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authorFathi Boudra <fathi.boudra@linaro.org>2013-04-28 09:33:08 +0300
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+config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
+ def_bool y
+ depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
+
+choice
+ prompt "Memory model"
+ depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
+ default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
+ default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
+ default FLATMEM_MANUAL
+
+config FLATMEM_MANUAL
+ bool "Flat Memory"
+ depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
+ help
+ This option allows you to change some of the ways that
+ Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
+ only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal
+ and a correct option.
+
+ Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
+ memory hotplug may have different options here.
+ DISCONTIGMEM is an more mature, better tested system,
+ but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
+ decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
+ "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
+ "Discontiguous Memory".
+
+ If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
+
+config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
+ bool "Discontiguous Memory"
+ depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
+ help
+ This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
+ memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
+ in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
+ more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
+ majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
+ can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
+ this option imposes.
+
+ Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
+
+ If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
+
+config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
+ bool "Sparse Memory"
+ depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
+ help
+ This will be the only option for some systems, including
+ memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
+
+ For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
+ "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
+ performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
+ but it is newer, and more experimental.
+
+ If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
+ over this option.
+
+endchoice
+
+config DISCONTIGMEM
+ def_bool y
+ depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
+
+config SPARSEMEM
+ def_bool y
+ depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
+
+config FLATMEM
+ def_bool y
+ depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
+
+config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
+ def_bool y
+ depends on !SPARSEMEM
+
+#
+# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
+# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
+# those dependencies to exist individually.
+#
+config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
+ def_bool y
+ depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
+
+config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
+ def_bool y
+ depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
+
+#
+# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
+# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
+# be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
+# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
+# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
+#
+# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
+# with gcc 3.4 and later.
+#
+config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
+ bool
+
+#
+# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
+# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
+# an extremely sparse physical address space.
+#
+config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
+ def_bool y
+ depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
+
+config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
+ bool
+
+config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
+ def_bool y
+ depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
+
+config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+ bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
+ depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
+ default y
+ help
+ SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
+ pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
+ efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
+
+config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
+ boolean
+
+config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
+ boolean
+
+config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
+ boolean
+
+config NO_BOOTMEM
+ boolean
+
+config MEMORY_ISOLATION
+ boolean
+
+config MOVABLE_NODE
+ boolean "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory"
+ depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
+ depends on NO_BOOTMEM
+ depends on X86_64
+ depends on NUMA
+ default n
+ help
+ Allow a node to have only movable memory. Pages used by the kernel,
+ such as direct mapping pages cannot be migrated. So the corresponding
+ memory device cannot be hotplugged. This option allows users to
+ online all the memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole
+ node can be hotplugged. Users who don't use the memory hotplug
+ feature are fine with this option on since they don't online memory
+ as movable.
+
+ Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
+ Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.
+
+#
+# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
+# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
+#
+config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
+ def_bool n
+
+# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
+config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
+ depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
+ depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
+
+config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
+ def_bool y
+ depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+
+config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+ bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
+ select MEMORY_ISOLATION
+ select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if X86_64
+ depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+ depends on MIGRATION
+
+#
+# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
+# optimizations and functionality.
+#
+# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
+# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
+# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
+#
+config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
+ def_bool y
+ depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
+
+# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
+# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
+# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
+# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
+# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
+# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
+# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
+#
+config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
+ int
+ default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
+ default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
+ default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
+ default "4"
+
+#
+# support for memory balloon compaction
+config BALLOON_COMPACTION
+ bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
+ def_bool y
+ depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
+ help
+ Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
+ significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
+ used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
+ with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
+ by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
+ pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
+ scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
+
+#
+# support for memory compaction
+config COMPACTION
+ bool "Allow for memory compaction"
+ def_bool y
+ select MIGRATION
+ depends on MMU
+ help
+ Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
+
+#
+# support for page migration
+#
+config MIGRATION
+ bool "Page migration"
+ def_bool y
+ depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
+ help
+ Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
+ while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
+ two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
+ to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
+ pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
+ allocation instead of reclaiming.
+
+config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+ def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+
+config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
+ int
+ default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
+ default "1"
+
+config BOUNCE
+ def_bool y
+ depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
+
+# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
+# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
+# a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
+#
+# We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd. jbd
+# initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting PG_writeback,
+# and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem) is
+# a major rework effort. Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
+# (until jbd goes away). The only jbd user is ext3.
+config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
+ bool
+ default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
+
+config NR_QUICK
+ int
+ depends on QUICKLIST
+ default "2" if AVR32
+ default "1"
+
+config VIRT_TO_BUS
+ bool
+ help
+ An architecture should select this if it implements the
+ deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
+ should probably not select this.
+
+
+config MMU_NOTIFIER
+ bool
+
+config KSM
+ bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
+ depends on MMU
+ help
+ Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
+ of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
+ mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
+ the many instances by a single page with that content, so
+ saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
+ Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
+ See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
+ until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
+ root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
+
+config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
+ int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
+ depends on MMU
+ default 4096
+ help
+ This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
+ from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
+ can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
+
+ For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
+ a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
+ On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
+ Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
+ this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
+ protection by setting the value to 0.
+
+ This value can be changed after boot using the
+ /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
+
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
+ bool
+
+config MEMORY_FAILURE
+ depends on MMU
+ depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
+ bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
+ select MEMORY_ISOLATION
+ help
+ Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
+ with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
+ even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
+ special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
+
+config HWPOISON_INJECT
+ tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
+ depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
+ select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
+
+config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
+ int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
+ depends on !MMU
+ default 1
+ help
+ The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
+ of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
+ allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
+ more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
+ the excess and return it to the allocator.
+
+ If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
+ system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
+ if there are a lot of transient processes.
+
+ If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
+ long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
+
+ Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
+ (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
+ excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
+ no trimming is to occur.
+
+ This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
+ of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
+
+ See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
+
+config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
+ depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ select COMPACTION
+ help
+ Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
+ huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
+ This feature can improve computing performance to certain
+ applications by speeding up page faults during memory
+ allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
+ up the pagetable walking.
+
+ If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
+
+choice
+ prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
+ depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
+ help
+ Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
+
+ config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
+ bool "always"
+ help
+ Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
+ memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
+ benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
+
+ config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
+ bool "madvise"
+ help
+ Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
+ performance improvement benefit to the applications using
+ madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
+ memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
+ benefit.
+endchoice
+
+config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
+ bool "Cross Memory Support"
+ depends on MMU
+ default y
+ help
+ Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
+ process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
+ to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
+ See the man page for more details.
+
+#
+# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
+#
+config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
+ depends on !SMP
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config CLEANCACHE
+ bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
+ default n
+ help
+ Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
+ for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
+ (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
+ memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
+ cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
+ "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
+ addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
+ time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
+ filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
+ checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
+ the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
+ When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
+ Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
+ may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
+ are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
+ in a negligible performance hit.
+
+ If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
+
+config FRONTSWAP
+ bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
+ depends on SWAP
+ default n
+ help
+ Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
+ of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
+ "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
+ addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
+ time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
+ a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
+ available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
+ compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
+ and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
+
+ If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.