1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 57b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 87b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool 117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 12b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL 13b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool 14b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 15519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP 167b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 177b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 187b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 197b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 207b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217b42f104SJohannes Weiner for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 227b42f104SJohannes Weiner used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 237b42f104SJohannes Weiner in your computer. If unsure say Y. 247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 25519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP 26519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on SWAP 28519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select FRONTSWAP 29b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 35519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 36519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 38519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 39519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of 40519bcb79SJohannes Weiner v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these 41519bcb79SJohannes Weiner interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, 42519bcb79SJohannes Weiner they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential 43519bcb79SJohannes Weiner configurations and workloads that exist. 44519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 48b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 49b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 50b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 51b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 52b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 53b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 54b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 55519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 56b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 57519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 58519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 59519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 60519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 61519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 62519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 63519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 64519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 65519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 66519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 67519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 73519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 79519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 80519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 83519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 85519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 86519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 89519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 91519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 92519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 95519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 97519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 98519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 101519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 102519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 103519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 104519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 107519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 108519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 110519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 113519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 115519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 117519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 118519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 120519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 121519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 122b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 128519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 129519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 131519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 132519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 135519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zbud" 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZBUD 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 141519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "z3fold" 143519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select Z3FOLD 144519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 145519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 147519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 149519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 150519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 151519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 152519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 154519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 155519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 156519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 157519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 158519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 159519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 161519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 162519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD 163b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 164b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 165519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 166519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 170519bcb79SJohannes Weiner density approach when reclaim will be used. 171519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 172519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig Z3FOLD 173b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 174b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 175519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 176519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 177519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 178519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner still there. 180519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 181519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 182b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 183b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 184519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU 185519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 186519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 187b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 188b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 189519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 190519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 191519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 192519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 193519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 194519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 195519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 196519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 197519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 198519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 199519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 200519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenu "SLAB allocator options" 201519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2027b42f104SJohannes Weinerchoice 2037b42f104SJohannes Weiner prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 2047b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLUB 2057b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2067b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows to select a slab allocator. 2077b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2087b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB 2097b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "SLAB" 2107b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on !PREEMPT_RT 2117b42f104SJohannes Weiner select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 2127b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2137b42f104SJohannes Weiner The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 2147b42f104SJohannes Weiner well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 2157b42f104SJohannes Weiner per cpu and per node queues. 2167b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2177b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 2187b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 2197b42f104SJohannes Weiner select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 2207b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2217b42f104SJohannes Weiner SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 2227b42f104SJohannes Weiner instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 2237b42f104SJohannes Weiner Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 2247b42f104SJohannes Weiner of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 2257b42f104SJohannes Weiner and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 2267b42f104SJohannes Weiner a slab allocator. 2277b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2287b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLOB 2297b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on EXPERT 2307b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 2317b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on !PREEMPT_RT 2327b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2337b42f104SJohannes Weiner SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 2347b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 2357b42f104SJohannes Weiner does not perform as well on large systems. 2367b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2377b42f104SJohannes Weinerendchoice 2387b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2397b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2407b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2417b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 2427b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on SLAB || SLUB 2437b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2447b42f104SJohannes Weiner For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2457b42f104SJohannes Weiner merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2467b42f104SJohannes Weiner This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2477b42f104SJohannes Weiner overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2487b42f104SJohannes Weiner cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2497b42f104SJohannes Weiner by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2507b42f104SJohannes Weiner can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2517b42f104SJohannes Weiner merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2527b42f104SJohannes Weiner command line. 2537b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2547b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2557b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Randomize slab freelist" 2567b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on SLAB || SLUB 2577b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2587b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2597b42f104SJohannes Weiner security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2607b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator against heap overflows. 2617b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2627b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2637b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 2647b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on SLAB || SLUB 2657b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2667b42f104SJohannes Weiner Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 2677b42f104SJohannes Weiner other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 2687b42f104SJohannes Weiner sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 2697b42f104SJohannes Weiner freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 2707b42f104SJohannes Weiner sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 2717b42f104SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_SLUB. 2727b42f104SJohannes Weiner 273*0710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 274*0710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 275*0710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 276*0710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && SYSFS 277*0710d012SVlastimil Babka help 278*0710d012SVlastimil Babka SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 279*0710d012SVlastimil Babka order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 280*0710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 281*0710d012SVlastimil Babka the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 282*0710d012SVlastimil Babka supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 283*0710d012SVlastimil Babka out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 284*0710d012SVlastimil Babka Try running: slabinfo -DA 285*0710d012SVlastimil Babka 286519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 287519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default y 288519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on SLUB && SMP 289519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 290519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 291519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 292519bcb79SJohannes Weiner that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 293519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 294519bcb79SJohannes Weiner which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 295519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 296519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 297519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendmenu # SLAB allocator options 298519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2997b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3007b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3017b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3027b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3037b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3047b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3057b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3067b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3077b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3087b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3097b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 3107b42f104SJohannes Weiner default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 3117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 3127b42f104SJohannes Weiner benefits on x86. 