xen: remove tmem driver

The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the
related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental"
state and will be removed in future Xen versions (>= 4.13).

The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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Juergen Gross 2019-07-14 14:04:14 +02:00
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Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
tmem [KNL,XEN]
Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
to the hypervisor.
tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
kernel based on different criteria.
topology= [S390]
Format: {off | on}
Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu