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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig
359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options"
459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig
57b42f104SJohannes Weiner#
67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
87b42f104SJohannes Weiner#
97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
107b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool
117b42f104SJohannes Weiner
12*519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP
137b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
147b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
157b42f104SJohannes Weiner	default y
167b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
177b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
187b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
197b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
207b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
217b42f104SJohannes Weiner
22*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP
23*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
24*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on SWAP && CRYPTO=y
25*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select FRONTSWAP
26*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select ZPOOL
27*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
28*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages.  It takes
29*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
30*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
31*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
32*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
33*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  reads, can also improve workload performance.
34*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
35*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
36*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim.  While these
37*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
38*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
39*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  configurations and workloads that exist.
40*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
41*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice
42*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default compressor"
43*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
44*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO
45*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
46*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache
47*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  for swap pages.
48*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
49*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from
50*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks
51*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  available at the following LWN page:
52*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/
53*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
54*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  If in doubt, select 'LZO'.
55*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
56*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel
57*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  command line 'zswap.compressor=' option.
58*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
59*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE
60*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Deflate"
61*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_DEFLATE
62*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
63*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
64*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
65*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO
66*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "LZO"
67*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_LZO
68*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
69*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
70*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
71*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842
72*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "842"
73*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_842
74*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
75*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
76*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
77*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4
78*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "LZ4"
79*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_LZ4
80*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
81*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
82*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
83*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC
84*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "LZ4HC"
85*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_LZ4HC
86*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
87*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
88*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
89*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD
90*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "zstd"
91*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select CRYPTO_ZSTD
92*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
93*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm.
94*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice
95*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
96*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT
97*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       string
98*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       depends on ZSWAP
99*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE
100*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO
101*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842
102*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4
103*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC
104*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD
105*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default ""
106*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
107*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice
108*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default allocator"
109*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
110*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD
111*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
112*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for
113*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  swap pages.
114*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do
115*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  read the description of each of the allocators below before
116*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  making a right choice.
117*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
118*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel
119*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  command line 'zswap.zpool=' option.
120*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
121*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD
122*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "zbud"
123*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select ZBUD
124*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
125*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator.
126*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
127*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD
128*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "z3fold"
129*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select Z3FOLD
130*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
131*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator.
132*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
133*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC
134*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "zsmalloc"
135*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select ZSMALLOC
136*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
137*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator.
138*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice
139*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
140*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT
141*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       string
142*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       depends on ZSWAP
143*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD
144*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD
145*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC
146*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner       default ""
147*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
148*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON
149*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default"
150*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
151*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
152*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled
153*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  at boot, otherwise it will be disabled.
154*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
155*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel
156*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  command line 'zswap.enabled=' option.
157*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
158*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL
159*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
160*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSWAP
161*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
162*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Compressed memory storage API.  This allows using either zbud or
163*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  zsmalloc.
164*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
165*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD
166*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages"
167*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZPOOL
168*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
169*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
170*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
171*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  page.  While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
172*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
173*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  density approach when reclaim will be used.
174*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
175*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig Z3FOLD
176*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages"
177*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZPOOL
178*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
179*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
180*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical
181*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are
182*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  still there.
183*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
184*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC
185*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
186*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on MMU
187*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
188*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
189*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  compressed RAM pages.  zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
190*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  in order to reduce fragmentation.  However, this results in a
191*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
192*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  returned by an alloc().  This handle must be mapped in order to
193*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  access the allocated space.
194*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
195*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT
196*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Export zsmalloc statistics"
197*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on ZSMALLOC
198*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	select DEBUG_FS
199*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
200*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
201*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that
202*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  information to userspace via debugfs.
203*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  If unsure, say N.
204*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
205*519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenu "SLAB allocator options"
206*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
2077b42f104SJohannes Weinerchoice
2087b42f104SJohannes Weiner	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
2097b42f104SJohannes Weiner	default SLUB
2107b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2117b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
2127b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2137b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB
2147b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "SLAB"
2157b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on !PREEMPT_RT
2167b42f104SJohannes Weiner	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
2177b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2187b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
2197b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
2207b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  per cpu and per node queues.
