1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 5e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 6e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 7a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 8e1785e85SDave Hansen 93a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 103a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 11e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 12e1785e85SDave Hansen default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 13d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 14e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 15d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 16d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 17d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 18d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 19d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 203a9da765SDave Hansen 21e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 223a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 23c898ec16SAnton Blanchard depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 243a9da765SDave Hansen help 25d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 26d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 27d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 28d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 293a9da765SDave Hansen 30d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 31d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 32dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 33d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 34d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 353a9da765SDave Hansen 36e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 37f3519f91SDave Hansen bool "Discontiguous Memory" 383a9da765SDave Hansen depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 393a9da765SDave Hansen help 40785dcd44SDave Hansen This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous 41785dcd44SDave Hansen memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes 42785dcd44SDave Hansen in their physical address spaces, and this option provides 43d66d109dSMike Rapoport more efficient handling of these holes. 44785dcd44SDave Hansen 45d66d109dSMike Rapoport Although "Discontiguous Memory" is still used by several 46d66d109dSMike Rapoport architectures, it is considered deprecated in favor of 47d66d109dSMike Rapoport "Sparse Memory". 48785dcd44SDave Hansen 49d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Sparse Memory" over this option. 503a9da765SDave Hansen 51d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 52d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 53d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 54d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 55d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 56d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 57d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 58d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 59d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 60d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 61d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 62d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 63d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 643a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 653a9da765SDave Hansen 66e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM 67e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 68e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 69e1785e85SDave Hansen 70d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 71d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 721a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 73d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 74e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 75e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 76d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL 77d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 78d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP 79d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 80d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on !SPARSEMEM 81e1785e85SDave Hansen 8293b7504eSDave Hansen# 8393b7504eSDave Hansen# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's 8493b7504eSDave Hansen# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows 8593b7504eSDave Hansen# those dependencies to exist individually. 8693b7504eSDave Hansen# 8793b7504eSDave Hansenconfig NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 8893b7504eSDave Hansen def_bool y 8993b7504eSDave Hansen depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA 90af705362SAndy Whitcroft 91802f192eSBob Picco# 923e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 93c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 943e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 953e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 963e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 973e347261SBob Picco# 983e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 993e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 1003e347261SBob Picco# 1013e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1029ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1033e347261SBob Picco 1043e347261SBob Picco# 10544c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 106802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 107802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 108802f192eSBob Picco# 1093e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 1103e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 1113e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1124c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 11329c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 1149ba16087SJan Beulich bool 11529c71111SAndy Whitcroft 11629c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 117a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 118a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 119a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 120a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 121a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 122a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 123a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 12429c71111SAndy Whitcroft 12570210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 1266341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 12770210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 12867a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 129050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1306341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1312667f50eSSteve Capper 13252219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 13352219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 13452219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 135350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 1366341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 137c378ddd5STejun Heo 1381e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 1391e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 1401e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 1411e5d8e1eSDan Williams 142ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 1436341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 144ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 14546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 14746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 14846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 15046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 15146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 1523947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 1533947be19SDave Hansenconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1543947be19SDave Hansen bool "Allow for memory hot-add" 155b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 156ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 15740b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 158b59d02edSMichal Hocko depends on 64BIT || BROKEN 1591e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 1603947be19SDave Hansen 161ec69acbbSKeith Manntheyconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE 162ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey def_bool y 163ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 164ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey 1658604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 1668604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 1678604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1688604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 1698604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 1708604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 1718604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 1728604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 173cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1748604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1758604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 1768604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 1778604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 1788604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 1798604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1800c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1810c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 182f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 1830c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1840c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 1850c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1864c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 1874c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 1884c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 1894c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 1904c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 1917b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 19260bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 19360bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 19460bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 195a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 1964c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 1974c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 1984c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 1999164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 200a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 201a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 20260bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 2034c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 2047cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 205e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 2066341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 207e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 2087cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 20909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 21009316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 2116341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 21209316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 21309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 21418468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 21518468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 21618468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 21718468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 21809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 21918468d93SRafael Aquini help 22018468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 22118468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 22218468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 22318468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 22418468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 22518468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 22618468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 22718468d93SRafael Aquini 22818468d93SRafael Aquini# 229e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 230e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 231e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 23205106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 233e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 23433a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 235e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 236b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 237b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 238b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 239b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 240b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 241b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 242b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 243b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 244e9e96b39SMel Gorman 245e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 24636e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 24736e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 24836e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 24936e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 25036e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 25136e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 25236e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 25336e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 25436e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 25536e66c55SAlexander Duyck 25636e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 2577cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 2587cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 2597cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 260b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 2616c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 262de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 263b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 264b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 265e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 266e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 267e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 268e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 269e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 2706550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 271c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 2726341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 273c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 2749c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 2759c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 2769c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 2778df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 2788df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 2798df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 280600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 281d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 282600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 2832a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 2849ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 2859ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 286ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 2879ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 288ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 289ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 290ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 2912a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 292f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS 2934febd95aSStephen Rothwell bool 2944febd95aSStephen Rothwell help 2954febd95aSStephen Rothwell An architecture should select this if it implements the 2964febd95aSStephen Rothwell deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures 2974febd95aSStephen Rothwell should probably not select this. 2984febd95aSStephen Rothwell 299cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli 300cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 301cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 30283fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 30399cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 304fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 305f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 306f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 307f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 30859e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 309f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 310f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 311f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 312f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 313d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 314f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 315f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 316ad56b738SMike Rapoport See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 317c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 318c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 319f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 320e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 321e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 3226e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 323e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 324e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 325e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 326e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 327e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 328e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 329e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 330e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 331e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 332788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 333788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 334788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 335e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 336e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 337e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 338e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 339d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 340d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 341e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 3426a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 3436a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 344d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 3456a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 346ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 34797f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 3486a46079cSAndi Kleen help 3496a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 3506a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 3516a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 3526a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 3536a46079cSAndi Kleen 354cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 355413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 35627df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 357478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 358cae681fcSAndi Kleen 359fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 360fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 361fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 362fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 363fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 364fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 365fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 366fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 367fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 368fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 369fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 370fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 371fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 372fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 373fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 374fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 375fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 376fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 377fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 378fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 379fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 380fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 381fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 382fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 383fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 384fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 385dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 386bbddff05STejun Heo 3874c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeliconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 38813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 38915626062SGerald Schaefer depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 3905d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 3913a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 3924c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 3934c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 3944c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 3954c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 3964c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 3974c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 3984c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 3994c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 4004c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 4014c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 40213ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 40313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 40413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 40513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 40613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 40713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 40813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 40913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 41013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 41113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 41213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 41313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 41413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 41513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 41613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 41713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 41813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 41913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 42013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 42113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 42213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 42313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 42413ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 42513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 42638d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 42738d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool n 42838d8b4e6SHuang Ying 42938d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 43038d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 43114fef284SHuang Ying depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP 43238d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 43338d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 43414fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 43514fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 43638d8b4e6SHuang Ying 43738d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 43838d8b4e6SHuang Ying 439e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 440bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 441bbddff05STejun Heo# 442bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 443bbddff05STejun Heo depends on !SMP 444bbddff05STejun Heo bool 445bbddff05STejun Heo default y 446077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 447077b1f83SDan Magenheimerconfig CLEANCACHE 448077b1f83SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" 449077b1f83SDan Magenheimer help 450077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache 451077b1f83SDan Magenheimer for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm 452077b1f83SDan Magenheimer (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough 453077b1f83SDan Magenheimer memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use 454140a1ef2SMichael Witten cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into 455077b1f83SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 456077b1f83SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 457077b1f83SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled 458077b1f83SDan Magenheimer filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first 459077b1f83SDan Magenheimer checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, 460077b1f83SDan Magenheimer the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. 