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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-06-16 18:08:13 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-06-16 18:08:13 +0200
commitf1bbbb6912662b9f6070c5bfc4ca9eb1f06a9d5b (patch)
treec2c130a74be25b0b2dff992e1a195e2728bdaadd /mm/Kconfig
parentfd0961ff67727482bb20ca7e8ea97b83e9de2ddb (diff)
parent7e27d6e778cd87b6f2415515d7127eba53fe5d02 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 9c61158308d..527136b2238 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -172,6 +172,15 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
default "4"
#
+# support for memory compaction
+config COMPACTION
+ bool "Allow for memory compaction"
+ select MIGRATION
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLB_PAGE && MMU
+ help
+ Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
+
+#
# support for page migration
#
config MIGRATION
@@ -180,9 +189,11 @@ config MIGRATION
depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
help
Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
- while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful for
- example on NUMA systems to put pages nearer to the processors accessing
- the page.
+ while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
+ two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
+ to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
+ pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
+ allocation instead of reclaiming.
config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT