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1 | config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL |
2 | def_bool y | |
a8826eeb | 3 | depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL |
e1785e85 | 4 | |
3a9da765 DH |
5 | choice |
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 |
3a9da765 | 11 | |
e1785e85 | 12 | config FLATMEM_MANUAL |
3a9da765 | 13 | bool "Flat Memory" |
c898ec16 | 14 | depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE |
3a9da765 DH |
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 | ||
d41dee36 AW |
21 | Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and |
22 | memory hotplug may have different options here. | |
18f65332 | 23 | DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system, |
d41dee36 AW |
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. | |
3a9da765 | 30 | |
e1785e85 | 31 | config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL |
f3519f91 | 32 | bool "Discontiguous Memory" |
3a9da765 DH |
33 | depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE |
34 | help | |
785dcd44 DH |
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 |
785dcd44 DH |
41 | this option imposes. |
42 | ||
43 | Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option. | |
44 | ||
3a9da765 DH |
45 | If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. |
46 | ||
d41dee36 AW |
47 | config 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 |
d41dee36 AW |
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 | ||
3a9da765 DH |
62 | endchoice |
63 | ||
e1785e85 DH |
64 | config DISCONTIGMEM |
65 | def_bool y | |
66 | depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL | |
67 | ||
d41dee36 AW |
68 | config SPARSEMEM |
69 | def_bool y | |
1a83e175 | 70 | depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL |
d41dee36 | 71 | |
e1785e85 DH |
72 | config FLATMEM |
73 | def_bool y | |
d41dee36 AW |
74 | depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL |
75 | ||
76 | config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP | |
77 | def_bool y | |
78 | depends on !SPARSEMEM | |
e1785e85 | 79 | |
93b7504e DH |
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 | # | |
85 | config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES | |
86 | def_bool y | |
87 | depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA | |
af705362 AW |
88 | |
89 | config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT | |
90 | def_bool y | |
d41dee36 | 91 | depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM |
802f192e | 92 | |
3e347261 BP |
93 | # |
94 | # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem | |
84eb8d06 | 95 | # allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot |
3e347261 BP |
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 | # | |
103 | config SPARSEMEM_STATIC | |
9ba16087 | 104 | bool |
3e347261 | 105 | |
802f192e | 106 | # |
44c09201 | 107 | # Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM |
802f192e BP |
108 | # must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with |
109 | # an extremely sparse physical address space. | |
110 | # | |
3e347261 BP |
111 | config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME |
112 | def_bool y | |
113 | depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC | |
4c21e2f2 | 114 | |
29c71111 | 115 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE |
9ba16087 | 116 | bool |
29c71111 | 117 | |
9bdac914 YL |
118 | config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER |
119 | def_bool y | |
120 | depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64 | |
121 | ||
29c71111 | 122 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
a5ee6daa GL |
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 | |
95f72d1e | 131 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK |
6341e62b | 132 | bool |
95f72d1e | 133 | |
7c0caeb8 | 134 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP |
6341e62b | 135 | bool |
7c0caeb8 | 136 | |
70210ed9 | 137 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP |
6341e62b | 138 | bool |
70210ed9 | 139 | |
e585513b | 140 | config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP |
6341e62b | 141 | bool |
2667f50e | 142 | |
c378ddd5 | 143 | config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK |
6341e62b | 144 | bool |
c378ddd5 | 145 | |
66616720 | 146 | config NO_BOOTMEM |
6341e62b | 147 | bool |
66616720 | 148 | |
ee6f509c | 149 | config MEMORY_ISOLATION |
6341e62b | 150 | bool |
ee6f509c | 151 | |
46723bfa YI |
152 | # |
153 | # Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug | |
154 | # feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. | |
155 | # | |
156 | config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE | |
157 | def_bool n | |
158 | ||
3947be19 DH |
159 | # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' |
160 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG | |
161 | bool "Allow for memory hot-add" | |
ec69acbb | 162 | depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA |
40b31360 | 163 | depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
3947be19 | 164 | |
ec69acbb KM |
165 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE |
166 | def_bool y | |
167 | depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG | |
168 | ||
8604d9e5 VK |
169 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE |
170 | bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" | |
171 | default n | |
172 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG | |
173 | help | |
174 | This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug | |
175 | onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which | |
176 | determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting | |
177 | can always be changed at runtime. | |
178 | See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. | |
179 | ||
180 | Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in | |
181 | 'online' state by default. | |
182 | Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged | |
183 | memory blocks in 'offline' state. | |
184 | ||
0c0e6195 KH |
185 | config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
186 | bool "Allow for memory hot remove" | |
46723bfa | 187 | select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
f7e3334a | 188 | select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) |
0c0e6195 KH |
189 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
190 | depends on MIGRATION | |
191 | ||
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192 | # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide |
193 | # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address | |
194 | # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. | |
195 | # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. | |
196 | # ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. | |
7b6ac9df | 197 | # PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. |
a70caa8b | 198 | # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. |
4c21e2f2 HD |
199 | # |
200 | config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS | |
201 | int | |
9164550e | 202 | default "999999" if !MMU |
a70caa8b HD |
203 | default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT |
204 | default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 | |
4c21e2f2 | 205 | default "4" |
7cbe34cf | 206 | |
e009bb30 | 207 | config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK |
6341e62b | 208 | bool |
e009bb30 | 209 | |
09316c09 KK |
210 | # |
211 | # support for memory balloon | |
212 | config MEMORY_BALLOON | |
6341e62b | 213 | bool |
09316c09 | 214 | |
18468d93 RA |
215 | # |
216 | # support for memory balloon compaction | |
217 | config BALLOON_COMPACTION | |
218 | bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" | |
219 | def_bool y | |
09316c09 | 220 | depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON |
18468d93 RA |
221 | help |
222 | Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce | |
223 | significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be | |
224 | used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated | |
225 | with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used | |
226 | by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory | |
227 | pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the | |
228 | scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. | |
229 | ||
e9e96b39 MG |
230 | # |
231 | # support for memory compaction | |
232 | config COMPACTION | |
233 | bool "Allow for memory compaction" | |
05106e6a | 234 | def_bool y |
e9e96b39 | 235 | select MIGRATION |
33a93877 | 236 | depends on MMU |
e9e96b39 | 237 | help |
b32eaf71 MH |
238 | Compaction is the only memory management component to form |
239 | high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks | |
240 | reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and | |
241 | the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer | |
242 | invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't | |
243 | disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for | |
244 | it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at | |
245 | [email protected]. | |
e9e96b39 | 246 | |
7cbe34cf CL |
247 | # |
248 | # support for page migration | |
249 | # | |
250 | config MIGRATION | |
b20a3503 | 251 | bool "Page migration" |
6c5240ae | 252 | def_bool y |
de32a817 | 253 | depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU |
b20a3503 CL |
254 | help |
255 | Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes | |
e9e96b39 MG |
256 | while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in |
257 | two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer | |
258 | to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge | |
259 | pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page | |
260 | allocation instead of reclaiming. | |
6550e07f | 261 | |
c177c81e | 262 | config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION |
6341e62b | 263 | bool |
c177c81e | 264 | |
9c670ea3 NH |
265 | config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION |
266 | bool | |
267 | ||
600715dc JF |
268 | config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT |
269 | def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT | |
270 | ||
2a7326b5 | 271 | config BOUNCE |
9ca24e2e VM |
272 | bool "Enable bounce buffers" |
273 | default y | |
2a7326b5 | 274 | depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM) |
9ca24e2e VM |
275 | help |
276 | Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access | |
277 | the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled | |
278 | by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you | |
279 | may say n to override this. | |
2a7326b5 | 280 | |
ffecfd1a DW |
281 | # On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often |
282 | # have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present | |
283 | # a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead. | |
ffecfd1a DW |
284 | config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL |
285 | bool | |
debeb297 | 286 | default y if TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD |
ffecfd1a | 287 | |
6225e937 CL |
288 | config NR_QUICK |
289 | int | |
290 | depends on QUICKLIST | |
291 | default "1" | |
f057eac0 SR |
292 | |
293 | config VIRT_TO_BUS | |
4febd95a SR |
294 | bool |
295 | help | |
296 | An architecture should select this if it implements the | |
297 | deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures | |
298 | should probably not select this. | |
299 | ||
cddb8a5c AA |
300 | |
301 | config MMU_NOTIFIER | |
302 | bool | |
83fe27ea | 303 | select SRCU |
fc4d5c29 | 304 | |
f8af4da3 HD |
305 | config KSM |
306 | bool "Enable KSM for page merging" | |
307 | depends on MMU | |
308 | help | |
309 | Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas | |
310 | of an application's address space that an app has advised may be | |
311 | mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces | |
d0f209f6 | 312 | the many instances by a single page with that content, so |
f8af4da3 HD |
313 | saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. |
314 | Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. | |
c73602ad HD |
315 | See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive |
316 | until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and | |
317 | root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). | |
f8af4da3 | 318 | |
e0a94c2a CL |
319 | config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR |
320 | int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" | |
6e141546 | 321 | depends on MMU |
e0a94c2a CL |
322 | default 4096 |
323 | help | |
324 | This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected | |
325 | from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages | |
326 | can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. | |
327 | ||
328 | For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space | |
329 | a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. | |
330 | On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. | |
788084ab EP |
331 | Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map |
332 | this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this | |
333 | protection by setting the value to 0. | |
e0a94c2a CL |
334 | |
335 | This value can be changed after boot using the | |
336 | /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. | |
337 | ||
d949f36f LT |
338 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE |
339 | bool | |
e0a94c2a | 340 | |
6a46079c AK |
341 | config MEMORY_FAILURE |
342 | depends on MMU | |
d949f36f | 343 | depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE |
6a46079c | 344 | bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" |
ee6f509c | 345 | select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
97f0b134 | 346 | select RAS |
6a46079c AK |
347 | help |
348 | Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems | |
349 | with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running | |
350 | even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires | |
351 | special hardware support and typically ECC memory. | |
352 | ||
cae681fc | 353 | config HWPOISON_INJECT |
413f9efb | 354 | tristate "HWPoison pages injector" |
27df5068 | 355 | depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS |
478c5ffc | 356 | select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR |
cae681fc | 357 | |
fc4d5c29 DH |
358 | config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS |
359 | int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" | |
360 | depends on !MMU | |
361 | default 1 | |
362 | help | |
363 | The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks | |
364 | of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system | |
365 | allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently | |
366 | more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off | |
367 | the excess and return it to the allocator. | |
368 | ||
369 | If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the | |
370 | system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly | |
371 | if there are a lot of transient processes. | |
372 | ||
373 | If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for | |
374 | long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. | |
375 | ||
376 | Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option | |
377 | (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of | |
378 | excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if | |
379 | no trimming is to occur. | |
380 | ||
381 | This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default | |
382 | of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. | |
383 | ||
384 | See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. | |
bbddff05 | 385 | |
4c76d9d1 | 386 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
13ece886 | 387 | bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" |
15626062 | 388 | depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
5d689240 | 389 | select COMPACTION |
57578c2e | 390 | select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER |
4c76d9d1 AA |
391 | help |
392 | Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and | |
393 | huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. | |
394 | This feature can improve computing performance to certain | |
395 | applications by speeding up page faults during memory | |
396 | allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding | |
397 | up the pagetable walking. | |
398 | ||
399 | If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. | |
400 | ||
13ece886 AA |
401 | choice |
402 | prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" | |
403 | depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE | |
404 | default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS | |
405 | help | |
406 | Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. | |
407 | ||
408 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS | |
409 | bool "always" | |
410 | help | |
411 | Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the | |
412 | memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed | |
413 | benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. | |
414 | ||
415 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE | |
416 | bool "madvise" | |
417 | help | |
418 | Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a | |
419 | performance improvement benefit to the applications using | |
420 | madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the | |
421 | memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed | |
422 | benefit. | |
423 | endchoice | |
424 | ||
38d8b4e6 YH |
425 | config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP |
426 | def_bool n | |
427 | ||
428 | config THP_SWAP | |
429 | def_bool y | |
430 | depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP | |
431 | help | |
432 | Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. | |
433 | XXX: For now this only does clustered swap space allocation. | |
434 | ||
435 | For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. | |
436 | ||
e496cf3d KS |
437 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE |
438 | def_bool y | |
953c66c2 | 439 | depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
e496cf3d | 440 | |
bbddff05 TH |
441 | # |
442 | # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator | |
443 | # | |
444 | config NEED_PER_CPU_KM | |
445 | depends on !SMP | |
446 | bool | |
447 | default y | |
077b1f83 DM |
448 | |
449 | config CLEANCACHE | |
450 | bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" | |
451 | default n | |
452 | help | |
453 | Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache | |
454 | for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm | |
455 | (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough | |
456 | memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use | |
140a1ef2 | 457 | cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into |
077b1f83 DM |
458 | "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or |
459 | addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly | |
460 | time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled | |
461 | filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first | |
462 | checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, | |
463 | the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. | |
464 | When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or | |
465 | Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction | |
466 | may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls | |
467 | are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting | |
468 | in a negligible performance hit. | |
469 | ||
470 | If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache | |
27c6aec2 DM |
471 | |
472 | config FRONTSWAP | |
473 | bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" | |
474 | depends on SWAP | |
475 | default n | |
476 | help | |
477 | Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite | |
478 | of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into | |
479 | "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or | |
480 | addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly | |
481 | time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, | |
482 | a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is | |
483 | available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- | |
484 | compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit | |
485 | and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. | |
486 | ||
487 | If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. | |
f825c736 AK |
488 | |
489 | config CMA | |
490 | bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" | |
de32a817 | 491 | depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU |
f825c736 AK |
492 | select MIGRATION |
493 | select MEMORY_ISOLATION | |
494 | help | |
495 | This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other | |
496 | subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. | |
497 | CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to | |
498 | be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for | |
499 | pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the | |
500 | allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. | |
501 | ||
502 | If unsure, say "n". | |
503 | ||
504 | config CMA_DEBUG | |
505 | bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" | |
506 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA | |
507 | help | |
508 | Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG | |
509 | messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while | |
510 | processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). | |
511 | This option does not affect warning and error messages. | |
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513 | config CMA_DEBUGFS |
514 | bool "CMA debugfs interface" | |
515 | depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS | |
516 | help | |
517 | Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. | |
518 | ||
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519 | config CMA_AREAS |
520 | int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" | |
521 | depends on CMA | |
522 | default 7 | |
523 | help | |
524 | CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, | |
525 | used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum | |
526 | number of CMA area in the system. | |
527 | ||
528 | If unsure, leave the default value "7". | |
529 | ||
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530 | config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY |
531 | bool "Track memory changes" | |
532 | depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS | |
533 | select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR | |
4e2e2770 | 534 | help |
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535 | This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a |
536 | soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes | |
537 | into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter | |
538 | it can be cleared by hands. | |
539 | ||
540 | See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details. | |
4e2e2770 | 541 | |
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542 | config ZSWAP |
543 | bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
544 | depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y | |
545 | select CRYPTO_LZO | |
12d79d64 | 546 | select ZPOOL |
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547 | default n |
548 | help | |
549 | A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes | |
550 | pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to | |
551 | compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. | |
552 | This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, | |
553 | in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device | |
554 | reads, can also improve workload performance. | |
555 | ||
556 | This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of | |
557 | v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these | |
558 | interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, | |
559 | they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential | |
560 | configurations and workloads that exist. | |
561 | ||
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562 | config ZPOOL |
563 | tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" | |
564 | default n | |
0f8975ec | 565 | help |
af8d417a DS |
566 | Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or |
567 | zsmalloc. | |
0f8975ec | 568 | |
af8d417a | 569 | config ZBUD |
9a001fc1 | 570 | tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" |
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571 | default n |
572 | help | |
573 | A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. | |
574 | It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical | |
575 | page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and | |
576 | deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher | |
577 | density approach when reclaim will be used. | |
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579 | config Z3FOLD |
580 | tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" | |
581 | depends on ZPOOL | |
582 | default n | |
583 | help | |
584 | A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. | |
585 | It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical | |
586 | page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are | |
587 | still there. | |
588 | ||
bcf1647d | 589 | config ZSMALLOC |
d867f203 | 590 | tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" |
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591 | depends on MMU |
592 | default n | |
593 | help | |
594 | zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store | |
595 | compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping | |
596 | in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a | |
597 | non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is | |
598 | returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to | |
599 | access the allocated space. | |
600 | ||
601 | config PGTABLE_MAPPING | |
602 | bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc" | |
603 | depends on ZSMALLOC | |
604 | help | |
605 | By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to | |
606 | access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular | |
607 | architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying, | |
608 | then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table | |
609 | mapping rather than copying for object mapping. | |
610 | ||
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611 | You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark: |
612 | https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench | |
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614 | config ZSMALLOC_STAT |
615 | bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" | |
616 | depends on ZSMALLOC | |
617 | select DEBUG_FS | |
618 | help | |
619 | This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various | |
620 | statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that | |
621 | information to userspace via debugfs. | |
622 | If unsure, say N. | |
623 | ||
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624 | config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP |
625 | bool | |
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626 | |
627 | config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB | |
628 | int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" | |
629 | default 80 | |
630 | range 8 256 if METAG | |
631 | range 8 2048 | |
632 | depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) | |
633 | help | |
634 | This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit | |
635 | user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc | |
636 | and metag arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory | |
637 | address minus the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is | |
638 | changed to a smaller value in which case that is used. | |
639 | ||
640 | A sane initial value is 80 MB. | |
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3a80a7fa | 642 | config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT |
1ce22103 | 643 | bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" |
3a80a7fa | 644 | default n |
2e3ca40f | 645 | depends on NO_BOOTMEM |
95794924 | 646 | depends on !FLATMEM |
3a80a7fa MG |
647 | help |
648 | Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a | |
649 | single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable | |
650 | amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up | |
651 | a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel | |
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652 | by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This |
653 | has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the | |
654 | lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the | |
655 | initialisation. | |
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657 | config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING |
658 | bool "Enable idle page tracking" | |
659 | depends on SYSFS && MMU | |
660 | select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT | |
661 | help | |
662 | This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have | |
663 | not been touched during a given period of time. This information can | |
664 | be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement | |
665 | within a compute cluster. | |
666 | ||
667 | See Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt for more details. | |
668 | ||
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669 | # arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory |
670 | config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE | |
671 | bool | |
672 | ||
033fbae9 | 673 | config ZONE_DEVICE |
5042db43 | 674 | bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" |
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675 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
676 | depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE | |
99490f16 | 677 | depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
65f7d049 | 678 | depends on ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE |
ab1b597e | 679 | select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER |
033fbae9 DW |
680 | |
681 | help | |
682 | Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, | |
683 | or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the | |
684 | memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise | |
685 | "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX | |
686 | mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. | |
687 | ||
688 | If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. | |
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133ff0ea JG |
690 | config ARCH_HAS_HMM |
691 | bool | |
692 | default y | |
693 | depends on (X86_64 || PPC64) | |
694 | depends on ZONE_DEVICE | |
695 | depends on MMU && 64BIT | |
696 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG | |
697 | depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE | |
698 | depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP | |
699 | ||
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700 | config MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER |
701 | bool | |
702 | ||
133ff0ea JG |
703 | config HMM |
704 | bool | |
6b368cd4 | 705 | select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER |
133ff0ea | 706 | |
c0b12405 JG |
707 | config HMM_MIRROR |
708 | bool "HMM mirror CPU page table into a device page table" | |
709 | depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM | |
710 | select MMU_NOTIFIER | |
711 | select HMM | |
712 | help | |
713 | Select HMM_MIRROR if you want to mirror range of the CPU page table of a | |
714 | process into a device page table. Here, mirror means "keep synchronized". | |
715 | Prerequisites: the device must provide the ability to write-protect its | |
716 | page tables (at PAGE_SIZE granularity), and must be able to recover from | |
717 | the resulting potential page faults. | |
718 | ||
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719 | config DEVICE_PRIVATE |
720 | bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" | |
721 | depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM | |
df6ad698 | 722 | select HMM |
5042db43 JG |
723 | |
724 | help | |
725 | Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device | |
726 | memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or | |
727 | group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. | |
728 | ||
df6ad698 JG |
729 | config DEVICE_PUBLIC |
730 | bool "Addressable device memory (like GPU memory)" | |
731 | depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM | |
732 | select HMM | |
733 | ||
734 | help | |
735 | Allows creation of struct pages to represent addressable device | |
736 | memory; i.e., memory that is accessible from both the device and | |
737 | the CPU | |
738 | ||
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739 | config FRAME_VECTOR |
740 | bool | |
63c17fb8 DH |
741 | |
742 | config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS | |
743 | bool | |
66d37570 DH |
744 | config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS |
745 | bool | |
30a5b536 DZ |
746 | |
747 | config PERCPU_STATS | |
748 | bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" | |
749 | default n | |
750 | help | |
751 | This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The | |
752 | information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can | |
753 | be used to help understand percpu memory usage. | |
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754 | |
755 | config GUP_BENCHMARK | |
756 | bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking" | |
757 | default n | |
758 | help | |
759 | Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_benchmark that helps with testing | |
760 | performance of get_user_pages_fast(). | |
761 | ||
762 | See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c |