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[69/69] mm: hide the FRONTSWAP Kconfig symbol

Message ID 20220122061514.o44HXBaUX%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
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Series [01/69] mm/migrate.c: rework migration_entry_wait() to not take a pageref | expand

Commit Message

Andrew Morton Jan. 22, 2022, 6:15 a.m. UTC 
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: mm: hide the FRONTSWAP Kconfig symbol

Select FRONTSWAP from ZSWAP instead of prompting for it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211224062246.1258487-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <Konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 mm/Kconfig |   18 +++---------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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--- a/mm/Kconfig~mm-hide-the-frontswap-kconfig-symbol
+++ a/mm/Kconfig
@@ -445,20 +445,7 @@  config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
 	bool
 
 config FRONTSWAP
-	bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
-	depends on SWAP
-	help
-	  Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
-	  of a "backing" store for a swap device.  The data is stored into
-	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
-	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
-	  time-varying size.  When space in transcendent memory is available,
-	  a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved.  When none is
-	  available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
-	  compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
-	  and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
-
-	  If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
+	bool
 
 config CMA
 	bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
@@ -523,7 +510,8 @@  config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
 
 config ZSWAP
 	bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
+	depends on SWAP && CRYPTO=y
+	select FRONTSWAP
 	select ZPOOL
 	help
 	  A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages.  It takes