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Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07001config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
2 def_bool y
3 depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
4
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.
23 DISCONTIGMEM is an more mature, better tested system,
24 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
132 boolean
133
Tejun Heo7c0caeb2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200134config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
135 boolean
136
Tejun Heoc378ddd2011-07-14 11:46:03 +0200137config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
138 boolean
139
Sam Ravnborg66616722011-10-31 17:08:20 -0700140config NO_BOOTMEM
141 boolean
142
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700143config MEMORY_ISOLATION
144 boolean
145
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700146# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
147config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
148 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700149 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700150 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
Andi Kleen6ad696d2009-11-17 14:06:22 -0800151 depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Kumar Galaed84a072009-10-16 07:21:36 +0000152 depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700153
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700154config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
155 def_bool y
156 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
157
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700158config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
159 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
160 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
161 depends on MIGRATION
162
Christoph Lametere20b8cc2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700163#
164# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
165# optimizations and functionality.
166#
167# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
168# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
169# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
170#
171config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
172 def_bool y
H. Peter Anvina269cca2009-08-31 11:17:44 -0700173 depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
Christoph Lametere20b8cc2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700174
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700175# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
176# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
177# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
178# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
179# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
Hugh Dickins7b6ac9d2005-11-23 13:37:37 -0800180# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800181# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700182#
183config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
184 int
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800185 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
186 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
187 default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700188 default "4"
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800189
190#
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800191# support for memory balloon compaction
192config BALLOON_COMPACTION
193 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
194 def_bool y
195 depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
196 help
197 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
198 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
199 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
200 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
201 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
202 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
203 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
204
205#
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700206# support for memory compaction
207config COMPACTION
208 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
Rik van Riel05106e62012-10-08 16:33:03 -0700209 def_bool y
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700210 select MIGRATION
Andrea Arcangeli33a93872011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800211 depends on MMU
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700212 help
213 Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
214
215#
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800216# support for page migration
217#
218config MIGRATION
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800219 bool "Page migration"
Christoph Lameter6c5240a2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700220 def_bool y
Michal Nazarewicz47118af2011-12-29 13:09:50 +0100221 depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800222 help
223 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700224 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
225 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
226 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
227 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
228 allocation instead of reclaiming.
Greg Kroah-Hartman6550e072006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700229
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700230config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
231 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
232
Christoph Lameter4b51d662007-02-10 01:43:10 -0800233config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
234 int
235 default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
236 default "1"
237
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700238config BOUNCE
239 def_bool y
240 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
241
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700242config NR_QUICK
243 int
244 depends on QUICKLIST
Paul Mundt0176bd32010-01-05 12:35:00 +0900245 default "2" if AVR32
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700246 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700247
248config VIRT_TO_BUS
249 def_bool y
250 depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700251
252config MMU_NOTIFIER
253 bool
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700254
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700255config KSM
256 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
257 depends on MMU
258 help
259 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
260 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
261 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800262 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700263 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
264 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700265 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
266 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
267 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700268
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400269config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
270 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000271 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400272 default 4096
273 help
274 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
275 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
276 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
277
278 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
279 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
280 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400281 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
282 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
283 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400284
285 This value can be changed after boot using the
286 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
287
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700288config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
289 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400290
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200291config MEMORY_FAILURE
292 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700293 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200294 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700295 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200296 help
297 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
298 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
299 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
300 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
301
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200302config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100303 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100304 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100305 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200306
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700307config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
308 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
309 depends on !MMU
310 default 1
311 help
312 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
313 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
314 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
315 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
316 the excess and return it to the allocator.
317
318 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
319 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
320 if there are a lot of transient processes.
321
322 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
323 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
324
325 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
326 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
327 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
328 no trimming is to occur.
329
330 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
331 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
332
333 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200334
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800335config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800336 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700337 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800338 select COMPACTION
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800339 help
340 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
341 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
342 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
343 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
344 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
345 up the pagetable walking.
346
347 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
348
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800349choice
350 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
351 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
352 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
353 help
354 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
355
356 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
357 bool "always"
358 help
359 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
360 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
361 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
362
363 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
364 bool "madvise"
365 help
366 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
367 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
368 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
369 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
370 benefit.
371endchoice
372
Christopher Yeoh5febcbe2012-05-29 15:06:27 -0700373config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
374 bool "Cross Memory Support"
375 depends on MMU
376 default y
377 help
378 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
379 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
380 to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
381 See the man page for more details.
382
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200383#
384# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
385#
386config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
387 depends on !SMP
388 bool
389 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600390
391config CLEANCACHE
392 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
393 default n
394 help
395 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
396 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
397 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
398 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000399 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600400 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
401 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
402 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
403 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
404 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
405 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
406 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
407 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
408 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
409 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
410 in a negligible performance hit.
411
412 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600413
414config FRONTSWAP
415 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
416 depends on SWAP
417 default n
418 help
419 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
420 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
421 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
422 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
423 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
424 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
425 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
426 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
427 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
428
429 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.