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-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/tmem.c8
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c15
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/tmem.c b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
index c1df0ff89878..18e8bd8fa947 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/tmem.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
@@ -403,6 +403,14 @@ static int xen_tmem_init(void)
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING
+ /*
+ * There is no point of driving pages to the swap system if they
+ * aren't going anywhere in tmem universe.
+ */
+ if (!frontswap) {
+ selfshrinking = false;
+ selfballooning = false;
+ }
xen_selfballoon_init(selfballooning, selfshrinking);
#endif
return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
index 5d637e2b1b9f..f70984a892aa 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
@@ -53,15 +53,12 @@
* System configuration note: Selfballooning should not be enabled on
* systems without a sufficiently large swap device configured; for best
* results, it is recommended that total swap be increased by the size
- * of the guest memory. Also, while technically not required to be
- * configured, it is highly recommended that frontswap also be configured
- * and enabled when selfballooning is running. So, selfballooning
- * is disabled by default if frontswap is not configured and can only
- * be enabled with the "tmem.selfballooning=1" kernel boot option; similarly
- * selfballooning is enabled by default if frontswap is configured and
- * can be disabled with the "tmem.selfballooning=0" kernel boot option. Finally,
- * when frontswap is configured,frontswap-selfshrinking can be disabled
- * with the "tmem.selfshrink=0" kernel boot option.
+ * of the guest memory. Note, that selfballooning should be disabled by default
+ * if frontswap is not configured. Similarly selfballooning should be enabled
+ * by default if frontswap is configured and can be disabled with the
+ * "tmem.selfballooning=0" kernel boot option. Finally, when frontswap is
+ * configured, frontswap-selfshrinking can be disabled with the
+ * "tmem.selfshrink=0" kernel boot option.
*
* Selfballooning is disallowed in domain0 and force-disabled.
*