CONFIG_ASHMEM: Enable the Anonymous Shared Memory Subsystem

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_ASHMEM:

• prompt: Enable the Anonymous Shared Memory Subsystem
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_SHMEM
• defined in drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 3.3–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.17, 5.17+HEAD

Help text

The ashmem subsystem is a new shared memory allocator, similar to POSIX SHM but with different behavior and sporting a simpler file-based API.

It is, in theory, a good memory allocator for low-memory devices, because it can discard shared memory units when under memory pressure.

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