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| author | Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> | 2015-06-25 15:00:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Mister Oyster <oysterized@gmail.com> | 2017-09-25 20:40:40 +0200 |
| commit | 86a9617701efa3313bd69ec66bef6e56a69dbf42 (patch) | |
| tree | 38c3ad3b7f2de7289fd19e7490b793c748536515 /drivers/block | |
| parent | 443712c791ac4e11dcf74146abb73323ce765f0b (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 6 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c index c1eed5427..bbb23958d 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -1244,12 +1244,6 @@ 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"); @@ -1279,7 +1273,7 @@ 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>"); diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h index d79ddc316..e8d534b86 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h @@ -20,12 +20,6 @@ #include <linux/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 */ /* |