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1config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
2	def_bool y
3	depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
4
5choice
6	prompt "Memory model"
7	depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
8	default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
9	default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
10	default FLATMEM_MANUAL
11
12config FLATMEM_MANUAL
13	bool "Flat Memory"
14	depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
15	help
16	  This option allows you to change some of the ways that
17	  Linux manages its memory internally.  Most users will
18	  only have one option here: FLATMEM.  This is normal
19	  and a correct option.
20
21	  Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
22	  memory hotplug may have different options here.
23	  DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system,
24	  but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
25	  decreased performance over SPARSEMEM.  If unsure between
26	  "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
27	  "Discontiguous Memory".
28
29	  If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
30
31config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
32	bool "Discontiguous Memory"
33	depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
34	help
35	  This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
36	  memory systems, over FLATMEM.  These systems have holes
37	  in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
38	  more efficient handling of these holes.  However, the vast
39	  majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
40	  can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
41	  this option imposes.
42
43	  Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
44
45	  If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
46
47config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
48	bool "Sparse Memory"
49	depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
50	help
51	  This will be the only option for some systems, including
52	  memory hotplug systems.  This is normal.
53
54	  For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
55	  "Discontiguous Memory".  This option provides some potential
56	  performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
57	  but it is newer, and more experimental.
58
59	  If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
60	  over this option.
61
62endchoice
63
64config DISCONTIGMEM
65	def_bool y
66	depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
67
68config SPARSEMEM
69	def_bool y
70	depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
71
72config FLATMEM
73	def_bool y
74	depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
75
76config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
77	def_bool y
78	depends on !SPARSEMEM
79
80#
81# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
82# to represent different areas of memory.  This variable allows
83# those dependencies to exist individually.
84#
85config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
86	def_bool y
87	depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
88
89config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
90	def_bool y
91	depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
92
93#
94# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
95# allocations when memory_present() is called.  If this cannot
96# be done on your architecture, select this option.  However,
97# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
98# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
99#
100# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
101# with gcc 3.4 and later.
102#
103config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
104	bool
105
106#
107# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
108# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
109# an extremely sparse physical address space.
110#
111config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
112	def_bool y
113	depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
114
115config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
116	bool
117
118config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
119	def_bool y
120	depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
121
122config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
123	bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
124	depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
125	default y
126	help
127	 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
128	 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations.  This is the most
129	 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
130
131config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
132	boolean
133
134config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
135	boolean
136
137config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
138	boolean
139
140config HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP
141	boolean
142
143config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
144	boolean
145
146config NO_BOOTMEM
147	boolean
148
149config MEMORY_ISOLATION
150	boolean
151
152config MOVABLE_NODE
153	boolean "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory"
154	depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
155	depends on NO_BOOTMEM
156	depends on X86_64
157	depends on NUMA
158	default n
159	help
160	  Allow a node to have only movable memory.  Pages used by the kernel,
161	  such as direct mapping pages cannot be migrated.  So the corresponding
162	  memory device cannot be hotplugged.  This option allows the following
163	  two things:
164	  - When the system is booting, node full of hotpluggable memory can
165	  be arranged to have only movable memory so that the whole node can
166	  be hot-removed. (need movable_node boot option specified).
167	  - After the system is up, the option allows users to online all the
168	  memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole node can be
169	  hot-removed.
170
171	  Users who don't use the memory hotplug feature are fine with this
172	  option on since they don't specify movable_node boot option or they
173	  don't online memory as movable.
174
175	  Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
176	  Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.
177
178#
179# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
180# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
181#
182config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
183	def_bool n
184
185# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
186config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
187	bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
188	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
189	depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
190	depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
191
192config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
193	def_bool y
194	depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
195
196config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
197	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
198	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
199	select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
200	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
201	depends on MIGRATION
202
203#
204# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
205# optimizations and functionality.
206#
207# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
208# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
209# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
210#
211config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
212	def_bool y
213	depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
214
215# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
216# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
217# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
218# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
219# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
220# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
221# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
222#
223config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
224	int
225	default "999999" if !MMU
226	default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
227	default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
228	default "4"
229
230config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
231	boolean
232
233#
234# support for memory balloon
235config MEMORY_BALLOON
236	boolean
237
238#
239# support for memory balloon compaction
240config BALLOON_COMPACTION
241	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
242	def_bool y
243	depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
244	help
245	  Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
246	  significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
247	  used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
248	  with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
249	  by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
250	  pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
251	  scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
252
253#
254# support for memory compaction
255config COMPACTION
256	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
257	def_bool y
258	select MIGRATION
259	depends on MMU
260	help
261	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
262
263#
264# support for page migration
265#
266config MIGRATION
267	bool "Page migration"
268	def_bool y
269	depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
270	help
271	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
272	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
273	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
274	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
275	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
276	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
277
278config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
279	boolean
280
281config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
282	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
283
284config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
285	int
286	default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
287	default "1"
288
289config BOUNCE
290	bool "Enable bounce buffers"
291	default y
292	depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
293	help
294	  Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
295	  the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
296	  by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
297	  may say n to override this.
