[PATCH 10/28] mm: only allow page table mappings for built-in zsmalloc

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 05:12:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 08:01:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 4/8/20 4:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> > > index 36949a9425b8..614cc786b519 100644
> > > --- a/mm/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> > > @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ config ZSMALLOC
> > >  
> > >  config ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING
> > >  	bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
> > > -	depends on ZSMALLOC
> > > +	depends on ZSMALLOC=y
> > 
> > It's a bool so this shouldn't matter... not needed.
> 
> My mm/Kconfig has:
> 
> config ZSMALLOC
> 	tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
> 	depends on MMU
> 
> which I think means it can be modular, no?

Randy means that ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING is a bool, so I think hch's patch
is wrong ... if ZSMALLOC is 'm' then ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING would become
'n' instead of 'y'.