| Dave Hansen | e1785e8 | 2005-06-23 00:07:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL | 
 | 2 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 3 | 	depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL | 
 | 4 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | 3a9da76 | 2005-06-23 00:07:42 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | choice | 
 | 6 | 	prompt "Memory model" | 
| Dave Hansen | e1785e8 | 2005-06-23 00:07:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | 	depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL | 
 | 8 | 	default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT | 
| Andy Whitcroft | d41dee3 | 2005-06-23 00:07:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | 	default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT | 
| Dave Hansen | e1785e8 | 2005-06-23 00:07:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | 	default FLATMEM_MANUAL | 
| Dave Hansen | 3a9da76 | 2005-06-23 00:07:42 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 11 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | e1785e8 | 2005-06-23 00:07:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | config FLATMEM_MANUAL | 
| Dave Hansen | 3a9da76 | 2005-06-23 00:07:42 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | 	bool "Flat Memory" | 
| Anton Blanchard | c898ec1 | 2006-01-06 00:12:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | 	depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE | 
| Dave Hansen | 3a9da76 | 2005-06-23 00:07:42 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 |  | 
| Andy Whitcroft | d41dee3 | 2005-06-23 00:07:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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. | 
| Dave Hansen | 3a9da76 | 2005-06-23 00:07:42 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 30 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | e1785e8 | 2005-06-23 00:07:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL | 
| Dave Hansen | f3519f9 | 2005-09-16 19:27:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | 	bool "Discontiguous Memory" | 
| Dave Hansen | 3a9da76 | 2005-06-23 00:07:42 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | 	depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE | 
 | 34 | 	help | 
| Dave Hansen | 785dcd4 | 2005-06-23 00:07:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | 
| Philipp Marek | ad3d0a3 | 2007-10-20 02:46:58 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | 	  can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that | 
| Dave Hansen | 785dcd4 | 2005-06-23 00:07:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | 	  this option imposes. | 
 | 42 |  | 
 | 43 | 	  Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option. | 
 | 44 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | 3a9da76 | 2005-06-23 00:07:42 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | 	  If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. | 
 | 46 |  | 
| Andy Whitcroft | d41dee3 | 2005-06-23 00:07:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | 
| Dave Hansen | f3519f9 | 2005-09-16 19:27:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | 	  "Discontiguous Memory".  This option provides some potential | 
| Andy Whitcroft | d41dee3 | 2005-06-23 00:07:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | 3a9da76 | 2005-06-23 00:07:42 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | endchoice | 
 | 63 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | e1785e8 | 2005-06-23 00:07:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | config DISCONTIGMEM | 
 | 65 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 66 | 	depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL | 
 | 67 |  | 
| Andy Whitcroft | d41dee3 | 2005-06-23 00:07:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | config SPARSEMEM | 
 | 69 | 	def_bool y | 
| Russell King | 1a83e17 | 2009-10-26 16:50:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | 	depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL | 
| Andy Whitcroft | d41dee3 | 2005-06-23 00:07:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 71 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | e1785e8 | 2005-06-23 00:07:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | config FLATMEM | 
 | 73 | 	def_bool y | 
| Andy Whitcroft | d41dee3 | 2005-06-23 00:07:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | 	depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL | 
 | 75 |  | 
 | 76 | config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP | 
 | 77 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 78 | 	depends on !SPARSEMEM | 
| Dave Hansen | e1785e8 | 2005-06-23 00:07:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 79 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | 93b7504 | 2005-06-23 00:07:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | 
| Andy Whitcroft | af70536 | 2005-06-23 00:07:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 88 |  | 
 | 89 | config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT | 
 | 90 | 	def_bool y | 
| Andy Whitcroft | d41dee3 | 2005-06-23 00:07:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | 	depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM | 
| Bob Picco | 802f192 | 2005-09-03 15:54:26 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 92 |  | 
 | 93 | # | 
| Bob Picco | 3e34726 | 2005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 94 | # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem | 
| Matt LaPlante | 84eb8d0 | 2006-10-03 22:53:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 95 | # allocations when memory_present() is called.  If this cannot | 
| Bob Picco | 3e34726 | 2005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | 	bool | 
| Bob Picco | 3e34726 | 2005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 105 |  | 
 | 106 | # | 
| Matt LaPlante | 44c0920 | 2006-10-03 22:34:14 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | # Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM | 
| Bob Picco | 802f192 | 2005-09-03 15:54:26 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | # must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with | 
 | 109 | # an extremely sparse physical address space. | 
 | 110 | # | 
| Bob Picco | 3e34726 | 2005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME | 
 | 112 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 113 | 	depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC | 
| Hugh Dickins | 4c21e2f | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 114 |  | 
| Andy Whitcroft | 29c7111 | 2007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | 	bool | 
| Andy Whitcroft | 29c7111 | 2007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 117 |  | 
| Yinghai Lu | 9bdac91 | 2010-02-10 01:20:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER | 
 | 119 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 120 | 	depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64 | 
 | 121 |  | 
| Andy Whitcroft | 29c7111 | 2007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP | 
| Geoff Levand | a5ee6da | 2007-12-17 16:19:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 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. | 
| Andy Whitcroft | 29c7111 | 2007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 130 |  | 
| Yinghai Lu | 95f72d1 | 2010-07-12 14:36:09 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK | 
 | 132 | 	boolean | 
 | 133 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 7c0caeb | 2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP | 
 | 135 | 	boolean | 
 | 136 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | c378ddd | 2011-07-14 11:46:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK | 
 | 138 | 	boolean | 
 | 139 |  | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 6661672 | 2011-10-31 17:08:20 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | config NO_BOOTMEM | 
 | 141 | 	boolean | 
 | 142 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | 3947be1 | 2005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' | 
 | 144 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG | 
 | 145 | 	bool "Allow for memory hot-add" | 
| Keith Mannthey | ec69acb | 2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | 	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA | 
| Andi Kleen | 6ad696d | 2009-11-17 14:06:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | 	depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG | 
| Kumar Gala | ed84a07 | 2009-10-16 07:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | 	depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390) | 
| Dave Hansen | 3947be1 | 2005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 149 |  | 
| Keith Mannthey | ec69acb | 2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE | 
 | 151 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 152 | 	depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG | 
 | 153 |  | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 0c0e619 | 2007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE | 
 | 155 | 	bool "Allow for memory hot remove" | 
 | 156 | 	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE | 
 | 157 | 	depends on MIGRATION | 
 | 158 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | e20b8cc | 2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | # | 
 | 160 | # If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional | 
 | 161 | # optimizations and functionality. | 
 | 162 | # | 
 | 163 | # Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not | 
 | 164 | # use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms | 
 | 165 | # that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags. | 
 | 166 | # | 
 | 167 | config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED | 
 | 168 | 	def_bool y | 
| H. Peter Anvin | a269cca | 2009-08-31 11:17:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 169 | 	depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM | 
| Christoph Lameter | e20b8cc | 2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 170 |  | 
| Hugh Dickins | 4c21e2f | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide | 
 | 172 | # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address | 
 | 173 | # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. | 
 | 174 | # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. | 
 | 175 | # ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. | 
| Hugh Dickins | 7b6ac9d | 2005-11-23 13:37:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | # PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. | 
| Hugh Dickins | a70caa8 | 2009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. | 
| Hugh Dickins | 4c21e2f | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | # | 
 | 179 | config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS | 
 | 180 | 	int | 
| Hugh Dickins | a70caa8 | 2009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | 	default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT | 
 | 182 | 	default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 | 
 | 183 | 	default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
| Hugh Dickins | 4c21e2f | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | 	default "4" | 
| Christoph Lameter | 7cbe34c | 2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 185 |  | 
 | 186 | # | 
| Mel Gorman | e9e96b3 | 2010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | # support for memory compaction | 
 | 188 | config COMPACTION | 
 | 189 | 	bool "Allow for memory compaction" | 
 | 190 | 	select MIGRATION | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | 33a9387 | 2011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | 	depends on MMU | 
| Mel Gorman | e9e96b3 | 2010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | 	help | 
 | 193 | 	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages. | 
 | 194 |  | 
 | 195 | # | 
| Christoph Lameter | 7cbe34c | 2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | # support for page migration | 
 | 197 | # | 
 | 198 | config MIGRATION | 
| Christoph Lameter | b20a350 | 2006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | 	bool "Page migration" | 
| Christoph Lameter | 6c5240a | 2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | 	def_bool y | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | 152e065 | 2010-09-09 16:37:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | 	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION | 