3137b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3147b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3157b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 3167b42f104SJohannes Weiner this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 3177b42f104SJohannes Weiner after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 3187b42f104SJohannes Weiner Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 3197b42f104SJohannes Weiner 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3207b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3217b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3227b42f104SJohannes Weiner 323*0710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 324*0710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 325*0710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 326*0710d012SVlastimil Babka help 327*0710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 328*0710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 329*0710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 330*0710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 331*0710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 332*0710d012SVlastimil Babka 333*0710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 334*0710d012SVlastimil Babka 335*0710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 336*0710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 337*0710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 338*0710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 339*0710d012SVlastimil Babka help 340*0710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 341*0710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 342*0710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 343*0710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 344*0710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 345*0710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 346*0710d012SVlastimil Babka 347*0710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 348*0710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 349*0710d012SVlastimil Babka 350*0710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 351*0710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 352*0710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 353*0710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 354*0710d012SVlastimil Babka 355*0710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 356*0710d012SVlastimil Babka 357e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 358e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 359a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 360e1785e85SDave Hansen 3613a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 3623a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 363e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 364d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 365e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 366d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 367d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 368d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 369d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 370d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 3713a9da765SDave Hansen 372e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 3733a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 374bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 3753a9da765SDave Hansen help 376d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 377d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 378d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 379d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 3803a9da765SDave Hansen 381d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 382d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 383dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 384d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 385d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 3863a9da765SDave Hansen 387d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 388d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 389d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 390d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 391d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 392d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 393d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 394d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 395d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 396d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 397d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 398d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 399d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4003a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4013a9da765SDave Hansen 402d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 403d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4041a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 405d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 406e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 407e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 408bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 409d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 41093b7504eSDave Hansen# 4113e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 412c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4133e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4143e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4153e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4163e347261SBob Picco# 4173e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4183e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4193e347261SBob Picco# 4203e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4219ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4223e347261SBob Picco 4233e347261SBob Picco# 42444c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 425802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 426802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 427802f192eSBob Picco# 4283e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 4293e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 4303e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4314c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 43229c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 4339ba16087SJan Beulich bool 43429c71111SAndy Whitcroft 43529c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 436a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 437a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 438a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 439a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 440a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 441a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 442a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 44329c71111SAndy Whitcroft 44470210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 4456341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 44670210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 44767a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 448050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 4496341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 4502667f50eSSteve Capper 45152219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 45252219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 45352219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 454350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 4556341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 456c378ddd5STejun Heo 4571e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 4581e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 4591e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 4601e5d8e1eSDan Williams 461ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 4626341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 463ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 464a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 465a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 466a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 467a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 468a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 469a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 470a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 47146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 47246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 47346723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 47446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 47546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 47646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 47746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 47891024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 47991024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 48091024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 481519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 482519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 483519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 4843947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 485519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 486519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 487b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 48871b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 48940b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 4907ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 4911e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 4923947be19SDave Hansen 493519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 494519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 4958604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 4968604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 4978604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 4988604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 4998604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5008604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5018604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5028604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 503cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5048604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5058604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 5068604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 5078604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 5088604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 5098604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5100c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5110c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 512f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5130c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5140c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5150c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 516a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 517a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 518a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 519a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 520a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 521519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 522519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5234c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 5244c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 5254c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 5264c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 5274c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 5287b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 52960bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 53060bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 53160bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 532a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 5334c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 5344c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 5354c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 5369164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 537a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 538a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 53960bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 5404c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 5417cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 542e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 5436341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 544e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 5457cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 54609316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 54709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 5486341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 54909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 55009316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 55118468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 55218468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 55318468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 55418468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 55509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 55618468d93SRafael Aquini help 55718468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 55818468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 55918468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 56018468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 56118468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 56218468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 56318468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 56418468d93SRafael Aquini 56518468d93SRafael Aquini# 566e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 567e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 568e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 56905106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 570e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 57133a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 572e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 573b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 574b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 575b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 576b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 577b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 578b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 579b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 580b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 581e9e96b39SMel Gorman 582e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 58336e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 58436e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 58536e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 58636e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 58736e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 58836e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 58936e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 59036e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 59136e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 59236e66c55SAlexander Duyck 59336e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 5947cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 5957cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 5967cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 597b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 5986c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 599de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 600b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 601b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 602e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 603e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 604e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 605e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 606e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6076550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 60876cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 609d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 61076cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 611c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 6126341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 613c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 6149c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 6159c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 6169c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 6174bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 6184bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 6194bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 6204bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 6214bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 6224bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 6234bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 624b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER - 1 and will be 625b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand clamped down to MAX_ORDER - 1. 626b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 6278df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 6288df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 6298df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 630600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 631d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 632600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 6332a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 6349ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 6359ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 636ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 6379ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 638ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 639ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 640ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 6412a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 642f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS 6434febd95aSStephen Rothwell bool 6444febd95aSStephen Rothwell help 6454febd95aSStephen Rothwell An architecture should select this if it implements the 6464febd95aSStephen Rothwell deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures 6474febd95aSStephen Rothwell should probably not select this. 6484febd95aSStephen Rothwell 649cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli 650cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 651cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 65283fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 65399cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 654fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 655f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 656f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 657f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 65859e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 659f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 660f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 661f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 662f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 663d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 664f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 665f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 666ad56b738SMike Rapoport See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 667c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 668c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 669f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 670e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 671e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 6726e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 673e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 674e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 675e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 676e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 677e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 678e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 679e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 680e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 681e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 682788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 683788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 684788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 685e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 686e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 687e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 688e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 689d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 690d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 691e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 6926a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 6936a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 694d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 6956a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 696ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 69797f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 6986a46079cSAndi Kleen help 6996a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7006a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7016a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7026a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7036a46079cSAndi Kleen 704cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 705413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 70627df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 707478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 708cae681fcSAndi Kleen 709fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 710fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 711fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 712fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 713fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 714fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 715fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 716fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 717fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 718fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 719fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 720fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 721fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 722fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 723fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 724fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 725fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 726fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 727fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 728fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 729fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 730fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 731fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 732fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 733fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 734fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 735dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 736bbddff05STejun Heo 737519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 738519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 739519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 740519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 741519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 742519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 743519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 74413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 745554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 7465d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 7473a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 7484c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 7494c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 7504c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 7514c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 7524c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 7534c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 7544c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 7554c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 7564c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 7574c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 758519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 759519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 76013ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 76113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 76213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 76313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 76413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 76513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 76613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 76713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 76813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 76913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 77013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 77113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 77213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 77313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 77413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 77513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 77613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 77713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 77813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 77913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 78013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 78113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 78213ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 78313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 78438d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 78538d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 78614fef284SHuang Ying depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP 78738d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 78838d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 78914fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 79014fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 79138d8b4e6SHuang Ying 79238d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 79338d8b4e6SHuang Ying 794519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 795519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 796519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 797519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 798519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 799519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 800519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 801519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 802519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 803519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 804519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 805519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 806519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 807e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 808bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 809bbddff05STejun Heo# 810bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 8113583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 812bbddff05STejun Heo bool 813bbddff05STejun Heo default y 814077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 8157ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 8167ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8177ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8187ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 8197ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8207ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8217ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 8227ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8237ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8247ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 8257ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8267ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 82727c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 8286e61dde8SChristoph Hellwig bool 829f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 830f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 831f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 832aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 833f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 834f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 835f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 836f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 837f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 838f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 839f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 840f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 841f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 842f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 843f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 844f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 845f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 846f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 847f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 848f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 849f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 850f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 851f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 852f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 853bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 85428b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 85528b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 85628b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 85728b24c1fSSasha Levin help 85828b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 85928b24c1fSSasha Levin 86043ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 86143ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 86243ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 86343ca106fSMinchan Kim help 86443ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 86543ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 86643ca106fSMinchan Kim 867a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 868a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 869a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 870b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 871a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 872a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 873a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 874a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 875a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 876a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 877b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 878a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 879af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 880af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 881af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 882af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 8834e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 884af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 885af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 886af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 887af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 888af8d417aSDan Streetman 8891ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 8904e2e2770SSeth Jennings 8919e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 8929e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 893042d27acSHelge Deller 89422ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 89522ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 89622ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 897042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 898042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 899042d27acSHelge Deller help 900042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 901042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 90222ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 903042d27acSHelge Deller 90422ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9053a80a7faSMel Gorman 9063a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9071ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 908d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 909ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 910889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 911e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 9123a80a7faSMel Gorman help 9133a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 9143a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 9153a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 916e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 917e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 9181ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 9191ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 920033fbae9SDan Williams 9211c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 9221c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 9231c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 9241c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 9251c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 9261c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 9271c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 9281c676e0dSSeongJae Park 92933c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 93033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 93133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 9321c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 93333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 93433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 93533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 93633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 93733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 93833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 9391ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 9401ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 94133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 942c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 943c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 944c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 9452792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 9462792d84eSKees Cook bool 9472792d84eSKees Cook help 9482792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 9492792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 9502792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 9512792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 9522792d84eSKees Cook selected. 9532792d84eSKees Cook 95467436193SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT 95567436193SAnshuman Khandual bool 95667436193SAnshuman Khandual 95717596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 95865f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 95965f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 96063703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 96163703f37SKefeng Wang bool 96263703f37SKefeng Wang 96363703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 96463703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 96563703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 96663703f37SKefeng Wang 96763703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 96863703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 96963703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 97063703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 97163703f37SKefeng Wang 972033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 9735042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 974033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 975033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 97699490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 97717596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 9783a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 979033fbae9SDan Williams 980033fbae9SDan Williams help 981033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 982033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 983033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 984033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 985033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 986033fbae9SDan Williams 987033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 98806a660adSLinus Torvalds 9899c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 9909c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 9919c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 9929c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 993c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 9949c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 995f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 996c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 9975042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 9985042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 9997328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 10005042db43SJérôme Glisse 10015042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10025042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10035042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 10045042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 10055042db43SJérôme Glisse 10063e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 10073e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 10083e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 100963c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 101063c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 101166d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 101266d37570SDave Hansen bool 101330a5b536SDennis Zhou 1014*0710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1015*0710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 1016*0710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1017*0710d012SVlastimil Babka help 1018*0710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1019*0710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1020*0710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1021*0710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 1022*0710d012SVlastimil Babka 102330a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 102430a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 102530a5b536SDennis Zhou help 102630a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 102730a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 102830a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 102964c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10309c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 10319c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1032d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 103364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 10349c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 10359c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 10369c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 103764c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10389c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 10399c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 10409c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 10419c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1042f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1043f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1044f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1045f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1046f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1047f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 10489c84f229SJohn Hubbard See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c 10493010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1050d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1051d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 10523010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 105339656e83SChristoph Hellwigconfig GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH 105439656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 105539656e83SChristoph Hellwig 10563010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 10573010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 105859e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1059cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1060cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1061cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1062cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1063cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1064cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 1065cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1066cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1067cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 1068cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 1069c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1070c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1071c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1072298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1073298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1074298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1075825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1076825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1077825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 10781fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 10791fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 10801fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 10811507f512SMike Rapoport 10821507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 10831507f512SMike Rapoport def_bool ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP && !EMBEDDED 10841507f512SMike Rapoport 10859a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 10869a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 10879a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 10889a10064fSColin Cross 10899a10064fSColin Cross help 10909a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 10919a10064fSColin Cross 10929a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 10939a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 10949a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 10959a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 10969a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 10979a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 10989a10064fSColin Cross 1099430529b5SPeter Xuconfig USERFAULTFD 1100430529b5SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1101430529b5SPeter Xu depends on MMU 1102430529b5SPeter Xu help 1103430529b5SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1104430529b5SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 1105430529b5SPeter Xu 1106430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1107430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1108430529b5SPeter Xu help 1109430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1110430529b5SPeter Xu 1111430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1112430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1113430529b5SPeter Xu help 1114430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1115430529b5SPeter Xu 1116679d1033SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER 111781e0f15fSPeter Xu bool 1118679d1033SPeter Xu 1119679d1033SPeter Xu help 1120679d1033SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for file-backed memory. 1121679d1033SPeter Xu 11221db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 112381e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 112481e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 112581e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 112681e0f15fSPeter Xu select PTE_MARKER 11271db9dbc2SPeter Xu 11281db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 11291db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 11301db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 11311db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 11321db9dbc2SPeter Xu 11332224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 11342224d848SSeongJae Park 113559e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1136