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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 && ZSMALLOC && CRYPTO
5	select CRYPTO_LZO
6	default n
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 zram.txt for more information.
17
18config ZRAM_WRITEBACK
19       bool "Write back incompressible page to backing device"
20       depends on ZRAM
21       default n
22       help
23	 With incompressible page, there is no memory saving to keep it
24	 in memory. Instead, write it out to backing device.
25	 For this feature, admin should set up backing device via
26	 /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev.
27
28	 See zram.txt for more infomration.
29