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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
Naoya Horiguchi9c670ea2017-09-08 16:10:53 -0700265config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
266 bool
267
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700268config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
269 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
270
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700271config BOUNCE
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700272 bool "Enable bounce buffers"
273 default y
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700274 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700275 help
276 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
277 the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
278 by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
279 may say n to override this.
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700280
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800281# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
282# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
283# a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800284config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
285 bool
Valentin Rothbergdebeb292015-07-23 13:18:06 +0200286 default y if TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800287
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700288config NR_QUICK
289 int
290 depends on QUICKLIST
291 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700292
293config VIRT_TO_BUS
Stephen Rothwell4febd952013-03-07 15:48:16 +1100294 bool
295 help
296 An architecture should select this if it implements the
297 deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
298 should probably not select this.
299
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700300
301config MMU_NOTIFIER
302 bool
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -0500303 select SRCU
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700304
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700305config KSM
306 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
307 depends on MMU
308 help
309 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
310 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
311 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800312 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700313 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
314 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700315 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
316 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
317 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700318
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400319config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
320 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000321 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400322 default 4096
323 help
324 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
325 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
326 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
327
328 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
329 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
330 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400331 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
332 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
333 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400334
335 This value can be changed after boot using the
336 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
337
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700338config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
339 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400340
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200341config MEMORY_FAILURE
342 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700343 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200344 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700345 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Xie XiuQi97f0b132015-06-24 16:57:36 -0700346 select RAS
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200347 help
348 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
349 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
350 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
351 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
352
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200353config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100354 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100355 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100356 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200357
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700358config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
359 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
360 depends on !MMU
361 default 1
362 help
363 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
364 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
365 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
366 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
367 the excess and return it to the allocator.
368
369 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
370 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
371 if there are a lot of transient processes.
372
373 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
374 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
375
376 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
377 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
378 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
379 no trimming is to occur.
380
381 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
382 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
383
384 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200385
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800386config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800387 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700388 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800389 select COMPACTION
Matthew Wilcox57578c22016-05-20 17:01:54 -0700390 select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800391 help
392 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
393 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
394 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
395 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
396 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
397 up the pagetable walking.
398
399 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
400
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800401choice
402 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
403 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
404 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
405 help
406 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
407
408 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
409 bool "always"
410 help
411 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
412 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
413 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
414
415 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
416 bool "madvise"
417 help
418 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
419 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
420 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
421 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
422 benefit.
423endchoice
424
Huang Ying38d8b4e2017-07-06 15:37:18 -0700425config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
426 def_bool n
427
428config THP_SWAP
429 def_bool y
430 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
431 help
432 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting.
433 XXX: For now this only does clustered swap space allocation.
434
435 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes.
436
Kirill A. Shutemove496cf32016-07-26 15:26:35 -0700437config TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE
438 def_bool y
Aneesh Kumar K.V953c66c2016-12-12 16:44:32 -0800439 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Kirill A. Shutemove496cf32016-07-26 15:26:35 -0700440
441#
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200442# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
443#
444config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
445 depends on !SMP
446 bool
447 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600448
449config CLEANCACHE
450 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
451 default n
452 help
453 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
454 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
455 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
456 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000457 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600458 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
459 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
460 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
461 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
462 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
463 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
464 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
465 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
466 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
467 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
468 in a negligible performance hit.
469
470 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600471
472config FRONTSWAP
473 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
474 depends on SWAP
475 default n
476 help
477 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
478 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
479 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
480 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
481 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
482 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
483 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
484 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
485 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
486
487 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530488
489config CMA
490 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700491 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530492 select MIGRATION
493 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
494 help
495 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
496 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
497 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
498 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
499 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
500 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
501
502 If unsure, say "n".
503
504config CMA_DEBUG
505 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
507 help
508 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG
509 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
510 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
511 This option does not affect warning and error messages.
Alexander Grafbf550fc2013-08-29 00:41:59 +0200512
Sasha Levin28b24c12015-04-14 15:44:57 -0700513config CMA_DEBUGFS
514 bool "CMA debugfs interface"
515 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS
516 help
517 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA.
518
Joonsoo Kima2541292014-08-06 16:05:25 -0700519config CMA_AREAS
520 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas"
521 depends on CMA
522 default 7
523 help
524 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly,
525 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum
526 number of CMA area in the system.
527
528 If unsure, leave the default value "7".
529
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700530config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
531 bool "Track memory changes"
532 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
533 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700534 help
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700535 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
536 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
537 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
538 it can be cleared by hands.
539
540 See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700541
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700542config ZSWAP
543 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
544 depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
545 select CRYPTO_LZO
Dan Streetman12d79d62014-08-06 16:08:40 -0700546 select ZPOOL
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700547 default n
548 help
549 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
550 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
551 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
552 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
553 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
554 reads, can also improve workload performance.
555
556 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
557 v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
558 interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
559 they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
560 configurations and workloads that exist.
561
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700562config ZPOOL
563 tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
564 default n
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700565 help
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700566 Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or
567 zsmalloc.
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700568
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700569config ZBUD
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700570 tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages"
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700571 default n
572 help
573 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
574 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
575 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
576 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
577 density approach when reclaim will be used.
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800578
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700579config Z3FOLD
580 tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages"
581 depends on ZPOOL
582 default n
583 help
584 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
585 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical
586 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are
587 still there.
588
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800589config ZSMALLOC
Minchan Kimd867f202014-06-04 16:11:10 -0700590 tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800591 depends on MMU
592 default n
593 help
594 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
595 compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
596 in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a
597 non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
598 returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to
599 access the allocated space.
600
601config PGTABLE_MAPPING
602 bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
603 depends on ZSMALLOC
604 help
605 By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
606 access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
607 architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
608 then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
609 mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
610
Ben Hutchings2216ee82014-03-10 15:49:46 -0700611 You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark:
612 https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700613
Ganesh Mahendran0f050d92015-02-12 15:00:54 -0800614config ZSMALLOC_STAT
615 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics"
616 depends on ZSMALLOC
617 select DEBUG_FS
618 help
619 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
620 statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that
621 information to userspace via debugfs.
622 If unsure, say N.
623
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700624config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
625 bool
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200626
627config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
628 int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
629 default 80
630 range 8 256 if METAG
631 range 8 2048
632 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
633 help
634 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
635 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
636 and metag arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory
637 address minus the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is
638 changed to a smaller value in which case that is used.
639
640 A sane initial value is 80 MB.
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700641
642# For architectures that support deferred memory initialisation
643config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
644 bool
645
646config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
Vlastimil Babka1ce22102016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800647 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700648 default n
649 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
Gavin Shan11e68562016-05-27 14:27:49 -0700650 depends on NO_BOOTMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Yang Shi95794922016-05-26 15:16:08 -0700651 depends on !FLATMEM
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700652 help
653 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
654 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
655 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
656 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel
Vlastimil Babka1ce22102016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800657 by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This
658 has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the
659 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
660 initialisation.
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400661
Vladimir Davydov33c3fc72015-09-09 15:35:45 -0700662config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
663 bool "Enable idle page tracking"
664 depends on SYSFS && MMU
665 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
666 help
667 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have
668 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can
669 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
670 within a compute cluster.
671
672 See Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt for more details.
673
Oliver O'Halloran65f7d042017-06-28 11:32:31 +1000674# arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
675config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
676 bool
677
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400678config ZONE_DEVICE
Dan Williamsc02b6ae2016-07-28 15:48:08 -0700679 bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support"
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400680 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
681 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
Dan Williams99490f12016-03-17 14:19:58 -0700682 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Oliver O'Halloran65f7d042017-06-28 11:32:31 +1000683 depends on ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
Dan Williamsab1b5972017-09-06 16:24:13 -0700684 select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400685
686 help
687 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
688 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
689 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
690 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
691 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
692
693 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
Linus Torvalds06a660a2015-09-11 16:42:39 -0700694
Jan Kara8025e5d2015-07-13 11:55:44 -0300695config FRAME_VECTOR
696 bool
Dave Hansen63c17fb2016-02-12 13:02:08 -0800697
698config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
699 bool
Dave Hansen66d37572016-02-12 13:02:32 -0800700config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
701 bool
Dennis Zhou30a5b532017-06-19 19:28:31 -0400702
703config PERCPU_STATS
704 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics"
705 default n
706 help
707 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The
708 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can
709 be used to help understand percpu memory usage.