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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
146# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
147config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
148	bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
149	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
150	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
151	depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
152	depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
153
154config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
155	def_bool y
156	depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
157
158config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
159	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
160	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
161	depends on MIGRATION
162
163#
164# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
165# optimizations and functionality.
166#
167# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
168# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
169# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
170#
171config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
172	def_bool y
173	depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
174
175# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
176# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
177# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
178# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
179# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
180# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
181# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
182#
183config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
184	int
185	default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
186	default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
187	default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
188	default "4"
189
190#
191# support for memory compaction
192config COMPACTION
193	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
194	def_bool y
195	select MIGRATION
196	depends on MMU
197	help
198	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
199
200#
201# support for page migration
202#
203config MIGRATION
204	bool "Page migration"
205	def_bool y
206	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
207	help
208	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
209	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
210	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
211	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
212	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
213	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
214
215config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
216	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
217
218config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
219	int
220	default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
221	default "1"
222
223config BOUNCE
224	def_bool y
225	depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
226
227config NR_QUICK
228	int
229	depends on QUICKLIST
230	default "2" if AVR32
231	default "1"
232
233config VIRT_TO_BUS
234	def_bool y
235	depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
236
237config MMU_NOTIFIER
238	bool
239
240config KSM
241	bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
242	depends on MMU
243	help
244	  Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
245	  of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
246	  mergeable.  When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
247	  the many instances by a single page with that content, so
248	  saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
249	  Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
250	  See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
251	  until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
252	  root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
253
254config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
255        int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
256	depends on MMU
257        default 4096
258        help
259	  This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
260	  from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages
261	  can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
262
263	  For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
264	  a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
265	  On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
266	  Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
267	  this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
268	  protection by setting the value to 0.
269
270	  This value can be changed after boot using the
271	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
272
273config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
274	bool
275
276config MEMORY_FAILURE
277	depends on MMU
278	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
279	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
280	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
281	help
282	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
283	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
284	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
285	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
286
287config HWPOISON_INJECT
288	tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
289	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
290	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
291
292config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
293	int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
294	depends on !MMU
295	default 1
296	help
297	  The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
298	  of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
299	  allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
300	  more than it requires.  To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
301	  the excess and return it to the allocator.
302
303	  If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
304	  system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
305	  if there are a lot of transient processes.
306
307	  If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
308	  long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
309
310	  Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
311	  (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
312	  excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
313	  no trimming is to occur.
314
315	  This option specifies the initial value of this option.  The default
316	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
317
318	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
319
320config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
321	bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
322	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
323	select COMPACTION
324	help
325	  Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
326	  huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
327	  This feature can improve computing performance to certain
328	  applications by speeding up page faults during memory
329	  allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
330	  up the pagetable walking.
331
332	  If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
333
334choice
335	prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
336	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
337	default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
338	help
339	  Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
340
341	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
342		bool "always"
343	help
344	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
345	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
346	  benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
347
348	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
349		bool "madvise"
350	help
351	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
352	  performance improvement benefit to the applications using
353	  madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
354	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
355	  benefit.
356endchoice
357
358config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
359	bool "Cross Memory Support"
360	depends on MMU
361	default y
362	help
363	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
364	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
365	  to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
366	  See the man page for more details.
367
368#
369# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
370#
371config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
372	depends on !SMP
373	bool
374	default y
375
376config CLEANCACHE
377	bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
378	default n
379	help
380	  Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
381	  for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
382	  (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
383	  memory.  So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
384	  cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
385	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
386	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
387	  time-varying size.  And when a cleancache-enabled
388	  filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
389	  checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
390	  the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
391	  When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
392	  Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
393	  may be achieved.  When none is available, all cleancache calls
394	  are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
395	  in a negligible performance hit.
396
397	  If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
398
399config FRONTSWAP
400	bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
401	depends on SWAP
402	default n
403	help
404	  Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
405	  of a "backing" store for a swap device.  The data is stored into
406	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
407	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
408	  time-varying size.  When space in transcendent memory is available,
409	  a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved.  When none is
410	  available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
411	  compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
412	  and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
413
414	  If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
415