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Commit d0f5a854 authored by Luis Chamberlain's avatar Luis Chamberlain Committed by Andrew Morton
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shmem: update documentation

Update the docs to reflect a bit better why some folks prefer tmpfs over
ramfs and clarify a bit more about the difference between brd ramdisks.

While at it, add THP docs for tmpfs, both the mount options and the sysfs
file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230309230545.2930737-6-mcgrof@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarXin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9a976f0c
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