| Christoph Lameter | b20a350 | 2006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | 	help | 
 | 203 | 	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes | 
| Mel Gorman | e9e96b3 | 2010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | 	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in | 
 | 205 | 	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer | 
 | 206 | 	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge | 
 | 207 | 	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page | 
 | 208 | 	  allocation instead of reclaiming. | 
| Greg Kroah-Hartman | 6550e07 | 2006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 209 |  | 
| Jeremy Fitzhardinge | 600715d | 2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT | 
 | 211 | 	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT | 
 | 212 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 4b51d66 | 2007-02-10 01:43:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | config ZONE_DMA_FLAG | 
 | 214 | 	int | 
 | 215 | 	default "0" if !ZONE_DMA | 
 | 216 | 	default "1" | 
 | 217 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 2a7326b | 2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | config BOUNCE | 
 | 219 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 220 | 	depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM) | 
 | 221 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 6225e93 | 2007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | config NR_QUICK | 
 | 223 | 	int | 
 | 224 | 	depends on QUICKLIST | 
| Paul Mundt | 0176bd3 | 2010-01-05 12:35:00 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | 	default "2" if AVR32 | 
| Christoph Lameter | 6225e93 | 2007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | 	default "1" | 
| Stephen Rothwell | f057eac | 2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 227 |  | 
 | 228 | config VIRT_TO_BUS | 
 | 229 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 230 | 	depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | cddb8a5 | 2008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 231 |  | 
 | 232 | config MMU_NOTIFIER | 
 | 233 | 	bool | 
| David Howells | fc4d5c2 | 2009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 234 |  | 
| Hugh Dickins | f8af4da | 2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | config KSM | 
 | 236 | 	bool "Enable KSM for page merging" | 
 | 237 | 	depends on MMU | 
 | 238 | 	help | 
 | 239 | 	  Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas | 
 | 240 | 	  of an application's address space that an app has advised may be | 
 | 241 | 	  mergeable.  When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces | 
| Hugh Dickins | d0f209f | 2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | 	  the many instances by a single page with that content, so | 
| Hugh Dickins | f8af4da | 2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | 	  saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. | 
 | 244 | 	  Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. | 
| Hugh Dickins | c73602a | 2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | 	  See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive | 
 | 246 | 	  until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and | 
 | 247 | 	  root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). | 
| Hugh Dickins | f8af4da | 2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 248 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | e0a94c2 | 2009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR | 
 | 250 |         int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" | 
| David Howells | 6e14154 | 2009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | 	depends on MMU | 
| Christoph Lameter | e0a94c2 | 2009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 252 |         default 4096 | 
 | 253 |         help | 
 | 254 | 	  This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected | 
 | 255 | 	  from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages | 
 | 256 | 	  can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. | 
 | 257 |  | 
 | 258 | 	  For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space | 
 | 259 | 	  a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. | 
 | 260 | 	  On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. | 
| Eric Paris | 788084a | 2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 261 | 	  Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map | 
 | 262 | 	  this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this | 
 | 263 | 	  protection by setting the value to 0. | 
| Christoph Lameter | e0a94c2 | 2009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 264 |  | 
 | 265 | 	  This value can be changed after boot using the | 
 | 266 | 	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. | 
 | 267 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | d949f36 | 2009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE | 
 | 269 | 	bool | 
| Christoph Lameter | e0a94c2 | 2009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 270 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | 6a46079 | 2009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | config MEMORY_FAILURE | 
 | 272 | 	depends on MMU | 
| Linus Torvalds | d949f36 | 2009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE | 
| Andi Kleen | 6a46079 | 2009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | 	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" | 
 | 275 | 	help | 
 | 276 | 	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems | 
 | 277 | 	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running | 
 | 278 | 	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires | 
 | 279 | 	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory. | 
 | 280 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | cae681f | 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | config HWPOISON_INJECT | 
| Andi Kleen | 413f9ef | 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | 	tristate "HWPoison pages injector" | 
| Andi Kleen | 27df506 | 2009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | 	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
