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1config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
2 def_bool y
3 depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
4
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5choice
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
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e1785e85 12config FLATMEM_MANUAL
3a9da765 13 bool "Flat Memory"
c898ec16 14 depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
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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
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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.
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e1785e85 31config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
f3519f91 32 bool "Discontiguous Memory"
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33 depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
34 help
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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
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41 this option imposes.
42
43 Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
44
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45 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
46
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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
f3519f91 55 "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
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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
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62endchoice
63
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64config DISCONTIGMEM
65 def_bool y
66 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
67
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68config SPARSEMEM
69 def_bool y
1a83e175 70 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
d41dee36 71
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72config FLATMEM
73 def_bool y
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74 depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
75
76config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
77 def_bool y
78 depends on !SPARSEMEM
e1785e85 79
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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
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88
89config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
90 def_bool y
d41dee36 91 depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
802f192e 92
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93#
94# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
84eb8d06 95# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
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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
9ba16087 104 bool
3e347261 105
802f192e 106#
44c09201 107# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
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108# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
109# an extremely sparse physical address space.
110#
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111config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
112 def_bool y
113 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
4c21e2f2 114
29c71111 115config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
9ba16087 116 bool
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117
118config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
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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.
29c71111 126
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127# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
128config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
129 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
ec69acbb 130 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
6ad696d2 131 depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
ed84a07a 132 depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
3947be19 133
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134config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
135 def_bool y
136 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
137
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138config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
139 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
140 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
141 depends on MIGRATION
142
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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#
151config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
152 def_bool y
a269cca9 153 depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
e20b8cca 154
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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.
7b6ac9df 160# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
a70caa8b 161# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
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162#
163config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
164 int
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165 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
166 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
167 default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
4c21e2f2 168 default "4"
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169
170#
171# support for page migration
172#
173config MIGRATION
b20a3503 174 bool "Page migration"
6c5240ae 175 def_bool y
83d1674a 176 depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
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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.
6550e07f 182
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183config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
184 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
185
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186config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
187 int
188 default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
189 default "1"
190
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191config BOUNCE
192 def_bool y
193 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
194
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195config NR_QUICK
196 int
197 depends on QUICKLIST
38510754 198 default "2" if SUPERH || AVR32
6225e937 199 default "1"
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201config VIRT_TO_BUS
202 def_bool y
203 depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
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204
205config MMU_NOTIFIER
206 bool
fc4d5c29 207
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208config 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
d0f209f6 215 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
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216 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
217 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
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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).
f8af4da3 221
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222config 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.
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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.
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236
237 This value can be changed after boot using the
238 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
239
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240config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
241 bool
e0a94c2a 242
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243config MEMORY_FAILURE
244 depends on MMU
d949f36f 245 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
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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
cae681fc 253config HWPOISON_INJECT
413f9efb 254 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
cae681fc 255 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL
478c5ffc 256 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
cae681fc 257
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258config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
259 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
260 depends on !MMU
261 default 1
262 help
263 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
264 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
265 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
266 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
267 the excess and return it to the allocator.
268
269 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
270 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
271 if there are a lot of transient processes.
272
273 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
274 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
275
276 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
277 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
278 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
279 no trimming is to occur.
280
281 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
282 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
283
284 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.