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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> --- Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 4 +++- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 +------- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 6 ------ 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt index bef4998..65e9430 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt @@ -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, diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c index 3d7ac0c..b875517 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -1285,12 +1285,6 @@ static int __init zram_init(void) { int ret, dev_id; - if (num_devices > max_num_devices) { - pr_warn("Invalid value for num_devices: %u\n", - num_devices); - return -EINVAL; - } - zram_major = register_blkdev(0, "zram"); if (zram_major <= 0) { pr_warn("Unable to get major number\n"); @@ -1320,7 +1314,7 @@ module_init(zram_init); module_exit(zram_exit); module_param(num_devices, uint, 0); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(num_devices, "Number of zram devices"); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(num_devices, "Number of pre-created zram devices"); MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Nitin Gupta <[email protected]>"); diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h index 570c598..042994e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h @@ -20,12 +20,6 @@ #include "zcomp.h" -/* - * Some arbitrary value. This is just to catch - * invalid value for num_devices module parameter. - */ -static const unsigned max_num_devices = 32; - /*-- Configurable parameters */ /* -- 2.4.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
