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 12d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 13e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 14d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 15d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 16d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 17d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 18d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 193a9da765SDave Hansen 20e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 213a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 22c898ec16SAnton Blanchard depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 233a9da765SDave Hansen help 24d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 25d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 26d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 27d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 283a9da765SDave Hansen 29d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 30d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 31dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 32d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 33d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 343a9da765SDave Hansen 35e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 36f3519f91SDave Hansen bool "Discontiguous Memory" 373a9da765SDave Hansen depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 383a9da765SDave Hansen help 39785dcd44SDave Hansen This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous 40785dcd44SDave Hansen memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes 41785dcd44SDave Hansen in their physical address spaces, and this option provides 42d66d109dSMike Rapoport more efficient handling of these holes. 43785dcd44SDave Hansen 44d66d109dSMike Rapoport Although "Discontiguous Memory" is still used by several 45d66d109dSMike Rapoport architectures, it is considered deprecated in favor of 46d66d109dSMike Rapoport "Sparse Memory". 47785dcd44SDave Hansen 48d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Sparse Memory" over this option. 493a9da765SDave Hansen 50d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 51d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 52d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 53d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 54d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 55d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 56d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 57d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 58d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 59d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 60d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 61d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 62d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 633a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 643a9da765SDave Hansen 65e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM 66e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 67e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 68e1785e85SDave Hansen 69d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 70d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 711a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 72d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 73e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 74e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 75d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL 76d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 77d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP 78d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 79d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on !SPARSEMEM 80e1785e85SDave Hansen 8193b7504eSDave Hansen# 8293b7504eSDave Hansen# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's 8393b7504eSDave Hansen# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows 8493b7504eSDave Hansen# those dependencies to exist individually. 8593b7504eSDave Hansen# 8693b7504eSDave Hansenconfig NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 8793b7504eSDave Hansen def_bool y 8893b7504eSDave Hansen depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA 89af705362SAndy Whitcroft 90802f192eSBob Picco# 913e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 92c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 933e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 943e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 953e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 963e347261SBob Picco# 973e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 983e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 993e347261SBob Picco# 1003e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1019ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1023e347261SBob Picco 1033e347261SBob Picco# 10444c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 105802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 106802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 107802f192eSBob Picco# 1083e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 1093e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 1103e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1114c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 11229c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 1139ba16087SJan Beulich bool 11429c71111SAndy Whitcroft 11529c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 116a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 117a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 118a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 119a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 120a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 121a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 122a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 12329c71111SAndy Whitcroft 12470210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 1256341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 12670210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 12767a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 128050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1296341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1302667f50eSSteve Capper 13152219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 13252219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 13352219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 134350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 1356341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 136c378ddd5STejun Heo 1371e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 1381e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 1391e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 1401e5d8e1eSDan Williams 141ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 1426341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 143ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 14446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 14646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 14746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 14946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 15046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 1513947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 1523947be19SDave Hansenconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1533947be19SDave Hansen bool "Allow for memory hot-add" 154b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 155ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 15640b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 157b59d02edSMichal Hocko depends on 64BIT || BROKEN 1581e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 1593947be19SDave Hansen 160ec69acbbSKeith Manntheyconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE 161ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey def_bool y 162ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 163ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey 1648604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 1658604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 1668604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1678604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 1688604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 1698604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 1708604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 1718604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 172cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1738604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1748604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 1758604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 1768604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 1778604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 1788604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1790c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1800c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 181f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 1820c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1830c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 1840c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1854c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 1864c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 1874c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 1884c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 1894c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 1907b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 19160bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 19260bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 19360bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 194a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 1954c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 1964c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 1974c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 1989164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 199a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 200a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 20160bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 2024c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 2037cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 204e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 2056341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 206e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 2077cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 20809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 20909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 2106341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 21109316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 21209316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 21318468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 21418468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 21518468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 21618468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 21709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 21818468d93SRafael Aquini help 21918468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 22018468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 22118468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 22218468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 22318468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 22418468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 22518468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 22618468d93SRafael Aquini 22718468d93SRafael Aquini# 228e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 229e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 230e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 23105106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 232e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 23333a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 234e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 235b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 236b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 237b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 238b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 239b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 