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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2019-07-14 14:04:14 +0200
committerJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2019-07-17 08:09:58 +0200
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xen: remove tmem driver
The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental" state and will be removed in future Xen versions (>= 4.13). The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -4674,27 +4674,6 @@
Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
- tmem [KNL,XEN]
- Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
-
- tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
- Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
- API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
-
- tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
- Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
- API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
- the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
-
- tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
- Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
- to the hypervisor.
-
- tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
- Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
- transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
- kernel based on different criteria.
-
topology= [S390]
Format: {off | on}
Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu