159e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 4e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 5e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 6a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 7e1785e85SDave Hansen 83a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 93a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 10e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 11e1785e85SDave Hansen default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 12d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 13e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 143a9da765SDave Hansen 15e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 163a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 17c898ec16SAnton Blanchard depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 183a9da765SDave Hansen help 193a9da765SDave Hansen This option allows you to change some of the ways that 203a9da765SDave Hansen Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 213a9da765SDave Hansen only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal 223a9da765SDave Hansen and a correct option. 233a9da765SDave Hansen 24d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and 25d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft memory hotplug may have different options here. 2618f65332SGeert Uytterhoeven DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system, 27d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer 28d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between 29d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose 30d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft "Discontiguous Memory". 31d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 32d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 333a9da765SDave Hansen 34e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 35f3519f91SDave Hansen bool "Discontiguous Memory" 363a9da765SDave Hansen depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 373a9da765SDave Hansen help 38785dcd44SDave Hansen This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous 39785dcd44SDave Hansen memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes 40785dcd44SDave Hansen in their physical address spaces, and this option provides 41785dcd44SDave Hansen more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast 42785dcd44SDave Hansen majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and 43ad3d0a38SPhilipp Marek can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that 44785dcd44SDave Hansen this option imposes. 45785dcd44SDave Hansen 46785dcd44SDave Hansen Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option. 47785dcd44SDave Hansen 483a9da765SDave Hansen If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 493a9da765SDave Hansen 50d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 51d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 52d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 53d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 54d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 55d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft memory hotplug systems. This is normal. 56d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 57d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft For many other systems, this will be an alternative to 58f3519f91SDave Hansen "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential 59d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity, 60d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft but it is newer, and more experimental. 61d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 62d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory" 63d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft over this option. 64d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 653a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 663a9da765SDave Hansen 67e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM 68e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 69e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 70e1785e85SDave Hansen 71d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 72d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 731a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 74d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 75e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 76e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 77d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL 78d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 79d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP 80d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 81d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on !SPARSEMEM 82e1785e85SDave Hansen 8393b7504eSDave Hansen# 8493b7504eSDave Hansen# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's 8593b7504eSDave Hansen# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows 8693b7504eSDave Hansen# those dependencies to exist individually. 8793b7504eSDave Hansen# 8893b7504eSDave Hansenconfig NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 8993b7504eSDave Hansen def_bool y 9093b7504eSDave Hansen depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA 91af705362SAndy Whitcroft 92af705362SAndy Whitcroftconfig HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 93af705362SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 94d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM 95802f192eSBob Picco 96802f192eSBob Picco# 973e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 983e347261SBob Picco# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot 993e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 1003e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 1013e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 1023e347261SBob Picco# 1033e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 1043e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 1053e347261SBob Picco# 1063e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1079ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1083e347261SBob Picco 1093e347261SBob Picco# 11044c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 111802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 112802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 113802f192eSBob Picco# 1143e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 1153e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 1163e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1174c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 11829c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 1199ba16087SJan Beulich bool 12029c71111SAndy Whitcroft 12129c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 122a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 123a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 124a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 125a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 126a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 127a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 128a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 12929c71111SAndy Whitcroft 1307c0caeb8STejun Heoconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 1316341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1327c0caeb8STejun Heo 13370210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 1346341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 13570210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 136e585513bSKirill A. Shutemovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_GUP 1376341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1382667f50eSSteve Capper 139c378ddd5STejun Heoconfig ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK 1406341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 141c378ddd5STejun Heo 142ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 1436341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 144ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 14546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 14746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 14846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 15046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 15146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 1523947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 1533947be19SDave Hansenconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1543947be19SDave Hansen bool "Allow for memory hot-add" 155ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 15640b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1573947be19SDave Hansen 158ec69acbbSKeith Manntheyconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE 159ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey def_bool y 160ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 161ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey 1628604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 1638604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 1648604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov default n 1658604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1668604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 1678604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 1688604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 1698604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 1708604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 1718604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. 1728604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1738604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 1748604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 1758604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 1768604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 1778604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1780c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1790c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 18046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu select MEMORY_ISOLATION 181f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 1820c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1830c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 1840c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1854c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 1864c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 1874c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 1884c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 1894c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 1907b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 191a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 1924c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 1934c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 1944c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 1959164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 196a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 197a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 1984c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 1997cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 200e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 2016341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 202e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 2037cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 20409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 20509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 2066341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 20809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 20918468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 21018468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 21118468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 21218468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 21309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 21418468d93SRafael Aquini help 21518468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 21618468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 21718468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 21818468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 21918468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 22018468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 22118468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 22218468d93SRafael Aquini 22318468d93SRafael Aquini# 224e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 225e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 226e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 22705106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 228e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 22933a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 230e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 231b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 232b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 233b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 234b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 235b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 236b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 237b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 238b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 239e9e96b39SMel Gorman 240e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 2417cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 2427cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 2437cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 244b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 2456c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 246de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 247b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 248b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 249e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 250e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 251e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 252e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 253e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 2546550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 255c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 2566341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 257c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 2589c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 2599c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 2609c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 261*8df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 262*8df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 263*8df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 264600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 265d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 266600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 2672a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 2689ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 2699ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 2702a7326b5SChristoph Lameter depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM) 2719ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 2729ca24e2eSVinayak Menon Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access 2739ca24e2eSVinayak Menon the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled 2749ca24e2eSVinayak Menon by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you 2759ca24e2eSVinayak Menon may say n to override this. 2762a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 2776225e937SChristoph Lameterconfig NR_QUICK 2786225e937SChristoph Lameter int 2796225e937SChristoph Lameter depends on QUICKLIST 2806225e937SChristoph Lameter default "1" 281f057eac0SStephen Rothwell 282f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS 2834febd95aSStephen Rothwell bool 2844febd95aSStephen Rothwell help 2854febd95aSStephen Rothwell An architecture should select this if it implements the 2864febd95aSStephen Rothwell deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures 2874febd95aSStephen Rothwell should probably not select this. 2884febd95aSStephen Rothwell 289cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli 290cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 291cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 29283fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 293fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 294f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 295f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 296f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 29759e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 298f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 299f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 300f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 301f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 302d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 303f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 304f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 305ad56b738SMike Rapoport See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 306c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 307c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 308f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 309e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 310e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 3116e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 312e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 313e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 314e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 315e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 316e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 317e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 318e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 319e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 320e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 321788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 322788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 323788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 324e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 325e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 326e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 327e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 328d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 329d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 330e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 3316a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 3326a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 333d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 3346a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 335ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 33697f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 3376a46079cSAndi Kleen help 3386a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 3396a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 3406a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 3416a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 3426a46079cSAndi Kleen 343cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 344413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 34527df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 346478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 347cae681fcSAndi Kleen 348fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 349fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 350fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 351fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 352fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 353fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 354fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 355fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 356fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 357fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 358fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 359fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 360fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 361fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 362fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 363fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 364fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 365fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 366fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 367fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 368fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 369fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 370fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 371fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 372fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 373fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 374fc4d5c29SDavid Howells See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 375bbddff05STejun Heo 3764c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeliconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 37713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 37815626062SGerald Schaefer depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 3795d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 3803a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 3814c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 3824c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 3834c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 3844c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 3854c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 3864c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 3874c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 3884c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 3894c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 3904c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 39113ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 39213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 39313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 39413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 39513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 39613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 39713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 39813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 39913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 40013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 40113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 40213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 40313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 40413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 40513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 40613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 40713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 40813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 40913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 41013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 41113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 41213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 41313ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 41413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 41538d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 41638d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool n 41738d8b4e6SHuang Ying 41838d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 41938d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 42014fef284SHuang Ying depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP 42138d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 42238d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 42314fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 42414fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 42538d8b4e6SHuang Ying 42638d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 42738d8b4e6SHuang Ying 428e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemovconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE 429e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov def_bool y 430953c66c2SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 431e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov 432e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 433bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 434bbddff05STejun Heo# 435bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 436bbddff05STejun Heo depends on !SMP 437bbddff05STejun Heo bool 438bbddff05STejun Heo default y 439077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 440077b1f83SDan Magenheimerconfig CLEANCACHE 441077b1f83SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" 442077b1f83SDan Magenheimer default n 443077b1f83SDan Magenheimer help 444077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache 445077b1f83SDan Magenheimer for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm 446077b1f83SDan Magenheimer (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough 447077b1f83SDan Magenheimer memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use 448140a1ef2SMichael Witten cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into 449077b1f83SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 450077b1f83SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 451077b1f83SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled 452077b1f83SDan Magenheimer filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first 453077b1f83SDan Magenheimer checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, 454077b1f83SDan Magenheimer the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. 455077b1f83SDan Magenheimer When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or 456077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction 457077b1f83SDan Magenheimer may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls 458077b1f83SDan Magenheimer are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting 459077b1f83SDan Magenheimer in a negligible performance hit. 460077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 461077b1f83SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache 46227c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 46327c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 46427c6aec2SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" 46527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer depends on SWAP 46627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer default n 46727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer help 46827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite 46927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into 47027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 47127c6aec2SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 47227c6aec2SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, 47327c6aec2SDan Magenheimer a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is 47427c6aec2SDan Magenheimer available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- 47527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit 47627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. 47727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 47827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. 479f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 480f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 481f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 482aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 483f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 484f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 485f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 486f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 487f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 488f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 489f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 490f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 491f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 492f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 493f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 494f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 495f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 496f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 497f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 498f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 499f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 500f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 501f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 502f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 503bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 50428b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 50528b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 50628b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 50728b24c1fSSasha Levin help 50828b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 50928b24c1fSSasha Levin 510a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 511a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 512a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 513a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 514a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 515a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 516a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 517a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 518a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 519a254129eSJoonsoo Kim If unsure, leave the default value "7". 520a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 521af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 522af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 523af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 524af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 5254e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 526af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 527af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 528af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 529af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 530af8d417aSDan Streetman 5311ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 5324e2e2770SSeth Jennings 5332b281117SSeth Jenningsconfig ZSWAP 5342b281117SSeth Jennings bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5352b281117SSeth Jennings depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y 5362b281117SSeth Jennings select CRYPTO_LZO 53712d79d64SDan Streetman select ZPOOL 5382b281117SSeth Jennings default n 5392b281117SSeth Jennings help 5402b281117SSeth Jennings A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 5412b281117SSeth Jennings pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 5422b281117SSeth Jennings compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 5432b281117SSeth Jennings This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 5442b281117SSeth Jennings in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device 5452b281117SSeth Jennings reads, can also improve workload performance. 5462b281117SSeth Jennings 5472b281117SSeth Jennings This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of 5482b281117SSeth Jennings v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these 5492b281117SSeth Jennings interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, 5502b281117SSeth Jennings they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential 5512b281117SSeth Jennings configurations and workloads that exist. 5522b281117SSeth Jennings 553af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZPOOL 554af8d417aSDan Streetman tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" 555af8d417aSDan Streetman default n 5560f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov help 557af8d417aSDan Streetman Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or 558af8d417aSDan Streetman zsmalloc. 5590f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 560af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZBUD 5619a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" 562af8d417aSDan Streetman default n 563af8d417aSDan Streetman help 564af8d417aSDan Streetman A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 565af8d417aSDan Streetman It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 566af8d417aSDan Streetman page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 567af8d417aSDan Streetman deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 568af8d417aSDan Streetman density approach when reclaim will be used. 569bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 5709a001fc1SVitaly Woolconfig Z3FOLD 5719a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" 5729a001fc1SVitaly Wool depends on ZPOOL 5739a001fc1SVitaly Wool default n 5749a001fc1SVitaly Wool help 5759a001fc1SVitaly Wool A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 5769a001fc1SVitaly Wool It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 5779a001fc1SVitaly Wool page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 5789a001fc1SVitaly Wool still there. 5799a001fc1SVitaly Wool 580bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig ZSMALLOC 581d867f203SMinchan Kim tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" 582bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on MMU 583bcf1647dSMinchan Kim default n 584bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 585bcf1647dSMinchan Kim zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 586bcf1647dSMinchan Kim compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping 587bcf1647dSMinchan Kim in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a 588bcf1647dSMinchan Kim non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is 589bcf1647dSMinchan Kim returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to 590bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access the allocated space. 591bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 592bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig PGTABLE_MAPPING 593bcf1647dSMinchan Kim bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc" 594bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on ZSMALLOC 595bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 596bcf1647dSMinchan Kim By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to 597bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular 598bcf1647dSMinchan Kim architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying, 599bcf1647dSMinchan Kim then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table 600bcf1647dSMinchan Kim mapping rather than copying for object mapping. 601bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 6022216ee85SBen Hutchings You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark: 6032216ee85SBen Hutchings https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench 6049e5c33d7SMark Salter 6050f050d99SGanesh Mahendranconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 6060f050d99SGanesh Mahendran bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 6070f050d99SGanesh Mahendran depends on ZSMALLOC 6080f050d99SGanesh Mahendran select DEBUG_FS 6090f050d99SGanesh Mahendran help 6100f050d99SGanesh Mahendran This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 6110f050d99SGanesh Mahendran statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that 6120f050d99SGanesh Mahendran information to userspace via debugfs. 6130f050d99SGanesh Mahendran If unsure, say N. 6140f050d99SGanesh Mahendran 6159e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 6169e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 617042d27acSHelge Deller 618042d27acSHelge Dellerconfig MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB 619042d27acSHelge Deller int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 620042d27acSHelge Deller default 80 621042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 622042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 623042d27acSHelge Deller help 624042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 625042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 6265f171577SJames Hogan arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory address minus 6275f171577SJames Hogan the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is changed to a 6285f171577SJames Hogan smaller value in which case that is used. 629042d27acSHelge Deller 630042d27acSHelge Deller A sane initial value is 80 MB. 6313a80a7faSMel Gorman 6323a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 6331ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 6343a80a7faSMel Gorman default n 635d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 636ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 637889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 6383a80a7faSMel Gorman help 6393a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 6403a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 6413a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 6423a80a7faSMel Gorman a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel 6431ce22103SVlastimil Babka by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This 6441ce22103SVlastimil Babka has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the 6451ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 6461ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 647033fbae9SDan Williams 64833c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 64933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 65033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 65133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 65233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 65333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 65433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 65533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 65633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 65733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 6581ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 6591ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 66033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 66165f7d049SOliver O'Halloran# arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory 66265f7d049SOliver O'Halloranconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE 66365f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 66465f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 665033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 6665042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 667033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 668033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 66999490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 67065f7d049SOliver O'Halloran depends on ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE 6713a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 672033fbae9SDan Williams 673033fbae9SDan Williams help 674033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 675033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 676033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 677033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 678033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 679033fbae9SDan Williams 680033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 68106a660adSLinus Torvalds 682133ff0eaSJérôme Glisseconfig ARCH_HAS_HMM 683133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse bool 684133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse default y 685133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse depends on (X86_64 || PPC64) 686133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse depends on ZONE_DEVICE 687133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse depends on MMU && 64BIT 688133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 689133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 690133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 691133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse 6926b368cd4SJérôme Glisseconfig MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER 6936b368cd4SJérôme Glisse bool 6946b368cd4SJérôme Glisse 695e7638488SDan Williamsconfig DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 696e7638488SDan Williams bool 697e7638488SDan Williams 698133ff0eaSJérôme Glisseconfig HMM 699133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse bool 7006b368cd4SJérôme Glisse select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER 701133ff0eaSJérôme Glisse 702c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 703c0b12405SJérôme Glisse bool "HMM mirror CPU page table into a device page table" 704c0b12405SJérôme Glisse depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM 705c0b12405SJérôme Glisse select MMU_NOTIFIER 706c0b12405SJérôme Glisse select HMM 707c0b12405SJérôme Glisse help 708c0b12405SJérôme Glisse Select HMM_MIRROR if you want to mirror range of the CPU page table of a 709c0b12405SJérôme Glisse process into a device page table. Here, mirror means "keep synchronized". 710c0b12405SJérôme Glisse Prerequisites: the device must provide the ability to write-protect its 711c0b12405SJérôme Glisse page tables (at PAGE_SIZE granularity), and must be able to recover from 712c0b12405SJérôme Glisse the resulting potential page faults. 713c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 7145042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 7155042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 7165042db43SJérôme Glisse depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM 717df6ad698SJérôme Glisse select HMM 718e7638488SDan Williams select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 7195042db43SJérôme Glisse 7205042db43SJérôme Glisse help 7215042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 7225042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 7235042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 7245042db43SJérôme Glisse 725df6ad698SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PUBLIC 726df6ad698SJérôme Glisse bool "Addressable device memory (like GPU memory)" 727df6ad698SJérôme Glisse depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM 728df6ad698SJérôme Glisse select HMM 729e7638488SDan Williams select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 730df6ad698SJérôme Glisse 731df6ad698SJérôme Glisse help 732df6ad698SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent addressable device 733df6ad698SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is accessible from both the device and 734df6ad698SJérôme Glisse the CPU 735df6ad698SJérôme Glisse 7368025e5ddSJan Karaconfig FRAME_VECTOR 7378025e5ddSJan Kara bool 73863c17fb8SDave Hansen 73963c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 74063c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 74166d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 74266d37570SDave Hansen bool 74330a5b536SDennis Zhou 74430a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 74530a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 74630a5b536SDennis Zhou default n 74730a5b536SDennis Zhou help 74830a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 74930a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 75030a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 75164c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 75264c349f4SKirill A. Shutemovconfig GUP_BENCHMARK 75364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking" 75464c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov default n 75564c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 75664c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_benchmark that helps with testing 75764c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov performance of get_user_pages_fast(). 75864c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 75964c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c 7603010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 7613010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 7623010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 76359e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 76459e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 765