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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
26fcab9b44SDavid Heidelberg	bool "Compressed cache for swap pages"
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,
361a44131dSSophia Gabriella	  in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device
37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  reads, can also improve workload performance.
38519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON
40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default"
41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	help
43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	  If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled
44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	  at boot, otherwise it will be disabled.
45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner
46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	  The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel
47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	  command line 'zswap.enabled=' option.
48b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner
49519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice
50b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	prompt "Default compressor"
51519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
52519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO
53519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
54519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache
55519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  for swap pages.
56519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
57519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from
58519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks
59519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  available at the following LWN page:
60519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/
61519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
62519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  If in doubt, select 'LZO'.
63519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
64519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel
65519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  command line 'zswap.compressor=' option.
66519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
67519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE
68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Deflate"
69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_DEFLATE
70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
73519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO
74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "LZO"
75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_LZO
76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
79519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842
80519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "842"
81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_842
82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
83519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
85519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4
86519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "LZ4"
87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_LZ4
88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
89519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
91519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC
92519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "LZ4HC"
93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_LZ4HC
94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
95519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
97519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD
98519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "zstd"
99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_ZSTD
100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
101519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
102519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice
103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
104519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT
105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       string
106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       depends on ZSWAP
107519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE
108519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO
109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842
110519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4
111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC
112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD
113519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default ""
114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
115519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice
116b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	prompt "Default allocator"
117519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
118519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD
119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
120519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for
121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  swap pages.
122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do
123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  read the description of each of the allocators below before
124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  making a right choice.
125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel
127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  command line 'zswap.zpool=' option.
128519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
129519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD
130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "zbud"
131519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select ZBUD
132519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator.
134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
135519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD
136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "z3fold"
137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select Z3FOLD
138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator.
140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
141519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC
142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "zsmalloc"
143519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select ZSMALLOC
144519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
145519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator.
146519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice
147519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
148519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT
149519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       string
150519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       depends on ZSWAP
151519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD
152519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD
153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC
154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default ""
155519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
156519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD
157b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)"
158b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
159519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
161519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
162519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  page.  While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
163519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
164519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  density approach when reclaim will be used.
165519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
166519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig Z3FOLD
167b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)"
168b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
170519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
171519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical
172519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are
173519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  still there.
174519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
175519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC
176b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	tristate
177b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP
178519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on MMU
179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
180519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
181b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	  pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves
182b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner	  the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation.
183519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
184519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT
185519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Export zsmalloc statistics"
186519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSMALLOC
187519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select DEBUG_FS
188519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
189519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
190519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that
191519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  information to userspace via debugfs.
192519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  If unsure, say N.
193519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
1944ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE
1954ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage"
196b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky	default 8
1974ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	range 4 16
1984ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	depends on ZSMALLOC
1994ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	help
2004ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages
2014ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage
2024ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  chain size is calculated for each size class during the
2034ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  initialization of the pool.
2044ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky
2054ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes,
2064ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects
2074ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of
2084ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar
2094ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  characteristics.
2104ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky
2114ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky	  For more information, see zsmalloc documentation.
2124ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky
213519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenu "SLAB allocator options"
214519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
2157b42f104SJohannes Weinerchoice
2167b42f104SJohannes Weiner	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
2177b42f104SJohannes Weiner	default SLUB
2187b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2197b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
2207b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2217b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB
2227b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "SLAB"
2237b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on !PREEMPT_RT
2247b42f104SJohannes Weiner	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
2257b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2267b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
2277b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
2287b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  per cpu and per node queues.
2297b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2307b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB
2317b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
2327b42f104SJohannes Weiner	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
2337b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2347b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
2357b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
2367b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
2377b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
2387b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
2397b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   a slab allocator.
2407b42f104SJohannes Weiner
241149b6fa2SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLOB_DEPRECATED
2427b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on EXPERT
243149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator - DEPRECATED)"
2447b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on !PREEMPT_RT
2457b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
246149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	   Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. SLUB
247149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	   recommended as replacement. CONFIG_SLUB_TINY can be considered
248149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	   on systems with 16MB or less RAM.
249149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka
250149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	   If you need SLOB to stay, please contact linux-mm@kvack.org and
251149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	   people listed in the SLAB ALLOCATOR section of MAINTAINERS file,
252149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	   with your use case.
253149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka
2547b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
2557b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
2567b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   does not perform as well on large systems.
2577b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2587b42f104SJohannes Weinerendchoice
2597b42f104SJohannes Weiner
260149b6fa2SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLOB
261149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	bool
262149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	default y
263149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka	depends on SLOB_DEPRECATED
264149b6fa2SVlastimil Babka
265e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY
266e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	bool "Configure SLUB for minimal memory footprint"
267e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	depends on SLUB && EXPERT
268e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
269e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	help
270e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	   Configures the SLUB allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory
271e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	   footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features.
272e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	   This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the
273e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	   SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than
274e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	   16MB RAM.
275e240e53aSVlastimil Babka
276e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	   If unsure, say N.
277e240e53aSVlastimil Babka
2787b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
2797b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
2807b42f104SJohannes Weiner	default y
2817b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on SLAB || SLUB
2827b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2837b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
2847b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
2857b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
2867b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
2877b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
2887b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
2897b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
2907b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
2917b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  command line.
2927b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2937b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
2947b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Randomize slab freelist"
295e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY)
2967b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2977b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
2987b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
2997b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  allocator against heap overflows.
3007b42f104SJohannes Weiner
3017b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
3027b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
303e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY)
3047b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
3057b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
3067b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
3077b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
3087b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
3097b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
3107b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  CONFIG_SLUB.
3117b42f104SJohannes Weiner
3120710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS
3130710d012SVlastimil Babka	default n
3140710d012SVlastimil Babka	bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
315e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY
3160710d012SVlastimil Babka	help
3170710d012SVlastimil Babka	  SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
3180710d012SVlastimil Babka	  order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
3190710d012SVlastimil Babka	  enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
3200710d012SVlastimil Babka	  the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
3210710d012SVlastimil Babka	  supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
3220710d012SVlastimil Babka	  out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
3230710d012SVlastimil Babka	  Try running: slabinfo -DA
3240710d012SVlastimil Babka
325519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
326519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	default y
327e240e53aSVlastimil Babka	depends on SLUB && SMP && !SLUB_TINY
328519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
329519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
330519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
331519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
332519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
333519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
334519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
335519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
336519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendmenu # SLAB allocator options
337519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
3387b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
3397b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Page allocator randomization"
3407b42f104SJohannes Weiner	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
3417b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
3427b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
3437b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
3447b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
3457b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
3467b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
3477b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
3487b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
34923baf831SKirill A. Shutemov	  default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_ORDER i.e, 10th
35023baf831SKirill A. Shutemov	  order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits
35123baf831SKirill A. Shutemov	  on x86.
3527b42f104SJohannes Weiner
3537b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
3547b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
3557b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
3567b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
3577b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
3587b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
3597b42f104SJohannes Weiner
3607b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Say Y if unsure.
3617b42f104SJohannes Weiner
3620710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK
3630710d012SVlastimil Babka	bool "Disable heap randomization"
3640710d012SVlastimil Babka	default y
3650710d012SVlastimil Babka	help
3660710d012SVlastimil Babka	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
3670710d012SVlastimil Babka	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
3680710d012SVlastimil Babka	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
3690710d012SVlastimil Babka	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
3700710d012SVlastimil Babka	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
3710710d012SVlastimil Babka
3720710d012SVlastimil Babka	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
3730710d012SVlastimil Babka
3740710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
3750710d012SVlastimil Babka	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
3760710d012SVlastimil Babka	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
3770710d012SVlastimil Babka	default n
3780710d012SVlastimil Babka	help
3790710d012SVlastimil Babka	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3800710d012SVlastimil Babka	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
3810710d012SVlastimil Babka	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
3820710d012SVlastimil Babka	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
3830710d012SVlastimil Babka	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
3840710d012SVlastimil Babka	  then the flag will be ignored.
3850710d012SVlastimil Babka
3860710d012SVlastimil Babka	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
3870710d012SVlastimil Babka	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
3880710d012SVlastimil Babka
3890710d012SVlastimil Babka	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
3900710d012SVlastimil Babka	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
3910710d012SVlastimil Babka	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
3920710d012SVlastimil Babka	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
3930710d012SVlastimil Babka
3940710d012SVlastimil Babka	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
3950710d012SVlastimil Babka
396e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
397e1785e85SDave Hansen	def_bool y
398a8826eebSKees Cook	depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
399e1785e85SDave Hansen
4003a9da765SDave Hansenchoice
4013a9da765SDave Hansen	prompt "Memory model"
402e1785e85SDave Hansen	depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
403d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
404e1785e85SDave Hansen	default FLATMEM_MANUAL
405d66d109dSMike Rapoport	help
406d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  This option allows you to change some of the ways that
407d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
408d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  only have one option here selected by the architecture
409d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  configuration. This is normal.
4103a9da765SDave Hansen
411e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL
4123a9da765SDave Hansen	bool "Flat Memory"
413bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport	depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
4143a9da765SDave Hansen	help
415d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with
416d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient
417d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  system in terms of performance and resource consumption
418d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  and it is the best option for smaller systems.
4193a9da765SDave Hansen
420d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  For systems that have holes in their physical address
421d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug,
422dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap	  choose "Sparse Memory".
423d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
424d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	  If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
4253a9da765SDave Hansen
426d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
427d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	bool "Sparse Memory"
428d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
429d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	help
430d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	  This will be the only option for some systems, including
431d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  memory hot-plug systems.  This is normal.
432d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
433d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  This option provides efficient support for systems with
434d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  holes is their physical address space and allows memory
435d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  hot-plug and hot-remove.
436d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
437d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
438d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
4393a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice
4403a9da765SDave Hansen
441d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM
442d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	def_bool y
4431a83e175SRussell King	depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
444d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
445e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM
446e1785e85SDave Hansen	def_bool y
447bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport	depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL
448d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
44993b7504eSDave Hansen#
4503e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
451c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called.  If this cannot
4523e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option.  However,
4533e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
4543e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
4553e347261SBob Picco#
4563e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
4573e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later.
4583e347261SBob Picco#
4593e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC
4609ba16087SJan Beulich	bool
4613e347261SBob Picco
4623e347261SBob Picco#
46344c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
464802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
465802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space.
466802f192eSBob Picco#
4673e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
4683e347261SBob Picco	def_bool y
4693e347261SBob Picco	depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
4704c21e2f2SHugh Dickins
47129c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
4729ba16087SJan Beulich	bool
47329c71111SAndy Whitcroft
47429c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
475a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
476a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
477a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	default y
478a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	help
479a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	  SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
480a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	  pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations.  This is the most
481a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	  efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
482*0b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V#
483*0b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred
484*0b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization.
485*0b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V#
486*0b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
487*0b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool
48829c71111SAndy Whitcroft
48970210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
4906341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
49170210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann
49267a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP
493050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU
4946341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
4952667f50eSSteve Capper
49652219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks
49752219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory.
49852219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug.
499350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
5006341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
501c378ddd5STejun Heo
5021e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init.
5031e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO
5041e5d8e1eSDan Williams	bool
5051e5d8e1eSDan Williams
506ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION
5076341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
508ee6f509cSMinchan Kim
509a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked
510a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via
511a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem.
512a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM
513a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand	def_bool y
514a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand	depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM
515a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand
51646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu#
51746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
51846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
51946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu#
52046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
52146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu	def_bool n
52246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu
52391024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
52491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual	bool
52591024b3cSAnshuman Khandual
526519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
527519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool
528519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
5293947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
530519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG
531519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory hotplug"
532b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
53371b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand	depends on SPARSEMEM
53440b31360SStephen Rothwell	depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
5357ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand	depends on 64BIT
5361e5d8e1eSDan Williams	select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA
5373947be19SDave Hansen
538519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG
539519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
5408604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE
5418604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default"
5428604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
5438604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	help
5448604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug
5458604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which
5468604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting
5478604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  can always be changed at runtime.
548cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information.
5498604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov
5508604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in
5518604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  'online' state by default.
5528604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged
5538604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  memory blocks in 'offline' state.
5548604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov
5550c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
5560c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
557f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot	select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
5580c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
5590c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on MIGRATION
5600c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
561a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY
562a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador	def_bool y
563a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
564a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador	depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
565a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador
566519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG
567519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
5684c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
5694c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
5704c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
5714c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
5724c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
5737b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
57460bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore
57560bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked
57660bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()).
577a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
5784c21e2f2SHugh Dickins#
5794c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
5804c21e2f2SHugh Dickins	int
5819164550eSKirill A. Shutemov	default "999999" if !MMU
582a70caa8bSHugh Dickins	default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
583a70caa8bSHugh Dickins	default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
58460bccaa6SWill Deacon	default "999999" if SPARC32
5854c21e2f2SHugh Dickins	default "4"
5867cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter
587e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
5886341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
589e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov
5907cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter#
59109316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon
59209316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON
5936341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
59409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov
59509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov#
59618468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction
59718468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION
59818468d93SRafael Aquini	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
59918468d93SRafael Aquini	def_bool y
60009316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
60118468d93SRafael Aquini	help
60218468d93SRafael Aquini	  Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
60318468d93SRafael Aquini	  significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
60418468d93SRafael Aquini	  used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
60518468d93SRafael Aquini	  with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
60618468d93SRafael Aquini	  by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
60718468d93SRafael Aquini	  pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
60818468d93SRafael Aquini	  scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
60918468d93SRafael Aquini
61018468d93SRafael Aquini#
611e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction
612e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION
613e9e96b39SMel Gorman	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
61405106e6aSRik van Riel	def_bool y
615e9e96b39SMel Gorman	select MIGRATION
61633a93877SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on MMU
617e9e96b39SMel Gorman	help
618b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  Compaction is the only memory management component to form
619b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks
620b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and
621b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer
622b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't
623b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for
624b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at
625b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  linux-mm@kvack.org.
626e9e96b39SMel Gorman
627c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT
628c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner	int
629c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner	depends on COMPACTION
630c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner	default 0 if PREEMPT_RT
631c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner	default 1
632c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner
633e9e96b39SMel Gorman#
63436e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting
63536e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING
63636e66c55SAlexander Duyck	bool "Free page reporting"
63736e66c55SAlexander Duyck	def_bool n
63836e66c55SAlexander Duyck	help
63936e66c55SAlexander Duyck	  Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of
64036e66c55SAlexander Duyck	  free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting
64136e66c55SAlexander Duyck	  those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the
64236e66c55SAlexander Duyck	  memory can be freed within the host for other uses.
64336e66c55SAlexander Duyck
64436e66c55SAlexander Duyck#
6457cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration
6467cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter#
6477cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION
648b20a3503SChristoph Lameter	bool "Page migration"
6496c5240aeSChristoph Lameter	def_bool y
650de32a817SChen Gang	depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
651b20a3503SChristoph Lameter	help
652b20a3503SChristoph Lameter	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
653e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
654e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
655e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
656e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
657e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
6586550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman
65976cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION
660d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig	def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE
66176cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig
662c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
6636341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
664c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi
6659c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
6669c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi	bool
6679c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi
6684bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE
6694bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	def_bool n
6704bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	help
6714bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	  Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard
6724bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	  HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available
6734bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	  on a platform.
6744bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual
67523baf831SKirill A. Shutemov	  Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER and will be
67623baf831SKirill A. Shutemov	  clamped down to MAX_ORDER.
677b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand
6788df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC
6798df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti	def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA
6808df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti
681600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
682d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig	def_bool 64BIT
683600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge
6842a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE
6859ca24e2eSVinayak Menon	bool "Enable bounce buffers"
6869ca24e2eSVinayak Menon	default y
687ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig	depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM
6889ca24e2eSVinayak Menon	help
689ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig	  Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of
690ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig	  memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is
691ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig	  selected, but you may say n to override this.
6922a7326b5SChristoph Lameter
693cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER
694cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli	bool
69583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
69699cb252fSJason Gunthorpe	select INTERVAL_TREE
697fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
698f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM
699f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
700f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	depends on MMU
70159e1a2f4STimofey Titovets	select XXHASH
702f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	help
703f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
704f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
705f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  mergeable.  When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
706d0f209f6SHugh Dickins	  the many instances by a single page with that content, so
707f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
708f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
709ee65728eSMike Rapoport	  See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive
710c73602adSHugh Dickins	  until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
711c73602adSHugh Dickins	  root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
712f8af4da3SHugh Dickins
713e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
714e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
7156e141546SDavid Howells	depends on MMU
716e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	default 4096
717e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	help
718e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
719e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages
720e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
721e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter
722e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
723e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
724e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
725788084abSEric Paris	  Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
726788084abSEric Paris	  this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
727788084abSEric Paris	  protection by setting the value to 0.
