Commit c3cdb40e authored by Sergey Senozhatsky's avatar Sergey Senozhatsky Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 522698d7
......@@ -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,
......
......@@ -1287,12 +1287,6 @@ 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");
......@@ -1322,7 +1316,7 @@ 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 <ngupta@vflare.org>");
......
......@@ -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 */
/*
......
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