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The current wording of the COMPACTION Kconfig help text doesn't emphasise that disabling COMPACTION might cripple the page allocator which relies on the compaction quite heavily for high order requests and an unexpected OOM can happen with the lack of compaction. Make sure we are vocal about that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823091726.GK23577@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
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def_bool y
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depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
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choice
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prompt "Memory model"
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depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
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default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
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default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
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default FLATMEM_MANUAL
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config FLATMEM_MANUAL
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bool "Flat Memory"
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depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
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help
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This option allows you to change some of the ways that
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Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
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only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal
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and a correct option.
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Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
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memory hotplug may have different options here.
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DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system,
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but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
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decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
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"Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
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"Discontiguous Memory".
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If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
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config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
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bool "Discontiguous Memory"
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depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
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help
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This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
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memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
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in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
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more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
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majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
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can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
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this option imposes.
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Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
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If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
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config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
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bool "Sparse Memory"
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depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
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help
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This will be the only option for some systems, including
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memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
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For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
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"Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
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performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
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but it is newer, and more experimental.
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If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
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over this option.
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endchoice
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config DISCONTIGMEM
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def_bool y
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depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
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config SPARSEMEM
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def_bool y
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depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
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config FLATMEM
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def_bool y
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depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
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config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
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def_bool y
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depends on !SPARSEMEM
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#
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# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
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# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
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# those dependencies to exist individually.
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#
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config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
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def_bool y
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depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
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config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
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def_bool y
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depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
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#
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# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
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# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
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# be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
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# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
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# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
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#
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# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
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# with gcc 3.4 and later.
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#
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config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
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bool
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#
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# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
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# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
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# an extremely sparse physical address space.
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#
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config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
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def_bool y
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depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
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config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
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bool
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config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
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def_bool y
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depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
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config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
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bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
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depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
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default y
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help
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SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
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pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
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efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
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config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
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bool
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config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
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bool
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config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
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bool
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config HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP
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bool
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config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
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bool
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config NO_BOOTMEM
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bool
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config MEMORY_ISOLATION
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bool
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config MOVABLE_NODE
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bool "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory"
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depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
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depends on NO_BOOTMEM
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depends on X86_64
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depends on NUMA
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default n
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help
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Allow a node to have only movable memory. Pages used by the kernel,
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such as direct mapping pages cannot be migrated. So the corresponding
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memory device cannot be hotplugged. This option allows the following
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two things:
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- When the system is booting, node full of hotpluggable memory can
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be arranged to have only movable memory so that the whole node can
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be hot-removed. (need movable_node boot option specified).
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- After the system is up, the option allows users to online all the
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memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole node can be
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hot-removed.
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Users who don't use the memory hotplug feature are fine with this
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option on since they don't specify movable_node boot option or they
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don't online memory as movable.
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Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
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Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.
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#
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# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
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# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
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#
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config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
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def_bool n
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# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
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config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
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bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
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depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
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depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
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depends on !KASAN
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config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
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def_bool y
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depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
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config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE
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bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default"
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default n
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depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
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help
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This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug
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onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which
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determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting
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can always be changed at runtime.
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See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information.
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Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in
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'online' state by default.
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Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged
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memory blocks in 'offline' state.
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config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
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bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
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select MEMORY_ISOLATION
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select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
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depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
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depends on MIGRATION
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# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
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# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
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# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
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# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
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# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
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# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
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# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
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#
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config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
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int
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default "999999" if !MMU
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default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
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default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
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default "4"
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config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
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bool
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#
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# support for memory balloon
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config MEMORY_BALLOON
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bool
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#
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# support for memory balloon compaction
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config BALLOON_COMPACTION
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bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
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def_bool y
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depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
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help
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Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
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significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
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used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
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with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
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by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
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pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
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scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
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#
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# support for memory compaction
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config COMPACTION
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bool "Allow for memory compaction"
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def_bool y
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select MIGRATION
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depends on MMU
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help
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Compaction is the only memory management component to form
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high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks
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reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and
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the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer
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invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't
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disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for
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it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at
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linux-mm@kvack.org.
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#
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# support for page migration
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#
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config MIGRATION
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bool "Page migration"
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def_bool y
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depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
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help
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Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
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while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
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two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
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to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
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pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
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allocation instead of reclaiming.
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config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
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bool
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config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
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def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
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config BOUNCE
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bool "Enable bounce buffers"
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default y
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depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
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help
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Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
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the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
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by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
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may say n to override this.
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# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
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# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
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# a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
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config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
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bool
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default y if TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD
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config NR_QUICK
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int
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depends on QUICKLIST
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default "2" if AVR32
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default "1"
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config VIRT_TO_BUS
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bool
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help
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An architecture should select this if it implements the
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deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
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should probably not select this.
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config MMU_NOTIFIER
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bool
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select SRCU
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config KSM
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bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
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depends on MMU
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help
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Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
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of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
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mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
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the many instances by a single page with that content, so
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saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
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Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
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See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
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until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
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root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
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config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
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int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
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depends on MMU
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default 4096
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help
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This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
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from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
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can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
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For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
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a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
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On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
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Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
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this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
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protection by setting the value to 0.
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This value can be changed after boot using the
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/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
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config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
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bool
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config MEMORY_FAILURE
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depends on MMU
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depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
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bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
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select MEMORY_ISOLATION
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select RAS
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help
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Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
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with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
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even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
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special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
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config HWPOISON_INJECT
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tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
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depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
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select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
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config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
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int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
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depends on !MMU
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default 1
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help
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The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
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of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
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allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
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more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
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the excess and return it to the allocator.
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If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
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system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
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if there are a lot of transient processes.
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If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
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long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
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Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
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(/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
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excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
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no trimming is to occur.
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This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
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of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
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See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
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config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
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bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
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depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
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select COMPACTION
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select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER
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help
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Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
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huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
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This feature can improve computing performance to certain
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applications by speeding up page faults during memory
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allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
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up the pagetable walking.
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If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
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choice
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prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
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depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
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default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
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help
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Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
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config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
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bool "always"
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help
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Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
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memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
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benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
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config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
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bool "madvise"
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help
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Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
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performance improvement benefit to the applications using
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madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
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memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
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benefit.
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endchoice
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#
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# We don't deposit page tables on file THP mapping,
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# but Power makes use of them to address MMU quirk.
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#
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config TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE
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def_bool y
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depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PPC
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#
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# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
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#
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config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
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depends on !SMP
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bool
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default y
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config CLEANCACHE
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bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
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default n
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help
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Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
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for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
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(PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
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memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
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cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
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"transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
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addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
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time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
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filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
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checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
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the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
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When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
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Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
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may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
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are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
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in a negligible performance hit.
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If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
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config FRONTSWAP
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bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
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depends on SWAP
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default n
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help
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Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
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of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
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"transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
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addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
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time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
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a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
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available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
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compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
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and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
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If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
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config CMA
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bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
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depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU
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select MIGRATION
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select MEMORY_ISOLATION
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help
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This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
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subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
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CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
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be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
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pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
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allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
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If unsure, say "n".
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config CMA_DEBUG
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bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
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help
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Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG
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messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
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processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
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This option does not affect warning and error messages.
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config CMA_DEBUGFS
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bool "CMA debugfs interface"
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depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS
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help
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Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA.
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config CMA_AREAS
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int "Maximum count of the CMA areas"
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depends on CMA
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default 7
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help
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CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly,
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used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum
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number of CMA area in the system.
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If unsure, leave the default value "7".
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config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
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bool "Track memory changes"
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depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
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select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
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help
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This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
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soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
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into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
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it can be cleared by hands.
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See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.
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config ZSWAP
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bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
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select CRYPTO_LZO
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select ZPOOL
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default n
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help
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A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
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pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
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compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
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This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
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in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
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reads, can also improve workload performance.
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This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
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v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
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interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
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they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
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configurations and workloads that exist.
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config ZPOOL
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tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
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default n
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help
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Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or
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zsmalloc.
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config ZBUD
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tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages"
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default n
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help
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A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
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It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
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page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
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deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
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density approach when reclaim will be used.
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config Z3FOLD
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tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages"
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depends on ZPOOL
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default n
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help
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|
A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
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It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical
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page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are
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still there.
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config ZSMALLOC
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tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
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depends on MMU
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default n
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help
|
|
zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
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|
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
|
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access the allocated space.
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|
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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.
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|
You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark:
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|
https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench
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|
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config ZSMALLOC_STAT
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|
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.
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|
|
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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
|