diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt b/drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt
index 5f75d2987564631acbdf096fa57bad130113f73b..765d790ae83102bc11d2770cd01a1b6501c2fe8e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt
@@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram.
 	This creates 4 devices: /dev/zram{0,1,2,3}
 	(num_devices parameter is optional. Default: 1)
 
-2) Set Disksize (Optional):
-	Set disk size by writing the value to sysfs node 'disksize'
-	(in bytes). If disksize is not given, default value of 25%
-	of RAM is used.
-
-	# Initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize
-	echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
-
-	NOTE: disksize cannot be changed if the disk contains any
-	data. So, for such a disk, you need to issue 'reset' (see below)
-	before you can change its disksize.
+2) Set Disksize
+        Set disk size by writing the value to sysfs node 'disksize'.
+        The value can be either in bytes or you can use mem suffixes.
+        Examples:
+            # Initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize
+            echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
+
+            # Using mem suffixes
+            echo 256K > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
+            echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
+            echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
 
 3) Activate:
 	mkswap /dev/zram0
@@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram.
 	echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset
 	echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset
 
-	(This frees all the memory allocated for the given device).
-
+	This frees all the memory allocated for the given device and
+	resets the disksize to zero. You must set the disksize again
+	before reusing the device.
 
 Please report any problems at:
  - Mailing list: linux-mm-cc at laptop dot org
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index 262265e4fa2e1dd1cbf529997e856efe259a0154..1114cadfb960df62b95abfc3d6a99d360aeb37ce 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -94,34 +94,6 @@ static int page_zero_filled(void *ptr)
 	return 1;
 }
 
-static void zram_set_disksize(struct zram *zram, size_t totalram_bytes)
-{
-	if (!zram->disksize) {
-		pr_info(
-		"disk size not provided. You can use disksize_kb module "
-		"param to specify size.\nUsing default: (%u%% of RAM).\n",
-		default_disksize_perc_ram
-		);
-		zram->disksize = default_disksize_perc_ram *
-					(totalram_bytes / 100);
-	}
-
-	if (zram->disksize > 2 * (totalram_bytes)) {
-		pr_info(
-		"There is little point creating a zram of greater than "
-		"twice the size of memory since we expect a 2:1 compression "
-		"ratio. Note that zram uses about 0.1%% of the size of "
-		"the disk when not in use so a huge zram is "
-		"wasteful.\n"
-		"\tMemory Size: %zu kB\n"
-		"\tSize you selected: %llu kB\n"
-		"Continuing anyway ...\n",
-		totalram_bytes >> 10, zram->disksize >> 10);
-	}
-
-	zram->disksize &= PAGE_MASK;
-}
-
 static void zram_free_page(struct zram *zram, size_t index)
 {
 	unsigned long handle = zram->table[index].handle;
@@ -497,6 +469,9 @@ void __zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
 {
 	size_t index;
 
+	if (!zram->init_done)
+		return;
+
 	zram->init_done = 0;
 
 	/* Free various per-device buffers */
@@ -525,6 +500,7 @@ void __zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
 	memset(&zram->stats, 0, sizeof(zram->stats));
 
 	zram->disksize = 0;
+	set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);
 }
 
 void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
@@ -546,7 +522,19 @@ int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	zram_set_disksize(zram, totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
+	if (zram->disksize > 2 * (totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT)) {
+		pr_info(
+		"There is little point creating a zram of greater than "
+		"twice the size of memory since we expect a 2:1 compression "
+		"ratio. Note that zram uses about 0.1%% of the size of "
+		"the disk when not in use so a huge zram is "
+		"wasteful.\n"
+		"\tMemory Size: %zu kB\n"
+		"\tSize you selected: %llu kB\n"
+		"Continuing anyway ...\n",
+		(totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT) >> 10, zram->disksize >> 10
+		);
+	}
 
 	zram->compress_workmem = kzalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!zram->compress_workmem) {
@@ -571,8 +559,6 @@ int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram)
 		goto fail_no_table;
 	}
 
-	set_capacity(zram->disk, zram->disksize >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
-
 	/* zram devices sort of resembles non-rotational disks */
 	queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, zram->disk->queue);
 
@@ -751,8 +737,7 @@ static void __exit zram_exit(void)
 		zram = &zram_devices[i];
 
 		destroy_device(zram);
-		if (zram->init_done)
-			zram_reset_device(zram);
+		zram_reset_device(zram);
 	}
 
 	unregister_blkdev(zram_major, "zram");
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
index df2eec407db64b6b29f562ba94946e56fb24317e..5b671d177e1c7992727502d6f30f7430eadcc99b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ static const unsigned max_num_devices = 32;
 
 /*-- Configurable parameters */
 
-/* Default zram disk size: 25% of total RAM */
-static const unsigned default_disksize_perc_ram = 25;
-
 /*
  * Pages that compress to size greater than this are stored
  * uncompressed in memory.
@@ -115,6 +112,6 @@ extern struct attribute_group zram_disk_attr_group;
 #endif
 
 extern int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram);
-extern void __zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram);
+extern void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
index de1eacf65dbdc167bf4707cdcf6a9eb7bfa0fbf7..4143af9fcc1b979f21848ca9692cb3d86a5f4fcc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
@@ -110,11 +110,7 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device *dev,
 	if (bdev)
 		fsync_bdev(bdev);
 
-	down_write(&zram->init_lock);
-	if (zram->init_done)
-		__zram_reset_device(zram);
-	up_write(&zram->init_lock);
-
+	zram_reset_device(zram);
 	return len;
 }