mm: frontswap: config and doc files

This patch 4of4 adds configuration and documentation files including a FAQ.

[v14: updated docs/FAQ to use zcache and RAMster as examples]
[v10: no change]
[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: sysfs->debugfs; no longer need Doc/ABI file]
[v8: rebase to 3.0-rc4]
[v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3]
[v6: rebase to 3.0-rc1]
[v5: change config default to n]
[v4: rebase to 2.6.39]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index e338407f1225..2613c910935a 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -379,3 +379,20 @@ config CLEANCACHE
 	  in a negligible performance hit.
 
 	  If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
+
+config FRONTSWAP
+	bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
+	depends on SWAP
+	default n
+	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.