| Wu Fengguang | 478c5ff | 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | 	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR | 
| Andi Kleen | cae681f | 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 285 |  | 
| David Howells | fc4d5c2 | 2009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS | 
 | 287 | 	int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" | 
 | 288 | 	depends on !MMU | 
 | 289 | 	default 1 | 
 | 290 | 	help | 
 | 291 | 	  The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks | 
 | 292 | 	  of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system | 
 | 293 | 	  allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently | 
 | 294 | 	  more than it requires.  To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off | 
 | 295 | 	  the excess and return it to the allocator. | 
 | 296 |  | 
 | 297 | 	  If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the | 
 | 298 | 	  system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly | 
 | 299 | 	  if there are a lot of transient processes. | 
 | 300 |  | 
 | 301 | 	  If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for | 
 | 302 | 	  long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. | 
 | 303 |  | 
 | 304 | 	  Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option | 
 | 305 | 	  (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of | 
 | 306 | 	  excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if | 
 | 307 | 	  no trimming is to occur. | 
 | 308 |  | 
 | 309 | 	  This option specifies the initial value of this option.  The default | 
 | 310 | 	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. | 
 | 311 |  | 
 | 312 | 	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. | 
| Tejun Heo | bbddff0 | 2010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 313 |  | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | 4c76d9d | 2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 314 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | 13ece88 | 2011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | 	bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" | 
| Johannes Weiner | f2d6bfe | 2011-01-13 15:47:01 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | 	depends on X86 && MMU | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | 5d68924 | 2011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 317 | 	select COMPACTION | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | 4c76d9d | 2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | 	help | 
 | 319 | 	  Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and | 
 | 320 | 	  huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. | 
 | 321 | 	  This feature can improve computing performance to certain | 
 | 322 | 	  applications by speeding up page faults during memory | 
 | 323 | 	  allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding | 
 | 324 | 	  up the pagetable walking. | 
 | 325 |  | 
 | 326 | 	  If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. | 
 | 327 |  | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | 13ece88 | 2011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | choice | 
 | 329 | 	prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" | 
 | 330 | 	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE | 
 | 331 | 	default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS | 
 | 332 | 	help | 
 | 333 | 	  Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. | 
 | 334 |  | 
 | 335 | 	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS | 
 | 336 | 		bool "always" | 
 | 337 | 	help | 
 | 338 | 	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the | 
 | 339 | 	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed | 
 | 340 | 	  benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. | 
 | 341 |  | 
 | 342 | 	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE | 
 | 343 | 		bool "madvise" | 
 | 344 | 	help | 
 | 345 | 	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a | 
 | 346 | 	  performance improvement benefit to the applications using | 
 | 347 | 	  madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the | 
 | 348 | 	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed | 
 | 349 | 	  benefit. | 
 | 350 | endchoice | 
 | 351 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | bbddff0 | 2010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 352 | # | 
 | 353 | # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator | 
 | 354 | # | 
 | 355 | config NEED_PER_CPU_KM | 
 | 356 | 	depends on !SMP | 
 | 357 | 	bool | 
 | 358 | 	default y | 
| Dan Magenheimer | 077b1f8 | 2011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 359 |  | 
 | 360 | config CLEANCACHE | 
 | 361 | 	bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" | 
 | 362 | 	default n | 
 | 363 | 	help | 
 | 364 | 	  Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache | 
 | 365 | 	  for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm | 
 | 366 | 	  (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough | 
 | 367 | 	  memory.  So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use | 
| Michael Witten | 140a1ef | 2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | 	  cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into | 
| Dan Magenheimer | 077b1f8 | 2011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | 	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or | 
 | 370 | 	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly | 
 | 371 | 	  time-varying size.  And when a cleancache-enabled | 
 | 372 | 	  filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first | 
 | 373 | 	  checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, | 
 | 374 | 	  the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. | 
 | 375 | 	  When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or | 
 | 376 | 	  Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction | 
 | 377 | 	  may be achieved.  When none is available, all cleancache calls | 
 | 378 | 	  are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting | 
 | 379 | 	  in a negligible performance hit. | 
 | 380 |  | 
 | 381 | 	  If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache |