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diff --git a/fs/erofs/Kconfig b/fs/erofs/Kconfig
index 14b747026742..f57255ab88ed 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/erofs/Kconfig
@@ -6,16 +6,22 @@ config EROFS_FS
select FS_IOMAP
select LIBCRC32C
help
- EROFS (Enhanced Read-Only File System) is a lightweight
- read-only file system with modern designs (eg. page-sized
- blocks, inline xattrs/data, etc.) for scenarios which need
- high-performance read-only requirements, e.g. Android OS
- for mobile phones and LIVECDs.
+ EROFS (Enhanced Read-Only File System) is a lightweight read-only
+ file system with modern designs (e.g. no buffer heads, inline
+ xattrs/data, chunk-based deduplication, multiple devices, etc.) for
+ scenarios which need high-performance read-only solutions, e.g.
+ smartphones with Android OS, LiveCDs and high-density hosts with
+ numerous containers;
- It also provides fixed-sized output compression support,
- which improves storage density, keeps relatively higher
- compression ratios, which is more useful to achieve high
- performance for embedded devices with limited memory.
+ It also provides fixed-sized output compression support in order to
+ improve storage density as well as keep relatively higher compression
+ ratios and implements in-place decompression to reuse the file page
+ for compressed data temporarily with proper strategies, which is
+ quite useful to ensure guaranteed end-to-end runtime decompression
+ performance under extremely memory pressure without extra cost.
+
+ See the documentation at <file:Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst>
+ for more details.
If unsure, say N.
@@ -76,3 +82,19 @@ config EROFS_FS_ZIP
Enable fixed-sized output compression for EROFS.
If you don't want to enable compression feature, say N.
+
+config EROFS_FS_ZIP_LZMA
+ bool "EROFS LZMA compressed data support"
+ depends on EROFS_FS_ZIP
+ select XZ_DEC
+ select XZ_DEC_MICROLZMA
+ help
+ Saying Y here includes support for reading EROFS file systems
+ containing LZMA compressed data, specifically called microLZMA. it
+ gives better compression ratios than the LZ4 algorithm, at the
+ expense of more CPU overhead.
+
+ LZMA support is an experimental feature for now and so most file
+ systems will be readable without selecting this option.
+
+ If unsure, say N.