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@@ -89,3 +89,25 @@ config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
def_bool y
depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
+
+#
+# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
+# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this can not
+# be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
+# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
+# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
+#
+# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
+# with gcc 3.4 and later.
+#
+config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
+ def_bool n
+
+#
+# Architectecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
+# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
+# an extremely sparse physical address space.
+#
+config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
+ def_bool y
+ depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC