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index 278e3ab1f16..3e9977a9d65 100644
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+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
def_bool y
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
+ depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
choice
prompt "Memory model"
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ config FLATMEM_MANUAL
Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
memory hotplug may have different options here.
- DISCONTIGMEM is an more mature, better tested system,
+ 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
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
boolean
+config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
+ boolean
+
config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
boolean
@@ -153,21 +156,34 @@ config MOVABLE_NODE
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 users to
- online all the memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole
- node can be hotplugged. Users who don't use the memory hotplug
- feature are fine with this option on since they don't online memory
- as movable.
+ 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"
- select MEMORY_ISOLATION
depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
- depends on HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
@@ -176,6 +192,8 @@ config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
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
@@ -201,11 +219,14 @@ config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
#
config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
int
+ default "999999" if !MMU
default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
- default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
default "4"
+config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
+ boolean
+
#
# support for memory balloon compaction
config BALLOON_COMPACTION
@@ -237,7 +258,7 @@ config COMPACTION
config MIGRATION
bool "Page migration"
def_bool y
- depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA
+ 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
@@ -246,6 +267,9 @@ config MIGRATION
pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
allocation instead of reclaiming.
+config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
+ boolean
+
config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
@@ -255,8 +279,27 @@ config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
default "1"
config BOUNCE
- def_bool y
+ 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
@@ -265,8 +308,12 @@ config NR_QUICK
default "1"
config VIRT_TO_BUS
- def_bool y
- depends on !ARCH_NO_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
@@ -389,16 +436,6 @@ choice
benefit.
endchoice
-config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
- bool "Cross Memory Support"
- depends on MMU
- default y
- help
- Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
- process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
- to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
- See the man page for more details.
-
#
# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
#
@@ -446,3 +483,112 @@ config FRONTSWAP
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 ZBUD
+ tristate
+ 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 ZSWAP
+ bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
+ select CRYPTO_LZO
+ select ZBUD
+ 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 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 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 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.