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1config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
2	def_bool y
3	depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
4
5choice
6	prompt "Memory model"
7	depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
8	default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
9	default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
10	default FLATMEM_MANUAL
11
12config FLATMEM_MANUAL
13	bool "Flat Memory"
14	depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
15	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
21	  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.
30
31config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
32	bool "Discontiguous Memory"
33	depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
34	help
35	  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
40	  can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
41	  this option imposes.
42
43	  Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
44
45	  If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
46
47config 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
55	  "Discontiguous Memory".  This option provides some potential
56	  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
62endchoice
63
64config DISCONTIGMEM
65	def_bool y
66	depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
67
68config SPARSEMEM
69	def_bool y
70	depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
71
72config FLATMEM
73	def_bool y
74	depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
75
76config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
77	def_bool y
78	depends on !SPARSEMEM
79
80#
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
88
89config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
90	def_bool y
91	depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
92
93#
94# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
95# allocations when memory_present() is called.  If this cannot
96# 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
104	bool
105
106#
107# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
108# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
109# an extremely sparse physical address space.
110#
111config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
112	def_bool y
113	depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
114
115config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
116	bool
117
118config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
119	def_bool y
120	depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
121
122config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
123	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.
130
131config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
132	boolean
133
134config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
135	boolean
136
137config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
138	boolean
139
140config NO_BOOTMEM
141	boolean
142
143config MEMORY_ISOLATION
144	boolean
145
146config 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
152	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
156	  memory device cannot be hotplugged.  This option allows users to
157	  online all the memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole
158	  node can be hotplugged.  Users who don't use the memory hotplug
159	  feature are fine with this option on since they don't online memory
160	  as movable.
161
162	  Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
163	  Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.
164
165# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
166config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
167	bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
168	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
169	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
170	depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
171	depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
172
173config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
174	def_bool y
175	depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
176
177config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
178	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
179	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
180	depends on MIGRATION
181
182#
183# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
184# optimizations and functionality.
185#
186# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
187# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
188# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
189#
190config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
191	def_bool y
192	depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
193
194# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
195# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
196# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
197# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
198# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
199# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
200# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
201#
202config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
203	int
204	default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
205	default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
206	default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
207	default "4"
208
209#
210# support for memory balloon compaction
211config BALLOON_COMPACTION
212	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
213	def_bool y
214	depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
215	help
216	  Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
217	  significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
218	  used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
219	  with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
220	  by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
221	  pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
222	  scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
223
224#
225# support for memory compaction
226config COMPACTION
227	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
228	def_bool y
229	select MIGRATION
230	depends on MMU
231	help
232	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
233
234#
235# support for page migration
236#
237config MIGRATION
238	bool "Page migration"
239	def_bool y
240	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
241	help
242	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
243	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
244	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
245	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
246	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
247	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
248
249config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
250	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
251
252config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
253	int
254	default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
255	default "1"
256
257config BOUNCE
258	def_bool y
259	depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
260
261config NR_QUICK
262	int
263	depends on QUICKLIST
264	default "2" if AVR32
265	default "1"
266
267config VIRT_TO_BUS
268	def_bool y
269	depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
270
271config MMU_NOTIFIER
272	bool
273
274config KSM
275	bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
276	depends on MMU
277	help
278	  Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
279	  of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
280	  mergeable.  When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
281	  the many instances by a single page with that content, so
282	  saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
283	  Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
284	  See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
285	  until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
286	  root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
287
288config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
289        int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
290	depends on MMU
291        default 4096
292        help
293	  This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
294	  from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages
295	  can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
296
297	  For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
298	  a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
299	  On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
300	  Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
301	  this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
302	  protection by setting the value to 0.
303
304	  This value can be changed after boot using the
305	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
306
307config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
308	bool
309
310config MEMORY_FAILURE
311	depends on MMU
312	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
313	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
314	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
315	help
316	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
317	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
318	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
319	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
320
321config HWPOISON_INJECT
322	tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
323	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
324	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
325
326config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
327	int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
328	depends on !MMU
329	default 1
330	help
331	  The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
332	  of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
333	  allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
334	  more than it requires.  To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
335	  the excess and return it to the allocator.
336
337	  If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
338	  system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
339	  if there are a lot of transient processes.
340
341	  If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
342	  long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
343
344	  Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
345	  (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
346	  excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
347	  no trimming is to occur.
348
349	  This option specifies the initial value of this option.  The default
350	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
351
352	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
353
354config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
355	bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
356	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
357	select COMPACTION
358	help
359	  Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
360	  huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
361	  This feature can improve computing performance to certain
362	  applications by speeding up page faults during memory
363	  allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
364	  up the pagetable walking.
365
366	  If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
367
368choice
369	prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
370	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
371	default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
372	help
373	  Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
374
375	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
376		bool "always"
377	help
378	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
379	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
380	  benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
381
382	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
383		bool "madvise"
384	help
385	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
386	  performance improvement benefit to the applications using
387	  madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
388	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
389	  benefit.
390endchoice
391
392config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
393	bool "Cross Memory Support"
394	depends on MMU
395	default y
396	help
397	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
398	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
399	  to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
400	  See the man page for more details.
401
402#
403# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
404#
405config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
406	depends on !SMP
407	bool
408	default y
409
410config CLEANCACHE
411	bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
412	default n
413	help
414	  Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
415	  for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
416	  (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
417	  memory.  So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
418	  cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
419	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
420	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
421	  time-varying size.  And when a cleancache-enabled
422	  filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
423	  checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
424	  the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
425	  When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
426	  Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
427	  may be achieved.  When none is available, all cleancache calls
428	  are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
429	  in a negligible performance hit.
430
431	  If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
432
433config FRONTSWAP
434	bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
435	depends on SWAP
436	default n
437	help
438	  Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
439	  of a "backing" store for a swap device.  The data is stored into
440	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
441	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
442	  time-varying size.  When space in transcendent memory is available,
443	  a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved.  When none is
444	  available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
445	  compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
446	  and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
447
448	  If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
449