728e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter
729e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  This value can be changed after boot using the
730e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
731e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter
732d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
733d949f36fSLinus Torvalds	bool
734e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter
7356a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE
7366a46079cSAndi Kleen	depends on MMU
737d949f36fSLinus Torvalds	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
7386a46079cSAndi Kleen	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
739ee6f509cSMinchan Kim	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
74097f0b134SXie XiuQi	select RAS
7416a46079cSAndi Kleen	help
7426a46079cSAndi Kleen	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
7436a46079cSAndi Kleen	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
7446a46079cSAndi Kleen	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
7456a46079cSAndi Kleen	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
7466a46079cSAndi Kleen
747cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT
748413f9efbSAndi Kleen	tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
74927df5068SAndi Kleen	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
750478c5ffcSWu Fengguang	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
751cae681fcSAndi Kleen
752fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
753fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
754fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	depends on !MMU
755fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	default 1
756fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	help
757fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
758fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
759fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
760fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  more than it requires.  To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
761fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  the excess and return it to the allocator.
762fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
763fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
764fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
765fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  if there are a lot of transient processes.
766fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
767fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
768fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
769fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
770fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
771fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
772fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
773fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  no trimming is to occur.
774fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
775fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  This option specifies the initial value of this option.  The default
776fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
777fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
778dd19d293SStephen Kitt	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
779bbddff05STejun Heo
780519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
781519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool
782519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
783519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
784519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	def_bool n
785519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
786519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
78713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
788554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT
7895d689240SAndrea Arcangeli	select COMPACTION
7903a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox	select XARRAY_MULTI
7914c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	help
7924c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
7934c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
7944c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  This feature can improve computing performance to certain
7954c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  applications by speeding up page faults during memory
7964c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
7974c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  up the pagetable walking.
7984c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli
7994c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
8004c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli
801519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
802519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
80313ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice
80413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
80513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
80613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
80713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	help
80813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
80913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli
81013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
81113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli		bool "always"
81213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	help
81313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
81413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
81513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
81613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli
81713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
81813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli		bool "madvise"
81913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	help
82013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
82113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  performance improvement benefit to the applications using
82213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
82313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
82413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  benefit.
82513ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice
82613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli
82738d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP
82838d8b4e6SHuang Ying	def_bool y
829dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT
83038d8b4e6SHuang Ying	help
83138d8b4e6SHuang Ying	  Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting.
83214fef284SHuang Ying	  XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page
83314fef284SHuang Ying	  will be split after swapout.
83438d8b4e6SHuang Ying
83538d8b4e6SHuang Ying	  For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes.
83638d8b4e6SHuang Ying
837519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
838519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)"
839519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM
840519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
841519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
842519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP.
843519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
844519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write
845519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release
846519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  cycles.
847519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
848519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
849519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
850e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov#
851bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
852bbddff05STejun Heo#
853bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM
8543583521aSVladimir Murzin	depends on !SMP || !MMU
855bbddff05STejun Heo	bool
856bbddff05STejun Heo	default y
857077b1f83SDan Magenheimer
8587ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
8597ecd19cfSKefeng Wang	bool
8607ecd19cfSKefeng Wang
8617ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK
8627ecd19cfSKefeng Wang	bool
8637ecd19cfSKefeng Wang
8647ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID
8657ecd19cfSKefeng Wang	bool
8667ecd19cfSKefeng Wang
8677ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
8687ecd19cfSKefeng Wang	bool
8697ecd19cfSKefeng Wang
87027c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP
8716e61dde8SChristoph Hellwig	bool
872f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V
873f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA
874f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
875aca52c39SMike Rapoport	depends on MMU
876f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	select MIGRATION
877f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
878f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
879f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
880f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
881f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
882f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
883f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
884f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
885f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V
886f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If unsure, say "n".
887f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V
888f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG
889f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
890f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
891f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
892f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Turns on debug messages in CMA.  This produces KERN_DEBUG
893f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
894f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
895f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  This option does not affect warning and error messages.
