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1config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
2 def_bool y
3 depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
4
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5choice
6 prompt "Memory model"
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7 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
8 default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
d41dee36 9 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
e1785e85 10 default FLATMEM_MANUAL
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e1785e85 12config FLATMEM_MANUAL
3a9da765 13 bool "Flat Memory"
c898ec16 14 depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
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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
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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.
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e1785e85 31config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
f3519f91 32 bool "Discontiguous Memory"
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33 depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
34 help
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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
ad3d0a38 40 can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
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41 this option imposes.
42
43 Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
44
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45 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
46
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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
f3519f91 55 "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
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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
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62endchoice
63
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64config DISCONTIGMEM
65 def_bool y
66 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
67
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68config SPARSEMEM
69 def_bool y
1a83e175 70 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
d41dee36 71
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72config FLATMEM
73 def_bool y
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74 depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
75
76config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
77 def_bool y
78 depends on !SPARSEMEM
e1785e85 79
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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
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88
89config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
90 def_bool y
d41dee36 91 depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
802f192e 92
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93#
94# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
84eb8d06 95# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
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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
9ba16087 104 bool
3e347261 105
802f192e 106#
44c09201 107# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
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108# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
109# an extremely sparse physical address space.
110#
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111config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
112 def_bool y
113 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
4c21e2f2 114
29c71111 115config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
9ba16087 116 bool
29c71111 117
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118config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
119 def_bool y
120 depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
121
29c71111 122config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
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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.
29c71111 130
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131config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
132 boolean
133
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134config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
135 boolean
136
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137config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
138 boolean
139
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140config NO_BOOTMEM
141 boolean
142
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143config MEMORY_ISOLATION
144 boolean
145
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146# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
147config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
148 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
ee6f509c 149 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
ec69acbb 150 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
6ad696d2 151 depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
ed84a07a 152 depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
3947be19 153
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154config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
155 def_bool y
156 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
157
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158config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
159 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
160 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
161 depends on MIGRATION
162
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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
a269cca9 173 depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
e20b8cca 174
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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.
7b6ac9df 180# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
a70caa8b 181# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
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182#
183config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
184 int
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185 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
186 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
187 default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
4c21e2f2 188 default "4"
7cbe34cf 189
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190#
191# support for memory compaction
192config COMPACTION
193 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
194 select MIGRATION
33a93877 195 depends on MMU
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196 help
197 Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
198
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199#
200# support for page migration
201#
202config MIGRATION
b20a3503 203 bool "Page migration"
6c5240ae 204 def_bool y
47118af0 205 depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
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206 help
207 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
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208 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
209 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
210 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
211 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
212 allocation instead of reclaiming.
6550e07f 213
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214config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
215 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
216
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217config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
218 int
219 default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
220 default "1"
221
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222config BOUNCE
223 def_bool y
224 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
225
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226config NR_QUICK
227 int
228 depends on QUICKLIST
0176bd3d 229 default "2" if AVR32
6225e937 230 default "1"
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231
232config VIRT_TO_BUS
233 def_bool y
234 depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
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235
236config MMU_NOTIFIER
237 bool
fc4d5c29 238
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239config KSM
240 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
241 depends on MMU
242 help
243 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
244 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
245 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
d0f209f6 246 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
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247 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
248 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
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249 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
250 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
251 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
f8af4da3 252
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253config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
254 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
6e141546 255 depends on MMU
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256 default 4096
257 help
258 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
259 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
260 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
261
262 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
263 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
264 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
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265 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
266 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
267 protection by setting the value to 0.
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268
269 This value can be changed after boot using the
270 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
271
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272config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
273 bool
e0a94c2a 274
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275config MEMORY_FAILURE
276 depends on MMU
d949f36f 277 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
6a46079c 278 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
ee6f509c 279 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
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280 help
281 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
282 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
283 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
284 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
285
cae681fc 286config HWPOISON_INJECT
413f9efb 287 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
27df5068 288 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
478c5ffc 289 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
cae681fc 290
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291config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
292 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
293 depends on !MMU
294 default 1
295 help
296 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
297 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
298 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
299 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
300 the excess and return it to the allocator.
301
302 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
303 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
304 if there are a lot of transient processes.
305
306 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
307 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
308
309 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
310 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
311 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
312 no trimming is to occur.
313
314 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
315 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
316
317 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
bbddff05 318
4c76d9d1 319config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
13ece886 320 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
f2d6bfe9 321 depends on X86 && MMU
5d689240 322 select COMPACTION
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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
331 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
332
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333choice
334 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
335 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
336 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
337 help
338 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
339
340 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
341 bool "always"
342 help
343 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
344 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
345 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
346
347 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
348 bool "madvise"
349 help
350 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
351 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
352 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
353 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
354 benefit.
355endchoice
356
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357config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
358 bool "Cross Memory Support"
359 depends on MMU
360 default y
361 help
362 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
363 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
364 to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
365 See the man page for more details.
366
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367#
368# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
369#
370config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
371 depends on !SMP
372 bool
373 default y
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375config CLEANCACHE
376 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
377 default n
378 help
379 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
380 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
381 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
382 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
140a1ef2 383 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
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384 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
385 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
386 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
387 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
388 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
389 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
390 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
391 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
392 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
393 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
394 in a negligible performance hit.
395
396 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
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398config FRONTSWAP
399 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
400 depends on SWAP
401 default n
402 help
403 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
404 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
405 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
406 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
407 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
408 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
409 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
410 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
411 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
412
413 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.