1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 57b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 87b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool 117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 12b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL 13b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool 14b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 15519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP 167b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 177b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 187b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 197b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 207b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217b42f104SJohannes Weiner for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 227b42f104SJohannes Weiner used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 237b42f104SJohannes Weiner in your computer. If unsure say Y. 247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 25519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP 26fcab9b44SDavid Heidelberg bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on SWAP 28519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select FRONTSWAP 29b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 35519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 361a44131dSSophia Gabriella in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 38519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 48b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 49b9c91c43SYosry Ahmedconfig ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS_DEFAULT_ON 50b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed bool "Invalidate zswap entries when pages are loaded" 51b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed depends on ZSWAP 52b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed help 53b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed If selected, exclusive loads for zswap will be enabled at boot, 54b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed otherwise it will be disabled. 55b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 56b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed If exclusive loads are enabled, when a page is loaded from zswap, 57b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed the zswap entry is invalidated at once, as opposed to leaving it 58b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed in zswap until the swap entry is freed. 59b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 60b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed This avoids having two copies of the same page in memory 61b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed (compressed and uncompressed) after faulting in a page from zswap. 62b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed The cost is that if the page was never dirtied and needs to be 63b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed swapped out again, it will be re-compressed. 64b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 65519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 66b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 67519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 73519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 79519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 80519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 83519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 85519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 86519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 89519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 91519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 92519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 95519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 97519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 98519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 101519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 102519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 104519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 107519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 108519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 110519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 113519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 115519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 117519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 118519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 120519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 128519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 129519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 131519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 132b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 135519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 141519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 143519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 144519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 145519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zbud" 147519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZBUD 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 149519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 150519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 151519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 152519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "z3fold" 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select Z3FOLD 154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 155519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 156519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 157519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 158519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 159519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 161519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 162519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 163519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 164519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 165519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 166519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 170519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 171519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 172519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD 173b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 174b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 175519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 176519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 177519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 178519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 180519bcb79SJohannes Weiner density approach when reclaim will be used. 181519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 182519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig Z3FOLD 183b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 184b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 185519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 186519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 187519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 188519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 189519bcb79SJohannes Weiner still there. 190519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 191519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 192b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 193b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 194519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU 195519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 196519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 197b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 198b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 199519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 200519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 201519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 202519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 203519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 204519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 205519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 206519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 207519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 208519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 209519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2104ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 2114ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 212b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky default 8 2134ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky range 4 16 2144ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky depends on ZSMALLOC 2154ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky help 2164ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 2174ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 2184ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky chain size is calculated for each size class during the 2194ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky initialization of the pool. 2204ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2214ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 2224ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 2234ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 2244ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 2254ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky characteristics. 2264ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2274ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 2284ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 229519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenu "SLAB allocator options" 230519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2317b42f104SJohannes Weinerchoice 2327b42f104SJohannes Weiner prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 2337b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLUB 2347b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2357b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows to select a slab allocator. 2367b42f104SJohannes Weiner 237eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLAB_DEPRECATED 238eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka bool "SLAB (DEPRECATED)" 2397b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on !PREEMPT_RT 2407b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 241eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. Replaced by 242eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka SLUB. 243eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 244eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka If you cannot migrate to SLUB, please contact linux-mm@kvack.org 245eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka and the people listed in the SLAB ALLOCATOR section of MAINTAINERS 246eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka file, explaining why. 247eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 2487b42f104SJohannes Weiner The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 2497b42f104SJohannes Weiner well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 2507b42f104SJohannes Weiner per cpu and per node queues. 2517b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2527b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 2537b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 2547b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2557b42f104SJohannes Weiner SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 2567b42f104SJohannes Weiner instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 2577b42f104SJohannes Weiner Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 2587b42f104SJohannes Weiner of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 2597b42f104SJohannes Weiner and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 2607b42f104SJohannes Weiner a slab allocator. 2617b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2627b42f104SJohannes Weinerendchoice 2637b42f104SJohannes Weiner 264eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLAB 265eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka bool 266eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka default y 267eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka depends on SLAB_DEPRECATED 268eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 269e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY 270e240e53aSVlastimil Babka bool "Configure SLUB for minimal memory footprint" 271e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && EXPERT 272e240e53aSVlastimil Babka select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 273e240e53aSVlastimil Babka help 274e240e53aSVlastimil Babka Configures the SLUB allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 275e240e53aSVlastimil Babka footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 276e240e53aSVlastimil Babka This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 277e240e53aSVlastimil Babka SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 278e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 16MB RAM. 279e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 280e240e53aSVlastimil Babka If unsure, say N. 281e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 2827b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2837b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2847b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 2857b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on SLAB || SLUB 2867b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2877b42f104SJohannes Weiner For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2887b42f104SJohannes Weiner merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2897b42f104SJohannes Weiner This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2907b42f104SJohannes Weiner overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2917b42f104SJohannes Weiner cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2927b42f104SJohannes Weiner by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2937b42f104SJohannes Weiner can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2947b42f104SJohannes Weiner merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2957b42f104SJohannes Weiner command line. 2967b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2977b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2987b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Randomize slab freelist" 299e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 3007b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3017b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 3027b42f104SJohannes Weiner security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 3037b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator against heap overflows. 3047b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3057b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 3067b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 307e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 3087b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3097b42f104SJohannes Weiner Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 3107b42f104SJohannes Weiner other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 3117b42f104SJohannes Weiner sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 3127b42f104SJohannes Weiner freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 3137b42f104SJohannes Weiner sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 3147b42f104SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_SLUB. 3157b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3160710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 3170710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3180710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 319e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 3200710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3210710d012SVlastimil Babka SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 3220710d012SVlastimil Babka order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 3230710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 3240710d012SVlastimil Babka the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 3250710d012SVlastimil Babka supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 3260710d012SVlastimil Babka out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 3270710d012SVlastimil Babka Try running: slabinfo -DA 3280710d012SVlastimil Babka 329519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 330519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default y 331e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && SMP && !SLUB_TINY 332519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 333519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 334519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 335519bcb79SJohannes Weiner that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 336519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 337519bcb79SJohannes Weiner which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 338519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 339519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 340519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendmenu # SLAB allocator options 341519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3427b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3437b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3447b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3457b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3467b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3477b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3487b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3497b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3507b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3517b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3527b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 35323baf831SKirill A. Shutemov default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_ORDER i.e, 10th 35423baf831SKirill A. Shutemov order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 35523baf831SKirill A. Shutemov on x86. 3567b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3577b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3587b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 3597b42f104SJohannes Weiner this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 3607b42f104SJohannes Weiner after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 3617b42f104SJohannes Weiner Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 3627b42f104SJohannes Weiner 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3637b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3647b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3657b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3660710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 3670710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 3680710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 3690710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3700710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 3710710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 3720710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 3730710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 3740710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 3750710d012SVlastimil Babka 3760710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 3770710d012SVlastimil Babka 3780710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 3790710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 3800710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 3810710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3820710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3830710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 3840710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 3850710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 3860710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 3870710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 3880710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 3890710d012SVlastimil Babka 3900710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 3910710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 3920710d012SVlastimil Babka 3930710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 3940710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 3950710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 3960710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 3970710d012SVlastimil Babka 3980710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 3990710d012SVlastimil Babka 400e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 401e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 402a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 403e1785e85SDave Hansen 4043a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 4053a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 406e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 407d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 408e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 409d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 410d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 411d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 412d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 413d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 4143a9da765SDave Hansen 415e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 4163a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 417bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 4183a9da765SDave Hansen help 419d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 420d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 421d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 422d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 4233a9da765SDave Hansen 424d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 425d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 426dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 427d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 428d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 4293a9da765SDave Hansen 430d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 431d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 432d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 433d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 434d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 435d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 436d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 437d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 438d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 439d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 440d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 441d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 442d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4433a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4443a9da765SDave Hansen 445d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 446d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4471a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 448d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 449e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 450e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 451bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 452d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 45393b7504eSDave Hansen# 4543e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 455c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4563e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4573e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4583e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4593e347261SBob Picco# 4603e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4613e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4623e347261SBob Picco# 4633e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4649ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4653e347261SBob Picco 4663e347261SBob Picco# 46744c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 468802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 469802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 470802f192eSBob Picco# 4713e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 4723e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 4733e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4744c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 47529c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 4769ba16087SJan Beulich bool 47729c71111SAndy Whitcroft 47829c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 479a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 480a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 481a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 482a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 483a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 484a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 485a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 4860b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4870b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 4880b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 4890b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4900b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 4910b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V bool 49229c71111SAndy Whitcroft 49370210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 4946341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 49570210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 49667a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 497050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 4986341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 4992667f50eSSteve Capper 50052219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 50152219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 50252219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 503350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 5046341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 505c378ddd5STejun Heo 5061e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 5071e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 5081e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 5091e5d8e1eSDan Williams 510ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 5116341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 512ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 513a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 514a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 515a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 516a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 517a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 518a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 519a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 52046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 52146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 52246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 52346723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 52446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 52546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 52646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 52791024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 52891024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 52991024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 530519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 531519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 532519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5333947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 534519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 535519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 536b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 53771b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 53840b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5397ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 5401e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 5413947be19SDave Hansen 542519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 543519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5448604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 5458604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 5468604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5478604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 5488604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5498604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5508604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5518604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 552cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5538604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5548604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 5558604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 5568604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 5578604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 5588604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5590c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5600c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 561f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5620c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5630c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5640c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 565a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 566a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 567a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 568a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 569a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 570519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 571519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5724c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 5734c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 5744c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 5754c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 5764c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 5777b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 57860bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 57960bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 58060bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 581a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 5824c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 5834c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 5844c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 5859164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 586a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 587a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 58860bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 5894c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 5907cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 591e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 5926341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 593e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 5947cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 59509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 59609316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 5976341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 59809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 59909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 60018468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 60118468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 60218468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 60318468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 60409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 60518468d93SRafael Aquini help 60618468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 60718468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 60818468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 60918468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 61018468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 61118468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 61218468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 61318468d93SRafael Aquini 61418468d93SRafael Aquini# 615e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 616e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 617e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 61805106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 619e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 62033a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 621e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 622b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 623b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 624b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 625b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 626b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 627b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 628b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 629b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 630e9e96b39SMel Gorman 631c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 632c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner int 633c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner depends on COMPACTION 634c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 635c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 1 636c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner 637e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 63836e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 63936e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 64036e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 64136e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 64236e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 64336e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 64436e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 64536e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 64636e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 64736e66c55SAlexander Duyck 64836e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 6497cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 6507cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 6517cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 652b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 6536c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 654de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 655b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 656b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 657e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 658e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 659e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 660e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 661e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6626550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 66376cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 664d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 66576cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 666c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 6676341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 668c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 6699c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 6709c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 6719c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 6724bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 6734bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 6744bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 6754bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 6764bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 6774bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 6784bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 67923baf831SKirill A. Shutemov Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER and will be 68023baf831SKirill A. Shutemov clamped down to MAX_ORDER. 681b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 6828df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 6838df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 6848df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 685600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 686d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 687600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 6882a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 6899ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 6909ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 691ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 6929ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 693ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 694ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 695ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 6962a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 697cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 698cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 69999cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 700fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 701f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 702f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 703f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 70459e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 705f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 706f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 707f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 708f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 709d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 710f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 711f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 712ee65728eSMike Rapoport See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 713c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 714c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 715f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 716e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 717e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 7186e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 719e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 720e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 721e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 722e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 723e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 724e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 725e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 726e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 727e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 728788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 729788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 730788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 731e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 732e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 733e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 734e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 735d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 736d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 737e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 7386a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 7396a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 740d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7416a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 742ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 74397f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 7446a46079cSAndi Kleen help 7456a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7466a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7476a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7486a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7496a46079cSAndi Kleen 750cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 751413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 75227df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 753478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 754cae681fcSAndi Kleen 755fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 756fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 757fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 758fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 759fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 760fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 761fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 762fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 763fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 764fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 765fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 766fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 767fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 768fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 769fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 770fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 771fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 772fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 773fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 774fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 775fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 776fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 777fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 778fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 779fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 780fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 781dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 782bbddff05STejun Heo 783519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 784519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 785519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 786519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 787519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 788519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 789519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 79013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 791554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 7925d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 7933a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 7944c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 7954c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 7964c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 7974c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 7984c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 7994c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 8004c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 8014c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 8024c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 8034c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 804519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 805519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 80613ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 80713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 80813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 80913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 81013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 81113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 81213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 81313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 81413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 81513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 81613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 81713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 81813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 81913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 82013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 82113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 82213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 82313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 82413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 82513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 82613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 82713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 82813ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 82913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 83038d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 83138d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 832dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 83338d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 83438d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 83514fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 83614fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 83738d8b4e6SHuang Ying 83838d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 83938d8b4e6SHuang Ying 840519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 841519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 842519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 843519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 844519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 845519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 846519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 847519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 848519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 849519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 850519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 851519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 852519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 853e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 854bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 855bbddff05STejun Heo# 856bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 8573583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 858bbddff05STejun Heo bool 859bbddff05STejun Heo default y 860077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 8617ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 8627ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8637ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8647ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 8657ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8667ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8677ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 8687ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8697ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8707ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 8717ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8727ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 87327c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 8746e61dde8SChristoph Hellwig bool 875f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 876f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 877f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 878aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 879f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 880f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 881f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 882f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 883f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 884f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 885f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 886f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 887f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 888f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 889f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 890f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 891f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 892f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 893f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 894f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 895f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 896f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 897f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 898f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 899bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 90028b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 90128b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 90228b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 90328b24c1fSSasha Levin help 90428b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 90528b24c1fSSasha Levin 90643ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 90743ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 90843ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 90943ca106fSMinchan Kim help 91043ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 91143ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 91243ca106fSMinchan Kim 913a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 914a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 915a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 916b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 917a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 918a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 919a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 920a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 921a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 922a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 923b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 924a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 925af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 926af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 927af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 928af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 9294e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 930af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 931af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 932af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 933af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 934af8d417aSDan Streetman 9351ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 9364e2e2770SSeth Jennings 9379e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 9389e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 939042d27acSHelge Deller 94022ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 94122ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 94222ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 943042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 944042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 945042d27acSHelge Deller help 946042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 947042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 94822ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 949042d27acSHelge Deller 95022ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9513a80a7faSMel Gorman 9523a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9531ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 954d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 955ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 956889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 957e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 9583a80a7faSMel Gorman help 9593a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 9603a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 9613a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 962e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 963e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 9641ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 9651ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 966033fbae9SDan Williams 9671c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 9681c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 9691c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 9701c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 9711c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 9721c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 9731c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 9741c676e0dSSeongJae Park 97533c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 97633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 97733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 9781c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 97933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 98033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 98133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 98233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 98333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 98433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 9851ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 9861ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 98733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 988c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 989c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 990c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 9912792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 9922792d84eSKees Cook bool 9932792d84eSKees Cook help 9942792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 9952792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 9962792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 9972792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 9982792d84eSKees Cook selected. 