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  1. config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
  2. def_bool y
  3. depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
  4. choice
  5. prompt "Memory model"
  6. depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
  7. default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
  8. default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
  9. default FLATMEM_MANUAL
  10. config FLATMEM_MANUAL
  11. bool "Flat Memory"
  12. depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
  13. help
  14. This option allows you to change some of the ways that
  15. Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
  16. only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal
  17. and a correct option.
  18. Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
  19. memory hotplug may have different options here.
  20. DISCONTIGMEM is an more mature, better tested system,
  21. but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
  22. decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
  23. "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
  24. "Discontiguous Memory".
  25. If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
  26. config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
  27. bool "Discontiguous Memory"
  28. depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
  29. help
  30. This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
  31. memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
  32. in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
  33. more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
  34. majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
  35. can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
  36. this option imposes.
  37. Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
  38. If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
  39. config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
  40. bool "Sparse Memory"
  41. depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
  42. help
  43. This will be the only option for some systems, including
  44. memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
  45. For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
  46. "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
  47. performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
  48. but it is newer, and more experimental.
  49. If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
  50. over this option.
  51. endchoice
  52. config DISCONTIGMEM
  53. def_bool y
  54. depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
  55. config SPARSEMEM
  56. def_bool y
  57. depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
  58. config FLATMEM
  59. def_bool y
  60. depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
  61. config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
  62. def_bool y
  63. depends on !SPARSEMEM
  64. #
  65. # Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
  66. # to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
  67. # those dependencies to exist individually.
  68. #
  69. config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
  70. def_bool y
  71. depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
  72. config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
  73. def_bool y
  74. depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
  75. #
  76. # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
  77. # allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
  78. # be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
  79. # statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
  80. # consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
  81. #
  82. # This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
  83. # with gcc 3.4 and later.
  84. #
  85. config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
  86. bool
  87. #
  88. # Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
  89. # must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
  90. # an extremely sparse physical address space.
  91. #
  92. config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
  93. def_bool y
  94. depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
  95. config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
  96. bool
  97. config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
  98. def_bool y
  99. depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
  100. config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
  101. bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
  102. depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
  103. default y
  104. help
  105. SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
  106. pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
  107. efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
  108. config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
  109. boolean
  110. config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
  111. boolean
  112. config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
  113. boolean
  114. config NO_BOOTMEM
  115. boolean
  116. config MEMORY_ISOLATION
  117. boolean
  118. config MOVABLE_NODE
  119. boolean "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory"
  120. depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
  121. depends on NO_BOOTMEM
  122. depends on X86_64
  123. depends on NUMA
  124. default n
  125. help
  126. Allow a node to have only movable memory. Pages used by the kernel,
  127. such as direct mapping pages cannot be migrated. So the corresponding
  128. memory device cannot be hotplugged. This option allows users to
  129. online all the memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole
  130. node can be hotplugged. Users who don't use the memory hotplug
  131. feature are fine with this option on since they don't online memory
  132. as movable.
  133. Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
  134. Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.
  135. #
  136. # Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
  137. # feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
  138. #
  139. config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
  140. def_bool n
  141. # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
  142. config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
  143. bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
  144. depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
  145. depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
  146. depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
  147. config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
  148. def_bool y
  149. depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
  150. config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
  151. bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
  152. select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  153. select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if X86_64
  154. depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
  155. depends on MIGRATION
  156. #
  157. # If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
  158. # optimizations and functionality.
  159. #
  160. # Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
  161. # use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
  162. # that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
  163. #
  164. config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
  165. def_bool y
  166. depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
  167. # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
  168. # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
  169. # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
  170. # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
  171. # ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
  172. # PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
  173. # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
  174. #
  175. config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
  176. int
  177. default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
  178. default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
  179. default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  180. default "4"
  181. #
  182. # support for memory balloon compaction
  183. config BALLOON_COMPACTION
  184. bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
  185. def_bool y
  186. depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
  187. help
  188. Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
  189. significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
  190. used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
  191. with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
  192. by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
  193. pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
  194. scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
  195. #
  196. # support for memory compaction
  197. config COMPACTION
  198. bool "Allow for memory compaction"
  199. def_bool y
  200. select MIGRATION
  201. depends on MMU
  202. help
  203. Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
  204. #
  205. # support for page migration
  206. #
  207. config MIGRATION
  208. bool "Page migration"
  209. def_bool y
  210. depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
  211. help
  212. Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
  213. while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
  214. two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
  215. to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
  216. pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
  217. allocation instead of reclaiming.
