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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 3bea74f1ccfe..e742d06285b7 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -263,8 +263,14 @@ config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
default "1"
config BOUNCE
- def_bool y
+ bool "Enable bounce buffers"
+ default y
depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
+ help
+ Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
+ the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
+ by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
+ may say n to override this.
# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present