| Greg Kroah-Hartman | 355b050 | 2011-11-30 20:18:14 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | menu "Android" |
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| Greg Kroah-Hartman | 355b050 | 2011-11-30 20:18:14 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | if ANDROID |
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| Robert Love | 11980c2 | 2011-12-20 16:49:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | config ASHMEM |
| 6 | bool "Enable the Anonymous Shared Memory Subsystem" |
| 7 | default n |
| Paul Bolle | 2c0fb1c | 2013-03-14 10:41:39 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | depends on SHMEM |
| Cruz Julian Bishop | d7f9729 | 2012-12-22 09:00:46 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | ---help--- |
| Robert Love | 11980c2 | 2011-12-20 16:49:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | The ashmem subsystem is a new shared memory allocator, similar to |
| 11 | POSIX SHM but with different behavior and sporting a simpler |
| 12 | file-based API. |
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| Cruz Julian Bishop | d7f9729 | 2012-12-22 09:00:46 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | It is, in theory, a good memory allocator for low-memory devices, |
| 15 | because it can discard shared memory units when under memory pressure. |
| 16 | |
| Rebecca Schultz Zavin | c30707b | 2013-12-13 19:38:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | source "drivers/staging/android/ion/Kconfig" |
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| Greg Kroah-Hartman | 355b050 | 2011-11-30 20:18:14 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | endif # if ANDROID |
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| 21 | endmenu |
