# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 config ZRAM tristate "Compressed RAM block device support" depends on BLOCK && SYSFS && ZSMALLOC && CRYPTO depends on CRYPTO_LZO || CRYPTO_ZSTD || CRYPTO_LZ4 || CRYPTO_LZ4HC || CRYPTO_842 help Creates virtual block devices called /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...). Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings. It has several use cases, for example: /tmp storage, use as swap disks and maybe many more. See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst for more information. choice prompt "Default zram compressor" default ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZORLE depends on ZRAM config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZORLE bool "lzo-rle" depends on CRYPTO_LZO config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_ZSTD bool "zstd" depends on CRYPTO_ZSTD config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZ4 bool "lz4" depends on CRYPTO_LZ4 config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZO bool "lzo" depends on CRYPTO_LZO config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZ4HC bool "lz4hc" depends on CRYPTO_LZ4HC config ZRAM_DEF_COMP_842 bool "842" depends on CRYPTO_842 endchoice config ZRAM_DEF_COMP string default "lzo-rle" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZORLE default "zstd" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_ZSTD default "lz4" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZ4 default "lzo" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZO default "lz4hc" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_LZ4HC default "842" if ZRAM_DEF_COMP_842 config ZRAM_WRITEBACK bool "Write back incompressible or idle page to backing device" depends on ZRAM help With incompressible page, there is no memory saving to keep it in memory. Instead, write it out to backing device. For this feature, admin should set up backing device via /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev. With /sys/block/zramX/{idle,writeback}, application could ask idle page's writeback to the backing device to save in memory. See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst for more information. config ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING bool "Track zRam block status" depends on ZRAM && DEBUG_FS help With this feature, admin can track the state of allocated blocks of zRAM. Admin could see the information via /sys/kernel/debug/zram/zramX/block_state. See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst for more information.