2217b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2227b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB
2237b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
2247b42f104SJohannes Weiner	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
2257b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2267b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
2277b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
2287b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
2297b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
2307b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
2317b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   a slab allocator.
2327b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2337b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLOB
2347b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on EXPERT
2357b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
2367b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on !PREEMPT_RT
2377b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2387b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
2397b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
2407b42f104SJohannes Weiner	   does not perform as well on large systems.
2417b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2427b42f104SJohannes Weinerendchoice
2437b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2447b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
2457b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
2467b42f104SJohannes Weiner	default y
2477b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on SLAB || SLUB
2487b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2497b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
2507b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
2517b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
2527b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
2537b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
2547b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
2557b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
2567b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
2577b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  command line.
2587b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2597b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
2607b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Randomize slab freelist"
2617b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on SLAB || SLUB
2627b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2637b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
2647b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
2657b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  allocator against heap overflows.
2667b42f104SJohannes Weiner
2677b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
2687b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
2697b42f104SJohannes Weiner	depends on SLAB || SLUB
2707b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2717b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
2727b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
2737b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
2747b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
2757b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
2767b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  CONFIG_SLUB.
2777b42f104SJohannes Weiner
278*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
279*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	default y
280*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on SLUB && SMP
281*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
282*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
283*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
284*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
285*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
286*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
287*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
288*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
289*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendmenu # SLAB allocator options
290*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
2917b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
2927b42f104SJohannes Weiner	bool "Page allocator randomization"
2937b42f104SJohannes Weiner	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
2947b42f104SJohannes Weiner	help
2957b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
2967b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
2977b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
2987b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
2997b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
3007b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
3017b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
3027b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
3037b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
3047b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  benefits on x86.
3057b42f104SJohannes Weiner
3067b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
3077b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
3087b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
3097b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
3107b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
3117b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
3127b42f104SJohannes Weiner
3137b42f104SJohannes Weiner	  Say Y if unsure.
3147b42f104SJohannes Weiner
315e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
316e1785e85SDave Hansen	def_bool y
317a8826eebSKees Cook	depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
318e1785e85SDave Hansen
3193a9da765SDave Hansenchoice
3203a9da765SDave Hansen	prompt "Memory model"
321e1785e85SDave Hansen	depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
322d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
323e1785e85SDave Hansen	default FLATMEM_MANUAL
324d66d109dSMike Rapoport	help
325d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  This option allows you to change some of the ways that
326d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
327d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  only have one option here selected by the architecture
328d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  configuration. This is normal.
3293a9da765SDave Hansen
330e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL
3313a9da765SDave Hansen	bool "Flat Memory"
332bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport	depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
3333a9da765SDave Hansen	help
334d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with
335d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient
336d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  system in terms of performance and resource consumption
337d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  and it is the best option for smaller systems.
3383a9da765SDave Hansen
339d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  For systems that have holes in their physical address
340d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug,
341dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap	  choose "Sparse Memory".
342d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
343d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	  If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
3443a9da765SDave Hansen
345d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
346d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	bool "Sparse Memory"
347d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
348d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	help
349d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	  This will be the only option for some systems, including
350d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  memory hot-plug systems.  This is normal.
351d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
352d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  This option provides efficient support for systems with
353d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  holes is their physical address space and allows memory
354d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  hot-plug and hot-remove.
355d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
356d66d109dSMike Rapoport	  If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
357d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
3583a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice
3593a9da765SDave Hansen
360d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM
361d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft	def_bool y
3621a83e175SRussell King	depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
363d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
364e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM
365e1785e85SDave Hansen	def_bool y
366bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport	depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL
367d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft
36893b7504eSDave Hansen#
3693e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
370c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called.  If this cannot
3713e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option.  However,
3723e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
3733e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
3743e347261SBob Picco#
3753e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
3763e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later.
3773e347261SBob Picco#
3783e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC
3799ba16087SJan Beulich	bool
3803e347261SBob Picco
3813e347261SBob Picco#
38244c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
383802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
384802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space.
