| 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 a 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 |
| bool |
| |
| config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP |
| bool |
| |
| config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP |
| bool |
| |
| config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP |
| bool |
| |
| config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK |
| bool |
| |
| config NO_BOOTMEM |
| bool |
| |
| config MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| bool |
| |
| config MOVABLE_NODE |
| bool "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory" |
| depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK |
| depends on NO_BOOTMEM |
| depends on X86_64 || OF_EARLY_FLATTREE || MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 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 the following |
| two things: |
| - When the system is booting, node full of hotpluggable memory can |
| be arranged to have only movable memory so that the whole node can |
| be hot-removed. (need movable_node boot option specified). |
| - After the system is up, the option allows users to online all the |
| memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole node can be |
| hot-removed. |
| |
| Users who don't use the memory hotplug feature are fine with this |
| option on since they don't specify movable_node boot option or 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 ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| depends on COMPILE_TEST || !KASAN |
| |
| config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE |
| def_bool y |
| depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| |
| config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE |
| bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" |
| default n |
| depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| help |
| This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug |
| onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which |
| determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting |
| can always be changed at runtime. |
| See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. |
| |
| Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in |
| 'online' state by default. |
| Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged |
| memory blocks in 'offline' state. |
| |
| config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| bool "Allow for memory hot remove" |
| select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) |
| depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| depends on MIGRATION |
| |
| # 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 !MMU |
| default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT |
| default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 |
| default "4" |
| |
| config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK |
| bool |
| |
| # |
| # support for memory balloon |
| config MEMORY_BALLOON |
| bool |
| |
| # |
| # support for memory balloon compaction |
| config BALLOON_COMPACTION |
| bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" |
| def_bool y |
| depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_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 |
| Compaction is the only memory management component to form |
| high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks |
| reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and |
| the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer |
| invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't |
| disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for |
| it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at |
| linux-mm@kvack.org. |
| |
| # |
| # support for page migration |
| # |
| config MIGRATION |
| bool "Page migration" |
| def_bool y |
| depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU |
| 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 ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION |
| bool |
| |
| config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT |
| def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT |
| |
| config BOUNCE |
| bool "Enable bounce buffers" |
| default y |
| depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM) |
| help |
| Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access |
| the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled |
| by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you |
| may say n to override this. |
| |
| # 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. |
| config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL |
| bool |
| default y if TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD |
| |
| config NR_QUICK |
| int |
| depends on QUICKLIST |
| 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 |
| select SRCU |
| |
| 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 |
| select RAS |
| 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 |
| select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER |
| 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 TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE |
| def_bool y |
| depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| |
| # |
| # 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. |
| |
| config CMA |
| bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" |
| depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU |
| select MIGRATION |
| select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| help |
| This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other |
| subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. |
| CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to |
| be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for |
| pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the |
| allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. |
| |
| If unsure, say "n". |
| |
| config CMA_DEBUG |
| bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" |
| depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA |
| help |
| Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG |
| messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while |
| processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). |
| This option does not affect warning and error messages. |
| |
| config CMA_DEBUGFS |
| bool "CMA debugfs interface" |
| depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS |
| help |
| Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. |
| |
| config CMA_AREAS |
| int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" |
| depends on CMA |
| default 7 |
| help |
| CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, |
| used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum |
| number of CMA area in the system. |
| |
| If unsure, leave the default value "7". |
| |
| config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY |
| bool "Track memory changes" |
| depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS |
| select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR |
| help |
| This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a |
| soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes |
| into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter |
| it can be cleared by hands. |
| |
| See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details. |
| |
| config ZSWAP |
| bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y |
| select CRYPTO_LZO |
| select ZPOOL |
| default n |
| help |
| A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes |
| pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to |
| compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. |
| This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, |
| in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device |
| reads, can also improve workload performance. |
| |
| This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of |
| v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these |
| interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, |
| they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential |
| configurations and workloads that exist. |
| |
| config ZPOOL |
| tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" |
| default n |
| help |
| Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or |
| zsmalloc. |
| |
| config ZBUD |
| tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" |
| default n |
| help |
| A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. |
| It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical |
| page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and |
| deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher |
| density approach when reclaim will be used. |
| |
| config Z3FOLD |
| tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" |
| depends on ZPOOL |
| default n |
| help |
| A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. |
| It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical |
| page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are |
| still there. |
| |
| config ZSMALLOC |
| tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" |
| depends on MMU |
| default n |
| help |
| zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store |
| compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping |
| in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a |
| non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is |
| returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to |
| access the allocated space. |
| |
| config PGTABLE_MAPPING |
| bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc" |
| depends on ZSMALLOC |
| help |
| By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to |
| access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular |
| architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying, |
| then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table |
| mapping rather than copying for object mapping. |
| |
| You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark: |
| https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench |
| |
| config ZSMALLOC_STAT |
| bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" |
| depends on ZSMALLOC |
| select DEBUG_FS |
| help |
| This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various |
| statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that |
| information to userspace via debugfs. |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP |
| bool |
| |
| config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB |
| int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" |
| default 80 |
| range 8 256 if METAG |
| range 8 2048 |
| depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) |
| help |
| This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit |
| user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc |
| and metag arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory |
| address minus the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is |
| changed to a smaller value in which case that is used. |
| |
| A sane initial value is 80 MB. |
| |
| # For architectures that support deferred memory initialisation |
| config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT |
| bool |
| |
| config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT |
| bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" |
| default n |
| depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT |
| depends on NO_BOOTMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| depends on !FLATMEM |
| help |
| Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a |
| single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable |
| amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up |
| a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel |
| by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This |
| has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the |
| lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the |
| initialisation. |
| |
| config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING |
| bool "Enable idle page tracking" |
| depends on SYSFS && MMU |
| select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT |
| help |
| This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have |
| not been touched during a given period of time. This information can |
| be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement |
| within a compute cluster. |
| |
| See Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt for more details. |
| |
| config ZONE_DEVICE |
| bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support" |
| depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
| depends on X86_64 #arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory |
| |
| help |
| Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, |
| or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the |
| memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise |
| "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX |
| mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. |
| |
| If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. |
| |
| config FRAME_VECTOR |
| bool |
| |
| config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS |
| bool |
| config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS |
| bool |