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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
Kirill A. Shutemove9bb18c2013-11-14 14:30:42 -0800222 default "999999" if !64BIT && GENERIC_LOCKBREAK
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700223 default "4"
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800224
Kirill A. Shutemove009bb32013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800225config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
226 boolean
227
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800228#
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800229# support for memory balloon compaction
230config BALLOON_COMPACTION
231 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
232 def_bool y
233 depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
234 help
235 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
236 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
237 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
238 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
239 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
240 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
241 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
242
243#
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700244# support for memory compaction
245config COMPACTION
246 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
Rik van Riel05106e62012-10-08 16:33:03 -0700247 def_bool y
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700248 select MIGRATION
Andrea Arcangeli33a93872011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800249 depends on MMU
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700250 help
251 Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
252
253#
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800254# support for page migration
255#
256config MIGRATION
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800257 bool "Page migration"
Christoph Lameter6c5240a2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700258 def_bool y
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700259 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800260 help
261 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700262 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
263 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
264 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
265 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
266 allocation instead of reclaiming.
Greg Kroah-Hartman6550e072006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700267
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700268config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
269 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
270
Christoph Lameter4b51d662007-02-10 01:43:10 -0800271config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
272 int
273 default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
274 default "1"
275
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700276config BOUNCE
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700277 bool "Enable bounce buffers"
278 default y
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700279 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700280 help
281 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
282 the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
283 by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
284 may say n to override this.
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700285
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800286# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
287# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
288# a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
289#
290# We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd. jbd
291# initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting PG_writeback,
292# and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem) is
293# a major rework effort. Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
294# (until jbd goes away). The only jbd user is ext3.
295config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
296 bool
297 default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
298
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700299config NR_QUICK
300 int
301 depends on QUICKLIST
Paul Mundt0176bd32010-01-05 12:35:00 +0900302 default "2" if AVR32
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700303 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700304
305config VIRT_TO_BUS
Stephen Rothwell4febd952013-03-07 15:48:16 +1100306 bool
307 help
308 An architecture should select this if it implements the
309 deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
310 should probably not select this.
311
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700312
313config MMU_NOTIFIER
314 bool
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700315
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700316config KSM
317 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
318 depends on MMU
319 help
320 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
321 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
322 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800323 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700324 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
325 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700326 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
327 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
328 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700329
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400330config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
331 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000332 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400333 default 4096
334 help
335 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
336 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
337 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
338
339 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
340 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
341 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400342 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
343 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
344 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400345
346 This value can be changed after boot using the
347 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
348
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700349config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
350 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400351
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200352config MEMORY_FAILURE
353 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700354 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200355 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700356 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200357 help
358 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
359 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
360 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
361 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
362
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200363config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100364 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100365 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100366 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200367
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700368config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
369 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
370 depends on !MMU
371 default 1
372 help
373 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
374 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
375 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
376 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
377 the excess and return it to the allocator.
378
379 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
380 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
381 if there are a lot of transient processes.
382
383 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
384 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
385
386 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
387 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
388 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
389 no trimming is to occur.
390
391 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
392 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
393
394 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200395
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800396config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800397 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700398 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800399 select COMPACTION
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800400 help
401 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
402 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
403 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
404 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
405 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
406 up the pagetable walking.
407
408 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
409
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800410choice
411 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
412 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
413 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
414 help
415 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
416
417 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
418 bool "always"
419 help
420 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
421 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
422 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
423
424 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
425 bool "madvise"
426 help
427 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
428 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
429 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
430 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
431 benefit.
432endchoice
433
Christopher Yeoh5febcbe2012-05-29 15:06:27 -0700434config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
435 bool "Cross Memory Support"
436 depends on MMU
437 default y
438 help
439 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
440 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
441 to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
442 See the man page for more details.
443
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200444#
445# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
446#
447config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
448 depends on !SMP
449 bool
450 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600451
452config CLEANCACHE
453 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
454 default n
455 help
456 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
457 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
458 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
459 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000460 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600461 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
462 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
463 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
464 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
465 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
466 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
467 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
468 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
469 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
470 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
471 in a negligible performance hit.
472
473 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600474
475config FRONTSWAP
476 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
477 depends on SWAP
478 default n
479 help
480 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
481 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
482 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
483 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
484 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
485 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
486 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
487 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
488 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
489
490 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530491
492config CMA
493 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700494 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530495 select MIGRATION
496 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
497 help
498 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
499 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
500 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
501 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
502 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
503 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
504
505 If unsure, say "n".
506
507config CMA_DEBUG
508 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
509 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
510 help
511 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG
512 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
513 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
514 This option does not affect warning and error messages.
Alexander Grafbf550fc2013-08-29 00:41:59 +0200515
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700516config ZBUD
517 tristate
518 default n
519 help
520 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
521 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
522 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
523 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
524 density approach when reclaim will be used.
525
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700526config ZSWAP
527 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
528 depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
529 select CRYPTO_LZO
530 select ZBUD
531 default n
532 help
533 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
534 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
535 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
536 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
537 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
538 reads, can also improve workload performance.
539
540 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
541 v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
542 interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
543 they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
544 configurations and workloads that exist.
545
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700546config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
547 bool "Track memory changes"
548 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
549 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
550 help
551 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
552 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
553 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
554 it can be cleared by hands.
555
556 See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.