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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
Lai Jiangshan20b2f522012-12-12 13:52:00 -0800146config MOVABLE_NODE
147 boolean "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory"
148 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
149 depends on NO_BOOTMEM
150 depends on X86_64
151 depends on NUMA
Linus Torvaldsf6e858a2012-12-13 13:11:15 -0800152 depends on BROKEN
Lai Jiangshan20b2f522012-12-12 13:52:00 -0800153
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700154# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
155config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
156 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700157 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700158 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
Andi Kleen6ad696d2009-11-17 14:06:22 -0800159 depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Kumar Galaed84a072009-10-16 07:21:36 +0000160 depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700161
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700162config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
163 def_bool y
164 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
165
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700166config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
167 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
168 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
169 depends on MIGRATION
170
Christoph Lametere20b8cc2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700171#
172# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
173# optimizations and functionality.
174#
175# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
176# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
177# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
178#
179config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
180 def_bool y
H. Peter Anvina269cca2009-08-31 11:17:44 -0700181 depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
Christoph Lametere20b8cc2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700182
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700183# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
184# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
185# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
186# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
187# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
Hugh Dickins7b6ac9d2005-11-23 13:37:37 -0800188# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800189# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700190#
191config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
192 int
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800193 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
194 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
195 default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700196 default "4"
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800197
198#
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800199# support for memory balloon compaction
200config BALLOON_COMPACTION
201 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
202 def_bool y
203 depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
204 help
205 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
206 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
207 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
208 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
209 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
210 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
211 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
212
213#
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700214# support for memory compaction
215config COMPACTION
216 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
Rik van Riel05106e62012-10-08 16:33:03 -0700217 def_bool y
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700218 select MIGRATION
Andrea Arcangeli33a93872011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800219 depends on MMU
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700220 help
221 Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
222
223#
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800224# support for page migration
225#
226config MIGRATION
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800227 bool "Page migration"
Christoph Lameter6c5240a2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700228 def_bool y
Michal Nazarewicz47118af2011-12-29 13:09:50 +0100229 depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800230 help
231 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700232 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
233 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
234 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
235 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
236 allocation instead of reclaiming.
Greg Kroah-Hartman6550e072006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700237
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700238config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
239 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
240
Christoph Lameter4b51d662007-02-10 01:43:10 -0800241config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
242 int
243 default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
244 default "1"
245
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700246config BOUNCE
247 def_bool y
248 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
249
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700250config NR_QUICK
251 int
252 depends on QUICKLIST
Paul Mundt0176bd32010-01-05 12:35:00 +0900253 default "2" if AVR32
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700254 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700255
256config VIRT_TO_BUS
257 def_bool y
258 depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700259
260config MMU_NOTIFIER
261 bool
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700262
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700263config KSM
264 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
265 depends on MMU
266 help
267 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
268 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
269 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800270 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700271 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
272 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700273 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
274 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
275 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700276
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400277config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
278 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000279 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400280 default 4096
281 help
282 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
283 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
284 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
285
286 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
287 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
288 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400289 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
290 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
291 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400292
293 This value can be changed after boot using the
294 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
295
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700296config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
297 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400298
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200299config MEMORY_FAILURE
300 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700301 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200302 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700303 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200304 help
305 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
306 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
307 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
308 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
309
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200310config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100311 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100312 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100313 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200314
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700315config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
316 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
317 depends on !MMU
318 default 1
319 help
320 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
321 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
322 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
323 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
324 the excess and return it to the allocator.
325
326 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
327 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
328 if there are a lot of transient processes.
329
330 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
331 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
332
333 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
334 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
335 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
336 no trimming is to occur.
337
338 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
339 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
340
341 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200342
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800343config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800344 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700345 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800346 select COMPACTION
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800347 help
348 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
349 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
350 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
351 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
352 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
353 up the pagetable walking.
354
355 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
356
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800357choice
358 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
359 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
360 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
361 help
362 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
363
364 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
365 bool "always"
366 help
367 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
368 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
369 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
370
371 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
372 bool "madvise"
373 help
374 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
375 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
376 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
377 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
378 benefit.
379endchoice
380
Christopher Yeoh5febcbe2012-05-29 15:06:27 -0700381config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
382 bool "Cross Memory Support"
383 depends on MMU
384 default y
385 help
386 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
387 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
388 to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
389 See the man page for more details.
390
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200391#
392# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
393#
394config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
395 depends on !SMP
396 bool
397 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600398
399config CLEANCACHE
400 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
401 default n
402 help
403 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
404 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
405 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
406 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000407 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600408 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
409 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
410 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
411 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
412 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
413 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
414 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
415 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
416 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
417 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
418 in a negligible performance hit.
419
420 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600421
422config FRONTSWAP
423 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
424 depends on SWAP
425 default n
426 help
427 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
428 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
429 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
430 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
431 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
432 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
433 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
434 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
435 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
436
437 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.