/crypto has no information on this module, while
  zram's `comp_algorithm' lists it:

 cat /proc/crypto | grep -i lz4

 cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
[lzo] lz4 deflate lz4hc 842

We still use the `backends' array to determine if the requested
compression backend is known to crypto api.  This array, however, may not
contain some entries, therefore as the last step we call crypto_has_comp()
function which attempts to insmod the requested compression algorithm to
determine if crypto api supports it.  The advantage of this method is that
now we permit the usage of out-of-tree crypto compression modules
(implementing S/W or H/W compression).

[sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: zram-use-crypto-api-to-check-alg-availability-v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160604024902.11778-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-5-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There is no way to get a string with all the crypto comp algorithms
supported by the crypto comp engine, so we need to maintain our own
backends list.  At the same time we additionally need to use
crypto_has_comp() to make sure that the user has requested a compression
algorithm that is recognized by the crypto comp engine.  Relying on
/proc/crypto is not an options here, because it does not show
not-yet-inserted compression modules.

Example:

 modprobe zram
 cat /proc/crypto | grep -i lz4
 modprobe lz4
 cat /proc/crypto | grep -i lz4
name         : lz4
driver       : lz4-generic
module       : lz4

So the user can't tell exactly if the lz4 is really supported from
/proc/crypto output, unless someone or something has loaded it.

This patch also adds crypto_has_comp() to zcomp_available_show().  We
store all the compression algorithms names in zcomp's `backends' array,
regardless the CONFIG_CRYPTO_FOO configuration, but show only those that
are also supported by crypto engine.  This helps user to know the exact
list of compression algorithms that can be used.

Example:
  module lz4 is not loaded yet, but is supported by the crypto
  engine. /proc/crypto has no information on this module, while
  zram's `comp_algorithm' lists it:

 cat /proc/crypto | grep -i lz4

 cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
[lzo] lz4 deflate lz4hc 842

We still use the `backends' array to determine if the requested
compression backend is known to crypto api.  This array, however, may not
contain some entries, therefore as the last step we call crypto_has_comp()
function which attempts to insmod the requested compression algorithm to
determine if crypto api supports it.  The advantage of this method is that
now we permit the usage of out-of-tree crypto compression modules
(implementing S/W or H/W compression).

[sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: zram-use-crypto-api-to-check-alg-availability-v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160604024902.11778-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-5-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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