298
299# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
300# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
301# a 32-bit address to OHCI.  So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
302#
303# We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd.  jbd
304# initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting PG_writeback,
305# and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem) is
306# a major rework effort.  Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
307# (until jbd goes away).  The only jbd user is ext3.
308config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
309	bool
310	default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
311
312config NR_QUICK
313	int
314	depends on QUICKLIST
315	default "2" if AVR32
316	default "1"
317
318config VIRT_TO_BUS
319	bool
320	help
321	  An architecture should select this if it implements the
322	  deprecated interface virt_to_bus().  All new architectures
323	  should probably not select this.
324
325
326config MMU_NOTIFIER
327	bool
328
329config KSM
330	bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
331	depends on MMU
332	help
333	  Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
334	  of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
335	  mergeable.  When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
336	  the many instances by a single page with that content, so
337	  saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
338	  Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
339	  See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
340	  until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
341	  root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
342
343config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
344        int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
345	depends on MMU
346        default 4096
347        help
348	  This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
349	  from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages
350	  can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
351
352	  For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
353	  a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
354	  On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
355	  Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
356	  this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
357	  protection by setting the value to 0.
358
359	  This value can be changed after boot using the
360	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
361
362config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
363	bool
364
365config MEMORY_FAILURE
366	depends on MMU
367	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
368	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
369	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
370	help
371	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
372	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
373	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
374	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
375
376config HWPOISON_INJECT
377	tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
378	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
379	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
380
381config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
382	int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
383	depends on !MMU
384	default 1
385	help
386	  The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
387	  of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
388	  allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
389	  more than it requires.  To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
390	  the excess and return it to the allocator.
391
392	  If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
393	  system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
394	  if there are a lot of transient processes.
395
396	  If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
397	  long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
398
399	  Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
400	  (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
401	  excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
402	  no trimming is to occur.
403
404	  This option specifies the initial value of this option.  The default
405	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
406
407	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
408
409config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
410	bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
411	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
412	select COMPACTION
413	help
414	  Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
415	  huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
416	  This feature can improve computing performance to certain
417	  applications by speeding up page faults during memory
418	  allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
419	  up the pagetable walking.
420
421	  If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
422
423choice
424	prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
425	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
426	default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
427	help
428	  Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
429
430	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
431		bool "always"
432	help
433	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
434	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
435	  benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
436
437	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
438		bool "madvise"
439	help
440	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
441	  performance improvement benefit to the applications using
442	  madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
443	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
444	  benefit.
445endchoice
446
447#
448# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
449#
450config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
451	depends on !SMP
452	bool
453	default y
454
455config CLEANCACHE
456	bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
457	default n
458	help
459	  Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
460	  for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
461	  (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
462	  memory.  So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
463	  cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
464	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
465	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
466	  time-varying size.  And when a cleancache-enabled
467	  filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
468	  checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
469	  the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
470	  When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
471	  Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
472	  may be achieved.  When none is available, all cleancache calls
473	  are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
474	  in a negligible performance hit.
475
476	  If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
477
478config FRONTSWAP
479	bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
480	depends on SWAP
481	default n
482	help
483	  Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
484	  of a "backing" store for a swap device.  The data is stored into
485	  "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
486	  addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
487	  time-varying size.  When space in transcendent memory is available,
488	  a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved.  When none is
489	  available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
490	  compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
491	  and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
492
493	  If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
494
495config CMA
496	bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
497	depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU
498	select MIGRATION
499	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
500	help
501	  This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
502	  subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
503	  CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
504	  be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
505	  pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
506	  allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
507
508	  If unsure, say "n".
509
510config CMA_DEBUG
511	bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
512	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
513	help
514	  Turns on debug messages in CMA.  This produces KERN_DEBUG
515	  messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
516	  processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
517	  This option does not affect warning and error messages.
518
519config 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
530config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
531	bool "Track memory changes"
532	depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
533	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
534	help
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.
541
542config ZSWAP
543	bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
544	depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
545	select CRYPTO_LZO
546	select ZPOOL
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
562config ZPOOL
563	tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
564	default n
565	help
566	  Compressed memory storage API.  This allows using either zbud or
567	  zsmalloc.
568
569config ZBUD
570	tristate "Low density storage for compressed pages"
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.
578
579config ZSMALLOC
580	tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
581	depends on MMU
582	default n
583	help
584	  zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
585	  compressed RAM pages.  zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
586	  in order to reduce fragmentation.  However, this results in a
587	  non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
588	  returned by an alloc().  This handle must be mapped in order to
589	  access the allocated space.
590
591config PGTABLE_MAPPING
592	bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
593	depends on ZSMALLOC
594	help
595	  By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
596	  access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
597	  architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
598	  then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
599	  mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
600
601	  You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark:
602	  https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench
603
604config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
605	bool
606
607config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
608	int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
609	default 80
610	range 8 256 if METAG
611	range 8 2048
612	depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
613	help
614	  This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
615	  user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
616	  and metag arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory
617	  address minus the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is
618	  changed to a smaller value in which case that is used.
619
620	  A sane initial value is 80 MB.
621