| 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 |  | 
|  | 118 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP | 
| Geoff Levand | a5ee6da | 2007-12-17 16:19:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" | 
|  | 120 | depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE | 
|  | 121 | default y | 
|  | 122 | help | 
|  | 123 | SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise | 
|  | 124 | pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations.  This is the most | 
|  | 125 | efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. | 
| Andy Whitcroft | 29c7111 | 2007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 126 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | 3947be1 | 2005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' | 
|  | 128 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG | 
|  | 129 | bool "Allow for memory hot-add" | 
| Keith Mannthey | ec69acb | 2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA | 
| Andi Kleen | 6ad696d | 2009-11-17 14:06:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG | 
| Kumar Gala | ed84a07 | 2009-10-16 07:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390) | 
| Dave Hansen | 3947be1 | 2005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 133 |  | 
| Keith Mannthey | ec69acb | 2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE | 
|  | 135 | def_bool y | 
|  | 136 | depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG | 
|  | 137 |  | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 0c0e619 | 2007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE | 
|  | 139 | bool "Allow for memory hot remove" | 
|  | 140 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE | 
|  | 141 | depends on MIGRATION | 
|  | 142 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | e20b8cc | 2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | # | 
|  | 144 | # If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional | 
|  | 145 | # optimizations and functionality. | 
|  | 146 | # | 
|  | 147 | # Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not | 
|  | 148 | # use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms | 
|  | 149 | # that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags. | 
|  | 150 | # | 
|  | 151 | config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED | 
|  | 152 | def_bool y | 
| H. Peter Anvin | a269cca | 2009-08-31 11:17:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM | 
| Christoph Lameter | e20b8cc | 2008-04-28 02:12:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 154 |  | 
| Hugh Dickins | 4c21e2f | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 155 | # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide | 
|  | 156 | # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address | 
|  | 157 | # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. | 
|  | 158 | # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. | 
|  | 159 | # 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] | 160 | # 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] | 161 | # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. | 
| Hugh Dickins | 4c21e2f | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | # | 
|  | 163 | config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS | 
|  | 164 | int | 
| Hugh Dickins | a70caa8 | 2009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT | 
|  | 166 | default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 | 
|  | 167 | default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
| Hugh Dickins | 4c21e2f | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | default "4" | 
| Christoph Lameter | 7cbe34c | 2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 169 |  | 
|  | 170 | # | 
|  | 171 | # support for page migration | 
|  | 172 | # | 
|  | 173 | config MIGRATION | 
| Christoph Lameter | b20a350 | 2006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | bool "Page migration" | 
| Christoph Lameter | 6c5240a | 2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | def_bool y | 
| Gerald Schaefer | 83d1674 | 2008-07-23 21:28:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE | 
| Christoph Lameter | b20a350 | 2006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | help | 
|  | 178 | Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes | 
|  | 179 | while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful for | 
|  | 180 | example on NUMA systems to put pages nearer to the processors accessing | 
|  | 181 | the page. | 
| Greg Kroah-Hartman | 6550e07 | 2006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 182 |  | 
| Jeremy Fitzhardinge | 600715d | 2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT | 
|  | 184 | def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT | 
|  | 185 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 4b51d66 | 2007-02-10 01:43:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | config ZONE_DMA_FLAG | 
|  | 187 | int | 
|  | 188 | default "0" if !ZONE_DMA | 
|  | 189 | default "1" | 
|  | 190 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 2a7326b | 2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | config BOUNCE | 
|  | 192 | def_bool y | 
|  | 193 | depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM) | 
|  | 194 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 6225e93 | 2007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | config NR_QUICK | 
|  | 196 | int | 
|  | 197 | depends on QUICKLIST | 
| Haavard Skinnemoen | 3851075 | 2008-01-14 23:35:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | default "2" if SUPERH || AVR32 | 
| Christoph Lameter | 6225e93 | 2007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | default "1" | 
| Stephen Rothwell | f057eac | 2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 200 |  | 
|  | 201 | config VIRT_TO_BUS | 
|  | 202 | def_bool y | 
|  | 203 | depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS | 
| Andrea Arcangeli | cddb8a5 | 2008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 204 |  | 
|  | 205 | config MMU_NOTIFIER | 
|  | 206 | bool | 
| David Howells | fc4d5c2 | 2009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 207 |  | 
| Hugh Dickins | f8af4da | 2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | config KSM | 
|  | 209 | bool "Enable KSM for page merging" | 
|  | 210 | depends on MMU | 
|  | 211 | help | 
|  | 212 | Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas | 
|  | 213 | of an application's address space that an app has advised may be | 
|  | 214 | mergeable.  When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces | 
| Hugh Dickins | d0f209f | 2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800 | [diff] [blame^] | 215 | the many instances by a single page with that content, so | 
| Hugh Dickins | f8af4da | 2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. | 
|  | 217 | Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. | 
| Hugh Dickins | c73602a | 2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive | 
|  | 219 | until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and | 
|  | 220 | 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] | 221 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | e0a94c2 | 2009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR | 
|  | 223 | int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" | 
|  | 224 | default 4096 | 
|  | 225 | help | 
|  | 226 | This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected | 
|  | 227 | from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages | 
|  | 228 | can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. | 
|  | 229 |  | 
|  | 230 | For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space | 
|  | 231 | a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. | 
|  | 232 | On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. | 
| Eric Paris | 788084a | 2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map | 
|  | 234 | this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this | 
|  | 235 | protection by setting the value to 0. | 
| Christoph Lameter | e0a94c2 | 2009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 236 |  | 
|  | 237 | This value can be changed after boot using the | 
|  | 238 | /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. | 
|  | 239 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | d949f36 | 2009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE | 
|  | 241 | bool | 
| Christoph Lameter | e0a94c2 | 2009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 242 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | 6a46079 | 2009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | config MEMORY_FAILURE | 
|  | 244 | depends on MMU | 
| Linus Torvalds | d949f36 | 2009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE | 
| Andi Kleen | 6a46079 | 2009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" | 
|  | 247 | help | 
|  | 248 | Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems | 
|  | 249 | with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running | 
|  | 250 | even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires | 
|  | 251 | special hardware support and typically ECC memory. | 
|  | 252 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | cae681f | 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 253 | config HWPOISON_INJECT | 
|  | 254 | tristate "Poison pages injector" | 
|  | 255 | depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 256 |  | 
| David Howells | fc4d5c2 | 2009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 257 | config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS | 
|  | 258 | int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" | 
|  | 259 | depends on !MMU | 
|  | 260 | default 1 | 
|  | 261 | help | 
|  | 262 | The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks | 
|  | 263 | of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system | 
|  | 264 | allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently | 
|  | 265 | more than it requires.  To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off | 
|  | 266 | the excess and return it to the allocator. | 
|  | 267 |  | 
|  | 268 | If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the | 
|  | 269 | system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly | 
|  | 270 | if there are a lot of transient processes. | 
|  | 271 |  | 
|  | 272 | If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for | 
|  | 273 | long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. | 
|  | 274 |  | 
|  | 275 | Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option | 
|  | 276 | (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of | 
|  | 277 | excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if | 
|  | 278 | no trimming is to occur. | 
|  | 279 |  | 
|  | 280 | This option specifies the initial value of this option.  The default | 
|  | 281 | of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. | 
|  | 282 |  | 
|  | 283 | See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. |