461077b1f83SDan Magenheimer When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or 462077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction 463077b1f83SDan Magenheimer may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls 464077b1f83SDan Magenheimer are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting 465077b1f83SDan Magenheimer in a negligible performance hit. 466077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 467077b1f83SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache 46827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 46927c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 47027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" 47127c6aec2SDan Magenheimer depends on SWAP 47227c6aec2SDan Magenheimer help 47327c6aec2SDan Magenheimer Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite 47427c6aec2SDan Magenheimer of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into 47527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 47627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 47727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, 47827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is 47927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- 48027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit 48127c6aec2SDan Magenheimer and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. 48227c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 48327c6aec2SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. 484f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 485f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 486f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 487aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 488f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 489f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 490f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 491f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 492f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 493f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 494f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 495f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 496f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 497f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 498f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 499f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 500f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 501f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 502f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 503f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 504f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 505f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 506f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 507f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 508bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 50928b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 51028b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 51128b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 51228b24c1fSSasha Levin help 51328b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 51428b24c1fSSasha Levin 515a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 516a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 517a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 518b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 519a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 520a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 521a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 522a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 523a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 524a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 525b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 526a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 527af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 528af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 529af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 530af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 5314e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 532af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 533af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 534af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 535af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 536af8d417aSDan Streetman 5371ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 5384e2e2770SSeth Jennings 5392b281117SSeth Jenningsconfig ZSWAP 5402b281117SSeth Jennings bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5412b281117SSeth Jennings depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y 54212d79d64SDan Streetman select ZPOOL 5432b281117SSeth Jennings help 5442b281117SSeth Jennings A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 5452b281117SSeth Jennings pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 5462b281117SSeth Jennings compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 5472b281117SSeth Jennings This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 5482b281117SSeth Jennings in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device 5492b281117SSeth Jennings reads, can also improve workload performance. 5502b281117SSeth Jennings 5512b281117SSeth Jennings This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of 5522b281117SSeth Jennings v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these 5532b281117SSeth Jennings interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, 5542b281117SSeth Jennings they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential 5552b281117SSeth Jennings configurations and workloads that exist. 5562b281117SSeth Jennings 557bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 558bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default compressor" 559bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 560bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 561bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 562bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 563bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero for swap pages. 564bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 565bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 566bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 567bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero available at the following LWN page: 568bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 569bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 570bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 571bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 572bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 573bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 574bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 575bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 576bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Deflate" 577bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 578bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 579bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 580bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 581bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 582bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZO" 583bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZO 584bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 585bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 586bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 587bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 588bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "842" 589bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_842 590bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 591bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 592bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 593bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 594bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4" 595bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4 596bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 597bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 598bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 599bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 600bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4HC" 601bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 602bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 603bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 604bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 605bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 606bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zstd" 607bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_ZSTD 608bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 609bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 610bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 611bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 612bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 613bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 614bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 615bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 616bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 617bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 618bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 619bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 620bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 621bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 622bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 623bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 624bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default allocator" 625bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 626bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 627bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 628bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 629bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero swap pages. 630bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 631bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero read the description of each of the allocators below before 632bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero making a right choice. 633bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 634bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 635bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 636bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 637bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 638bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zbud" 639bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZBUD 640bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 641bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 642bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 643bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 644bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "z3fold" 645bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select Z3FOLD 646bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 647bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 648bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 649bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 650bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zsmalloc" 651bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZSMALLOC 652bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 653bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 654bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 655bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 656bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 657bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 658bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 659bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 660bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 661bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 662bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 663bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 664bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 665bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 666bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 667bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 668bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 669bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 670bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 671bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 672bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 673bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 674af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZPOOL 675af8d417aSDan Streetman tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" 6760f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov help 677af8d417aSDan Streetman Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or 678af8d417aSDan Streetman zsmalloc. 6790f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 680af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZBUD 6819a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" 682af8d417aSDan Streetman help 683af8d417aSDan Streetman A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 684af8d417aSDan Streetman It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 685af8d417aSDan Streetman page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 686af8d417aSDan Streetman deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 687af8d417aSDan Streetman density approach when reclaim will be used. 688bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 6899a001fc1SVitaly Woolconfig Z3FOLD 6909a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" 6919a001fc1SVitaly Wool depends on ZPOOL 6929a001fc1SVitaly Wool help 6939a001fc1SVitaly Wool A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 6949a001fc1SVitaly Wool It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 6959a001fc1SVitaly Wool page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 6969a001fc1SVitaly Wool still there. 6979a001fc1SVitaly Wool 698bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig ZSMALLOC 699d867f203SMinchan Kim tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" 700bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on MMU 701bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 702bcf1647dSMinchan Kim zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 703bcf1647dSMinchan Kim compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping 704bcf1647dSMinchan Kim in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a 705bcf1647dSMinchan Kim non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is 706bcf1647dSMinchan Kim returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to 707bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access the allocated space. 708bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 7090f050d99SGanesh Mahendranconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 7100f050d99SGanesh Mahendran bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 7110f050d99SGanesh Mahendran depends on ZSMALLOC 7120f050d99SGanesh Mahendran select DEBUG_FS 7130f050d99SGanesh Mahendran help 7140f050d99SGanesh Mahendran This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 71501ab1edeSColin Ian King statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 7160f050d99SGanesh Mahendran information to userspace via debugfs. 7170f050d99SGanesh Mahendran If unsure, say N. 7180f050d99SGanesh Mahendran 7199e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 7209e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 721042d27acSHelge Deller 72222ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 72322ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 72422ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 725042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 726042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 727042d27acSHelge Deller help 728042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 729042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 73022ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 731042d27acSHelge Deller 73222ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 7333a80a7faSMel Gorman 7343a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 7351ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 736d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 737ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 738889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 739e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 7403a80a7faSMel Gorman help 7413a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 7423a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 7433a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 744e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 745e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 7461ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 7471ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 748033fbae9SDan Williams 74933c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 75033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 75133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 75233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 75333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 75433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 75533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 75633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 75733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 75833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 7591ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 7601ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 76133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 76217596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 76365f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 76465f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 765033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 7665042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 767033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 768033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 76999490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 77017596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 7713a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 772033fbae9SDan Williams 773033fbae9SDan Williams help 774033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 775033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 776033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 777033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 778033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 779033fbae9SDan Williams 780033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 78106a660adSLinus Torvalds 782e7638488SDan Williamsconfig DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 783e7638488SDan Williams bool 784e7638488SDan Williams 7859c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 7869c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 7879c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 7889c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 789c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 7909c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 791f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 792c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 7935042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 7945042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 7957328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 796e7638488SDan Williams select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 7975042db43SJérôme Glisse 7985042db43SJérôme Glisse help 7995042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 8005042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 8015042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 8025042db43SJérôme Glisse 8033e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 8043e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 8053e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 80663c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 80763c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 80866d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 80966d37570SDave Hansen bool 81030a5b536SDennis Zhou 81130a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 81230a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 81330a5b536SDennis Zhou help 81430a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 81530a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 81630a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 81764c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8189c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 8199c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 820d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 82164c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 8229c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 8239c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 8249c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 82564c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8269c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 8279c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 8289c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 8299c84f229SJohn Hubbard 830f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 831f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 832f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 833f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 834f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 835f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 8369c84f229SJohn Hubbard See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c 8373010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 838d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 839d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 8403010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 84139656e83SChristoph Hellwigconfig GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH 84239656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 84339656e83SChristoph Hellwig 84499cb0dbdSSong Liuconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 84599cb0dbdSSong Liu bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 846396bcc52SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 84799cb0dbdSSong Liu 84899cb0dbdSSong Liu help 84999cb0dbdSSong Liu Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 85099cb0dbdSSong Liu 85199cb0dbdSSong Liu This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 85299cb0dbdSSong Liu support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 85399cb0dbdSSong Liu cycles. 85499cb0dbdSSong Liu 8553010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 8563010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 85759e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 858cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 859cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 860cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 861cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 862cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 863cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 864cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 865cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 866cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 867cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 868c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 869c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 870c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 871298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 872298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 873298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 874*1fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 875*1fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 876*1fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 87759e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 878