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Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07001config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
2 def_bool y
Kees Cooka8826ee2013-01-16 18:54:17 -08003 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07004
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -07005choice
6 prompt "Memory model"
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07007 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
8 default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -07009 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070010 default FLATMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070011
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070012config FLATMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070013 bool "Flat Memory"
Anton Blanchardc898ec12006-01-06 00:12:07 -080014 depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070015 help
16 This option allows you to change some of the ways that
17 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
18 only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal
19 and a correct option.
20
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070021 Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
22 memory hotplug may have different options here.
Geert Uytterhoeven18f65332013-09-15 12:01:33 +020023 DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system,
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070024 but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
25 decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
26 "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
27 "Discontiguous Memory".
28
29 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070030
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070031config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansenf3519f92005-09-16 19:27:54 -070032 bool "Discontiguous Memory"
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070033 depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
34 help
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070035 This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
36 memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
37 in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
38 more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
39 majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
Philipp Marekad3d0a32007-10-20 02:46:58 +020040 can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070041 this option imposes.
42
43 Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
44
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070045 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
46
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070047config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
48 bool "Sparse Memory"
49 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
50 help
51 This will be the only option for some systems, including
52 memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
53
54 For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
Dave Hansenf3519f92005-09-16 19:27:54 -070055 "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070056 performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
57 but it is newer, and more experimental.
58
59 If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
60 over this option.
61
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070062endchoice
63
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070064config DISCONTIGMEM
65 def_bool y
66 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
67
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070068config SPARSEMEM
69 def_bool y
Russell King1a83e172009-10-26 16:50:12 -070070 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070071
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070072config FLATMEM
73 def_bool y
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070074 depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
75
76config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
77 def_bool y
78 depends on !SPARSEMEM
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070079
Dave Hansen93b75042005-06-23 00:07:47 -070080#
81# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
82# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
83# those dependencies to exist individually.
84#
85config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
86 def_bool y
87 depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
Andy Whitcroftaf705362005-06-23 00:07:53 -070088
89config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
90 def_bool y
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070091 depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
Bob Picco802f1922005-09-03 15:54:26 -070092
93#
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -070094# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +020095# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -070096# be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
97# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
98# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
99#
100# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
101# with gcc 3.4 and later.
102#
103config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700104 bool
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700105
106#
Matt LaPlante44c09202006-10-03 22:34:14 +0200107# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
Bob Picco802f1922005-09-03 15:54:26 -0700108# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
109# an extremely sparse physical address space.
110#
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700111config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
112 def_bool y
113 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700114
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700115config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700116 bool
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700117
Yinghai Lu9bdac912010-02-10 01:20:22 -0800118config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
119 def_bool y
120 depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
121
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700122config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Geoff Levanda5ee6da2007-12-17 16:19:53 -0800123 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
124 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
125 default y
126 help
127 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
128 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
129 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700130
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +1000131config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
132 boolean
133
Tejun Heo7c0caeb2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200134config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
135 boolean
136
Philipp Hachtmann70210ed2014-01-29 18:16:01 +0100137config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
138 boolean
139
Tejun Heoc378ddd2011-07-14 11:46:03 +0200140config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
141 boolean
142
Sam Ravnborg66616722011-10-31 17:08:20 -0700143config NO_BOOTMEM
144 boolean
145
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700146config MEMORY_ISOLATION
147 boolean
148
Lai Jiangshan20b2f522012-12-12 13:52:00 -0800149config MOVABLE_NODE
150 boolean "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory"
151 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
152 depends on NO_BOOTMEM
153 depends on X86_64
154 depends on NUMA
Tang Chenc2974052012-12-18 14:21:33 -0800155 default n
156 help
157 Allow a node to have only movable memory. Pages used by the kernel,
158 such as direct mapping pages cannot be migrated. So the corresponding
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -0800159 memory device cannot be hotplugged. This option allows the following
160 two things:
161 - When the system is booting, node full of hotpluggable memory can
162 be arranged to have only movable memory so that the whole node can
163 be hot-removed. (need movable_node boot option specified).
164 - After the system is up, the option allows users to online all the
165 memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole node can be
166 hot-removed.
167
168 Users who don't use the memory hotplug feature are fine with this
169 option on since they don't specify movable_node boot option or they
170 don't online memory as movable.
Tang Chenc2974052012-12-18 14:21:33 -0800171
172 Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
173 Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.
Lai Jiangshan20b2f522012-12-12 13:52:00 -0800174
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800175#
176# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
177# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
178#
179config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
180 def_bool n
181
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700182# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
183config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
184 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700185 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
Stephen Rothwell40b31362013-05-21 13:49:35 +1000186 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Kumar Galaed84a072009-10-16 07:21:36 +0000187 depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700188
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700189config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
190 def_bool y
191 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
192
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700193config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
194 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800195 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Nathan Fontenotf7e33342013-09-27 10:18:09 -0500196 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700197 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
198 depends on MIGRATION
199
Christoph Lametere20b8cc2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700200#
201# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
202# optimizations and functionality.
203#
204# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
205# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
206# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
207#
208config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
209 def_bool y
H. Peter Anvina269cca2009-08-31 11:17:44 -0700210 depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
Christoph Lametere20b8cc2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700211
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700212# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
213# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
214# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
215# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
216# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
Hugh Dickins7b6ac9d2005-11-23 13:37:37 -0800217# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800218# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700219#
220config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
221 int
Kirill A. Shutemov91645502014-04-07 15:37:14 -0700222 default "999999" if !MMU
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800223 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
224 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700225 default "4"
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800226
Kirill A. Shutemove009bb32013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800227config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
228 boolean
229
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800230#
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800231# support for memory balloon compaction
232config BALLOON_COMPACTION
233 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
234 def_bool y
235 depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
236 help
237 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
238 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
239 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
240 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
241 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
242 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
243 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
244
245#
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700246# support for memory compaction
247config COMPACTION
248 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
Rik van Riel05106e62012-10-08 16:33:03 -0700249 def_bool y
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700250 select MIGRATION
Andrea Arcangeli33a93872011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800251 depends on MMU
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700252 help
253 Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
254
255#
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800256# support for page migration
257#
258config MIGRATION
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800259 bool "Page migration"
Christoph Lameter6c5240a2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700260 def_bool y
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700261 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800262 help
263 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700264 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
265 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
266 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
267 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
268 allocation instead of reclaiming.
Greg Kroah-Hartman6550e072006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700269
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700270config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
271 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
272
Christoph Lameter4b51d662007-02-10 01:43:10 -0800273config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
274 int
275 default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
276 default "1"
277
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700278config BOUNCE
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700279 bool "Enable bounce buffers"
280 default y
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700281 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700282 help
283 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
284 the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
285 by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
286 may say n to override this.
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700287
Darrick J. Wongffecfd12013-02-21 16:42:55 -0800288# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
289# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
290# a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
291#
292# We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd. jbd
293# initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting PG_writeback,
294# and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem) is
295# a major rework effort. Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
296# (until jbd goes away). The only jbd user is ext3.
297config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
298 bool
299 default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
300
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700301config NR_QUICK
302 int
303 depends on QUICKLIST
Paul Mundt0176bd32010-01-05 12:35:00 +0900304 default "2" if AVR32
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700305 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700306
307config VIRT_TO_BUS
Stephen Rothwell4febd952013-03-07 15:48:16 +1100308 bool
309 help
310 An architecture should select this if it implements the
311 deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
312 should probably not select this.
313
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700314
315config MMU_NOTIFIER
316 bool
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700317
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700318config KSM
319 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
320 depends on MMU
321 help
322 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
323 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
324 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800325 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700326 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
327 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700328 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
329 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
330 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700331
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400332config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
333 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000334 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400335 default 4096
336 help
337 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
338 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
339 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
340
341 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
342 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
343 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400344 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
345 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
346 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400347
348 This value can be changed after boot using the
349 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
350
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700351config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
352 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400353
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200354config MEMORY_FAILURE
355 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700356 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200357 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700358 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200359 help
360 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
361 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
362 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
363 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
364
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200365config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100366 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100367 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100368 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200369
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700370config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
371 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
372 depends on !MMU
373 default 1
374 help
375 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
376 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
377 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
378 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
379 the excess and return it to the allocator.
380
381 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
382 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
383 if there are a lot of transient processes.
384
385 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
386 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
387
388 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
389 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
390 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
391 no trimming is to occur.
392
393 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
394 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
395
396 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200397
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800398config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800399 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700400 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800401 select COMPACTION
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800402 help
403 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
404 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
405 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
406 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
407 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
408 up the pagetable walking.
409
410 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
411
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800412choice
413 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
414 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
415 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
416 help
417 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
418
419 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
420 bool "always"
421 help
422 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
423 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
424 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
425
426 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
427 bool "madvise"
428 help
429 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
430 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
431 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
432 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
433 benefit.
434endchoice
435
Christopher Yeoh5febcbe2012-05-29 15:06:27 -0700436config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
437 bool "Cross Memory Support"
438 depends on MMU
439 default y
440 help
441 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
442 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
443 to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
444 See the man page for more details.
445
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200446#
447# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
448#
449config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
450 depends on !SMP
451 bool
452 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600453
454config CLEANCACHE
455 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
456 default n
457 help
458 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
459 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
460 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
461 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000462 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600463 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
464 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
465 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
466 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
467 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
468 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
469 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
470 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
471 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
472 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
473 in a negligible performance hit.
474
475 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600476
477config FRONTSWAP
478 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
479 depends on SWAP
480 default n
481 help
482 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
483 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
484 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
485 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
486 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
487 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
488 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
489 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
490 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
491
492 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530493
494config CMA
495 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700496 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530497 select MIGRATION
498 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
499 help
500 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
501 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
502 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
503 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
504 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
505 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
506
507 If unsure, say "n".
508
509config CMA_DEBUG
510 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
511 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
512 help
513 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG
514 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
515 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
516 This option does not affect warning and error messages.
Alexander Grafbf550fc2013-08-29 00:41:59 +0200517
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700518config ZBUD
519 tristate
520 default n
521 help
522 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
523 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
524 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
525 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
526 density approach when reclaim will be used.
527
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700528config ZSWAP
529 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
530 depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
531 select CRYPTO_LZO
532 select ZBUD
533 default n
534 help
535 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
536 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
537 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
538 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
539 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
540 reads, can also improve workload performance.
541
542 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
543 v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
544 interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
545 they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
546 configurations and workloads that exist.
547
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700548config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
549 bool "Track memory changes"
Sima Baymania844f382013-12-18 17:08:49 -0800550 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700551 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
552 help
553 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
554 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
555 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
556 it can be cleared by hands.
557
558 See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800559
560config ZSMALLOC
561 bool "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
562 depends on MMU
563 default n
564 help
565 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
566 compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
567 in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a
568 non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
569 returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to
570 access the allocated space.
571
572config PGTABLE_MAPPING
573 bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
574 depends on ZSMALLOC
575 help
576 By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
577 access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
578 architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
579 then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
580 mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
581
Ben Hutchings2216ee82014-03-10 15:49:46 -0700582 You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark:
583 https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700584
585config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
586 bool
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200587
588config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
589 int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
590 default 80
591 range 8 256 if METAG
592 range 8 2048
593 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
594 help
595 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
596 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
597 and metag arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory
598 address minus the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is
599 changed to a smaller value in which case that is used.
600
601 A sane initial value is 80 MB.