1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 5e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 6e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 7a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 8e1785e85SDave Hansen 93a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 103a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 11e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 12d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 13e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 14d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 15d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 16d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 17d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 18d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 193a9da765SDave Hansen 20e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 213a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 22c898ec16SAnton Blanchard depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 233a9da765SDave Hansen help 24d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 25d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 26d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 27d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 283a9da765SDave Hansen 29d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 30d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 31dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 32d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 33d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 343a9da765SDave Hansen 35e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 36f3519f91SDave Hansen bool "Discontiguous Memory" 373a9da765SDave Hansen depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 383a9da765SDave Hansen help 39785dcd44SDave Hansen This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous 40785dcd44SDave Hansen memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes 41785dcd44SDave Hansen in their physical address spaces, and this option provides 42d66d109dSMike Rapoport more efficient handling of these holes. 43785dcd44SDave Hansen 44d66d109dSMike Rapoport Although "Discontiguous Memory" is still used by several 45d66d109dSMike Rapoport architectures, it is considered deprecated in favor of 46d66d109dSMike Rapoport "Sparse Memory". 47785dcd44SDave Hansen 48d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Sparse 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 55d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 56d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 57d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 58d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 59d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 60d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 61d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 62d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 633a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 643a9da765SDave Hansen 65e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM 66e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 67e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 68e1785e85SDave Hansen 69d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 70d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 711a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 72d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 73e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 74e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 75d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL 76d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 77d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP 78d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 79d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on !SPARSEMEM 80e1785e85SDave Hansen 8193b7504eSDave Hansen# 8293b7504eSDave Hansen# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's 8393b7504eSDave Hansen# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows 8493b7504eSDave Hansen# those dependencies to exist individually. 8593b7504eSDave Hansen# 8693b7504eSDave Hansenconfig NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 8793b7504eSDave Hansen def_bool y 8893b7504eSDave Hansen depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA 89af705362SAndy Whitcroft 90802f192eSBob Picco# 913e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 92c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 933e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 943e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 953e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 963e347261SBob Picco# 973e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 983e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 993e347261SBob Picco# 1003e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1019ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1023e347261SBob Picco 1033e347261SBob Picco# 10444c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 105802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 106802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 107802f192eSBob Picco# 1083e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 1093e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 1103e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1114c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 11229c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 1139ba16087SJan Beulich bool 11429c71111SAndy Whitcroft 11529c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 116a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 117a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 118a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 119a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 120a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 121a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 122a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 12329c71111SAndy Whitcroft 12470210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 1256341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 12670210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 12767a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 128050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1296341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1302667f50eSSteve Capper 13152219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 13252219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 13352219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 134350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 1356341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 136c378ddd5STejun Heo 1371e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 1381e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 1391e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 1401e5d8e1eSDan Williams 141ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 1426341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 143ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 14446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 14646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 14746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 14946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 15046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 15191024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 15291024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 15391024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 1543947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 1553947be19SDave Hansenconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1563947be19SDave Hansen bool "Allow for memory hot-add" 157b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 158ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 15940b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 160b59d02edSMichal Hocko depends on 64BIT || BROKEN 1611e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 1623947be19SDave Hansen 163ec69acbbSKeith Manntheyconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE 164ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey def_bool y 165ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 166ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey 1678604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 1688604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 1698604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1708604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 1718604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 1728604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 1738604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 1748604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 175cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1768604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1778604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 1788604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 1798604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 1808604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 1818604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 18291024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 18391024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 18491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 1850c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1860c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 187f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 1880c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1890c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 1900c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 191*a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 192*a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 193*a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 194*a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 195*a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 1964c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 1974c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 1984c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 1994c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 2004c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 2017b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 20260bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 20360bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 20460bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 205a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 2064c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 2074c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 2084c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 2099164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 210a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 211a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 21260bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 2134c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 2147cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 215e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 2166341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 217e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 2187cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 21909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 22009316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 2216341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 22209316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 22309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 22418468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 22518468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 22618468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 22718468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 22809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 22918468d93SRafael Aquini help 23018468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 23118468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 23218468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 23318468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 23418468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 23518468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 23618468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 23718468d93SRafael Aquini 23818468d93SRafael Aquini# 239e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 240e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 241e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 24205106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 243e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 24433a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 245e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 246b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 247b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 248b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 249b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 250b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 251b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 252b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 253b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 254e9e96b39SMel Gorman 255e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 25636e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 25736e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 25836e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 25936e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 26036e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 26136e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 26236e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 26336e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 26436e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 26536e66c55SAlexander Duyck 26636e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 2677cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 2687cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 2697cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 270b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 2716c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 272de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 273b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 274b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 275e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 276e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 277e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 278e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 279e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 2806550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 281c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 2826341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 283c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 2849c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 2859c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 2869c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 2874bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 2884bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 2894bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 2904bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 2914bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 2924bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 2934bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 2948df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 2958df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 2968df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 297600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 298d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 299600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 3002a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 3019ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 3029ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 303ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 3049ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 305ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 306ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 307ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 3082a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 309f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS 3104febd95aSStephen Rothwell bool 3114febd95aSStephen Rothwell help 3124febd95aSStephen Rothwell An architecture should select this if it implements the 3134febd95aSStephen Rothwell deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures 3144febd95aSStephen Rothwell should probably not select this. 3154febd95aSStephen Rothwell 316cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli 317cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 318cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 31983fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 32099cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 321fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 322f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 323f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 324f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 32559e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 326f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 327f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 328f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 329f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 330d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 331f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 332f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 333ad56b738SMike Rapoport See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 334c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 335c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 336f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 337e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 338e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 3396e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 340e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 341e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 342e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 343e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 344e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 345e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 346e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 347e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 348e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 349788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 350788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 351788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 352e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 353e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 354e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 355e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 356d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 357d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 358e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 3596a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 3606a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 361d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 3626a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 363ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 36497f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 3656a46079cSAndi Kleen help 3666a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 3676a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 3686a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 3696a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 3706a46079cSAndi Kleen 371cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 372413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 37327df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 374478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 375cae681fcSAndi Kleen 376fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 377fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 378fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 379fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 380fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 381fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 382fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 383fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 384fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 385fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 386fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 387fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 388fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 389fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 390fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 391fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 392fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 393fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 394fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 395fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 396fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 397fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 398fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 399fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 400fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 401fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 402dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 403bbddff05STejun Heo 4044c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeliconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 40513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 40615626062SGerald Schaefer depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 4075d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 4083a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 4094c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 4104c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 4114c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 4124c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 4134c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 4144c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 4154c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 4164c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 4174c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 4184c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 41913ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 42013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 42113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 42213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 42313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 42413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 42513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 42613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 42713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 42813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 42913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 43013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 43113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 43213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 43313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 43413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 43513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 43613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 43713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 43813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 43913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 44013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 44113ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 44213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 44338d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 44438d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool n 44538d8b4e6SHuang Ying 44638d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 44738d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 44814fef284SHuang Ying depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP 44938d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 45038d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 45114fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 45214fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 45338d8b4e6SHuang Ying 45438d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 45538d8b4e6SHuang Ying 456e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 457bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 458bbddff05STejun Heo# 459bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 460bbddff05STejun Heo depends on !SMP 461bbddff05STejun Heo bool 462bbddff05STejun Heo default y 463077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 464077b1f83SDan Magenheimerconfig CLEANCACHE 465077b1f83SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" 466077b1f83SDan Magenheimer help 467077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache 468077b1f83SDan Magenheimer for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm 469077b1f83SDan Magenheimer (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough 470077b1f83SDan Magenheimer memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use 471140a1ef2SMichael Witten cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into 472077b1f83SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 473077b1f83SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 474077b1f83SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled 475077b1f83SDan Magenheimer filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first 476077b1f83SDan Magenheimer checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, 477077b1f83SDan Magenheimer the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. 478077b1f83SDan Magenheimer When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or 479077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction 480077b1f83SDan Magenheimer may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls 481077b1f83SDan Magenheimer are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting 482077b1f83SDan Magenheimer in a negligible performance hit. 483077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 484077b1f83SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache 48527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 48627c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 48727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" 48827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer depends on SWAP 48927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer help 49027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite 49127c6aec2SDan Magenheimer of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into 49227c6aec2SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 49327c6aec2SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 49427c6aec2SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, 49527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is 49627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- 49727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit 49827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. 49927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 50027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. 501f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 502f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 503f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 504aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 505f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 506f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 507f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 508f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 509f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 510f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 511f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 512f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 513f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 514f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 515f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 516f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 517f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 518f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 519f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 520f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 521f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 522f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 523f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 524f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 525bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 52628b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 52728b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 52828b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 52928b24c1fSSasha Levin help 53028b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 53128b24c1fSSasha Levin 53243ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 53343ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 53443ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 53543ca106fSMinchan Kim help 53643ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 53743ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 53843ca106fSMinchan Kim 539a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 540a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 541a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 542b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 543a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 544a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 545a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 546a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 547a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 548a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 549b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 550a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 551af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 552af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 553af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 554af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 5554e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 556af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 557af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 558af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 559af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 560af8d417aSDan Streetman 5611ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 5624e2e2770SSeth Jennings 5632b281117SSeth Jenningsconfig ZSWAP 5642b281117SSeth Jennings bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5652b281117SSeth Jennings depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y 56612d79d64SDan Streetman select ZPOOL 5672b281117SSeth Jennings help 5682b281117SSeth Jennings A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 5692b281117SSeth Jennings pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 5702b281117SSeth Jennings compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 5712b281117SSeth Jennings This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 5722b281117SSeth Jennings in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device 5732b281117SSeth Jennings reads, can also improve workload performance. 5742b281117SSeth Jennings 5752b281117SSeth Jennings This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of 5762b281117SSeth Jennings v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these 5772b281117SSeth Jennings interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, 5782b281117SSeth Jennings they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential 5792b281117SSeth Jennings configurations and workloads that exist. 5802b281117SSeth Jennings 581bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 582bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default compressor" 583bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 584bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 585bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 586bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 587bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero for swap pages. 588bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 589bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 590bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 591bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero available at the following LWN page: 592bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 593bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 594bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 595bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 596bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 597bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 598bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 599bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 600bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Deflate" 601bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 602bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 603bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 604bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 605bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 606bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZO" 607bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZO 608bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 609bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 610bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 611bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 612bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "842" 613bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_842 614bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 615bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 616bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 617bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 618bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4" 619bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4 620bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 621bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 622bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 623bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 624bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4HC" 625bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 626bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 627bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 628bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 629bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 630bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zstd" 631bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_ZSTD 632bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 633bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 634bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 635bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 636bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 637bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 638bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 639bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 640bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 641bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 642bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 643bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 644bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 645bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 646bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 647bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 648bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default allocator" 649bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 650bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 651bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 652bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 653bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero swap pages. 654bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 655bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero read the description of each of the allocators below before 656bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero making a right choice. 657bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 658bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 659bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 660bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 661bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 662bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zbud" 663bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZBUD 664bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 665bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 666bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 667bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 668bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "z3fold" 669bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select Z3FOLD 670bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 671bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 672bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 673bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 674bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zsmalloc" 675bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZSMALLOC 676bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 677bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 678bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 679bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 680bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 681bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 682bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 683bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 684bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 685bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 686bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 687bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 688bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 689bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 690bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 691bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 692bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 693bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 694bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 695bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 696bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 697bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 698af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZPOOL 699af8d417aSDan Streetman tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" 7000f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov help 701af8d417aSDan Streetman Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or 702af8d417aSDan Streetman zsmalloc. 7030f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 704af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZBUD 7059a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" 706af8d417aSDan Streetman help 707af8d417aSDan Streetman A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 708af8d417aSDan Streetman It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 709af8d417aSDan Streetman page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 710af8d417aSDan Streetman deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 711af8d417aSDan Streetman density approach when reclaim will be used. 712bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 7139a001fc1SVitaly Woolconfig Z3FOLD 7149a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" 7159a001fc1SVitaly Wool depends on ZPOOL 7169a001fc1SVitaly Wool help 7179a001fc1SVitaly Wool A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 7189a001fc1SVitaly Wool It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 7199a001fc1SVitaly Wool page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 7209a001fc1SVitaly Wool still there. 7219a001fc1SVitaly Wool 722bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig ZSMALLOC 723d867f203SMinchan Kim tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" 724bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on MMU 725bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 726bcf1647dSMinchan Kim zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 727bcf1647dSMinchan Kim compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping 728bcf1647dSMinchan Kim in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a 729bcf1647dSMinchan Kim non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is 730bcf1647dSMinchan Kim returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to 731bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access the allocated space. 732bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 7330f050d99SGanesh Mahendranconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 7340f050d99SGanesh Mahendran bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 7350f050d99SGanesh Mahendran depends on ZSMALLOC 7360f050d99SGanesh Mahendran select DEBUG_FS 7370f050d99SGanesh Mahendran help 7380f050d99SGanesh Mahendran This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 73901ab1edeSColin Ian King statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 7400f050d99SGanesh Mahendran information to userspace via debugfs. 7410f050d99SGanesh Mahendran If unsure, say N. 7420f050d99SGanesh Mahendran 7439e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 7449e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 745042d27acSHelge Deller 74622ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 74722ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 74822ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 749042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 750042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 751042d27acSHelge Deller help 752042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 753042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 75422ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 755042d27acSHelge Deller 75622ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 7573a80a7faSMel Gorman 7583a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 7591ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 760d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 761ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 762889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 763e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 7643a80a7faSMel Gorman help 7653a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 7663a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 7673a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 768e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 769e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 7701ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 7711ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 772033fbae9SDan Williams 77333c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 77433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 77533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 77633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 77733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 77833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 77933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 78033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 78133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 78233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 7831ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 7841ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 78533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 786c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 787c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 788c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 78917596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 79065f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 79165f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 792033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 7935042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 794033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 795033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 79699490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 79717596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 7983a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 799033fbae9SDan Williams 800033fbae9SDan Williams help 801033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 802033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 803033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 804033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 805033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 806033fbae9SDan Williams 807033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 80806a660adSLinus Torvalds 809e7638488SDan Williamsconfig DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 810e7638488SDan Williams bool 811e7638488SDan Williams 8129c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 8139c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 8149c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 8159c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 816c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 8179c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 818f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 819c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 8205042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 8215042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 8227328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 823e7638488SDan Williams select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 8245042db43SJérôme Glisse 8255042db43SJérôme Glisse help 8265042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 8275042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 8285042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 8295042db43SJérôme Glisse 8303e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 8313e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 8323e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 83363c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 83463c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 83566d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 83666d37570SDave Hansen bool 83730a5b536SDennis Zhou 83830a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 83930a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 84030a5b536SDennis Zhou help 84130a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 84230a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 84330a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 84464c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8459c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 8469c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 847d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 84864c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 8499c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 8509c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 8519c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 85264c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8539c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 8549c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 8559c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 8569c84f229SJohn Hubbard 857f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 858f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 859f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 860f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 861f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 862f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 8639c84f229SJohn Hubbard See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c 8643010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 865d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 866d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 8673010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 86839656e83SChristoph Hellwigconfig GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH 86939656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 87039656e83SChristoph Hellwig 87199cb0dbdSSong Liuconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 87299cb0dbdSSong Liu bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 873396bcc52SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 87499cb0dbdSSong Liu 87599cb0dbdSSong Liu help 87699cb0dbdSSong Liu Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 87799cb0dbdSSong Liu 87899cb0dbdSSong Liu This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 87999cb0dbdSSong Liu support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 88099cb0dbdSSong Liu cycles. 88199cb0dbdSSong Liu 8823010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 8833010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 88459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 885cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 886cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 887cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 888cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 889cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 890cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 891cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 892cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 893cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 894cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 895c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 896c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 897c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 898298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 899298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 900298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 9011fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 9021fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 9031fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 90459e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 905