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  1. config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
  2. def_bool y
  3. depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
  4. choice
  5. prompt "Memory model"
  6. depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
  7. default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
  8. default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
  9. default FLATMEM_MANUAL
  10. config FLATMEM_MANUAL
  11. bool "Flat Memory"
  12. depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
  13. help
  14. This option allows you to change some of the ways that
  15. Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
  16. only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal
  17. and a correct option.
  18. Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
  19. memory hotplug may have different options here.
  20. DISCONTIGMEM is an more mature, better tested system,
  21. but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
  22. decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
  23. "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
  24. "Discontiguous Memory".
  25. If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
  26. config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
  27. bool "Discontiguous Memory"
  28. depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
  29. help
  30. This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
  31. memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
  32. in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
  33. more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
  34. majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
  35. can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
  36. this option imposes.
  37. Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
  38. If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
  39. config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
  40. bool "Sparse Memory"
  41. depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
  42. help
  43. This will be the only option for some systems, including
  44. memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
  45. For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
  46. "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
  47. performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
  48. but it is newer, and more experimental.
  49. If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
  50. over this option.
  51. endchoice
  52. config DISCONTIGMEM
  53. def_bool y
  54. depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
  55. config SPARSEMEM
  56. def_bool y
  57. depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
  58. config FLATMEM
  59. def_bool y
  60. depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
  61. config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
  62. def_bool y
  63. depends on !SPARSEMEM
  64. #
  65. # Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
  66. # to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
  67. # those dependencies to exist individually.
  68. #
  69. config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
  70. def_bool y
  71. depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
  72. config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
  73. def_bool y
  74. depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
  75. #
  76. # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
  77. # allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
  78. # be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
  79. # statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
  80. # consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
  81. #
  82. # This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
  83. # with gcc 3.4 and later.
  84. #
  85. config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
  86. bool
  87. #
  88. # Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
  89. # must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
  90. # an extremely sparse physical address space.
  91. #
  92. config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
  93. def_bool y
  94. depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
  95. config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
  96. bool
  97. config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
  98. def_bool y
  99. depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
  100. config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
  101. bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
  102. depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
  103. default y
  104. help
  105. SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
  106. pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
  107. efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
  108. config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
  109. boolean
  110. config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
  111. boolean
  112. config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
  113. boolean
  114. config NO_BOOTMEM
  115. boolean
  116. # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
  117. config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
  118. bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
  119. depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
  120. depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
  121. depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390 || ARM)
  122. config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
  123. def_bool y
  124. depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
  125. config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
  126. bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
  127. depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
  128. depends on MIGRATION
  129. #
  130. # If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
  131. # optimizations and functionality.
  132. #
  133. # Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
  134. # use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
  135. # that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
  136. #
  137. config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
  138. def_bool y
  139. depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
  140. # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
  141. # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
  142. # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
  143. # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
  144. # ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
  145. # PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
  146. # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
  147. #
  148. config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
  149. int
  150. default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
  151. default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
  152. default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  153. default "4"
  154. #
  155. # support for memory compaction
  156. config COMPACTION
  157. bool "Allow for memory compaction"
  158. select MIGRATION
  159. depends on MMU
  160. help
  161. Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
  162. #
  163. # support for page migration
  164. #
  165. config MIGRATION
  166. bool "Page migration"
  167. def_bool y
  168. depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
  169. help
  170. Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
  171. while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
  172. two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
  173. to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
  174. pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
  175. allocation instead of reclaiming.
  176. config SEC_SLOWPATH
  177. bool "slowpath allocation"
  178. def_bool n
  179. config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
  180. def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
  181. config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
  182. int
  183. default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
  184. default "1"
  185. config BOUNCE
  186. def_bool y
  187. depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
  188. # On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
  189. # have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
  190. # a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
  191. #
  192. # We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd. jbd
  193. # initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting PG_writeback,
  194. # and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem) is
  195. # a major rework effort. Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
  196. # (until jbd goes away). The only jbd user is ext3.