896bf550fc9SAlexander Graf
89728b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS
89828b24c1fSSasha Levin	bool "CMA debugfs interface"
89928b24c1fSSasha Levin	depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS
90028b24c1fSSasha Levin	help
90128b24c1fSSasha Levin	  Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA.
90228b24c1fSSasha Levin
90343ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS
90443ca106fSMinchan Kim	bool "CMA information through sysfs interface"
90543ca106fSMinchan Kim	depends on CMA && SYSFS
90643ca106fSMinchan Kim	help
90743ca106fSMinchan Kim	  This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information
90843ca106fSMinchan Kim	  from CMA.
90943ca106fSMinchan Kim
910a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS
911a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	int "Maximum count of the CMA areas"
912a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	depends on CMA
913b7176c26SBarry Song	default 19 if NUMA
914a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	default 7
915a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	help
916a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	  CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly,
917a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	  used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum
918a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	  number of CMA area in the system.
919a254129eSJoonsoo Kim
920b7176c26SBarry Song	  If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA.
921a254129eSJoonsoo Kim
922af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
923af8d417aSDan Streetman	bool "Track memory changes"
924af8d417aSDan Streetman	depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
925af8d417aSDan Streetman	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
9264e2e2770SSeth Jennings	help
927af8d417aSDan Streetman	  This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
928af8d417aSDan Streetman	  soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
929af8d417aSDan Streetman	  into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
930af8d417aSDan Streetman	  it can be cleared by hands.
931af8d417aSDan Streetman
9321ad1335dSMike Rapoport	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details.
9334e2e2770SSeth Jennings
9349e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
9359e5c33d7SMark Salter	bool
936042d27acSHelge Deller
93722ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB
93822ee3ea5SHelge Deller	int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
93922ee3ea5SHelge Deller	default 100
940042d27acSHelge Deller	range 8 2048
941042d27acSHelge Deller	depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
942042d27acSHelge Deller	help
943042d27acSHelge Deller	  This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
944042d27acSHelge Deller	  user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
94522ee3ea5SHelge Deller	  arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited.
946042d27acSHelge Deller
94722ee3ea5SHelge Deller	  A sane initial value is 100 MB.
9483a80a7faSMel Gorman
9493a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
9501ce22103SVlastimil Babka	bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
951d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport	depends on SPARSEMEM
952ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin	depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM
953889c695dSPasha Tatashin	depends on 64BIT
954e4443149SDaniel Jordan	select PADATA
9553a80a7faSMel Gorman	help
9563a80a7faSMel Gorman	  Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
9573a80a7faSMel Gorman	  single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
9583a80a7faSMel Gorman	  amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
959e4443149SDaniel Jordan	  a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel.
960e4443149SDaniel Jordan	  This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the
9611ce22103SVlastimil Babka	  lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
9621ce22103SVlastimil Babka	  initialisation.
963033fbae9SDan Williams
9641c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG
9651c676e0dSSeongJae Park	bool
9661c676e0dSSeongJae Park	select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
9671c676e0dSSeongJae Park	help
9681c676e0dSSeongJae Park	  This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'.  PTE Accessed
9691c676e0dSSeongJae Park	  bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE
9701c676e0dSSeongJae Park	  Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance.
9711c676e0dSSeongJae Park
97233c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
97333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	bool "Enable idle page tracking"
97433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	depends on SYSFS && MMU
9751c676e0dSSeongJae Park	select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG
97633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	help
97733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	  This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have
97833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	  not been touched during a given period of time. This information can
97933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	  be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
98033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	  within a compute cluster.
98133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov
9821ad1335dSMike Rapoport	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for
9831ad1335dSMike Rapoport	  more details.
98433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov
985c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
986c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual	bool
987c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual
9882792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
9892792d84eSKees Cook	bool
9902792d84eSKees Cook	help
9912792d84eSKees Cook	  In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime
9922792d84eSKees Cook	  checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer
9932792d84eSKees Cook	  is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global
9942792d84eSKees Cook	  register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be
9952792d84eSKees Cook	  selected.
