Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 "Yann E Morin was supposed to take over kconfig maintainership, but
  this hasn't happened.  So I'm sending a few kconfig patches that I
  collected:
   - Fix for missing va_end in kconfig
   - merge_config.sh displays used if given too few arguments
   - s/boolean/bool/ in Kconfig files for consistency, with the plan to
     only support bool in the future"
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: use va_end to match corresponding va_start
  merge_config.sh: Display usage if given too few arguments
  kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes
		
	
			
		
			
				
	
	
		
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
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| 
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| 	  If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
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| 	  over this option.
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| 
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| endchoice
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| #
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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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| 
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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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| #
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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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| #
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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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| 
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| config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
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| 	bool
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| config HAVE_MEMBLOCK
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| 	bool
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| 
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| config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
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| 	bool
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| 
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| config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
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| 	bool
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| 
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| config HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP
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| 	bool
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| 
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| config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
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| 	bool
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| 
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| config NO_BOOTMEM
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| 	bool
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| 
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| config MEMORY_ISOLATION
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| 	bool
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| #
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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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| 
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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 (IA64 || X86 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || SUPERH || S390)
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| #
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| # If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
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| # optimizations and functionality.
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| #
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| # Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
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| # use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
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| # that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
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| #
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| config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
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| 	def_bool y
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| 	depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !SPARSEMEM
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| 
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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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| 
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| config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
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| 	bool
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| 
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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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| #
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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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| #
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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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| 	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
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| 
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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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| 
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| config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
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| 	bool
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| 
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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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| 
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| config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
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| 	int
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| 	default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
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| 	default "1"
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| #
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| # We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd.  jbd
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| # initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting PG_writeback,
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| # and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem) is
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| # a major rework effort.  Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
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| # (until jbd goes away).  The only jbd user is ext3.
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| config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
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| 	bool
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| 	default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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| config MMU_NOTIFIER
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| 	bool
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| 	select SRCU
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
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| 	bool
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| 
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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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| 	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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
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| 
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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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| 	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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| 
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| 	  If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| #
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  If unsure, say "n".
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  If unsure, leave the default value "7".
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| 
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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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| 
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| 	  See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| config ZBUD
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| 	tristate "Low 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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| 
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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
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| 	  zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
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| 	  compressed RAM pages.  zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
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| 	  in order to reduce fragmentation.  However, this results in a
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| 	  non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
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| 	  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
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| 	bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
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| 	depends on ZSMALLOC
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| 	help
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| 	  By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
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| 	  access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
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| 	  architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
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| 	  then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
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| 	  mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
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| 
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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"
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| 	depends on ZSMALLOC
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| 	select DEBUG_FS
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| 	help
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| 	  This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
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| 	  statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that
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| 	  information to userspace via debugfs.
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| 	  If unsure, say N.
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| 
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| config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
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| 	bool
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| 
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| config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
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| 	int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
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| 	default 80
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| 	range 8 256 if METAG
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| 	range 8 2048
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| 	depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
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| 	help
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| 	  This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
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| 	  user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
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| 	  and metag arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory
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| 	  address minus the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is
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| 	  changed to a smaller value in which case that is used.
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| 
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| 	  A sane initial value is 80 MB.
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