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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 29 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index e338407f1225..82fed4eb2b6f 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ config COMPACTION config MIGRATION bool "Page migration" def_bool y - depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION + depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA help Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in @@ -349,6 +349,16 @@ 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 # @@ -379,3 +389,20 @@ config CLEANCACHE 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. |