9962792d84eSKees Cook
99717596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
99865f7d049SOliver O'Halloran	bool
99965f7d049SOliver O'Halloran
100063703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET
100163703f37SKefeng Wang	bool
100263703f37SKefeng Wang
100363703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA
100463703f37SKefeng Wang	bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET
100563703f37SKefeng Wang	default y if ARM64 || X86
100663703f37SKefeng Wang
100763703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32
100863703f37SKefeng Wang	bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET
100963703f37SKefeng Wang	depends on !X86_32
101063703f37SKefeng Wang	default y if ARM64
101163703f37SKefeng Wang
1012033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE
10135042db43SJérôme Glisse	bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support"
1014033fbae9SDan Williams	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1015033fbae9SDan Williams	depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
101699490f16SDan Williams	depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
101717596731SRobin Murphy	depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
10183a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox	select XARRAY_MULTI
1019033fbae9SDan Williams
1020033fbae9SDan Williams	help
1021033fbae9SDan Williams	  Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
1022033fbae9SDan Williams	  or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
1023033fbae9SDan Williams	  memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
1024033fbae9SDan Williams	  "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
1025033fbae9SDan Williams	  mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
1026033fbae9SDan Williams
1027033fbae9SDan Williams	  If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
102806a660adSLinus Torvalds
10299c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig#
10309c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page
10319c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables.
10329c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig#
1033c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR
10349c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig	bool
1035f442c283SChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU
1036c0b12405SJérôme Glisse
103714b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION
103814b80582SDan Williams	depends on SPARSEMEM
103914b80582SDan Williams	bool
104014b80582SDan Williams
10415042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE
10425042db43SJérôme Glisse	bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)"
10437328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig	depends on ZONE_DEVICE
104414b80582SDan Williams	select GET_FREE_REGION
10455042db43SJérôme Glisse
10465042db43SJérôme Glisse	help
10475042db43SJérôme Glisse	  Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device
10485042db43SJérôme Glisse	  memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or
10495042db43SJérôme Glisse	  group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR.
10505042db43SJérôme Glisse
10513e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN
10523e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig	bool
10533e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig
105463c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
105563c17fb8SDave Hansen	bool
105666d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
105766d37570SDave Hansen	bool
105830a5b536SDennis Zhou
1059b0284cd2SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X
1060b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas	bool
1061b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas	help
1062b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas	  Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only
1063b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas	  suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or
1064b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas	  CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be
1065b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas	  enough room for additional bits in page->flags.
1066b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas
10670710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
10680710d012SVlastimil Babka	default y
10690710d012SVlastimil Babka	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
10700710d012SVlastimil Babka	help
10710710d012SVlastimil Babka	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
10720710d012SVlastimil Babka	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
10730710d012SVlastimil Babka	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
10740710d012SVlastimil Babka	  if VM event counters are disabled.
10750710d012SVlastimil Babka
107630a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS
107730a5b536SDennis Zhou	bool "Collect percpu memory statistics"
107830a5b536SDennis Zhou	help
107930a5b536SDennis Zhou	  This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The
108030a5b536SDennis Zhou	  information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can
108130a5b536SDennis Zhou	  be used to help understand percpu memory usage.
108264c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov
10839c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST
10849c84f229SJohn Hubbard	bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests"
1085d0de8241SBarry Song	depends on DEBUG_FS
108664c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov	help
10879c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way
10889c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for
10899c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls.
109064c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov
10919c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of
10929c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of
10939c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  the non-_fast variants.
10949c84f229SJohn Hubbard
1095f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any
1096f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the
1097f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via
1098f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified
1099f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  by other command line arguments.
1100f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard
1101baa489faSSeongJae Park	  See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c
11023010a5eaSLaurent Dufour
1103d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled"
1104d0de8241SBarry Song	depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS
11053010a5eaSLaurent Dufour
11066ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH
110739656e83SChristoph Hellwig	bool
110839656e83SChristoph Hellwig
1109def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST
1110def85743SKeith Busch	tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool"
1111def85743SKeith Busch	depends on HAS_DMA
1112def85743SKeith Busch	help
1113def85743SKeith Busch	  Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of
1114def85743SKeith Busch	  various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to
1115def85743SKeith Busch	  provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the
1116def85743SKeith Busch	  dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance.