9992792d84eSKees Cook 100017596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 100165f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 100265f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 100363703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 100463703f37SKefeng Wang bool 100563703f37SKefeng Wang 100663703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 100763703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 100863703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 100963703f37SKefeng Wang 101063703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 101163703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 101263703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 101363703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 101463703f37SKefeng Wang 1015033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 10165042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1017033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1018033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 101999490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 102017596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 10213a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 1022033fbae9SDan Williams 1023033fbae9SDan Williams help 1024033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1025033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1026033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1027033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1028033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1029033fbae9SDan Williams 1030033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 103106a660adSLinus Torvalds 10329c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 10339c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 10349c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 10359c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 1036c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 10379c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 1038f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1039c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 104014b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION 104114b80582SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM 104214b80582SDan Williams bool 104314b80582SDan Williams 10445042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 10455042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 10467328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 104714b80582SDan Williams select GET_FREE_REGION 10485042db43SJérôme Glisse 10495042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10505042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10515042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 10525042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 10535042db43SJérôme Glisse 10543e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 10553e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 10563e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 105763c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 105863c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 105966d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 106066d37570SDave Hansen bool 106130a5b536SDennis Zhou 1062b0284cd2SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1063b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas bool 1064b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas help 1065b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1066b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1067b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1068b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1069b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas 10700710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 10710710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 10720710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 10730710d012SVlastimil Babka help 10740710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10750710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10760710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10770710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 10780710d012SVlastimil Babka 107930a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 108030a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 108130a5b536SDennis Zhou help 108230a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 108330a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 108430a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 108564c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10869c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 10879c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1088d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 108964c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 10909c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 10919c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 10929c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 109364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10949c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 10959c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 10969c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 10979c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1098f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1099f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1100f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1101f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1102f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1103f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 1104baa489faSSeongJae Park See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 11053010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1106d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1107d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 11083010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 11096ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 111039656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 111139656e83SChristoph Hellwig 1112def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST 1113def85743SKeith Busch tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1114def85743SKeith Busch depends on HAS_DMA 1115def85743SKeith Busch help 1116def85743SKeith Busch Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1117def85743SKeith Busch various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1118def85743SKeith Busch provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1119def85743SKeith Busch dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1120def85743SKeith Busch 11213010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 11223010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 112359e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1124cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1125cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1126cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1127cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1128cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1129cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 1130cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1131cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1132cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 1133cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 1134c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1135c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1136c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1137298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1138298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1139298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1140825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1141825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1142825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 11431fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 11441fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 11451fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 11461507f512SMike Rapoport 1147*626e98cbSThomas Weißschuhconfig MEMFD_CREATE 1148*626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1149*626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh 11501507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 115174947724SLukas Bulwahn default y 115274947724SLukas Bulwahn bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 115374947724SLukas Bulwahn depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 115474947724SLukas Bulwahn help 115574947724SLukas Bulwahn Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 115674947724SLukas Bulwahn memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 115774947724SLukas Bulwahn not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 11581507f512SMike Rapoport 11599a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 11609a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 11619a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 11629a10064fSColin Cross 11639a10064fSColin Cross help 11649a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 11659a10064fSColin Cross 11669a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 11679a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 11689a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 11699a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 11709a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 11719a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 11729a10064fSColin Cross 1173430529b5SPeter Xuconfig USERFAULTFD 1174430529b5SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1175430529b5SPeter Xu depends on MMU 1176430529b5SPeter Xu help 1177430529b5SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1178430529b5SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 1179430529b5SPeter Xu 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 11901db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 119181e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 119281e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 119381e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 11941db9dbc2SPeter Xu 11951db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 11961db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 11971db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 11981db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 11991db9dbc2SPeter Xu 1200ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU { 1201ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN 1202ec1c86b2SYu Zhao bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1203ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on MMU 1204ec1c86b2SYu Zhao # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1205ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1206ec1c86b2SYu Zhao help 120707017acbSYu Zhao A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 120807017acbSYu Zhao Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1209ec1c86b2SYu Zhao 1210354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1211354ed597SYu Zhao bool "Enable by default" 1212354ed597SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1213354ed597SYu Zhao help 1214354ed597SYu Zhao This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1215354ed597SYu Zhao 1216ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS 1217ac35a490SYu Zhao bool "Full stats for debugging" 1218ac35a490SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1219ac35a490SYu Zhao help 1220ac35a490SYu Zhao Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1221ac35a490SYu Zhao from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1222ac35a490SYu Zhao 1223ac35a490SYu Zhao This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1224ac35a490SYu Zhao# } 1225ac35a490SYu Zhao 12260b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 12270b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool n 12280b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12290b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK 12300b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool y 12310b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 12320b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan help 12330b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 12340b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12350b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 12360b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 12370b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 1238c2508ec5SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1239c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds bool 1240c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1241c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds 12422224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 12432224d848SSeongJae Park 124459e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1245