diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig
index d3982e6fdb40fdb6e5aa24cd72f258678ee9e324..2f3b484ce5a453f2324230981a5b825ec7546f79 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig
@@ -15,3 +15,11 @@ config ZRAM
 
 	  See zram.txt for more information.
 	  Project home: http://compcache.googlecode.com/
+
+config ZRAM_DEBUG
+	bool "Compressed RAM block device debug support"
+	depends on ZRAM
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option adds additional debugging code to the compressed
+	  RAM block device driver.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/xvmalloc.c b/drivers/staging/zram/xvmalloc.c
index 9cbe04a496e1b88a895bf632a595fd34ee83b5e6..4f6cb8de6865b21967e1ceea6c185e6530e3ca33 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/xvmalloc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/xvmalloc.c
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
  * Released under the terms of GNU General Public License Version 2.0
  */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZRAM_DEBUG
+#define DEBUG
+#endif
+
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index 3c8ecab70e97b6ae6322808f0cd63a8dd7454751..7d11c595c7d24a8014fc14dc64d1b6d06cb0c057 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
 #define KMSG_COMPONENT "zram"
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KMSG_COMPONENT ": " fmt
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZRAM_DEBUG
+#define DEBUG
+#endif
+
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/bio.h>