385802f192eSBob Picco#
3863e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
3873e347261SBob Picco	def_bool y
3883e347261SBob Picco	depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
3894c21e2f2SHugh Dickins
39029c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
3919ba16087SJan Beulich	bool
39229c71111SAndy Whitcroft
39329c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
394a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
395a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
396a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	default y
397a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	help
398a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	  SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
399a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	  pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations.  This is the most
400a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand	  efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
40129c71111SAndy Whitcroft
40270210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
4036341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
40470210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann
40567a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP
406050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU
4076341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
4082667f50eSSteve Capper
40952219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks
41052219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory.
41152219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug.
412350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
4136341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
414c378ddd5STejun Heo
4151e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init.
4161e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO
4171e5d8e1eSDan Williams	bool
4181e5d8e1eSDan Williams
419ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION
4206341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
421ee6f509cSMinchan Kim
422a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked
423a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via
424a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem.
425a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM
426a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand	def_bool y
427a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand	depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM
428a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand
42946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu#
43046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
43146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
43246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu#
43346723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
43446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu	def_bool n
43546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu
43691024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
43791024b3cSAnshuman Khandual	bool
43891024b3cSAnshuman Khandual
439*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
440*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool
441*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
4423947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
443*519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG
444*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory hotplug"
445b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
44671b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand	depends on SPARSEMEM
44740b31360SStephen Rothwell	depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
4487ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand	depends on 64BIT
4491e5d8e1eSDan Williams	select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA
4503947be19SDave Hansen
451*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG
452*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
4538604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE
4548604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default"
4558604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
4568604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	help
4578604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug
4588604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which
4598604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting
4608604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  can always be changed at runtime.
461cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information.
4628604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov
4638604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in
4648604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  'online' state by default.
4658604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged
4668604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov	  memory blocks in 'offline' state.
4678604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov
4680c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
4690c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
470f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot	select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
4710c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
4720c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on MIGRATION
4730c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
474a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY
475a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador	def_bool y
476a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
477a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador	depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
478a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador
479*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG
480*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
4814c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
4824c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
4834c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
4844c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
4854c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
4867b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
48760bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore
48860bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked
48960bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()).
490a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
4914c21e2f2SHugh Dickins#
4924c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
4934c21e2f2SHugh Dickins	int
4949164550eSKirill A. Shutemov	default "999999" if !MMU
495a70caa8bSHugh Dickins	default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
496a70caa8bSHugh Dickins	default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
49760bccaa6SWill Deacon	default "999999" if SPARC32
4984c21e2f2SHugh Dickins	default "4"
4997cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter
500e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
5016341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
502e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov
5037cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter#
50409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon
50509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON
5066341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
50709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov
50809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov#
50918468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction
51018468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION
51118468d93SRafael Aquini	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
51218468d93SRafael Aquini	def_bool y
51309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
51418468d93SRafael Aquini	help
51518468d93SRafael Aquini	  Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
51618468d93SRafael Aquini	  significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
51718468d93SRafael Aquini	  used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
51818468d93SRafael Aquini	  with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
51918468d93SRafael Aquini	  by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
52018468d93SRafael Aquini	  pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
52118468d93SRafael Aquini	  scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
52218468d93SRafael Aquini
52318468d93SRafael Aquini#
524e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction
525e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION
526e9e96b39SMel Gorman	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
52705106e6aSRik van Riel	def_bool y
528e9e96b39SMel Gorman	select MIGRATION
52933a93877SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on MMU
530e9e96b39SMel Gorman	help
531b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  Compaction is the only memory management component to form
532b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks
533b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and
534b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer
535b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't
536b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for
537b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at
538b32eaf71SMichal Hocko	  linux-mm@kvack.org.
539e9e96b39SMel Gorman
540e9e96b39SMel Gorman#
54136e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting
54236e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING
54336e66c55SAlexander Duyck	bool "Free page reporting"
54436e66c55SAlexander Duyck	def_bool n
54536e66c55SAlexander Duyck	help
54636e66c55SAlexander Duyck	  Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of
54736e66c55SAlexander Duyck	  free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting
54836e66c55SAlexander Duyck	  those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the
54936e66c55SAlexander Duyck	  memory can be freed within the host for other uses.
55036e66c55SAlexander Duyck
55136e66c55SAlexander Duyck#
5527cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration
5537cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter#
5547cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION
555b20a3503SChristoph Lameter	bool "Page migration"
5566c5240aeSChristoph Lameter	def_bool y
557de32a817SChen Gang	depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
558b20a3503SChristoph Lameter	help
559b20a3503SChristoph Lameter	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
560e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
561e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
562e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
563e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
564e9e96b39SMel Gorman	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
5656550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman
56676cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION
567d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig	def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE
56876cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig
569c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
5706341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
571c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi
5729c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
5739c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi	bool
5749c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi
5754bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE
5764bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	def_bool n
5774bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	help
5784bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	  Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard
5794bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	  HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available
5804bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual	  on a platform.
5814bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual
582b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand	  Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER - 1 and will be
583b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand	  clamped down to MAX_ORDER - 1.
584b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand
5858df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC
5868df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti	def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA
5878df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti
588600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
589d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig	def_bool 64BIT
590600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge
5912a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE
5929ca24e2eSVinayak Menon	bool "Enable bounce buffers"
5939ca24e2eSVinayak Menon	default y
594ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig	depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM
5959ca24e2eSVinayak Menon	help
596ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig	  Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of
597ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig	  memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is
598ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig	  selected, but you may say n to override this.
5992a7326b5SChristoph Lameter
600f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS
6014febd95aSStephen Rothwell	bool
6024febd95aSStephen Rothwell	help
6034febd95aSStephen Rothwell	  An architecture should select this if it implements the
6044febd95aSStephen Rothwell	  deprecated interface virt_to_bus().  All new architectures
6054febd95aSStephen Rothwell	  should probably not select this.
6064febd95aSStephen Rothwell
607cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli
608cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER
609cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli	bool
61083fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
61199cb252fSJason Gunthorpe	select INTERVAL_TREE
612fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
613f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM
614f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
615f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	depends on MMU
61659e1a2f4STimofey Titovets	select XXHASH
617f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	help
618f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
619f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
620f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  mergeable.  When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
621d0f209f6SHugh Dickins	  the many instances by a single page with that content, so
622f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
623f8af4da3SHugh Dickins	  Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
624ad56b738SMike Rapoport	  See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive
625c73602adSHugh Dickins	  until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
626c73602adSHugh Dickins	  root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
627f8af4da3SHugh Dickins
628e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
629e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
6306e141546SDavid Howells	depends on MMU
631e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	default 4096
632e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	help
633e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
634e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages
635e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
636e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter
637e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
638e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
639e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
640788084abSEric Paris	  Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
641788084abSEric Paris	  this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
642788084abSEric Paris	  protection by setting the value to 0.
643e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter
644e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  This value can be changed after boot using the
645e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
646e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter
647d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
648d949f36fSLinus Torvalds	bool
649e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter
6506a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE
6516a46079cSAndi Kleen	depends on MMU
652d949f36fSLinus Torvalds	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
6536a46079cSAndi Kleen	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
654ee6f509cSMinchan Kim	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
65597f0b134SXie XiuQi	select RAS
6566a46079cSAndi Kleen	help
6576a46079cSAndi Kleen	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
6586a46079cSAndi Kleen	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
6596a46079cSAndi Kleen	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
6606a46079cSAndi Kleen	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
6616a46079cSAndi Kleen
662cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT
663413f9efbSAndi Kleen	tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
66427df5068SAndi Kleen	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
665478c5ffcSWu Fengguang	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
666cae681fcSAndi Kleen
667fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
668fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
669fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	depends on !MMU
670fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	default 1
671fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	help
672fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
673fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
674fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
675fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  more than it requires.  To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
676fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  the excess and return it to the allocator.
677fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
678fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
679fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
680fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  if there are a lot of transient processes.
681fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
682fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
683fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
684fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
685fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
686fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
687fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
688fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  no trimming is to occur.
689fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
690fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  This option specifies the initial value of this option.  The default
691fc4d5c29SDavid Howells	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
692fc4d5c29SDavid Howells
693dd19d293SStephen Kitt	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
694bbddff05STejun Heo
695*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
696*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool
697*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
698*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
699*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	def_bool n
700*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
701*519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
70213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
703554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior	depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT
7045d689240SAndrea Arcangeli	select COMPACTION
7053a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox	select XARRAY_MULTI
7064c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	help
7074c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
7084c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
7094c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  This feature can improve computing performance to certain
7104c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  applications by speeding up page faults during memory
7114c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
7124c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  up the pagetable walking.
7134c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli
7144c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli	  If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
7154c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli
716*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
717*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
71813ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice
71913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
72013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
72113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
72213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	help
72313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
72413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli
72513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
72613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli		bool "always"
72713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	help
72813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
72913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
73013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
73113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli
73213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
73313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli		bool "madvise"
73413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	help
73513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
73613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  performance improvement benefit to the applications using
73713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
73813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
73913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli	  benefit.
74013ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice
74113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli
74238d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP
74338d8b4e6SHuang Ying	def_bool y
74414fef284SHuang Ying	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP
74538d8b4e6SHuang Ying	help
74638d8b4e6SHuang Ying	  Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting.
74714fef284SHuang Ying	  XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page
74814fef284SHuang Ying	  will be split after swapout.
74938d8b4e6SHuang Ying
75038d8b4e6SHuang Ying	  For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes.
75138d8b4e6SHuang Ying
752*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
753*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)"
754*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM
755*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
756*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	help
757*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP.
758*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
759*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write
760*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release
761*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner	  cycles.
762*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
763*519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
764*519bcb79SJohannes Weiner
765e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov#
766bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
767bbddff05STejun Heo#
768bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM
7693583521aSVladimir Murzin	depends on !SMP || !MMU
770bbddff05STejun Heo	bool
771bbddff05STejun Heo	default y
772077b1f83SDan Magenheimer
7737ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
7747ecd19cfSKefeng Wang	bool
7757ecd19cfSKefeng Wang
7767ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK
7777ecd19cfSKefeng Wang	bool
7787ecd19cfSKefeng Wang
7797ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID
7807ecd19cfSKefeng Wang	bool
7817ecd19cfSKefeng Wang
7827ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
7837ecd19cfSKefeng Wang	bool
7847ecd19cfSKefeng Wang
78527c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP
7866e61dde8SChristoph Hellwig	bool
787f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V
788f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA
789f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
790aca52c39SMike Rapoport	depends on MMU
791f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	select MIGRATION
792f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
793f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
794f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
795f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
796f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
797f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
798f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
799f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
800f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V
801f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If unsure, say "n".
802f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V
803f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG
804f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
805f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
806f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
807f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  Turns on debug messages in CMA.  This produces KERN_DEBUG
808f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
809f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
810f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V	  This option does not affect warning and error messages.
811bf550fc9SAlexander Graf
81228b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS
81328b24c1fSSasha Levin	bool "CMA debugfs interface"
81428b24c1fSSasha Levin	depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS
81528b24c1fSSasha Levin	help
81628b24c1fSSasha Levin	  Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA.
81728b24c1fSSasha Levin
81843ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS
81943ca106fSMinchan Kim	bool "CMA information through sysfs interface"
82043ca106fSMinchan Kim	depends on CMA && SYSFS
82143ca106fSMinchan Kim	help
82243ca106fSMinchan Kim	  This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information
82343ca106fSMinchan Kim	  from CMA.
82443ca106fSMinchan Kim
825a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS
826a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	int "Maximum count of the CMA areas"
827a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	depends on CMA
828b7176c26SBarry Song	default 19 if NUMA
829a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	default 7
830a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	help
831a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	  CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly,
832a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	  used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum
833a254129eSJoonsoo Kim	  number of CMA area in the system.
834a254129eSJoonsoo Kim
835b7176c26SBarry Song	  If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA.
836a254129eSJoonsoo Kim
837af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
838af8d417aSDan Streetman	bool "Track memory changes"
839af8d417aSDan Streetman	depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
840af8d417aSDan Streetman	select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
8414e2e2770SSeth Jennings	help
842af8d417aSDan Streetman	  This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
843af8d417aSDan Streetman	  soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
844af8d417aSDan Streetman	  into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
845af8d417aSDan Streetman	  it can be cleared by hands.
846af8d417aSDan Streetman
8471ad1335dSMike Rapoport	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details.
8484e2e2770SSeth Jennings
8499e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
8509e5c33d7SMark Salter	bool
851042d27acSHelge Deller
85222ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB
85322ee3ea5SHelge Deller	int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
85422ee3ea5SHelge Deller	default 100
855042d27acSHelge Deller	range 8 2048
856042d27acSHelge Deller	depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
857042d27acSHelge Deller	help
858042d27acSHelge Deller	  This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
859042d27acSHelge Deller	  user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
86022ee3ea5SHelge Deller	  arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited.
861042d27acSHelge Deller
86222ee3ea5SHelge Deller	  A sane initial value is 100 MB.
8633a80a7faSMel Gorman
8643a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
8651ce22103SVlastimil Babka	bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
866d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport	depends on SPARSEMEM
867ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin	depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM
868889c695dSPasha Tatashin	depends on 64BIT
869e4443149SDaniel Jordan	select PADATA
8703a80a7faSMel Gorman	help
8713a80a7faSMel Gorman	  Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
8723a80a7faSMel Gorman	  single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
8733a80a7faSMel Gorman	  amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
874e4443149SDaniel Jordan	  a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel.
875e4443149SDaniel Jordan	  This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the
8761ce22103SVlastimil Babka	  lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
8771ce22103SVlastimil Babka	  initialisation.
878033fbae9SDan Williams
8791c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG
8801c676e0dSSeongJae Park	bool
8811c676e0dSSeongJae Park	select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
8821c676e0dSSeongJae Park	help
8831c676e0dSSeongJae Park	  This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'.  PTE Accessed
8841c676e0dSSeongJae Park	  bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE
8851c676e0dSSeongJae Park	  Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance.
8861c676e0dSSeongJae Park
88733c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
88833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	bool "Enable idle page tracking"
88933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	depends on SYSFS && MMU
8901c676e0dSSeongJae Park	select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG
89133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	help
89233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	  This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have
89333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	  not been touched during a given period of time. This information can
89433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	  be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
89533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov	  within a compute cluster.
89633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov
8971ad1335dSMike Rapoport	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for
8981ad1335dSMike Rapoport	  more details.
89933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov
900c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
901c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual	bool
902c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual
9032792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
9042792d84eSKees Cook	bool
9052792d84eSKees Cook	help
9062792d84eSKees Cook	  In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime
9072792d84eSKees Cook	  checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer
9082792d84eSKees Cook	  is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global
9092792d84eSKees Cook	  register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be
9102792d84eSKees Cook	  selected.
9112792d84eSKees Cook
91267436193SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT
91367436193SAnshuman Khandual	bool
91467436193SAnshuman Khandual
91517596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
91665f7d049SOliver O'Halloran	bool
91765f7d049SOliver O'Halloran
91863703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET
91963703f37SKefeng Wang	bool
92063703f37SKefeng Wang
92163703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA
92263703f37SKefeng Wang	bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET
92363703f37SKefeng Wang	default y if ARM64 || X86
92463703f37SKefeng Wang
92563703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32
92663703f37SKefeng Wang	bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET
92763703f37SKefeng Wang	depends on !X86_32
92863703f37SKefeng Wang	default y if ARM64
92963703f37SKefeng Wang
930033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE
9315042db43SJérôme Glisse	bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support"
932033fbae9SDan Williams	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
933033fbae9SDan Williams	depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
93499490f16SDan Williams	depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
93517596731SRobin Murphy	depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
9363a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox	select XARRAY_MULTI
937033fbae9SDan Williams
938033fbae9SDan Williams	help
939033fbae9SDan Williams	  Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
940033fbae9SDan Williams	  or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
941033fbae9SDan Williams	  memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
942033fbae9SDan Williams	  "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
943033fbae9SDan Williams	  mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
944033fbae9SDan Williams
945033fbae9SDan Williams	  If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
94606a660adSLinus Torvalds
9479c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig#
9489c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page
9499c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables.
9509c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig#
951c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR
9529c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig	bool
953f442c283SChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU
954c0b12405SJérôme Glisse
9555042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE
9565042db43SJérôme Glisse	bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)"
9577328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig	depends on ZONE_DEVICE
9585042db43SJérôme Glisse
9595042db43SJérôme Glisse	help
9605042db43SJérôme Glisse	  Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device
9615042db43SJérôme Glisse	  memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or
9625042db43SJérôme Glisse	  group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR.
