1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 57b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 87b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool 117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 12b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL 13b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool 14b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 15519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP 167b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 177b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 187b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 197b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 207b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217b42f104SJohannes Weiner for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 227b42f104SJohannes Weiner used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 237b42f104SJohannes Weiner in your computer. If unsure say Y. 247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 25519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP 26fcab9b44SDavid Heidelberg bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on SWAP 28b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 29519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 351a44131dSSophia Gabriella in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 36519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 38b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 48b5ba474fSNhat Phamconfig ZSWAP_SHRINKER_DEFAULT_ON 49b5ba474fSNhat Pham bool "Shrink the zswap pool on memory pressure" 50b5ba474fSNhat Pham depends on ZSWAP 51b5ba474fSNhat Pham default n 52b5ba474fSNhat Pham help 53b5ba474fSNhat Pham If selected, the zswap shrinker will be enabled, and the pages 54b5ba474fSNhat Pham stored in the zswap pool will become available for reclaim (i.e 55b5ba474fSNhat Pham written back to the backing swap device) on memory pressure. 56b5ba474fSNhat Pham 57b5ba474fSNhat Pham This means that zswap writeback could happen even if the pool is 58b5ba474fSNhat Pham not yet full, or the cgroup zswap limit has not been reached, 59b5ba474fSNhat Pham reducing the chance that cold pages will reside in the zswap pool 60b5ba474fSNhat Pham and consume memory indefinitely. 61b5ba474fSNhat Pham 62519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 63b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 64519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 65519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 66519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 67519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 73519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 79519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 80519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 83519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 85519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 86519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 89519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 91519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 92519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 95519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 97519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 98519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 101519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 102519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 104519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 107519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 108519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 110519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 113519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 115519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 117519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 118519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 120519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 128519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 129b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 13143d746dcSDavid Hildenbrand default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC if HAVE_ZSMALLOC 132519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 135519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 141519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 143519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 144519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zbud" 145519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZBUD 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 147519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 149519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 150519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "z3fold" 151519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select Z3FOLD 152519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 155519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 156519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 15743d746dcSDavid Hildenbrand depends on HAVE_ZSMALLOC 158519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 159519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 161519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 162519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 163519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 164519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 165519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 166519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 170519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 171519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD 172b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 173b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 174519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 175519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 176519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 177519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 178519bcb79SJohannes Weiner deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner density approach when reclaim will be used. 180519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 181519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig Z3FOLD 182b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 183b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 184519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 185519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 186519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 187519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 188519bcb79SJohannes Weiner still there. 189519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 19043d746dcSDavid Hildenbrandconfig HAVE_ZSMALLOC 19143d746dcSDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 19243d746dcSDavid Hildenbrand depends on MMU 19343d746dcSDavid Hildenbrand depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # we want <= 64 KiB 19443d746dcSDavid Hildenbrand 195519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 196b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 197b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 19843d746dcSDavid Hildenbrand depends on HAVE_ZSMALLOC 199519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 200519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 201b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 202b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 203519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 204519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 205519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 206519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 207519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 208519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 209519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 210519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 211519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 212519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 213519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2144ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 2154ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 216b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky default 8 2174ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky range 4 16 2184ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky depends on ZSMALLOC 2194ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky help 2204ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 2214ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 2224ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky chain size is calculated for each size class during the 2234ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky initialization of the pool. 2244ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2254ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 2264ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 2274ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 2284ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 2294ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky characteristics. 2304ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2314ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 2324ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2332a19be61SVlastimil Babkamenu "Slab allocator options" 2347b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2357b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 2362a19be61SVlastimil Babka def_bool y 237eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 238e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY 2392a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 2402a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT 241e240e53aSVlastimil Babka select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 242e240e53aSVlastimil Babka help 2432a19be61SVlastimil Babka Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 244e240e53aSVlastimil Babka footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 245e240e53aSVlastimil Babka This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 246e240e53aSVlastimil Babka SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 247e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 16MB RAM. 248e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 249e240e53aSVlastimil Babka If unsure, say N. 250e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 2517b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2527b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2537b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 2547b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2557b42f104SJohannes Weiner For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2567b42f104SJohannes Weiner merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2577b42f104SJohannes Weiner This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2587b42f104SJohannes Weiner overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2597b42f104SJohannes Weiner cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2607b42f104SJohannes Weiner by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2617b42f104SJohannes Weiner can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2627b42f104SJohannes Weiner merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2637b42f104SJohannes Weiner command line. 2647b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2657b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2667b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Randomize slab freelist" 2672a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2687b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2697b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2707b42f104SJohannes Weiner security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2717b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator against heap overflows. 2727b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2737b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2747b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 2752a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2767b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2777b42f104SJohannes Weiner Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 2787b42f104SJohannes Weiner other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 2797b42f104SJohannes Weiner sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 2802a19be61SVlastimil Babka freelist exploit methods. 2817b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2820710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 2830710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 2842a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable performance statistics" 2852a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 2860710d012SVlastimil Babka help 2872a19be61SVlastimil Babka The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 2880710d012SVlastimil Babka order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 2890710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 2900710d012SVlastimil Babka the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 2910710d012SVlastimil Babka supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 2920710d012SVlastimil Babka out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 2930710d012SVlastimil Babka Try running: slabinfo -DA 2940710d012SVlastimil Babka 295519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 296519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default y 2972a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 2982a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 299519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 300519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 301519bcb79SJohannes Weiner that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 302519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 303519bcb79SJohannes Weiner which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 304519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 305519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3063c615294SGONG, Ruiqiconfig RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 3073c615294SGONG, Ruiqi default n 3082a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 3093c615294SGONG, Ruiqi bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 3103c615294SGONG, Ruiqi help 3113c615294SGONG, Ruiqi A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 3123c615294SGONG, Ruiqi normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 3133c615294SGONG, Ruiqi on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 3143c615294SGONG, Ruiqi vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 3153c615294SGONG, Ruiqi memory vulnerabilities. 3163c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3173c615294SGONG, Ruiqi Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 3183c615294SGONG, Ruiqi that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 3193c615294SGONG, Ruiqi subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 3203c615294SGONG, Ruiqi limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 3213c615294SGONG, Ruiqi system workload. 3223c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3232a19be61SVlastimil Babkaendmenu # Slab allocator options 324519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3257b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3267b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3277b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3287b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3297b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3307b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3317b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3327b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3337b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3347b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3357b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 3365e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 33723baf831SKirill A. Shutemov order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 33823baf831SKirill A. Shutemov on x86. 3397b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3407b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3417b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 342b413f9cdSMaíra Canal this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even 343b413f9cdSMaíra Canal if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled 344b413f9cdSMaíra Canal with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3457b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3467b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3477b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3480710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 3490710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 3500710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 3510710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3520710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 3530710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 3540710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 3550710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 3560710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 3570710d012SVlastimil Babka 3580710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 3590710d012SVlastimil Babka 3600710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 3610710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 3620710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 3630710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3640710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3650710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 3660710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 3670710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 3680710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 3690710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 3700710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 3710710d012SVlastimil Babka 3720710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 3730710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 3740710d012SVlastimil Babka 3750710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 3760710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 3770710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 3780710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 3790710d012SVlastimil Babka 3800710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 3810710d012SVlastimil Babka 382e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 383e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 384a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 385e1785e85SDave Hansen 3863a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 3873a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 388e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 389d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 390e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 391d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 392d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 393d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 394d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 395d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 3963a9da765SDave Hansen 397e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 3983a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 399bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 4003a9da765SDave Hansen help 401d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 402d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 403d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 404d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 4053a9da765SDave Hansen 406d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 407d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 408dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 409d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 410d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 4113a9da765SDave Hansen 412d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 413d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 414d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 415d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 416d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 417d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 418d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 419d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 420d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 421d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 422d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 423d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 424d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4253a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4263a9da765SDave Hansen 427d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 428d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4291a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 430d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 431e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 432e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 433bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 434d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 43593b7504eSDave Hansen# 4363e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 437c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4383e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4393e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4403e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4413e347261SBob Picco# 4423e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4433e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4443e347261SBob Picco# 4453e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4469ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4473e347261SBob Picco 4483e347261SBob Picco# 44944c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 450802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 451802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 452802f192eSBob Picco# 4533e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 4543e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 4553e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4564c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 45729c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 4589ba16087SJan Beulich bool 45929c71111SAndy Whitcroft 46029c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 461a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 462a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 463a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 464a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 465a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 466a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 467a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 4680b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4690b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 4700b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 4710b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4720b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 4730b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 4740b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V 4750b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 4760b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V bool 47729c71111SAndy Whitcroft 47870210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 4796341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 48070210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 48125176ad0SDavid Hildenbrandconfig HAVE_GUP_FAST 482050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 4836341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 4842667f50eSSteve Capper 48552219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 48652219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 48752219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 488350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 4896341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 490c378ddd5STejun Heo 4911e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 4921e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 4931e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 4941e5d8e1eSDan Williams 495ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 4966341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 497ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 498a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 499a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 500a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 501a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 502a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 503a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 504a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 50546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 50646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 50746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 50846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 50946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 51046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 51146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 51291024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 51391024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 51491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 515519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 516519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 517519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5183947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 519519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 520519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 521b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 52271b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 52340b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5247ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 5251e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 5263947be19SDave Hansen 527519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 528519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5298604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 5308604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 5318604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5328604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 5338604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5348604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5358604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5368604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 537cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5388604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5398604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 5408604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 5418604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 5428604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 5438604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5440c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5450c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 546f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5470c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5480c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5490c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 550a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 551a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 552a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 553a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 554a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 555519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 556519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 55704d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 55804d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 55904d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V 5604c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 5614c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 5624c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 5634c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 5644c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 5657b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 56660bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 56760bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 56860bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 569a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 5704c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 5714c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 5724c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 5739164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 574a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 575a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 57660bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 5774c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 5787cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 579e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 5806341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 581e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 5827cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 58309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 58409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 5856341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 58609316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 58709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 58818468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 58918468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 59018468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 591cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 59209316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 59318468d93SRafael Aquini help 59418468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 59518468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 59618468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 59718468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 59818468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 59918468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 60018468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 60118468d93SRafael Aquini 60218468d93SRafael Aquini# 603e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 604e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 605e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 606cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 607e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 60833a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 609e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 610b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 611b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 612b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 613b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 614b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 615b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 616b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 617b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 618e9e96b39SMel Gorman 619c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 620c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner int 621c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner depends on COMPACTION 622c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 623c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 1 624c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner 625e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 62636e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 62736e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 62836e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 62936e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 63036e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 63136e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 63236e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 63336e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 63436e66c55SAlexander Duyck 63536e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 6367cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 6377cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 6387cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 639b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 640cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 641de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 642b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 643b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 644e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 645e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 646e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 647e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 648e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6496550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 65076cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 651d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 65276cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 653c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 6546341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 655c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 6569c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 6579c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 6589c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 6594bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 6604bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 6614bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 6624bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 6634bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 6644bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 6654bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 6665e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 6675e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 668b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 6698df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 6708df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 6718df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 67252166607SHuang Yingconfig PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 67352166607SHuang Ying int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 67452166607SHuang Ying default 5 67552166607SHuang Ying range 0 6 67652166607SHuang Ying help 67752166607SHuang Ying In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 67852166607SHuang Ying batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 67952166607SHuang Ying allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 68052166607SHuang Ying latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 68152166607SHuang Ying the maximum latency. 68252166607SHuang Ying 683600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 684d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 685600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 6862a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 6879ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 6889ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 689ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 6909ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 691ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 692ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 693ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 6942a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 695cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 696cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 69799cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 698fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 699f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 700f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 701f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 70259e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 703f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 704f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 705f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 706f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 707d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 708f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 709f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 710ee65728eSMike Rapoport See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 711c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 712c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 713f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 714e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 715e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 7166e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 717e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 718e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 719e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 720e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 721e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 722e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 72334f7c528SJavier Martinez Canillas For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 724e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 725e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 726788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 727788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 728788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 729e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 730e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 731e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 732e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 733d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 734d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 735e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 7366a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 7376a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 738d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7396a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 740ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 74197f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 7426a46079cSAndi Kleen help 7436a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7446a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7456a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7466a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7476a46079cSAndi Kleen 748cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 749413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 75027df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 751478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 752cae681fcSAndi Kleen 753fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 754fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 755fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 756fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 757fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 758fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 759fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 760fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 761fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 762fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 763fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 764fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 765fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 766fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 767fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 768fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 769fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 770fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 771fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 772fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 773fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 774fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 775fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 776fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 777fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 778fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 779dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 780bbddff05STejun Heo 781519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 782519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 783519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 784519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 785519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 786519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 787519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 78813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 789554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 7905d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 7913a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 7924c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 7934c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 7944c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 7954c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 7964c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 7974c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 7984c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 7994c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 8004c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 8014c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 802519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 803519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 80413ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 80513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 80613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 80713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 80813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 80913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 81013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 81113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 81213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 81313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 81413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 81513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 81613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 81713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 81813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 81913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 82013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 82113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 82213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 82313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 82413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 82513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 826683ec99fSDmytro Maluka 827683ec99fSDmytro Maluka config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 828683ec99fSDmytro Maluka bool "never" 829683ec99fSDmytro Maluka help 830683ec99fSDmytro Maluka Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 831683ec99fSDmytro Maluka enabled at runtime via sysfs. 83213ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 83313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 83438d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 83538d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 836dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 83738d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 83838d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 83914fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 84014fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 84138d8b4e6SHuang Ying 84238d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 84338d8b4e6SHuang Ying 844519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 845519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 846519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 847519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 848519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 849519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 850519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 851519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 852519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 853519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 854519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 855519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 856519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 857e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 858ac3830c3SPeter Xu# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 859ac3830c3SPeter Xu# 860ac3830c3SPeter Xuconfig PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 861ac3830c3SPeter Xu def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 862ac3830c3SPeter Xu 863ac3830c3SPeter Xu# 864bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 865bbddff05STejun Heo# 866bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 8673583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 868bbddff05STejun Heo bool 869bbddff05STejun Heo default y 870077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 8717ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 8727ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8737ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8747ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 8757ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8767ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8777ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 8787ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8797ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8807ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 8817ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8827ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 883f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 884f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 885aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 886f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 887f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 888f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 889f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 890f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 891f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 892f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 893f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 894f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 895f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 896f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 897f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 89828b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 89928b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 90028b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 90128b24c1fSSasha Levin help 90228b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 90328b24c1fSSasha Levin 90443ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 90543ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 90643ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 90743ca106fSMinchan Kim help 90843ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 90943ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 91043ca106fSMinchan Kim 911a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 912a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 913a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 91473307523SAnshuman Khandual default 20 if NUMA 91573307523SAnshuman Khandual default 8 916a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 917a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 918a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 919a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 920a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 92173307523SAnshuman Khandual If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 922a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 923af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 924af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 925af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 926af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 9274e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 928af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 929af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 930af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 931af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 932af8d417aSDan Streetman 9331ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 9344e2e2770SSeth Jennings 9359e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 9369e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 937042d27acSHelge Deller 93822ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 93922ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 94022ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 941042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 942042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 943042d27acSHelge Deller help 944042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 945042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 94622ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 947042d27acSHelge Deller 94822ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9493a80a7faSMel Gorman 9503a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9511ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 952d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 953ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 954889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 955*854fa98dSIlya Leoshkevich depends on !KMSAN 956e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 9573a80a7faSMel Gorman help 9583a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 9593a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 9603a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 961e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 962e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 9631ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 9641ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 965033fbae9SDan Williams 9661c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 9671c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 9681c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 9691c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 9701c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 9711c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 9721c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 9731c676e0dSSeongJae Park 97433c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 97533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 97633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 9771c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 97833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 97933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 98033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 98133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 98233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 98333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 9841ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 9851ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 98633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 9878690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 9888690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 9898690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# aliasing) need to select this. 9908690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 9918690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers bool 9928690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers 993c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 994c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 995c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 9962792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 9972792d84eSKees Cook bool 9982792d84eSKees Cook help 9992792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 10002792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 10012792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 10022792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 10032792d84eSKees Cook selected. 10042792d84eSKees Cook 100517596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 100665f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 100765f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 100863703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 100963703f37SKefeng Wang bool 101063703f37SKefeng Wang 101163703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 101263703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 101363703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 101463703f37SKefeng Wang 101563703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 101663703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 101763703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 101863703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 101963703f37SKefeng Wang 1020033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 10215042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1022033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1023033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 102499490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 102517596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 10263a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 1027033fbae9SDan Williams 1028033fbae9SDan Williams help 1029033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1030033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1031033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1032033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1033033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1034033fbae9SDan Williams 1035033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 103606a660adSLinus Torvalds 10379c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 10389c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 10399c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 10409c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 1041c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 10429c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 1043f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1044c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 104514b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION 104614b80582SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM 104714b80582SDan Williams bool 104814b80582SDan Williams 10495042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 10505042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 10517328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 105214b80582SDan Williams select GET_FREE_REGION 10535042db43SJérôme Glisse 10545042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10555042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10565042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 10575042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 10585042db43SJérôme Glisse 10593e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 10603e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 10613e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 106263c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 106363c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 106466d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 106566d37570SDave Hansen bool 106630a5b536SDennis Zhou 1067b0284cd2SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1068b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas bool 1069b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas help 1070b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1071b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1072b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1073b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1074b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas 10750710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 10760710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 10770710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 10780710d012SVlastimil Babka help 10790710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10800710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10810710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10820710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 10830710d012SVlastimil Babka 108430a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 108530a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 108630a5b536SDennis Zhou help 108730a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 108830a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 108930a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 109064c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10919c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 10929c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1093d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 109464c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 10959c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 10969c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 10979c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 109864c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10999c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 11009c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 11019c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 11029c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1103f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1104f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1105f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1106f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1107f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1108f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 1109baa489faSSeongJae Park See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 11103010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1111d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1112d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 11133010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 11146ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 111539656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 111639656e83SChristoph Hellwig 1117def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST 1118def85743SKeith Busch tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1119def85743SKeith Busch depends on HAS_DMA 1120def85743SKeith Busch help 1121def85743SKeith Busch Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1122def85743SKeith Busch various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1123def85743SKeith Busch provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1124def85743SKeith Busch dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1125def85743SKeith Busch 11263010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 11273010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 112859e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1129cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1130cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1131cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1132cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1133cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1134cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 1135cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1136cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1137cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 1138cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 1139c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1140c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1141c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1142298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1143298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1144298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1145825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1146825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1147825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 11481fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 11491fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 11501fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 11511507f512SMike Rapoport 1152626e98cbSThomas Weißschuhconfig MEMFD_CREATE 1153626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1154626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh 11551507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 115674947724SLukas Bulwahn default y 115774947724SLukas Bulwahn bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 115874947724SLukas Bulwahn depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 115974947724SLukas Bulwahn help 116074947724SLukas Bulwahn Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 116174947724SLukas Bulwahn memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 116274947724SLukas Bulwahn not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 11631507f512SMike Rapoport 11649a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 11659a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 11669a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 11679a10064fSColin Cross 11689a10064fSColin Cross help 11699a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 11709a10064fSColin Cross 11719a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 11729a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 11739a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 11749a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 11759a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 11769a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 11779a10064fSColin Cross 1178430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1179430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1180430529b5SPeter Xu help 1181430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1182430529b5SPeter Xu 1183430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1184430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1185430529b5SPeter Xu help 1186430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1187430529b5SPeter Xu 118897219cc3SPeter Xumenuconfig USERFAULTFD 118997219cc3SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 119097219cc3SPeter Xu depends on MMU 119197219cc3SPeter Xu help 119297219cc3SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 119397219cc3SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 119497219cc3SPeter Xu 119597219cc3SPeter Xuif USERFAULTFD 11961db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 119781e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 119881e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 119981e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 12001db9dbc2SPeter Xu 12011db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 12021db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 12031db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 12041db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 120597219cc3SPeter Xuendif # USERFAULTFD 12061db9dbc2SPeter Xu 1207ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU { 1208ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN 1209ec1c86b2SYu Zhao bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1210ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on MMU 1211ec1c86b2SYu Zhao # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1212ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1213ec1c86b2SYu Zhao help 121407017acbSYu Zhao A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 121507017acbSYu Zhao Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1216ec1c86b2SYu Zhao 1217354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1218354ed597SYu Zhao bool "Enable by default" 1219354ed597SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1220354ed597SYu Zhao help 1221354ed597SYu Zhao This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1222354ed597SYu Zhao 1223ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS 1224ac35a490SYu Zhao bool "Full stats for debugging" 1225ac35a490SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1226ac35a490SYu Zhao help 1227ac35a490SYu Zhao Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1228ac35a490SYu Zhao from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1229ac35a490SYu Zhao 1230ac35a490SYu Zhao This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 123161dd3f24SKinsey Ho 123261dd3f24SKinsey Hoconfig LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 123361dd3f24SKinsey Ho def_bool y 123461dd3f24SKinsey Ho depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1235ac35a490SYu Zhao# } 1236ac35a490SYu Zhao 12370b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 12380b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool n 12390b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12400b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK 12410b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool y 12420b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 12430b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan help 12440b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 12450b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12460b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 12470b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 12480b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 1249c2508ec5SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1250c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds bool 1251c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1252c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds 12538f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpeconfig IOMMU_MM_DATA 12548f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe bool 12558f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe 125612af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM)config EXECMEM 125712af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM) bool 125812af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM) 12592224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 12602224d848SSeongJae Park 126159e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1262