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authorSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>2015-06-25 15:00:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-25 17:00:36 -0700
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zram: remove max_num_devices limitation
Limiting the number of zram devices to 32 (default max_num_devices value) is confusing, let's drop it. A user with 2TB or 4TB of RAM, for example, can request as many devices as he can handle. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
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@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram.
1) Load Module:
modprobe zram num_devices=4
This creates 4 devices: /dev/zram{0,1,2,3}
- (num_devices parameter is optional. Default: 1)
+
+num_devices parameter is optional and tells zram how many devices should be
+pre-created. Default: 1.
2) Set max number of compression streams
Compression backend may use up to max_comp_streams compression streams,