  218. config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
  219. def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
  220. config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
  221. int
  222. default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
  223. default "1"
  224. config BOUNCE
  225. def_bool y
  226. depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
  227. # On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
  228. # have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
  229. # a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
  230. #
  231. # We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd. jbd
  232. # initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting PG_writeback,
  233. # and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem) is
  234. # a major rework effort. Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
  235. # (until jbd goes away). The only jbd user is ext3.
  236. config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
  237. bool
  238. default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
  239. config NR_QUICK
  240. int
  241. depends on QUICKLIST
  242. default "2" if AVR32
  243. default "1"
  244. config VIRT_TO_BUS
  245. bool
  246. help
  247. An architecture should select this if it implements the
  248. deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
  249. should probably not select this.
  250. config MMU_NOTIFIER
  251. bool
  252. config KSM
  253. bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
  254. depends on MMU
  255. help
  256. Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
  257. of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
  258. mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
  259. the many instances by a single page with that content, so
  260. saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
  261. Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
  262. See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
  263. until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
  264. root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
  265. config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
  266. int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
  267. depends on MMU
  268. default 4096
  269. help
  270. This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
  271. from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
  272. can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
  273. For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
  274. a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
  275. On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
  276. Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
  277. this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
  278. protection by setting the value to 0.
  279. This value can be changed after boot using the
  280. /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
  281. config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
  282. bool
  283. config MEMORY_FAILURE
  284. depends on MMU
  285. depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
  286. bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
  287. select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  288. help
  289. Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
  290. with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
  291. even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
  292. special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
  293. config HWPOISON_INJECT
  294. tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
  295. depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
  296. select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
  297. config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
  298. int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
  299. depends on !MMU
  300. default 1
  301. help
  302. The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
  303. of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
  304. allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
  305. more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
  306. the excess and return it to the allocator.
  307. If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
  308. system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
  309. if there are a lot of transient processes.
  310. If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
  311. long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
  312. Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
  313. (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
  314. excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
  315. no trimming is to occur.
  316. This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
  317. of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
  318. See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
  319. config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  320. bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
  321. depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  322. select COMPACTION
  323. help
  324. Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
  325. huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
  326. This feature can improve computing performance to certain
  327. applications by speeding up page faults during memory
  328. allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
  329. up the pagetable walking.
  330. If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
  331. choice
  332. prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
  333. depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  334. default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
  335. help
  336. Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
  337. config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
  338. bool "always"
  339. help
  340. Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
  341. memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
  342. benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
  343. config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
  344. bool "madvise"
  345. help
  346. Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
  347. performance improvement benefit to the applications using
  348. madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
  349. memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
  350. benefit.
  351. endchoice
  352. config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
  353. bool "Cross Memory Support"
  354. depends on MMU
  355. default y
  356. help
  357. Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
  358. process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
  359. to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
  360. See the man page for more details.
  361. #
  362. # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
  363. #
  364. config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
  365. depends on !SMP
  366. bool
  367. default y
  368. config CLEANCACHE
  369. bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
  370. default n
  371. help
  372. Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
  373. for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
  374. (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
  375. memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
  376. cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
  377. "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
  378. addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
  379. time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
  380. filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
  381. checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
  382. the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
  383. When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
  384. Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
  385. may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
  386. are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
  387. in a negligible performance hit.
  388. If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
  389. config FRONTSWAP
  390. bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
  391. depends on SWAP
  392. default n
  393. help
  394. Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
  395. of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
  396. "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
  397. addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
  398. time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
  399. a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
  400. available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
  401. compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
  402. and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
  403. If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.