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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	depends on BROKEN
153
154# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
155config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
156	bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
157	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
158	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
159	depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
160	depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
161
162config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
163	def_bool y
164	depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
165
166config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
167	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
168	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
169	depends on MIGRATION
170
171#
172# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
173# optimizations and functionality.
174#
175# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
176# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
177# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
178#
179config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
180	def_bool y
181	depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
182
183# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
184# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
185# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
186# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
187# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
188# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
189# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
190#
191config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
192	int
193	default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
194	default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
195	default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
196	default "4"
197
198#
199# support for memory balloon compaction
200config BALLOON_COMPACTION
201	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
202	def_bool y
203	depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
204	help
205	  Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
206	  significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
207	  used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
208	  with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
209	  by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
210	  pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
211	  scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
212
213#
214# support for memory compaction
215config COMPACTION
216	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
217	def_bool y
218	select MIGRATION
219	depends on MMU
220	help
221	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
222
223#
224# support for page migration
225#
226config MIGRATION
227	bool "Page migration"
228	def_bool y
229	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
230	help
231	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
232	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
233	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
234	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
235	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
236	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
237
238config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
239	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
240
241config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
242	int
243	default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
244	default "1"
245
246config BOUNCE
247	def_bool y
248	depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
249
250config NR_QUICK
251	int
252	depends on QUICKLIST
253	default "2" if AVR32
254	default "1"
255
256config VIRT_TO_BUS
257	def_bool y
258	depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
259
260config MMU_NOTIFIER
261	bool
262
263config KSM
264	bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
265	depends on MMU
266	help
267	  Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
268	  of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
269	  mergeable.  When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
270	  the many instances by a single page with that content, so
271	  saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
272	  Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
273	  See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
274	  until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
275	  root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
276
277config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
278        int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
279	depends on MMU
280        default 4096
281        help
282	  This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
283	  from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages
284	  can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
285
286	  For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
287	  a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
288	  On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
289	  Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
290	  this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
291	  protection by setting the value to 0.
292
293	  This value can be changed after boot using the
294	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
295
296config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
297	bool
298
299config MEMORY_FAILURE
300	depends on MMU
301	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
302	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
303	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
304	help
305	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
306	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
307	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
308	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
309
310config HWPOISON_INJECT
311	tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
312	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
313	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
314
315config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
316	int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
317	depends on !MMU
318	default 1
319	help
320	  The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
321	  of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
322	  allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
323	  more than it requires.  To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
324	  the excess and return it to the allocator.
325
326	  If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
327	  system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
328	  if there are a lot of transient processes.
329
330	  If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
331	  long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
332
333	  Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
334	  (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
335	  excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
336	  no trimming is to occur.
337
338	  This option specifies the initial value of this option.  The default
339	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
340
341	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
342
343config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
344	bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
345	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
346	select COMPACTION
347	help
348	  Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
349	  huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
350	  This feature can improve computing performance to certain
351	  applications by speeding up page faults during memory
352	  allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
353	  up the pagetable walking.
354
355	  If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
356
357choice
358	prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
359	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
360	default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
361	help
362	  Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
363
364	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
365		bool "always"
366	help
367	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
368	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
369	  benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
370
371	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
372		bool "madvise"
373	help
374	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
375	  performance improvement benefit to the applications using
376	  madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
377	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
378	  benefit.
379endchoice
380
381config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
382	bool "Cross Memory Support"
383	depends on MMU
384	default y
385	help
386	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
387	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
388	  to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
389	  See the man page for more details.
390
391#
392# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
393#
394config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
395	depends on !SMP
396	bool
397	default y
398
399config CLEANCACHE
400	bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
401	default n
402	help
403	  Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
404	  for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
405	  (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
406	  memory.  So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
407	  cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
408	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
409	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
410	  time-varying size.  And when a cleancache-enabled
411	  filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
412	  checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
413	  the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
414	  When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
415	  Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
416	  may be achieved.  When none is available, all cleancache calls
417	  are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
418	  in a negligible performance hit.
419
420	  If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
421
422config FRONTSWAP
423	bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
424	depends on SWAP
425	default n
426	help
427	  Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
428	  of a "backing" store for a swap device.  The data is stored into
429	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
430	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
431	  time-varying size.  When space in transcendent memory is available,
432	  a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved.  When none is
433	  available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
434	  compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
435	  and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
436
437	  If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
438