1117def85743SKeith Busch
11183010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
11193010a5eaSLaurent Dufour	bool
112059e0b520SChristoph Hellwig
1121cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig#
1122cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is
1123cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76
1124cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables"
1125cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc.  This allows for a more flexible hugepage
1126cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts.
1127cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig#
1128cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD
1129cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig	bool
1130cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig
1131c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS
1132c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom        bool
1133c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom
1134298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL
1135298fa1adSThomas Gleixner	bool
1136298fa1adSThomas Gleixner
1137825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY
1138825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel	bool
1139825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel
11401fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper.  Selected by drivers that need them
11411fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING
11421fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig	bool
11431507f512SMike Rapoport
11441507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM
114574947724SLukas Bulwahn	default y
114674947724SLukas Bulwahn	bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT
114774947724SLukas Bulwahn	depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
114874947724SLukas Bulwahn	help
114974947724SLukas Bulwahn	  Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create
115074947724SLukas Bulwahn	  memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and
115174947724SLukas Bulwahn	  not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables.
11521507f512SMike Rapoport
11539a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME
11549a10064fSColin Cross	bool "Anonymous VMA name support"
11559a10064fSColin Cross	depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU
11569a10064fSColin Cross
11579a10064fSColin Cross	help
11589a10064fSColin Cross	  Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas.
11599a10064fSColin Cross
11609a10064fSColin Cross	  This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned
11619a10064fSColin Cross	  names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps
11629a10064fSColin Cross	  and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas.
11639a10064fSColin Cross	  Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that
11649a10064fSColin Cross	  area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the
11659a10064fSColin Cross	  difference in their name.
11669a10064fSColin Cross
1167430529b5SPeter Xuconfig USERFAULTFD
1168430529b5SPeter Xu	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1169430529b5SPeter Xu	depends on MMU
1170430529b5SPeter Xu	help
1171430529b5SPeter Xu	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1172430529b5SPeter Xu	  handle page faults in userland.
1173430529b5SPeter Xu
1174430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
1175430529b5SPeter Xu	bool
1176430529b5SPeter Xu	help
1177430529b5SPeter Xu	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
1178430529b5SPeter Xu
1179430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR
1180430529b5SPeter Xu	bool
1181430529b5SPeter Xu	help
1182430529b5SPeter Xu	  Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support
1183430529b5SPeter Xu
11841db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP
118581e0f15fSPeter Xu	bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs"
118681e0f15fSPeter Xu	default y
118781e0f15fSPeter Xu	depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
11881db9dbc2SPeter Xu
11891db9dbc2SPeter Xu	help
11901db9dbc2SPeter Xu	  Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection
11911db9dbc2SPeter Xu	  purposes.  It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on
11921db9dbc2SPeter Xu	  file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs.
11931db9dbc2SPeter Xu
1194ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU {
1195ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN
1196ec1c86b2SYu Zhao	bool "Multi-Gen LRU"
1197ec1c86b2SYu Zhao	depends on MMU
1198ec1c86b2SYu Zhao	# make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits
1199ec1c86b2SYu Zhao	depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
1200ec1c86b2SYu Zhao	help
120107017acbSYu Zhao	  A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See
120207017acbSYu Zhao	  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details.
1203ec1c86b2SYu Zhao
1204354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED
1205354ed597SYu Zhao	bool "Enable by default"
1206354ed597SYu Zhao	depends on LRU_GEN
1207354ed597SYu Zhao	help
1208354ed597SYu Zhao	  This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default.
1209354ed597SYu Zhao
1210ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS
1211ac35a490SYu Zhao	bool "Full stats for debugging"
1212ac35a490SYu Zhao	depends on LRU_GEN
1213ac35a490SYu Zhao	help
1214ac35a490SYu Zhao	  Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats
1215ac35a490SYu Zhao	  from evicted generations for debugging purpose.
1216ac35a490SYu Zhao
1217ac35a490SYu Zhao	  This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead.
1218ac35a490SYu Zhao# }
1219ac35a490SYu Zhao
12200b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK
12210b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan       def_bool n
12220b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan
12230b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK
12240b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan	def_bool y
12250b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP
12260b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan	help
12270b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan	  Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling.
12280b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan
12290b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan	  This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when
12300b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan	  handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock.
12310b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan
12322224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig"
12332224d848SSeongJae Park
123459e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu
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