xref: /openbmc/linux/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig (revision c0c74acb)
1config ZRAM
2	tristate "Compressed RAM block device support"
3	depends on BLOCK && SYSFS && ZSMALLOC && CRYPTO
4	select CRYPTO_LZO
5	default n
6	help
7	  Creates virtual block devices called /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...).
8	  Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory
9	  itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides
10	  good amounts of memory savings.
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12	  It has several use cases, for example: /tmp storage, use as swap
13	  disks and maybe many more.
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15	  See zram.txt for more information.
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