mm: allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA or memory ho…

…t-remove

CONFIG_MIGRATION currently depends on CONFIG_NUMA or on the architecture
being able to hot-remove memory.  The main users of page migration such as
sys_move_pages(), sys_migrate_pages() and cpuset process migration are
only beneficial on NUMA so it makes sense.

As memory compaction will operate within a zone and is useful on both NUMA
and non-NUMA systems, this patch allows CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set if the
user selects CONFIG_COMPACTION as an option.

[[email protected]: Depend on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

mm/Kconfig

@@ -171,6 +171,15 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
 	default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 	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
 #
@@ -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