1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 5e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 6e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 7a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 8e1785e85SDave Hansen 93a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 103a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 11e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 12d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 13e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 14d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 15d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 16d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 17d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 18d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 193a9da765SDave Hansen 20e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 213a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 22bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 233a9da765SDave Hansen help 24d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 25d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 26d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 27d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 283a9da765SDave Hansen 29d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 30d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 31dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 32d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 33d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 343a9da765SDave Hansen 35d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 36d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 37d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 38d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 39d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 40d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 41d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 42d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 43d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 44d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 45d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 46d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 47d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 483a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 493a9da765SDave Hansen 50d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 51d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 521a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 53d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 54e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 55e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 56bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 57d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 5893b7504eSDave Hansen# 593e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 60c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 613e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 623e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 633e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 643e347261SBob Picco# 653e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 663e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 673e347261SBob Picco# 683e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 699ba16087SJan Beulich bool 703e347261SBob Picco 713e347261SBob Picco# 7244c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 73802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 74802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 75802f192eSBob Picco# 763e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 773e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 783e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 794c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 8029c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 819ba16087SJan Beulich bool 8229c71111SAndy Whitcroft 8329c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 84a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 85a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 86a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 87a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 88a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 89a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 90a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 9129c71111SAndy Whitcroft 9270210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 936341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 9470210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 9567a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 96050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 976341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 982667f50eSSteve Capper 9952219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 10052219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 10152219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 102350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 1036341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 104c378ddd5STejun Heo 1051e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 1061e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 1071e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 1081e5d8e1eSDan Williams 109ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 1106341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 111ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 112a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 113a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 114a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 115a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 116a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 117a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 118a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 11946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 12046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 12146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 12246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 12346723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 12446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 12546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 12691024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 12791024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 12891024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 1293947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 1303947be19SDave Hansenconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1313947be19SDave Hansen bool "Allow for memory hot-add" 132b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 13371b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 13440b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1357ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 1361e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 1373947be19SDave Hansen 1388604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 1398604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 1408604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1418604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 1428604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 1438604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 1448604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 1458604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 146cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1478604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1488604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 1498604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 1508604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 1518604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 1528604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 15391024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 15491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 15591024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 1560c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1570c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 158f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 1590c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1600c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 1610c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 162a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 163a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 164a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 165a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 166a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 1674c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 1684c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 1694c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 1704c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 1714c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 1727b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 17360bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 17460bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 17560bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 176a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 1774c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 1784c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 1794c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 1809164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 181a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 182a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 18360bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 1844c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 1857cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 186e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 1876341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 188e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 1897cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 19009316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 19109316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 1926341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 19409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 19518468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 19618468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 19718468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 19818468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 19909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 20018468d93SRafael Aquini help 20118468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 20218468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 20318468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 20418468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 20518468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 20618468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 20718468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 20818468d93SRafael Aquini 20918468d93SRafael Aquini# 210e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 211e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 212e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 21305106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 214e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 21533a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 216e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 217b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 218b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 219b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 220b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 221b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 222b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 223b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 224b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 225e9e96b39SMel Gorman 226e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 22736e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 22836e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 22936e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 23036e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 23136e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 23236e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 23336e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 23436e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 23536e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 23636e66c55SAlexander Duyck 23736e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 2387cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 2397cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 2407cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 241b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 2426c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 243de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 244b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 245b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 246e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 247e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 248e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 249e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 250e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 2516550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 252*76cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 253*76cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && DEVICE_PRIVATE 254*76cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 255c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 2566341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 257c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 2589c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 2599c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 2609c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 2614bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 2624bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 2634bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 2644bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 2654bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 2664bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 2674bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 2688df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 2698df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 2708df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 271600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 272d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 273600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 2742a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 2759ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 2769ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 277ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 2789ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 279ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 280ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 281ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 2822a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 283f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS 2844febd95aSStephen Rothwell bool 2854febd95aSStephen Rothwell help 2864febd95aSStephen Rothwell An architecture should select this if it implements the 2874febd95aSStephen Rothwell deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures 2884febd95aSStephen Rothwell should probably not select this. 2894febd95aSStephen Rothwell 290cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli 291cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 292cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 29383fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 29499cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 295fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 296f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 297f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 298f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 29959e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 300f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 301f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 302f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 303f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 304d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 305f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 306f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 307ad56b738SMike Rapoport See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 308c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 309c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 310f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 311e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 312e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 3136e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 314e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 315e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 316e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 317e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 318e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 319e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 320e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 321e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 322e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 323788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 324788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 325788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 326e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 327e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 328e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 329e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 330d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 331d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 332e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 3336a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 3346a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 335d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 3366a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 337ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 33897f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 3396a46079cSAndi Kleen help 3406a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 3416a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 3426a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 3436a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 3446a46079cSAndi Kleen 345cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 346413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 34727df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 348478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 349cae681fcSAndi Kleen 350fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 351fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 352fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 353fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 354fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 355fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 356fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 357fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 358fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 359fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 360fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 361fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 362fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 363fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 364fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 365fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 366fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 367fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 368fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 369fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 370fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 371fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 372fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 373fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 374fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 375fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 376dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 377bbddff05STejun Heo 3784c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeliconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 37913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 380554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 3815d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 3823a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 3834c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 3844c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 3854c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 3864c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 3874c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 3884c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 3894c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 3904c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 3914c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 3924c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 39313ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 39413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 39513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 39613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 39713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 39813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 39913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 40013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 40113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 40213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 40313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 40413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 40513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 40613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 40713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 40813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 40913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 41013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 41113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 41213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 41313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 41413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 41513ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 41613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 41738d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 41838d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool n 41938d8b4e6SHuang Ying 42038d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 42138d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 42214fef284SHuang Ying depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP 42338d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 42438d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 42514fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 42614fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 42738d8b4e6SHuang Ying 42838d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 42938d8b4e6SHuang Ying 430e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 431bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 432bbddff05STejun Heo# 433bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 4343583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 435bbddff05STejun Heo bool 436bbddff05STejun Heo default y 437077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 4387ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 4397ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 4407ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 4417ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 4427ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 4437ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 4447ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 4457ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 4467ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 4477ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 4487ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 4497ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 45027c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 4516e61dde8SChristoph Hellwig bool 452f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 453f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 454f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 455aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 456f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 457f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 458f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 459f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 460f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 461f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 462f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 463f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 464f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 465f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 466f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 467f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 468f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 469f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 470f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 471f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 472f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 473f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 474f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 475f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 476bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 47728b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 47828b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 47928b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 48028b24c1fSSasha Levin help 48128b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 48228b24c1fSSasha Levin 48343ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 48443ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 48543ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 48643ca106fSMinchan Kim help 48743ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 48843ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 48943ca106fSMinchan Kim 490a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 491a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 492a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 493b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 494a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 495a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 496a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 497a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 498a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 499a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 500b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 501a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 502af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 503af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 504af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 505af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 5064e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 507af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 508af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 509af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 510af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 511af8d417aSDan Streetman 5121ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 5134e2e2770SSeth Jennings 5142b281117SSeth Jenningsconfig ZSWAP 5152b281117SSeth Jennings bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5166e61dde8SChristoph Hellwig depends on SWAP && CRYPTO=y 5176e61dde8SChristoph Hellwig select FRONTSWAP 51812d79d64SDan Streetman select ZPOOL 5192b281117SSeth Jennings help 5202b281117SSeth Jennings A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 5212b281117SSeth Jennings pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 5222b281117SSeth Jennings compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 5232b281117SSeth Jennings This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 5242b281117SSeth Jennings in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device 5252b281117SSeth Jennings reads, can also improve workload performance. 5262b281117SSeth Jennings 5272b281117SSeth Jennings This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of 5282b281117SSeth Jennings v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these 5292b281117SSeth Jennings interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, 5302b281117SSeth Jennings they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential 5312b281117SSeth Jennings configurations and workloads that exist. 5322b281117SSeth Jennings 533bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 534bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default compressor" 535bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 536bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 537bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 538bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 539bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero for swap pages. 540bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 541bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 542bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 543bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero available at the following LWN page: 544bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 545bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 546bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 547bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 548bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 549bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 550bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 551bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 552bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Deflate" 553bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 554bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 555bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 556bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 557bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 558bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZO" 559bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZO 560bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 561bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 562bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 563bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 564bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "842" 565bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_842 566bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 567bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 568bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 569bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 570bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4" 571bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4 572bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 573bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 574bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 575bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 576bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4HC" 577bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 578bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 579bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 580bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 581bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 582bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zstd" 583bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_ZSTD 584bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 585bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 586bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 587bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 588bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 589bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 590bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 591bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 592bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 593bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 594bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 595bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 596bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 597bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 598bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 599bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 600bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default allocator" 601bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 602bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 603bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 604bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 605bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero swap pages. 606bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 607bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero read the description of each of the allocators below before 608bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero making a right choice. 609bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 610bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 611bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 612bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 613bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 614bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zbud" 615bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZBUD 616bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 617bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 618bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 619bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 620bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "z3fold" 621bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select Z3FOLD 622bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 623bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 624bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 625bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 626bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zsmalloc" 627bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZSMALLOC 628bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 629bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 630bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 631bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 632bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 633bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 634bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 635bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 636bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 637bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 638bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 639bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 640bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 641bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 642bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 643bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 644bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 645bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 646bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 647bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 648bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 649bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 650af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZPOOL 651af8d417aSDan Streetman tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" 6520f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov help 653af8d417aSDan Streetman Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or 654af8d417aSDan Streetman zsmalloc. 6550f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 656af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZBUD 6579a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" 6582a03085cSMiaohe Lin depends on ZPOOL 659af8d417aSDan Streetman help 660af8d417aSDan Streetman A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 661af8d417aSDan Streetman It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 662af8d417aSDan Streetman page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 663af8d417aSDan Streetman deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 664af8d417aSDan Streetman density approach when reclaim will be used. 665bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 6669a001fc1SVitaly Woolconfig Z3FOLD 6679a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" 6689a001fc1SVitaly Wool depends on ZPOOL 6699a001fc1SVitaly Wool help 6709a001fc1SVitaly Wool A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 6719a001fc1SVitaly Wool It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 6729a001fc1SVitaly Wool page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 6739a001fc1SVitaly Wool still there. 6749a001fc1SVitaly Wool 675bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig ZSMALLOC 676d867f203SMinchan Kim tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" 677bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on MMU 678bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 679bcf1647dSMinchan Kim zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 680bcf1647dSMinchan Kim compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping 681bcf1647dSMinchan Kim in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a 682bcf1647dSMinchan Kim non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is 683bcf1647dSMinchan Kim returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to 684bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access the allocated space. 685bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 6860f050d99SGanesh Mahendranconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 6870f050d99SGanesh Mahendran bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 6880f050d99SGanesh Mahendran depends on ZSMALLOC 6890f050d99SGanesh Mahendran select DEBUG_FS 6900f050d99SGanesh Mahendran help 6910f050d99SGanesh Mahendran This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 69201ab1edeSColin Ian King statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 6930f050d99SGanesh Mahendran information to userspace via debugfs. 6940f050d99SGanesh Mahendran If unsure, say N. 6950f050d99SGanesh Mahendran 6969e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 6979e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 698042d27acSHelge Deller 69922ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 70022ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 70122ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 702042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 703042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 704042d27acSHelge Deller help 705042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 706042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 70722ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 708042d27acSHelge Deller 70922ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 7103a80a7faSMel Gorman 7113a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 7121ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 713d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 714ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 715889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 716e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 7173a80a7faSMel Gorman help 7183a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 7193a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 7203a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 721e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 722e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 7231ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 7241ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 725033fbae9SDan Williams 7261c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 7271c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 7281c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 7291c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 7301c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 7311c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 7321c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 7331c676e0dSSeongJae Park 73433c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 73533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 73633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 7371c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 73833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 73933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 74033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 74133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 74233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 74333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 7441ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 7451ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 74633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 747c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 748c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 749c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 75017596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 75165f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 75265f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 75363703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 75463703f37SKefeng Wang bool 75563703f37SKefeng Wang 75663703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 75763703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 75863703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 75963703f37SKefeng Wang 76063703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 76163703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 76263703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 76363703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 76463703f37SKefeng Wang 765033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 7665042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 767033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 768033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 76999490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 77017596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 7713a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 772033fbae9SDan Williams 773033fbae9SDan Williams help 774033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 775033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 776033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 777033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 778033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 779033fbae9SDan Williams 780033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 78106a660adSLinus Torvalds 7829c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 7839c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 7849c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 7859c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 786c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 7879c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 788f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 789c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 7905042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 7915042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 7927328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 7935042db43SJérôme Glisse 7945042db43SJérôme Glisse help 7955042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 7965042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 7975042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 7985042db43SJérôme Glisse 7993e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 8003e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 8013e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 80263c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 80363c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 80466d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 80566d37570SDave Hansen bool 80630a5b536SDennis Zhou 80730a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 80830a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 80930a5b536SDennis Zhou help 81030a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 81130a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 81230a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 81364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8149c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 8159c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 816d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 81764c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 8189c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 8199c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 8209c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 82164c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8229c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 8239c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 8249c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 8259c84f229SJohn Hubbard 826f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 827f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 828f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 829f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 830f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 831f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 8329c84f229SJohn Hubbard See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c 8333010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 834d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 835d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 8363010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 83739656e83SChristoph Hellwigconfig GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH 83839656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 83939656e83SChristoph Hellwig 84099cb0dbdSSong Liuconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 84199cb0dbdSSong Liu bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 842396bcc52SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 84399cb0dbdSSong Liu 84499cb0dbdSSong Liu help 84599cb0dbdSSong Liu Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 84699cb0dbdSSong Liu 84799cb0dbdSSong Liu This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 84899cb0dbdSSong Liu support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 84999cb0dbdSSong Liu cycles. 85099cb0dbdSSong Liu 8513010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 8523010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 85359e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 854cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 855cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 856cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 857cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 858cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 859cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 860cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 861cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 862cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 863cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 864c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 865c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 866c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 867298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 868298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 869298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 870825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 871825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 872825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 8731fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 8741fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 8751fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 8761507f512SMike Rapoport 8771507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 8781507f512SMike Rapoport def_bool ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP && !EMBEDDED 8791507f512SMike Rapoport 8809a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 8819a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 8829a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 8839a10064fSColin Cross 8849a10064fSColin Cross help 8859a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 8869a10064fSColin Cross 8879a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 8889a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 8899a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 8909a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 8919a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 8929a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 8939a10064fSColin Cross 8942224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 8952224d848SSeongJae Park 89659e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 897