zram: add dynamic device add/remove functionality

We currently don't support on-demand device creation.  The one and only
way to have N zram devices is to specify num_devices module parameter
(default value: 1).  IOW if, for some reason, at some point, user wants
to have N + 1 devies he/she must umount all the existing devices, unload
the module, load the module passing num_devices equals to N + 1.  And do
this again, if needed.

This patch introduces zram control sysfs class, which has two sysfs
attrs:
- hot_add      -- add a new zram device
- hot_remove   -- remove a specific (device_id) zram device

hot_add sysfs attr is read-only and has only automatic device id
assignment mode (as requested by Minchan Kim).  read operation performed
on this attr creates a new zram device and returns back its device_id or
error status.

Usage example:
	# add a new specific zram device
	cat /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add
	2

	# remove a specific zram device
	echo 4 > /sys/class/zram-control/hot_remove

Returning zram_add() error code back to user (-ENOMEM in this case)

	cat /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add
	cat: /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add: Cannot allocate memory

NOTE, there might be users who already depend on the fact that at least
zram0 device gets always created by zram_init(). Preserve this behavior.

[minchan@kernel.org: use zram->claim to avoid lockdep splat]
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 65e94301e57b..c4de576093af 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -99,7 +99,24 @@ size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful.
 	mkfs.ext4 /dev/zram1
 	mount /dev/zram1 /tmp
 
-7) Stats:
+7) Add/remove zram devices
+
+zram provides a control interface, which enables dynamic (on-demand) device
+addition and removal.
+
+In order to add a new /dev/zramX device, perform read operation on hot_add
+attribute. This will return either new device's device id (meaning that you
+can use /dev/zram<id>) or error code.
+
+Example:
+	cat /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add
+	1
+
+To remove the existing /dev/zramX device (where X is a device id)
+execute
+	echo X > /sys/class/zram-control/hot_remove
+
+8) Stats:
 Per-device statistics are exported as various nodes under /sys/block/zram<id>/
 
 A brief description of exported device attritbutes. For more details please
@@ -174,11 +191,11 @@ line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace:
 	zero_pages
 	num_migrated
 
-8) Deactivate:
+9) Deactivate:
 	swapoff /dev/zram0
 	umount /dev/zram1
 
-9) Reset:
+10) Reset:
 	Write any positive value to 'reset' sysfs node
 	echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset
 	echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset