1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 57b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 87b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool 117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 12b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL 13b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool 14b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 15519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP 167b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 177b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 187b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 197b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 207b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217b42f104SJohannes Weiner for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 227b42f104SJohannes Weiner used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 237b42f104SJohannes Weiner in your computer. If unsure say Y. 247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 25519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP 26fcab9b44SDavid Heidelberg bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on SWAP 28b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 29519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 351a44131dSSophia Gabriella in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 36519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 38b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 48b5ba474fSNhat Phamconfig ZSWAP_SHRINKER_DEFAULT_ON 49b5ba474fSNhat Pham bool "Shrink the zswap pool on memory pressure" 50b5ba474fSNhat Pham depends on ZSWAP 51b5ba474fSNhat Pham default n 52b5ba474fSNhat Pham help 53b5ba474fSNhat Pham If selected, the zswap shrinker will be enabled, and the pages 54b5ba474fSNhat Pham stored in the zswap pool will become available for reclaim (i.e 55b5ba474fSNhat Pham written back to the backing swap device) on memory pressure. 56b5ba474fSNhat Pham 57b5ba474fSNhat Pham This means that zswap writeback could happen even if the pool is 58b5ba474fSNhat Pham not yet full, or the cgroup zswap limit has not been reached, 59b5ba474fSNhat Pham reducing the chance that cold pages will reside in the zswap pool 60b5ba474fSNhat Pham and consume memory indefinitely. 61b5ba474fSNhat Pham 62519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 63b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 64519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 65519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 66519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 67519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 73519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 79519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 80519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 83519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 85519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 86519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 89519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 91519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 92519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 95519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 97519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 98519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 101519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 102519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 104519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 107519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 108519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 110519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 113519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 115519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 117519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 118519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 120519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 128519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 129b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 13104cb7502SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC if MMU 132519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 135519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 141519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 143519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 144519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zbud" 145519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZBUD 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 147519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 149519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 150519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "z3fold" 151519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select Z3FOLD 152519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 155519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 156519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 157519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 158519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 159519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 160519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 161519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 162519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 163519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 164519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 165519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 166519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 170519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD 171b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 172b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 173519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 174519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 175519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 176519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 177519bcb79SJohannes Weiner deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 178519bcb79SJohannes Weiner density approach when reclaim will be used. 179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 180519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig Z3FOLD 181b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 182b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 183519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 184519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 185519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 186519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 187519bcb79SJohannes Weiner still there. 188519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 189519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 190b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 191*5ad7a998SSergey Senozhatsky prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if (ZSWAP || ZRAM) 19204cb7502SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on MMU 193519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 194519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 195b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 196b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 197519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 198519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 199519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 200519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 201519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 202519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 203519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 204519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 205519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 206519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 207519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2084ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 2094ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 210b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky default 8 2114ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky range 4 16 2124ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky depends on ZSMALLOC 2134ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky help 2144ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 2154ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 2164ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky chain size is calculated for each size class during the 2174ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky initialization of the pool. 2184ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2194ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 2204ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 2214ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 2224ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 2234ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky characteristics. 2244ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2254ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 2264ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2272a19be61SVlastimil Babkamenu "Slab allocator options" 2287b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2297b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 2302a19be61SVlastimil Babka def_bool y 231eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 232e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY 2332a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 2342a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT 235e240e53aSVlastimil Babka select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 236e240e53aSVlastimil Babka help 2372a19be61SVlastimil Babka Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 238e240e53aSVlastimil Babka footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 239e240e53aSVlastimil Babka This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 240e240e53aSVlastimil Babka SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 241e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 16MB RAM. 242e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 243e240e53aSVlastimil Babka If unsure, say N. 244e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 2457b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2467b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2477b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 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" 2612a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 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" 2692a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 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 2742a19be61SVlastimil Babka freelist exploit methods. 2757b42f104SJohannes Weiner 27667f2df3bSKees Cookconfig SLAB_BUCKETS 27767f2df3bSKees Cook bool "Support allocation from separate kmalloc buckets" 27867f2df3bSKees Cook depends on !SLUB_TINY 27967f2df3bSKees Cook default SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 28067f2df3bSKees Cook help 28167f2df3bSKees Cook Kernel heap attacks frequently depend on being able to create 28267f2df3bSKees Cook specifically-sized allocations with user-controlled contents 28367f2df3bSKees Cook that will be allocated into the same kmalloc bucket as a 28467f2df3bSKees Cook target object. To avoid sharing these allocation buckets, 28567f2df3bSKees Cook provide an explicitly separated set of buckets to be used for 28667f2df3bSKees Cook user-controlled allocations. This may very slightly increase 28767f2df3bSKees Cook memory fragmentation, though in practice it's only a handful 28867f2df3bSKees Cook of extra pages since the bulk of user-controlled allocations 28967f2df3bSKees Cook are relatively long-lived. 29067f2df3bSKees Cook 29167f2df3bSKees Cook If unsure, say Y. 29267f2df3bSKees Cook 2930710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 2940710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 2952a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable performance statistics" 2962a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 2970710d012SVlastimil Babka help 2982a19be61SVlastimil Babka The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 2990710d012SVlastimil Babka order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 3000710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 3010710d012SVlastimil Babka the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 3020710d012SVlastimil Babka supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 3030710d012SVlastimil Babka out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 3040710d012SVlastimil Babka Try running: slabinfo -DA 3050710d012SVlastimil Babka 306519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 307519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default y 3082a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 3092a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 310519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 311519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 312519bcb79SJohannes Weiner that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 313519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 314519bcb79SJohannes Weiner which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 315519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 316519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3173c615294SGONG, Ruiqiconfig RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 3183c615294SGONG, Ruiqi default n 3192a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 3203c615294SGONG, Ruiqi bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 3213c615294SGONG, Ruiqi help 3223c615294SGONG, Ruiqi A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 3233c615294SGONG, Ruiqi normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 3243c615294SGONG, Ruiqi on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 3253c615294SGONG, Ruiqi vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 3263c615294SGONG, Ruiqi memory vulnerabilities. 3273c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3283c615294SGONG, Ruiqi Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 3293c615294SGONG, Ruiqi that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 3303c615294SGONG, Ruiqi subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 3313c615294SGONG, Ruiqi limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 3323c615294SGONG, Ruiqi system workload. 3333c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3342a19be61SVlastimil Babkaendmenu # Slab allocator options 335519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3367b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3377b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3387b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3397b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3407b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3417b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3427b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3437b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3447b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3457b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3467b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 3475e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 34823baf831SKirill A. Shutemov order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 34923baf831SKirill A. Shutemov on x86. 3507b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3517b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3527b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 353b413f9cdSMaíra Canal this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even 354b413f9cdSMaíra Canal if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled 355b413f9cdSMaíra Canal with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3567b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3577b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3587b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3590710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 3600710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 3610710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 3620710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3630710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 3640710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 3650710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 3660710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 3670710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 3680710d012SVlastimil Babka 3690710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 3700710d012SVlastimil Babka 3710710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 3720710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 3730710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 3740710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3750710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3760710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 3770710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 3780710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 3790710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 3800710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 3810710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 3820710d012SVlastimil Babka 3830710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 3840710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 3850710d012SVlastimil Babka 3860710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 3870710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 3880710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 3890710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 3900710d012SVlastimil Babka 3910710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 3920710d012SVlastimil Babka 393e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 394e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 395a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 396e1785e85SDave Hansen 3973a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 3983a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 399e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 400d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 401e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 402d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 403d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 404d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 405d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 406d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 4073a9da765SDave Hansen 408e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 4093a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 410bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 4113a9da765SDave Hansen help 412d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 413d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 414d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 415d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 4163a9da765SDave Hansen 417d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 418d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 419dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 420d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 421d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 4223a9da765SDave Hansen 423d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 424d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 425d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 426d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 427d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 428d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 429d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 430d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 431d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 432d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 433d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 434d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 435d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4363a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4373a9da765SDave Hansen 438d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 439d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4401a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 441d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 442e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 443e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 444bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 445d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 44693b7504eSDave Hansen# 4473e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 448c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4493e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4503e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4513e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4523e347261SBob Picco# 4533e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4543e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4553e347261SBob Picco# 4563e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4579ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4583e347261SBob Picco 4593e347261SBob Picco# 46044c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 461802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 462802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 463802f192eSBob Picco# 4643e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 4653e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 4663e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4674c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 46829c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 4699ba16087SJan Beulich bool 47029c71111SAndy Whitcroft 47129c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 472a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 473a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 474a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 475a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 476a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 477a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 478a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 4790b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4800b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 4810b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 4820b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4830b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 4840b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 4850b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V 4860b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 4870b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V bool 48829c71111SAndy Whitcroft 48970210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 4906341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 49170210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 49225176ad0SDavid Hildenbrandconfig HAVE_GUP_FAST 493050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 4946341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 4952667f50eSSteve Capper 49652219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 49752219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 49852219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 499350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 5006341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 501c378ddd5STejun Heo 5021e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 5031e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 5041e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 5051e5d8e1eSDan Williams 506ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 5076341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 508ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 509a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 510a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 511a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 512a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 513a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 514a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 515a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 51646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 51746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 51846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 51946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 52046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 52146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 52246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 52391024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 52491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 52591024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 526519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 527519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 528519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5293947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 530519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 531519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 532b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 53371b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 53440b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5357ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 5361e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 5373947be19SDave Hansen 538519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 539519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5408604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 5418604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 5428604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5438604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 5448604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5458604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5468604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5478604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 548cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5498604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5508604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 5518604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 5528604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 5538604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 5548604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5550c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5560c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 557f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5580c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5590c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5600c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 561a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 562a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 563a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 564a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 565a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 566519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 567519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 56804d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 56904d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 57004d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V 5714c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 5724c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 5734c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 5744c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 5754c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 5767b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 57760bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 57860bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 57960bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 580a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 5814c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 582394290cbSDavid Hildenbrandconfig SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS 583394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 584394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on MMU 585394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on NR_CPUS >= 4 586394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !ARM || CPU_CACHE_VIPT 587394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !PARISC || PA20 588394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !SPARC32 5897cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 590e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 5916341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 592e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 593394290cbSDavid Hildenbrandconfig SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS 594394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 595394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 596394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand 5977cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 59809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 59909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 6006341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 60109316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 60209316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 60318468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 60418468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 60518468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 606cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 60709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 60818468d93SRafael Aquini help 60918468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 61018468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 61118468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 61218468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 61318468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 61418468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 61518468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 61618468d93SRafael Aquini 61718468d93SRafael Aquini# 618e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 619e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 620e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 621cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 622e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 62333a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 624e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 625b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 626b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 627b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 628b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 629b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 630b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 631b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 632b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 633e9e96b39SMel Gorman 634c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 635c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner int 636c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner depends on COMPACTION 637c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 638c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 1 639c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner 640e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 64136e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 64236e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 64336e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 64436e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 64536e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 64636e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 64736e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 64836e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 64936e66c55SAlexander Duyck 65036e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 6517cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 6527cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 6537cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 654b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 655cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 656de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 657b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 658b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 659e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 660e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 661e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 662e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 663e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6646550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 66576cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 666d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 66776cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 668c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 6696341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 670c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 6719c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 6729c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 6739c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 6744bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 6754bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 6764bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 6774bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 6784bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 6794bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 6804bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 6815e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 6825e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 683b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 6848df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 6858df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 6868df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 68752166607SHuang Yingconfig PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 68852166607SHuang Ying int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 68952166607SHuang Ying default 5 69052166607SHuang Ying range 0 6 69152166607SHuang Ying help 69252166607SHuang Ying In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 69352166607SHuang Ying batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 69452166607SHuang Ying allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 69552166607SHuang Ying latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 69652166607SHuang Ying the maximum latency. 69752166607SHuang Ying 698600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 699d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 700600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 7012a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 7029ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 7039ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 704ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 7059ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 706ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 707ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 708ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 7092a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 710cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 711cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 71299cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 713fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 714f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 715f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 716f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 71759e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 718f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 719f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 720f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 721f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 722d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 723f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 724f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 725ee65728eSMike Rapoport See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 726c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 727c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 728f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 729e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 730e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 7316e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 732e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 733e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 734e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 735e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 736e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 737e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 73834f7c528SJavier Martinez Canillas For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 739e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 740e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 741788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 742788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 743788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 744e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 745e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 746e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 747e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 748d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 749d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 750e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 7516a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 7526a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 753d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7546a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 755ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 75697f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 7576a46079cSAndi Kleen help 7586a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7596a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7606a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7616a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7626a46079cSAndi Kleen 763cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 764413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 76527df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 766478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 767cae681fcSAndi Kleen 768fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 769fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 770fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 771fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 772fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 773fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 774fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 775fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 776fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 777fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 778fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 779fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 780fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 781fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 782fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 783fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 784fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 785fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 786fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 787fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 788fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 789fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 790fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 791fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 792fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 793fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 794dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 795bbddff05STejun Heo 796519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 797519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 798519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 799519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 800519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 801519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 802519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 80313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 804554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 8055d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 8063a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 8074c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 8084c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 8094c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 8104c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 8114c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 8124c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 8134c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 8144c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 8154c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 8164c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 817519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 818519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 81913ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 82013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 82113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 82213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 82313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 82413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 82513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 82613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 82713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 82813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 82913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 83013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 83113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 83213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 83313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 83413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 83513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 83613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 83713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 83813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 83913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 84013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 841683ec99fSDmytro Maluka 842683ec99fSDmytro Maluka config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 843683ec99fSDmytro Maluka bool "never" 844683ec99fSDmytro Maluka help 845683ec99fSDmytro Maluka Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 846683ec99fSDmytro Maluka enabled at runtime via sysfs. 84713ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 84813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 84938d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 85038d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 851dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 85238d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 85338d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 85414fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 85514fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 85638d8b4e6SHuang Ying 85738d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 85838d8b4e6SHuang Ying 859519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 860519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 861519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 862519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 863519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 864519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 865519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 866519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 867519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 868519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 869519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 870519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 871519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 872e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 873ac3830c3SPeter Xu# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 874ac3830c3SPeter Xu# 875ac3830c3SPeter Xuconfig PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 876ac3830c3SPeter Xu def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 877ac3830c3SPeter Xu 878ac3830c3SPeter Xu# 879bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 880bbddff05STejun Heo# 881bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 8823583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 883bbddff05STejun Heo bool 884bbddff05STejun Heo default y 885077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 8867ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 8877ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8887ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8897ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 8907ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8917ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8927ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 8937ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8947ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8957ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 8967ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8977ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 898f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 899f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 900aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 901f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 902f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 903f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 904f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 905f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 906f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 907f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 908f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 909f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 910f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 911f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 912f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 91328b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 91428b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 91528b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 91628b24c1fSSasha Levin help 91728b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 91828b24c1fSSasha Levin 91943ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 92043ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 92143ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 92243ca106fSMinchan Kim help 92343ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 92443ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 92543ca106fSMinchan Kim 926a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 927a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 928a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 92973307523SAnshuman Khandual default 20 if NUMA 93073307523SAnshuman Khandual default 8 931a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 932a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 933a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 934a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 935a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 93673307523SAnshuman Khandual If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 937a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 938af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 939af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 940af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 941af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 9424e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 943af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 944af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 945af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 946af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 947af8d417aSDan Streetman 9481ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 9494e2e2770SSeth Jennings 9509e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 9519e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 952042d27acSHelge Deller 95322ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 95422ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 95522ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 956042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 957042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 958042d27acSHelge Deller help 959042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 960042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 96122ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 962042d27acSHelge Deller 96322ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9643a80a7faSMel Gorman 9653a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9661ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 967d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 968ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 969889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 970854fa98dSIlya Leoshkevich depends on !KMSAN 971e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 9723a80a7faSMel Gorman help 9733a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 9743a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 9753a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 976e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 977e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 9781ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 9791ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 980033fbae9SDan Williams 9811c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 9821c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 9831c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 9841c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 9851c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 9861c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 9871c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 9881c676e0dSSeongJae Park 98933c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 99033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 99133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 9921c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 99333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 99433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 99533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 99633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 99733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 99833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 9991ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 10001ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 100133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 10028690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 10038690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 10048690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# aliasing) need to select this. 10058690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 10068690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers bool 10078690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers 1008c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1009c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 1010c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 10112792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 10122792d84eSKees Cook bool 10132792d84eSKees Cook help 10142792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 10152792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 10162792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 10172792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 10182792d84eSKees Cook selected. 10192792d84eSKees Cook 102017596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 102165f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 102265f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 102363703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 102463703f37SKefeng Wang bool 102563703f37SKefeng Wang 102663703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 102763703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 102863703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 102963703f37SKefeng Wang 103063703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 103163703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 103263703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 103363703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 103463703f37SKefeng Wang 1035033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 10365042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1037033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1038033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 103999490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 104017596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 10413a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 1042033fbae9SDan Williams 1043033fbae9SDan Williams help 1044033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1045033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1046033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1047033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1048033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1049033fbae9SDan Williams 1050033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 105106a660adSLinus Torvalds 10529c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 10539c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 10549c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 10559c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 1056c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 10579c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 1058f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1059c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 106014b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION 106114b80582SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM 106214b80582SDan Williams bool 106314b80582SDan Williams 10645042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 10655042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 10667328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 106714b80582SDan Williams select GET_FREE_REGION 10685042db43SJérôme Glisse 10695042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10705042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10715042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 10725042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 10735042db43SJérôme Glisse 10743e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 10753e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 10763e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 107763c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 107863c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 107966d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 108066d37570SDave Hansen bool 108130a5b536SDennis Zhou 10827a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 1083b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas bool 10847a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_3 10857a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) bool 1086b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas 10870710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 10880710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 10890710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 10900710d012SVlastimil Babka help 10910710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10920710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10930710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10940710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 10950710d012SVlastimil Babka 109630a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 109730a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 109830a5b536SDennis Zhou help 109930a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 110030a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 110130a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 110264c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11039c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 11049c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1105d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 110664c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 11079c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 11089c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 11099c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 111064c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11119c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 11129c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 11139c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 11149c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1115f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1116f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1117f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1118f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1119f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1120f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 1121baa489faSSeongJae Park See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 11223010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1123d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1124d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 11253010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 11266ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 112739656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 112839656e83SChristoph Hellwig 1129def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST 1130def85743SKeith Busch tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1131def85743SKeith Busch depends on HAS_DMA 1132def85743SKeith Busch help 1133def85743SKeith Busch Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1134def85743SKeith Busch various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1135def85743SKeith Busch provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1136def85743SKeith Busch dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1137def85743SKeith Busch 11383010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 11393010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 114059e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1141c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1142c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1143c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1144298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1145298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1146298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1147825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1148825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1149825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 11501fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 11511fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 11521fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 11531507f512SMike Rapoport 1154626e98cbSThomas Weißschuhconfig MEMFD_CREATE 1155626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1156626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh 11571507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 115874947724SLukas Bulwahn default y 115974947724SLukas Bulwahn bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 116074947724SLukas Bulwahn depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 116174947724SLukas Bulwahn help 116274947724SLukas Bulwahn Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 116374947724SLukas Bulwahn memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 116474947724SLukas Bulwahn not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 11651507f512SMike Rapoport 11669a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 11679a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 11689a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 11699a10064fSColin Cross 11709a10064fSColin Cross help 11719a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 11729a10064fSColin Cross 11739a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 11749a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 11759a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 11769a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 11779a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 11789a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 11799a10064fSColin Cross 1180430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1181430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1182430529b5SPeter Xu help 1183430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1184430529b5SPeter Xu 1185430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1186430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1187430529b5SPeter Xu help 1188430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1189430529b5SPeter Xu 119097219cc3SPeter Xumenuconfig USERFAULTFD 119197219cc3SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 119297219cc3SPeter Xu depends on MMU 119397219cc3SPeter Xu help 119497219cc3SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 119597219cc3SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 119697219cc3SPeter Xu 119797219cc3SPeter Xuif USERFAULTFD 11981db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 119981e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 120081e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 120181e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 12021db9dbc2SPeter Xu 12031db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 12041db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 12051db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 12061db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 120797219cc3SPeter Xuendif # USERFAULTFD 12081db9dbc2SPeter Xu 1209ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU { 1210ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN 1211ec1c86b2SYu Zhao bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1212ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on MMU 1213ec1c86b2SYu Zhao # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1214ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1215ec1c86b2SYu Zhao help 121607017acbSYu Zhao A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 121707017acbSYu Zhao Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1218ec1c86b2SYu Zhao 1219354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1220354ed597SYu Zhao bool "Enable by default" 1221354ed597SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1222354ed597SYu Zhao help 1223354ed597SYu Zhao This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1224354ed597SYu Zhao 1225ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS 1226ac35a490SYu Zhao bool "Full stats for debugging" 1227ac35a490SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1228ac35a490SYu Zhao help 1229ac35a490SYu Zhao Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1230ac35a490SYu Zhao from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1231ac35a490SYu Zhao 1232ac35a490SYu Zhao This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 123361dd3f24SKinsey Ho 123461dd3f24SKinsey Hoconfig LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 123561dd3f24SKinsey Ho def_bool y 123661dd3f24SKinsey Ho depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1237ac35a490SYu Zhao# } 1238ac35a490SYu Zhao 12390b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 12400b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool n 12410b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12420b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK 12430b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool y 12440b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 12450b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan help 12460b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 12470b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12480b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 12490b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 12500b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 1251c2508ec5SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1252c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds bool 1253c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1254c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds 12558f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpeconfig IOMMU_MM_DATA 12568f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe bool 12578f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe 125812af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM)config EXECMEM 125912af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM) bool 126012af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM) 126187482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft)config NUMA_MEMBLKS 126287482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft) bool 126387482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft) 1264b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft)config NUMA_EMU 1265b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) bool "NUMA emulation" 1266b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) depends on NUMA_MEMBLKS 1267b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) help 1268b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1269b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1270b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1271b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) 12722224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 12732224d848SSeongJae Park 127459e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1275