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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst index 61f6185188cd..f8c6a79d7c70 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst @@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ Zswap evicts pages from compressed cache on an LRU basis to the backing swap device when the compressed pool reaches its size limit. This requirement had been identified in prior community discussions. -Zswap is disabled by default but can be enabled at boot time by setting -the ``enabled`` attribute to 1 at boot time. ie: ``zswap.enabled=1``. Zswap -can also be enabled and disabled at runtime using the sysfs interface. +Whether Zswap is enabled at the boot time depends on whether +the ``CONFIG_ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON`` Kconfig option is enabled or not. +This setting can then be overridden by providing the kernel command line +``zswap.enabled=`` option, for example ``zswap.enabled=0``. +Zswap can also be enabled and disabled at runtime using the sysfs interface. An example command to enable zswap at runtime, assuming sysfs is mounted at ``/sys``, is:: @@ -64,9 +66,10 @@ allocation in zpool is not directly accessible by address. Rather, a handle is returned by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being accessed. The compressed memory pool grows on demand and shrinks as compressed pages are freed. The pool is not preallocated. By default, a zpool -of type zbud is created, but it can be selected at boot time by -setting the ``zpool`` attribute, e.g. ``zswap.zpool=zbud``. It can -also be changed at runtime using the sysfs ``zpool`` attribute, e.g.:: +of type selected in ``CONFIG_ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT`` Kconfig option is created, +but it can be overridden at boot time by setting the ``zpool`` attribute, +e.g. ``zswap.zpool=zbud``. It can also be changed at runtime using the sysfs +``zpool`` attribute, e.g.:: echo zbud > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/zpool @@ -97,8 +100,9 @@ controlled policy: * max_pool_percent - The maximum percentage of memory that the compressed pool can occupy. -The default compressor is lzo, but it can be selected at boot time by -setting the ``compressor`` attribute, e.g. ``zswap.compressor=lzo``. +The default compressor is selected in ``CONFIG_ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT`` +Kconfig option, but it can be overridden at boot time by setting the +``compressor`` attribute, e.g. ``zswap.compressor=lzo``. It can also be changed at runtime using the sysfs "compressor" attribute, e.g.:: |