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While the maximum size of each ramdisk is defined either as a module
parameter, or compile time default, it's impossible to know how many pages
have currently been allocated by each ram%d device, since they're
allocated when used and never freed.

This patch creates a new directory at this location:

/sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/

which will contain a file named "ram%d" for each instantiated ramdisk on
the system. The file is read-only, and read() will output the number of
pages currently held by that ramdisk.

We lose track how much memory a ramdisk is using as pages once used are
simply recycled but never freed.

In instances where we exhaust the size of the ramdisk with a file that
exceeds it, encounter ENOSPC and delete the file for mitigation; df would
show decrease in used and increase in available blocks but the since we
have touched all pages, the memory footprint of the ramdisk does not
reflect the blocks used/available count

...
[root@localhost ~]# mkfs.ext2 /dev/ram15
mke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
Creating filesystem with 4096 1k blocks and 1024 inodes
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/ram15 /mnt/ram15/

[root@localhost ~]# cat
/sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15
58
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# df /dev/ram15
Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram15          3963    31      3728   1% /mnt/ram15
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/ram15/test2
bs=1M count=5
dd: error writing '/mnt/ram15/test2': No space left on device
4+0 records in
3+0 records out
4005888 bytes (4.0 MB, 3.8 MiB) copied, 0.0446614 s, 89.7 MB/s
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# df /mnt/ram15/
Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram15          3963  3960         0 100% /mnt/ram15
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# cat
/sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15
1024
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# rm /mnt/ram15/test2
rm: remove regular file '/mnt/ram15/test2'? y
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 /var]# df /dev/ram15
Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram15          3963    31      3728   1% /mnt/ram15

# Acutal memory footprint
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 /var]# cat
/sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15
1024
...

This debugfs counter will always reveal the accurate number of
permanently allocated pages to the ramdisk.
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
[cleaned up the !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS case and API changes for HEAD]
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <jkkm@fb.com>
[rebased]
Signed-off-by: Saravanan D <saravanand@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>