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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2017-09-06 16:20:10 -0700
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>2018-10-04 14:16:25 +0530
commit1b89745386d9e0be76eca0182755a7026b147a7c (patch)
tree79067425205cf642e2e2239dc010fd56b8a12e39 /drivers/block
parent3249ca4a577256658349ddf2585bb9e272fb5d55 (diff)
UPSTREAM: zram: add config and doc file for writeback feature
This patch adds document and kconfig for using of writeback feature. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498459987-24562-10-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Juneho Choi <juno.choi@lge.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 5a47074f0279421778f97b1b1e75686696a5f42a) Signed-off-by: Peter Kalauskas <peskal@google.com> Bug: 112488418 Change-Id: I9ec2230739a6468a4481a90a9c9f966badf9ac48 Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/zram/Kconfig12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig b/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig
index b8ecba6dcd3b..7cd4a8ec3c8f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig
@@ -13,3 +13,15 @@ config ZRAM
disks and maybe many more.
See zram.txt for more information.
+
+config ZRAM_WRITEBACK
+ bool "Write back incompressible page to backing device"
+ depends on ZRAM
+ default n
+ help
+ With incompressible page, there is no memory saving to keep it
+ in memory. Instead, write it out to backing device.
+ For this feature, admin should set up backing device via
+ /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev.
+
+ See zram.txt for more infomration.