ksm: more on default values

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / mm / Kconfig

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 2477607..57963c6 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ config KSM
          the many instances by a single resident page with that content, so
          saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
          Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
-         See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information.
+         See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
+         until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
+         root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
 
 config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
         int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
@@ -244,10 +246,12 @@ config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
          This value can be changed after boot using the
          /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
+       bool
 
 config MEMORY_FAILURE
        depends on MMU
-       depends on X86_MCE
+       depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
        bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
        help
          Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems