1 config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
3 depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_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
14 depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
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
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".
29 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
31 config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
32 bool "Discontiguous Memory"
33 depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
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
43 Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
45 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
47 config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
49 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
51 This will be the only option for some systems, including
52 memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
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.
59 If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
66 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
70 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
74 depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
76 config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
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.
85 config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
87 depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
89 config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
91 depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
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.
100 # This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
101 # with gcc 3.4 and later.
103 config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
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.
111 config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
113 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
115 config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
118 config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
119 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
120 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
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.
127 # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
128 config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
129 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
130 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
131 depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
132 depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
134 config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
136 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
138 config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
139 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
140 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
144 # If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
145 # optimizations and functionality.
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.
151 config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
153 depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
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.
160 # PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
161 # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
163 config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
165 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
166 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
167 default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
171 # support for page migration
174 bool "Page migration"
176 depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
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
183 config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
184 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
188 default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
193 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
198 default "2" if SUPERH || AVR32
203 depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
209 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
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
215 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
216 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
217 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
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).
222 config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
223 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
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.
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.
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.
237 This value can be changed after boot using the
238 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
240 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
243 config MEMORY_FAILURE
245 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
246 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
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.
253 config HWPOISON_INJECT
254 tristate "Poison pages injector"
255 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL
257 config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
258 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
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.
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.
272 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
273 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
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.
280 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
281 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
283 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.