9635042db43SJérôme Glisse
9643e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN
9653e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig	bool
9663e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig
96763c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
96863c17fb8SDave Hansen	bool
96966d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
97066d37570SDave Hansen	bool
97130a5b536SDennis Zhou
97230a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS
97330a5b536SDennis Zhou	bool "Collect percpu memory statistics"
97430a5b536SDennis Zhou	help
97530a5b536SDennis Zhou	  This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The
97630a5b536SDennis Zhou	  information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can
97730a5b536SDennis Zhou	  be used to help understand percpu memory usage.
97864c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov
9799c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST
9809c84f229SJohn Hubbard	bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests"
981d0de8241SBarry Song	depends on DEBUG_FS
98264c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov	help
9839c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way
9849c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for
9859c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls.
98664c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov
9879c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of
9889c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of
9899c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  the non-_fast variants.
9909c84f229SJohn Hubbard
991f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any
992f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the
993f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via
994f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified
995f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard	  by other command line arguments.
996f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard
9979c84f229SJohn Hubbard	  See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c
9983010a5eaSLaurent Dufour
999d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled"
1000d0de8241SBarry Song	depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS
10013010a5eaSLaurent Dufour
100239656e83SChristoph Hellwigconfig GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH
100339656e83SChristoph Hellwig	bool
100439656e83SChristoph Hellwig
10053010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
10063010a5eaSLaurent Dufour	bool
100759e0b520SChristoph Hellwig
1008cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig#
1009cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is
1010cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76
1011cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables"
1012cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc.  This allows for a more flexible hugepage
1013cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts.
1014cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig#
1015cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD
1016cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig	bool
1017cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig
1018c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS
1019c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom        bool
1020c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom
1021298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL
1022298fa1adSThomas Gleixner	bool
1023298fa1adSThomas Gleixner
1024825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY
1025825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel	bool
1026825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel
10271fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper.  Selected by drivers that need them
10281fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING
10291fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig	bool
10301507f512SMike Rapoport
10311507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM
10321507f512SMike Rapoport	def_bool ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP && !EMBEDDED
10331507f512SMike Rapoport
10349a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME
10359a10064fSColin Cross	bool "Anonymous VMA name support"
10369a10064fSColin Cross	depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU
10379a10064fSColin Cross
10389a10064fSColin Cross	help
10399a10064fSColin Cross	  Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas.
10409a10064fSColin Cross
10419a10064fSColin Cross	  This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned
10429a10064fSColin Cross	  names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps
10439a10064fSColin Cross	  and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas.
10449a10064fSColin Cross	  Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that
10459a10064fSColin Cross	  area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the
10469a10064fSColin Cross	  difference in their name.
10479a10064fSColin Cross
1048430529b5SPeter Xuconfig USERFAULTFD
1049430529b5SPeter Xu	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1050430529b5SPeter Xu	depends on MMU
1051430529b5SPeter Xu	help
1052430529b5SPeter Xu	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1053430529b5SPeter Xu	  handle page faults in userland.
1054430529b5SPeter Xu
1055430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
1056430529b5SPeter Xu	bool
1057430529b5SPeter Xu	help
1058430529b5SPeter Xu	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
1059430529b5SPeter Xu
1060430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR
1061430529b5SPeter Xu	bool
1062430529b5SPeter Xu	help
1063430529b5SPeter Xu	  Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support
1064430529b5SPeter Xu
1065679d1033SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER
106681e0f15fSPeter Xu	bool
1067679d1033SPeter Xu
1068679d1033SPeter Xu	help
1069679d1033SPeter Xu	  Allows to create marker PTEs for file-backed memory.
1070679d1033SPeter Xu
10711db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP
107281e0f15fSPeter Xu	bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs"
107381e0f15fSPeter Xu	default y
107481e0f15fSPeter Xu	depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
107581e0f15fSPeter Xu	select PTE_MARKER
10761db9dbc2SPeter Xu
10771db9dbc2SPeter Xu	help
10781db9dbc2SPeter Xu	  Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection
10791db9dbc2SPeter Xu	  purposes.  It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on
10801db9dbc2SPeter Xu	  file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs.
10811db9dbc2SPeter Xu
10822224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig"
10832224d848SSeongJae Park
108459e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu
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