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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 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_RCU_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
+ 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 (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 || PPC64)
+ 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 !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
+ 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) && 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 ZONE_DMA_FLAG
+ int
+ default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
+ default "1"
+
+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.
+#
+# 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
+ 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).
+choice
+ prompt "Choose UKSM/KSM strategy"
+ default UKSM
+ depends on KSM
+ help
+ This option allows to select a UKSM/KSM stragety.
+
+config UKSM
+ bool "Ultra-KSM for page merging"
+ depends on KSM
+ help
+ UKSM is inspired by the Linux kernel project \u2014 KSM(Kernel Same
+ page Merging), but with a fundamentally rewritten core algorithm. With
+ an advanced algorithm, UKSM now can transparently scans all anonymously
+ mapped user space applications with an significantly improved scan speed
+ and CPU efficiency. Since KVM is friendly to KSM, KVM can also benefit from
+ UKSM. Now UKSM has its first stable release and first real world enterprise user.
+ For more information, please goto its project page.
+ (www.kerneldedup.org)
+
+config KSM_LEGACY
+ bool "Legacy KSM implementation"
+ depends on KSM
+ help
+ The legacy KSM implementation from Redhat.
+endchoice
+
+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
+
+#
+# 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 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 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.