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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.
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
Tang Chenc2974052012-12-18 14:21:33 -0800152 default n
153 help
154 Allow a node to have only movable memory. Pages used by the kernel,
155 such as direct mapping pages cannot be migrated. So the corresponding
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -0800156 memory device cannot be hotplugged. This option allows the following
157 two things:
158 - When the system is booting, node full of hotpluggable memory can
159 be arranged to have only movable memory so that the whole node can
160 be hot-removed. (need movable_node boot option specified).
161 - After the system is up, the option allows users to online all the
162 memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole node can be
163 hot-removed.
164
165 Users who don't use the memory hotplug feature are fine with this
166 option on since they don't specify movable_node boot option or they
167 don't online memory as movable.
Tang Chenc2974052012-12-18 14:21:33 -0800168
169 Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
170 Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.
Lai Jiangshan20b2f522012-12-12 13:52:00 -0800171
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800172#
173# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
174# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
175#
176config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
177 def_bool n
178
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700179# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
180config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
181 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700182 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
Stephen Rothwell40b31362013-05-21 13:49:35 +1000183 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Kumar Galaed84a072009-10-16 07:21:36 +0000184 depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700185
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700186config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
187 def_bool y
188 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
189
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700190config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
191 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800192 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Nathan Fontenotf7e33342013-09-27 10:18:09 -0500193 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700194 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
195 depends on MIGRATION
196
Christoph Lametere20b8cc2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700197#
198# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
199# optimizations and functionality.
200#
201# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
202# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
203# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
204#
205config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
206 def_bool y
H. Peter Anvina269cca2009-08-31 11:17:44 -0700207 depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
Christoph Lametere20b8cc2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700208
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700209# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
210# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
211# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
212# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
213# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
Hugh Dickins7b6ac9d2005-11-23 13:37:37 -0800214# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800215# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700216#
217config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
218 int
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800219 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
220 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
221 default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700222 default "4"
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800223
224#
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800225# support for memory balloon compaction
226config BALLOON_COMPACTION
227 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
228 def_bool y
229 depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
230 help
231 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
232 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
233 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
234 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
235 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
236 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
237 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
238
239#
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700240# support for memory compaction
241config COMPACTION
242 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
Rik van Riel05106e62012-10-08 16:33:03 -0700243 def_bool y
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700244 select MIGRATION
Andrea Arcangeli33a93872011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800245 depends on MMU
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700246 help
247 Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
248
249#
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800250# support for page migration
251#
252config MIGRATION
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800253 bool "Page migration"
Christoph Lameter6c5240a2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700254 def_bool y
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700255 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800256 help
257 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700258 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
259 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
260 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
261 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
262 allocation instead of reclaiming.
Greg Kroah-Hartman6550e072006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700263
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700264config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
265 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
266
Christoph Lameter4b51d662007-02-10 01:43:10 -0800267config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
268 int
269 default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
270 default "1"
271
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700272config BOUNCE
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700273 bool "Enable bounce buffers"
274 default y
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700275 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700276 help
277 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
278 the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
279 by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
280 may say n to override this.
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700281
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800282# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
283# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
284# a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
285#
286# We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd. jbd
287# initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting PG_writeback,
288# and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem) is
289# a major rework effort. Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
290# (until jbd goes away). The only jbd user is ext3.
291config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
292 bool
293 default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
294
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700295config NR_QUICK
296 int
297 depends on QUICKLIST
Paul Mundt0176bd32010-01-05 12:35:00 +0900298 default "2" if AVR32
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700299 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700300
301config VIRT_TO_BUS
Stephen Rothwell4febd952013-03-07 15:48:16 +1100302 bool
303 help
304 An architecture should select this if it implements the
305 deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
306 should probably not select this.
307
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700308
309config MMU_NOTIFIER
310 bool
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700311
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700312config KSM
313 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
314 depends on MMU
315 help
316 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
317 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
318 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800319 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700320 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
321 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700322 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
323 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
324 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700325
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400326config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
327 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000328 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400329 default 4096
330 help
331 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
332 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
333 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
334
335 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
336 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
337 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400338 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
339 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
340 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400341
342 This value can be changed after boot using the
343 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
344
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700345config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
346 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400347
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200348config MEMORY_FAILURE
349 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700350 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200351 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700352 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200353 help
354 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
355 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
356 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
357 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
358
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200359config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100360 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100361 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100362 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200363
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700364config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
365 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
366 depends on !MMU
367 default 1
368 help
369 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
370 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
371 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
372 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
373 the excess and return it to the allocator.
374
375 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
376 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
377 if there are a lot of transient processes.
378
379 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
380 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
381
382 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
383 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
384 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
385 no trimming is to occur.
386
387 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
388 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
389
390 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200391
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800392config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800393 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700394 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800395 select COMPACTION
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800396 help
397 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
398 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
399 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
400 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
401 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
402 up the pagetable walking.
403
404 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
405
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800406choice
407 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
408 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
409 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
410 help
411 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
412
413 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
414 bool "always"
415 help
416 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
417 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
418 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
419
420 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
421 bool "madvise"
422 help
423 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
424 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
425 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
426 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
427 benefit.
428endchoice
429
Christopher Yeoh5febcbe2012-05-29 15:06:27 -0700430config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
431 bool "Cross Memory Support"
432 depends on MMU
433 default y
434 help
435 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
436 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
437 to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
438 See the man page for more details.
439
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200440#
441# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
442#
443config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
444 depends on !SMP
445 bool
446 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600447
448config CLEANCACHE
449 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
450 default n
451 help
452 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
453 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
454 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
455 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000456 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600457 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
458 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
459 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
460 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
461 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
462 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
463 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
464 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
465 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
466 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
467 in a negligible performance hit.
468
469 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600470
471config FRONTSWAP
472 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
473 depends on SWAP
474 default n
475 help
476 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
477 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
478 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
479 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
480 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
481 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
482 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
483 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
484 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
485
486 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530487
488config CMA
489 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700490 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530491 select MIGRATION
492 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
493 help
494 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
495 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
496 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
497 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
498 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
499 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
500
501 If unsure, say "n".
502
503config CMA_DEBUG
504 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
505 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
506 help
507 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG
508 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
509 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
510 This option does not affect warning and error messages.
Alexander Grafbf550fc2013-08-29 00:41:59 +0200511
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700512config ZBUD
513 tristate
514 default n
515 help
516 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
517 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
518 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
519 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
520 density approach when reclaim will be used.
521
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700522config ZSWAP
523 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
524 depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
525 select CRYPTO_LZO
526 select ZBUD
527 default n
528 help
529 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
530 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
531 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
532 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
533 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
534 reads, can also improve workload performance.
535
536 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
537 v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
538 interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
539 they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
540 configurations and workloads that exist.
541
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700542config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
543 bool "Track memory changes"
544 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
545 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
546 help
547 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
548 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
549 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
550 it can be cleared by hands.
551
552 See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.