  197. config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
  198. bool
  199. default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
  200. config NR_QUICK
  201. int
  202. depends on QUICKLIST
  203. default "2" if AVR32
  204. default "1"
  205. config VIRT_TO_BUS
  206. def_bool y
  207. depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
  208. config MMU_NOTIFIER
  209. bool
  210. config KSM
  211. bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
  212. depends on MMU
  213. help
  214. Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
  215. of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
  216. mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
  217. the many instances by a single page with that content, so
  218. saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
  219. Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
  220. See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
  221. until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
  222. root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
  223. config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
  224. int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
  225. depends on MMU
  226. default 4096
  227. help
  228. This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
  229. from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
  230. can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
  231. For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
  232. a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
  233. On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
  234. Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
  235. this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
  236. protection by setting the value to 0.
  237. This value can be changed after boot using the
  238. /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
  239. config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
  240. bool
  241. config MEMORY_FAILURE
  242. depends on MMU
  243. depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
  244. bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
  245. help
  246. Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
  247. with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
  248. even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
  249. special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
  250. config HWPOISON_INJECT
  251. tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
  252. depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
  253. select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
  254. config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
  255. int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
  256. depends on !MMU
  257. default 1
  258. help
  259. The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
  260. of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
  261. allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
  262. more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
  263. the excess and return it to the allocator.
  264. If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
  265. system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
  266. if there are a lot of transient processes.
  267. If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
  268. long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
  269. Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
  270. (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
  271. excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
  272. no trimming is to occur.
  273. This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
  274. of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
  275. See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
  276. config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  277. bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
  278. depends on X86 && MMU
  279. select COMPACTION
  280. help
  281. Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
  282. huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
  283. This feature can improve computing performance to certain
  284. applications by speeding up page faults during memory
  285. allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
  286. up the pagetable walking.
  287. If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
  288. choice
  289. prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
  290. depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  291. default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
  292. help
  293. Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
  294. config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
  295. bool "always"
  296. help
  297. Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
  298. memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
  299. benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
  300. config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
  301. bool "madvise"
  302. help
  303. Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
  304. performance improvement benefit to the applications using
  305. madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
  306. memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
  307. benefit.
  308. endchoice
  309. #
  310. # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
  311. #
  312. config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
  313. depends on !SMP
  314. bool
  315. default y
  316. config CLEANCACHE
  317. bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
  318. default n
  319. help
  320. Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
  321. for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
  322. (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
  323. memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
  324. cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
  325. "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
  326. addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
  327. time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
  328. filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
  329. checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
  330. the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
  331. When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
  332. Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
  333. may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
  334. are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
  335. in a negligible performance hit.
  336. If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
  337. config FRONTSWAP
  338. bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
  339. depends on SWAP
  340. default n
  341. help
  342. Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
  343. of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
  344. "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
  345. addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
  346. time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
  347. a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
  348. available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
  349. compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
  350. and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
  351. If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
  352. config ZSMALLOC_NEW
  353. tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
  354. depends on !ZSMALLOC
  355. default n
  356. help
  357. zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
  358. compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
  359. in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a
  360. non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
  361. returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to
  362. access the allocated space.
  363. config PGTABLE_MAPPING
  364. bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
  365. depends on ZSMALLOC_NEW
  366. help
  367. By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
  368. access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
  369. architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
  370. then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
  371. mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
  372. You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark[1].
  373. [1] https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmalloc
  374. config ZSWAP
  375. bool "In-kernel swap page compression"
  376. depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO
  377. select CRYPTO_LZO
  378. select ZSMALLOC_NEW
  379. default n
  380. help
  381. Zswap is a backend for the frontswap mechanism in the VMM.
  382. It receives pages from frontswap and attempts to store them
  383. in a compressed memory pool, resulting in an effective
  384. partial memory reclaim. In addition, pages and be retrieved
  385. from this compressed store much faster than most tradition
  386. swap devices resulting in reduced I/O and faster performance
  387. for many workloads.
  388. config SWAP_ENABLE_READAHEAD
  389. bool "Enable readahead on page swap in"
  390. depends on SWAP
  391. default y
  392. help
  393. When a page fault occurs, adjacent pages of SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX are
  394. also paged in expecting those pages will be used in near future.
  395. This behaviour is good at disk-based system, but not on in-memory
  396. compression (e.g. zram).
  397. config ZSWAP_ENABLE_WRITEBACK
  398. bool "Enable writeback"
  399. depends on ZSWAP
  400. default n
  401. config DIRECT_RECLAIM_FILE_PAGES_ONLY
  402. bool "Reclaim file pages only on direct reclaim path"
  403. depends on ZSWAP
  404. default n
  405. config INCREASE_MAXIMUM_SWAPPINESS
  406. bool "Allow swappiness to be set up to 200"
  407. depends on ZSWAP
  408. default n
  409. config FIX_INACTIVE_RATIO
  410. bool "Fix active:inactive anon ratio to 1:1"
  411. depends on ZSWAP
  412. default n
  413. config TIGHT_PGDAT_BALANCE
  414. bool "Set more tight balanced condition to kswapd"
  415. depends on ZSWAP
  416. default n
  417. config MEMORY_HOLE_CARVEOUT
  418. bool
  419. help
  420. MEMORY_HOLE_CARVEOUT is needed to include the msm_mem_hole driver
  421. which is needed to enable/disable memblock-remove features for
  422. device tree nodes that set compatible="qcom,msm-mem-hole". The
  423. corresponding device tree node provides the address and size of
  424. the memory corresponding to the hole to be removed using memblock-
  425. remove.
  426. config USE_USER_ACCESSIBLE_TIMERS
  427. bool "Enables timers accessible from userspace"
  428. depends on MMU
  429. help
  430. User-accessible timers allow the kernel to map kernel timer
  431. registers to a userspace accessible page, to allow faster
  432. access to time information. This flag will enable the
  433. interface code in the main kernel. However, there are
  434. architecture-specific code that will need to be enabled
  435. separately.
  436. config MIN_DIRTY_THRESH_PAGES
  437. int "The lower bound of VM dirty_thresh value in number of pages"
  438. default 2560
  439. help
  440. Setting this to certain positive number guaranttees
  441. the VM Dirty-Thresh valus is always larger than that value.
  442. It is only effective when dirty_ratio is used. (Setting dirty_bytes
  443. disables this option.)
  444. Do not use it if you unsure.
  445. config ZBUD
  446. tristate "Low density storage for compressed pages"
  447. default n
  448. help
  449. A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
  450. It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
  451. page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
  452. deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
  453. density approach when reclaim will be used.
  454. config ZCACHE
  455. bool "Compressed cache for file pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  456. depends on CRYPTO && CLEANCACHE
  457. select CRYPTO_LZO
  458. select ZBUD
  459. default n
  460. help
  461. A compressed cache for file pages.
  462. It takes active file pages that are in the process of being reclaimed
  463. and attempts to compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based
  464. memory pool.
  465. If this process is successful, when those file pages needed again, the
  466. I/O reading operation was avoided. This results in a significant performance
  467. gains under memory pressure for systems full with file pages.
  468. config ZPOOL
  469. tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
  470. default n
  471. help
  472. Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or
  473. zsmalloc.
  474. config ZSMALLOC
  475. bool "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
  476. depends on MMU
  477. default n
  478. help
  479. zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
  480. compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
  481. in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a
  482. non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
  483. returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to
  484. access the allocated space.
  485. config ZSMALLOC_STAT
  486. bool "Export zsmalloc statistics"
  487. depends on ZSMALLOC
  488. select DEBUG_FS
  489. help
  490. This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
  491. statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that
  492. information to userspace via debugfs.
  493. If unsure, say N.