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Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07001config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
2 def_bool y
Kees Cooka8826ee2013-01-16 18:54:17 -08003 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07004
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -07005choice
6 prompt "Memory model"
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07007 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
8 default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -07009 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070010 default FLATMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070011
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070012config FLATMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070013 bool "Flat Memory"
Anton Blanchardc898ec12006-01-06 00:12:07 -080014 depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070015 help
16 This option allows you to change some of the ways that
17 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
18 only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal
19 and a correct option.
20
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070021 Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
22 memory hotplug may have different options here.
Geert Uytterhoeven18f65332013-09-15 12:01:33 +020023 DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system,
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070024 but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
25 decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
26 "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
27 "Discontiguous Memory".
28
29 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070030
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070031config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansenf3519f92005-09-16 19:27:54 -070032 bool "Discontiguous Memory"
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070033 depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
34 help
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070035 This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
36 memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
37 in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
38 more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
39 majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
Philipp Marekad3d0a32007-10-20 02:46:58 +020040 can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070041 this option imposes.
42
43 Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
44
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070045 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
46
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070047config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
48 bool "Sparse Memory"
49 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
50 help
51 This will be the only option for some systems, including
52 memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
53
54 For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
Dave Hansenf3519f92005-09-16 19:27:54 -070055 "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070056 performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
57 but it is newer, and more experimental.
58
59 If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
60 over this option.
61
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070062endchoice
63
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070064config DISCONTIGMEM
65 def_bool y
66 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
67
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070068config SPARSEMEM
69 def_bool y
Russell King1a83e172009-10-26 16:50:12 -070070 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070071
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070072config FLATMEM
73 def_bool y
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070074 depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
75
76config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
77 def_bool y
78 depends on !SPARSEMEM
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070079
Dave Hansen93b75042005-06-23 00:07:47 -070080#
81# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
82# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
83# those dependencies to exist individually.
84#
85config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
86 def_bool y
87 depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
Andy Whitcroftaf705362005-06-23 00:07:53 -070088
89config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
90 def_bool y
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070091 depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
Bob Picco802f1922005-09-03 15:54:26 -070092
93#
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -070094# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +020095# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -070096# be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
97# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
98# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
99#
100# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
101# with gcc 3.4 and later.
102#
103config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700104 bool
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700105
106#
Matt LaPlante44c09202006-10-03 22:34:14 +0200107# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
Bob Picco802f1922005-09-03 15:54:26 -0700108# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
109# an extremely sparse physical address space.
110#
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700111config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
112 def_bool y
113 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700114
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700115config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700116 bool
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700117
Yinghai Lu9bdac912010-02-10 01:20:22 -0800118config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
119 def_bool y
120 depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
121
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700122config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Geoff Levanda5ee6da2007-12-17 16:19:53 -0800123 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
124 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
125 default y
126 help
127 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
128 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
129 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700130
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +1000131config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500132 bool
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +1000133
Tejun Heo7c0caeb2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200134config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500135 bool
Tejun Heo7c0caeb2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200136
Philipp Hachtmann70210ed2014-01-29 18:16:01 +0100137config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500138 bool
Philipp Hachtmann70210ed2014-01-29 18:16:01 +0100139
Kirill A. Shutemove5855132017-06-06 14:31:20 +0300140config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500141 bool
Steve Capper2667f502014-10-09 15:29:14 -0700142
Tejun Heoc378ddd2011-07-14 11:46:03 +0200143config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500144 bool
Tejun Heoc378ddd2011-07-14 11:46:03 +0200145
Sam Ravnborg66616722011-10-31 17:08:20 -0700146config NO_BOOTMEM
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500147 bool
Sam Ravnborg66616722011-10-31 17:08:20 -0700148
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700149config MEMORY_ISOLATION
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500150 bool
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700151
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800152#
153# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
154# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
155#
156config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
157 def_bool n
158
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700159# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
160config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
161 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700162 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
Stephen Rothwell40b31362013-05-21 13:49:35 +1000163 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700164
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700165config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
166 def_bool y
167 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
168
Vitaly Kuznetsov8604d9e2016-05-19 17:13:03 -0700169config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE
170 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default"
171 default n
172 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
173 help
174 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug
175 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which
176 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting
177 can always be changed at runtime.
178 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information.
179
180 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in
181 'online' state by default.
182 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged
183 memory blocks in 'offline' state.
184
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700185config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
186 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800187 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Nathan Fontenotf7e33342013-09-27 10:18:09 -0500188 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700189 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
190 depends on MIGRATION
191
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700192# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
193# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
194# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
195# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
196# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
Hugh Dickins7b6ac9d2005-11-23 13:37:37 -0800197# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800198# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700199#
200config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
201 int
Kirill A. Shutemov91645502014-04-07 15:37:14 -0700202 default "999999" if !MMU
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800203 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
204 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700205 default "4"
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800206
Kirill A. Shutemove009bb32013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800207config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500208 bool
Kirill A. Shutemove009bb32013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800209
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800210#
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700211# support for memory balloon
212config MEMORY_BALLOON
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500213 bool
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700214
215#
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800216# support for memory balloon compaction
217config BALLOON_COMPACTION
218 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
219 def_bool y
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700220 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800221 help
222 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
223 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
224 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
225 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
226 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
227 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
228 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
229
230#
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700231# support for memory compaction
232config COMPACTION
233 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
Rik van Riel05106e62012-10-08 16:33:03 -0700234 def_bool y
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700235 select MIGRATION
Andrea Arcangeli33a93872011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800236 depends on MMU
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700237 help
Michal Hockob32eaf72016-08-25 15:17:05 -0700238 Compaction is the only memory management component to form
239 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks
240 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and
241 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer
242 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't
243 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for
244 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at
245 linux-mm@kvack.org.
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700246
247#
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800248# support for page migration
249#
250config MIGRATION
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800251 bool "Page migration"
Christoph Lameter6c5240a2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700252 def_bool y
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700253 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800254 help
255 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700256 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
257 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
258 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
259 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
260 allocation instead of reclaiming.
Greg Kroah-Hartman6550e072006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700261
Naoya Horiguchic177c812014-06-04 16:05:35 -0700262config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500263 bool
Naoya Horiguchic177c812014-06-04 16:05:35 -0700264
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700265config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
266 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
267
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700268config BOUNCE
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700269 bool "Enable bounce buffers"
270 default y
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700271 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700272 help
273 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
274 the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
275 by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
276 may say n to override this.
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700277
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800278# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
279# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
280# a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800281config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
282 bool
Valentin Rothbergdebeb292015-07-23 13:18:06 +0200283 default y if TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800284
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700285config NR_QUICK
286 int
287 depends on QUICKLIST
288 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700289
290config VIRT_TO_BUS
Stephen Rothwell4febd952013-03-07 15:48:16 +1100291 bool
292 help
293 An architecture should select this if it implements the
294 deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
295 should probably not select this.
296
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700297
298config MMU_NOTIFIER
299 bool
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -0500300 select SRCU
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700301
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700302config KSM
303 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
304 depends on MMU
305 help
306 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
307 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
308 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800309 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700310 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
311 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700312 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
313 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
314 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700315
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400316config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
317 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000318 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400319 default 4096
320 help
321 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
322 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
323 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
324
325 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
326 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
327 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400328 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
329 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
330 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400331
332 This value can be changed after boot using the
333 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
334
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700335config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
336 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400337
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200338config MEMORY_FAILURE
339 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700340 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200341 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700342 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Xie XiuQi97f0b132015-06-24 16:57:36 -0700343 select RAS
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200344 help
345 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
346 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
347 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
348 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
349
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200350config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100351 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100352 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100353 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200354
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700355config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
356 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
357 depends on !MMU
358 default 1
359 help
360 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
361 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
362 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
363 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
364 the excess and return it to the allocator.
365
366 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
367 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
368 if there are a lot of transient processes.
369
370 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
371 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
372
373 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
374 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
375 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
376 no trimming is to occur.
377
378 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
379 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
380
381 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200382
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800383config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800384 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700385 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800386 select COMPACTION
Matthew Wilcox57578c22016-05-20 17:01:54 -0700387 select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800388 help
389 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
390 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
391 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
392 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
393 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
394 up the pagetable walking.
395
396 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
397
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800398choice
399 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
400 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
401 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
402 help
403 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
404
405 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
406 bool "always"
407 help
408 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
409 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
410 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
411
412 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
413 bool "madvise"
414 help
415 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
416 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
417 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
418 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
419 benefit.
420endchoice
421
Huang Ying38d8b4e2017-07-06 15:37:18 -0700422config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
423 def_bool n
424
425config THP_SWAP
426 def_bool y
427 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
428 help
429 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting.
430 XXX: For now this only does clustered swap space allocation.
431
432 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes.
433
Kirill A. Shutemove496cf32016-07-26 15:26:35 -0700434config TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE
435 def_bool y
Aneesh Kumar K.V953c66c2016-12-12 16:44:32 -0800436 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Kirill A. Shutemove496cf32016-07-26 15:26:35 -0700437
438#
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200439# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
440#
441config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
442 depends on !SMP
443 bool
444 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600445
446config CLEANCACHE
447 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
448 default n
449 help
450 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
451 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
452 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
453 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000454 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600455 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
456 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
457 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
458 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
459 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
460 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
461 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
462 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
463 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
464 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
465 in a negligible performance hit.
466
467 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600468
469config FRONTSWAP
470 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
471 depends on SWAP
472 default n
473 help
474 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
475 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
476 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
477 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
478 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
479 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
480 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
481 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
482 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
483
484 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530485
486config CMA
487 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700488 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530489 select MIGRATION
490 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
491 help
492 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
493 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
494 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
495 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
496 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
497 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
498
499 If unsure, say "n".
500
501config CMA_DEBUG
502 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
503 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
504 help
505 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG
506 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
507 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
508 This option does not affect warning and error messages.
Alexander Grafbf550fc2013-08-29 00:41:59 +0200509
Sasha Levin28b24c12015-04-14 15:44:57 -0700510config CMA_DEBUGFS
511 bool "CMA debugfs interface"
512 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS
513 help
514 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA.
515
Joonsoo Kima2541292014-08-06 16:05:25 -0700516config CMA_AREAS
517 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas"
518 depends on CMA
519 default 7
520 help
521 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly,
522 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum
523 number of CMA area in the system.
524
525 If unsure, leave the default value "7".
526
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700527config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
528 bool "Track memory changes"
529 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
530 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700531 help
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700532 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
533 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
534 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
535 it can be cleared by hands.
536
537 See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700538
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700539config ZSWAP
540 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
541 depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
542 select CRYPTO_LZO
Dan Streetman12d79d62014-08-06 16:08:40 -0700543 select ZPOOL
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700544 default n
545 help
546 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
547 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
548 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
549 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
550 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
551 reads, can also improve workload performance.
552
553 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
554 v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
555 interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
556 they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
557 configurations and workloads that exist.
558
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700559config ZPOOL
560 tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
561 default n
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700562 help
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700563 Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or
564 zsmalloc.
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700565
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700566config ZBUD
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700567 tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages"
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700568 default n
569 help
570 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
571 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
572 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
573 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
574 density approach when reclaim will be used.
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800575
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700576config Z3FOLD
577 tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages"
578 depends on ZPOOL
579 default n
580 help
581 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
582 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical
583 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are
584 still there.
585
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800586config ZSMALLOC
Minchan Kimd867f202014-06-04 16:11:10 -0700587 tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800588 depends on MMU
589 default n
590 help
591 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
592 compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
593 in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a
594 non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
595 returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to
596 access the allocated space.
597
598config PGTABLE_MAPPING
599 bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
600 depends on ZSMALLOC
601 help
602 By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
603 access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
604 architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
605 then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
606 mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
607
Ben Hutchings2216ee82014-03-10 15:49:46 -0700608 You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark:
609 https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700610
Ganesh Mahendran0f050d92015-02-12 15:00:54 -0800611config ZSMALLOC_STAT
612 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics"
613 depends on ZSMALLOC
614 select DEBUG_FS
615 help
616 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
617 statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that
618 information to userspace via debugfs.
619 If unsure, say N.
620
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700621config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
622 bool
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200623
624config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
625 int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
626 default 80
627 range 8 256 if METAG
628 range 8 2048
629 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
630 help
631 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
632 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
633 and metag arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory
634 address minus the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is
635 changed to a smaller value in which case that is used.
636
637 A sane initial value is 80 MB.
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700638
639# For architectures that support deferred memory initialisation
640config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
641 bool
642
643config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
Vlastimil Babka1ce22102016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800644 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700645 default n
646 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
Gavin Shan11e68562016-05-27 14:27:49 -0700647 depends on NO_BOOTMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Yang Shi95794922016-05-26 15:16:08 -0700648 depends on !FLATMEM
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700649 help
650 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
651 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
652 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
653 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel
Vlastimil Babka1ce22102016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800654 by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This
655 has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the
656 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
657 initialisation.
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400658
Vladimir Davydov33c3fc72015-09-09 15:35:45 -0700659config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
660 bool "Enable idle page tracking"
661 depends on SYSFS && MMU
662 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
663 help
664 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have
665 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can
666 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
667 within a compute cluster.
668
669 See Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt for more details.
670
Oliver O'Halloran65f7d042017-06-28 11:32:31 +1000671# arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
672config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
673 bool
674
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400675config ZONE_DEVICE
Dan Williamsc02b6ae2016-07-28 15:48:08 -0700676 bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support"
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400677 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
678 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
Dan Williams99490f12016-03-17 14:19:58 -0700679 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Oliver O'Halloran65f7d042017-06-28 11:32:31 +1000680 depends on ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400681
682 help
683 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
684 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
685 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
686 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
687 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
688
689 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
Linus Torvalds06a660a2015-09-11 16:42:39 -0700690
Jan Kara8025e5d2015-07-13 11:55:44 -0300691config FRAME_VECTOR
692 bool
Dave Hansen63c17fb2016-02-12 13:02:08 -0800693
694config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
695 bool
Dave Hansen66d37572016-02-12 13:02:32 -0800696config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
697 bool
Dennis Zhou30a5b532017-06-19 19:28:31 -0400698
699config PERCPU_STATS
700 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics"
701 default n
702 help
703 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The
704 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can
705 be used to help understand percpu memory usage.