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1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2config ZRAM 3 tristate "Compressed RAM block device support" 4 depends on BLOCK && SYSFS && MMU 5 depends on CRYPTO_LZO || CRYPTO_ZSTD || CRYPTO_LZ4 || CRYPTO_LZ4HC || CRYPTO_842 6 select ZSMALLOC 7 help 8 Creates virtual block devices called /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...). 9 Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory 10 itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides 11 good amounts of memory savings. 12 13 It has several use cases, for example: /tmp storage, use as swap 14 disks and maybe many more. 15 16 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst for more information. 17 18choice 19 prompt "Default zram compressor" 20 default ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZORLE 21 depends on ZRAM 22 23config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZORLE 24 bool "lzo-rle" 25 depends on CRYPTO_LZO 26 27config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_ZSTD 28 bool "zstd" 29 depends on CRYPTO_ZSTD 30 31config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZ4 32 bool "lz4" 33 depends on CRYPTO_LZ4 34 35config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZO 36 bool "lzo" 37 depends on CRYPTO_LZO 38 39config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZ4HC 40 bool "lz4hc" 41 depends on CRYPTO_LZ4HC 42 43config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_842 44 bool "842" 45 depends on CRYPTO_842 46 47endchoice 48 49config ZRAM_DEF_COMP 50 string 51 default "lzo-rle" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZORLE 52 default "zstd" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_ZSTD 53 default "lz4" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZ4 54 default "lzo" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZO 55 default "lz4hc" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZ4HC 56 default "842" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_842 57 58config ZRAM_WRITEBACK 59 bool "Write back incompressible or idle page to backing device" 60 depends on ZRAM 61 help 62 With incompressible page, there is no memory saving to keep it 63 in memory. Instead, write it out to backing device. 64 For this feature, admin should set up backing device via 65 /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev. 66 67 With /sys/block/zramX/{idle,writeback}, application could ask 68 idle page's writeback to the backing device to save in memory. 69 70 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst for more information. 71 72config ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING 73 bool "Track zRam block status" 74 depends on ZRAM && DEBUG_FS 75 help 76 With this feature, admin can track the state of allocated blocks 77 of zRAM. Admin could see the information via 78 /sys/kernel/debug/zram/zramX/block_state. 79 80 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst for more information.