240b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 241b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 242b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 243e9e96b39SMel Gorman 244e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 24536e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 24636e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 24736e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 24836e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 24936e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 25036e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 25136e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 25236e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 25336e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 25436e66c55SAlexander Duyck 25536e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 2567cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 2577cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 2587cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 259b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 2606c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 261de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 262b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 263b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 264e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 265e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 266e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 267e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 268e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 2696550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 270c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 2716341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 272c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 2739c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 2749c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 2759c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 276*4bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 277*4bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 278*4bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 279*4bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 280*4bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 281*4bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 282*4bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 2838df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 2848df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 2858df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 286600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 287d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 288600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 2892a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 2909ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 2919ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 292ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 2939ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 294ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 295ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 296ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 2972a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 298f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS 2994febd95aSStephen Rothwell bool 3004febd95aSStephen Rothwell help 3014febd95aSStephen Rothwell An architecture should select this if it implements the 3024febd95aSStephen Rothwell deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures 3034febd95aSStephen Rothwell should probably not select this. 3044febd95aSStephen Rothwell 305cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli 306cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 307cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 30883fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 30999cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 310fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 311f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 312f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 313f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 31459e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 315f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 316f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 317f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 318f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 319d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 320f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 321f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 322ad56b738SMike Rapoport See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 323c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 324c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 325f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 326e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 327e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 3286e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 329e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 330e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 331e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 332e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 333e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 334e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 335e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 336e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 337e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 338788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 339788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 340788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 341e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 342e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 343e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 344e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 345d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 346d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 347e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 3486a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 3496a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 350d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 3516a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 352ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 35397f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 3546a46079cSAndi Kleen help 3556a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 3566a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 3576a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 3586a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 3596a46079cSAndi Kleen 360cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 361413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 36227df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 363478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 364cae681fcSAndi Kleen 365fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 366fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 367fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 368fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 369fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 370fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 371fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 372fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 373fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 374fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 375fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 376fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 377fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 378fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 379fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 380fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 381fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 382fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 383fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 384fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 385fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 386fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 387fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 388fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 389fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 390fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 391dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 392bbddff05STejun Heo 3934c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeliconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 39413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 39515626062SGerald Schaefer depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 3965d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 3973a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 3984c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 3994c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 4004c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 4014c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 4024c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 4034c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 4044c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 4054c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 4064c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 4074c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 40813ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 40913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 41013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 41113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 41213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 41313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 41413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 41513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 41613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 41713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 41813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 41913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 42013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 42113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 42213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 42313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 42413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 42513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 42613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 42713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 42813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 42913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 43013ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 43113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 43238d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 43338d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool n 43438d8b4e6SHuang Ying 43538d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 43638d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 43714fef284SHuang Ying depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP 43838d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 43938d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 44014fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 44114fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 44238d8b4e6SHuang Ying 44338d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 44438d8b4e6SHuang Ying 445e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 446bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 447bbddff05STejun Heo# 448bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 449bbddff05STejun Heo depends on !SMP 450bbddff05STejun Heo bool 451bbddff05STejun Heo default y 452077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 453077b1f83SDan Magenheimerconfig CLEANCACHE 454077b1f83SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" 455077b1f83SDan Magenheimer help 456077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache 457077b1f83SDan Magenheimer for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm 458077b1f83SDan Magenheimer (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough 459077b1f83SDan Magenheimer memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use 460140a1ef2SMichael Witten cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into 461077b1f83SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 462077b1f83SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 463077b1f83SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled 464077b1f83SDan Magenheimer filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first 465077b1f83SDan Magenheimer checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, 466077b1f83SDan Magenheimer the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. 467077b1f83SDan Magenheimer When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or 468077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction 469077b1f83SDan Magenheimer may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls 470077b1f83SDan Magenheimer are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting 471077b1f83SDan Magenheimer in a negligible performance hit. 472077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 473077b1f83SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache 47427c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 47527c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 47627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" 47727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer depends on SWAP 47827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer help 47927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite 48027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into 48127c6aec2SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 48227c6aec2SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 48327c6aec2SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, 48427c6aec2SDan Magenheimer a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is 48527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- 48627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit 48727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. 48827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 48927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. 490f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 491f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 492f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 493aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 494f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 495f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 496f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 497f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 498f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 499f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 500f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 501f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 502f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 503f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 504f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 505f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 506f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 507f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 508f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 509f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 510f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 511f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 512f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 513f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 514bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 51528b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 51628b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 51728b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 51828b24c1fSSasha Levin help 51928b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 52028b24c1fSSasha Levin 521a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 522a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 523a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 524b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 525a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 526a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 527a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 528a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 529a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 530a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 531b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 532a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 533af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 534af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 535af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 536af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 5374e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 538af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 539af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 540af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 541af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 542af8d417aSDan Streetman 5431ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 5444e2e2770SSeth Jennings 5452b281117SSeth Jenningsconfig ZSWAP 5462b281117SSeth Jennings bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5472b281117SSeth Jennings depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y 54812d79d64SDan Streetman select ZPOOL 5492b281117SSeth Jennings help 5502b281117SSeth Jennings A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 5512b281117SSeth Jennings pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 5522b281117SSeth Jennings compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 5532b281117SSeth Jennings This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 5542b281117SSeth Jennings in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device 5552b281117SSeth Jennings reads, can also improve workload performance. 5562b281117SSeth Jennings 5572b281117SSeth Jennings This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of 5582b281117SSeth Jennings v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these 5592b281117SSeth Jennings interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, 5602b281117SSeth Jennings they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential 5612b281117SSeth Jennings configurations and workloads that exist. 5622b281117SSeth Jennings 563bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 564bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default compressor" 565bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 566bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 567bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 568bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 569bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero for swap pages. 570bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 571bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 572bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 573bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero available at the following LWN page: 574bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 575bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 576bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 577bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 578bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 579bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 580bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 581bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 582bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Deflate" 583bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 584bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 585bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 586bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 587bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 588bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZO" 589bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZO 590bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 591bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 592bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 593bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 594bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "842" 595bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_842 596bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 597bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 598bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 599bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 600bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4" 601bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4 602bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 603bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 604bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 605bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 606bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4HC" 607bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 608bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 609bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 610bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 611bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 612bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zstd" 613bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_ZSTD 614bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 615bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 616bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 617bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 618bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 619bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 620bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 621bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 622bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 623bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 624bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 625bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 626bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 627bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 628bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 629bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 630bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default allocator" 631bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 632bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 633bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 634bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 635bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero swap pages. 636bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 637bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero read the description of each of the allocators below before 638bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero making a right choice. 639bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 640bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 641bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 642bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 643bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 644bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zbud" 645bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZBUD 646bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 647bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 648bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 649bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 650bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "z3fold" 651bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select Z3FOLD 652bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 653bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 654bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 655bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 656bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zsmalloc" 657bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZSMALLOC 658bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 659bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 660bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 661bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 662bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 663bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 664bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 665bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 666bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 667bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 668bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 669bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 670bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 671bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 672bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 673bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 674bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 675bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 676bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 677bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 678bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 679bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 680af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZPOOL 681af8d417aSDan Streetman tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" 6820f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov help 683af8d417aSDan Streetman Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or 684af8d417aSDan Streetman zsmalloc. 6850f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 686af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZBUD 6879a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" 688af8d417aSDan Streetman help 689af8d417aSDan Streetman A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 690af8d417aSDan Streetman It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 691af8d417aSDan Streetman page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 692af8d417aSDan Streetman deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 693af8d417aSDan Streetman density approach when reclaim will be used. 694bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 6959a001fc1SVitaly Woolconfig Z3FOLD 6969a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" 6979a001fc1SVitaly Wool depends on ZPOOL 6989a001fc1SVitaly Wool help 6999a001fc1SVitaly Wool A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 7009a001fc1SVitaly Wool It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 7019a001fc1SVitaly Wool page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 7029a001fc1SVitaly Wool still there. 7039a001fc1SVitaly Wool 704bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig ZSMALLOC 705d867f203SMinchan Kim tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" 706bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on MMU 707bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 708bcf1647dSMinchan Kim zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 709bcf1647dSMinchan Kim compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping 710bcf1647dSMinchan Kim in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a 711bcf1647dSMinchan Kim non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is 712bcf1647dSMinchan Kim returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to 713bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access the allocated space. 714bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 7150f050d99SGanesh Mahendranconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 7160f050d99SGanesh Mahendran bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 7170f050d99SGanesh Mahendran depends on ZSMALLOC 7180f050d99SGanesh Mahendran select DEBUG_FS 7190f050d99SGanesh Mahendran help 7200f050d99SGanesh Mahendran This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 72101ab1edeSColin Ian King statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 7220f050d99SGanesh Mahendran information to userspace via debugfs. 7230f050d99SGanesh Mahendran If unsure, say N. 7240f050d99SGanesh Mahendran 7259e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 7269e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 727042d27acSHelge Deller 72822ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 72922ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 73022ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 731042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 732042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 733042d27acSHelge Deller help 734042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 735042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 73622ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 737042d27acSHelge Deller 73822ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 7393a80a7faSMel Gorman 7403a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 7411ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 742d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 743ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 744889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 745e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 7463a80a7faSMel Gorman help 7473a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 7483a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 7493a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 750e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 751e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 7521ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 7531ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 754033fbae9SDan Williams 75533c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 75633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 75733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 75833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 75933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 76033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 76133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 76233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 76333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 76433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 7651ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 7661ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 76733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 76817596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 76965f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 77065f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 771033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 7725042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 773033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 774033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 77599490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 77617596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 7773a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 778033fbae9SDan Williams 779033fbae9SDan Williams help 780033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 781033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 782033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 783033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 784033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 785033fbae9SDan Williams 786033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 78706a660adSLinus Torvalds 788e7638488SDan Williamsconfig DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 789e7638488SDan Williams bool 790e7638488SDan Williams 7919c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 7929c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 7939c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 7949c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 795c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 7969c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 797f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 798c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 7995042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 8005042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 8017328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 802e7638488SDan Williams select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 8035042db43SJérôme Glisse 8045042db43SJérôme Glisse help 8055042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 8065042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 8075042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 8085042db43SJérôme Glisse 8093e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 8103e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 8113e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 81263c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 81363c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 81466d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 81566d37570SDave Hansen bool 81630a5b536SDennis Zhou 81730a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 81830a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 81930a5b536SDennis Zhou help 82030a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 82130a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 82230a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 82364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8249c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 8259c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 826d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 82764c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 8289c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 8299c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 8309c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 83164c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8329c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 8339c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 8349c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 8359c84f229SJohn Hubbard 836f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 837f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 838f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 839f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 840f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 841f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 8429c84f229SJohn Hubbard See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c 8433010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 844d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 845d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 8463010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 84739656e83SChristoph Hellwigconfig GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH 84839656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 84939656e83SChristoph Hellwig 85099cb0dbdSSong Liuconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 85199cb0dbdSSong Liu bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 852396bcc52SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 85399cb0dbdSSong Liu 85499cb0dbdSSong Liu help 85599cb0dbdSSong Liu Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 85699cb0dbdSSong Liu 85799cb0dbdSSong Liu This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 85899cb0dbdSSong Liu support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 85999cb0dbdSSong Liu cycles. 86099cb0dbdSSong Liu 8613010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 8623010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 86359e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 864cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 865cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 866cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 867cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 868cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 869cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 870cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 871cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 872cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 873cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 874c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 875c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 876c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 877298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 878298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 879298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 8801fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 8811fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 8821fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 88359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 884