1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 57b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 87b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool 117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 12b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL 13b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool 14b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 15519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP 167b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 177b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 187b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 197b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 207b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217b42f104SJohannes Weiner for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 227b42f104SJohannes Weiner used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 237b42f104SJohannes Weiner in your computer. If unsure say Y. 247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 25519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP 26fcab9b44SDavid Heidelberg bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on SWAP 28b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 29519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 351a44131dSSophia Gabriella in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 36519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 38b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 48b5ba474fSNhat Phamconfig ZSWAP_SHRINKER_DEFAULT_ON 49b5ba474fSNhat Pham bool "Shrink the zswap pool on memory pressure" 50b5ba474fSNhat Pham depends on ZSWAP 51b5ba474fSNhat Pham default n 52b5ba474fSNhat Pham help 53b5ba474fSNhat Pham If selected, the zswap shrinker will be enabled, and the pages 54b5ba474fSNhat Pham stored in the zswap pool will become available for reclaim (i.e 55b5ba474fSNhat Pham written back to the backing swap device) on memory pressure. 56b5ba474fSNhat Pham 57b5ba474fSNhat Pham This means that zswap writeback could happen even if the pool is 58b5ba474fSNhat Pham not yet full, or the cgroup zswap limit has not been reached, 59b5ba474fSNhat Pham reducing the chance that cold pages will reside in the zswap pool 60b5ba474fSNhat Pham and consume memory indefinitely. 61b5ba474fSNhat Pham 62519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 63b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 64519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 65519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 66519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 67519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 73519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 79519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 80519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 83519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 85519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 86519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 89519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 91519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 92519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 95519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 97519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 98519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 101519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 102519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 104519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 107519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 108519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 110519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 113519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 115519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 117519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 118519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 120519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 128519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 129b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 13104cb7502SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC if MMU 132519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 135519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 141519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 143519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 144519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zbud" 145519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZBUD 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 147519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 1497a2369b7SYosry Ahmedconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 1507a2369b7SYosry Ahmed bool "z3foldi (DEPRECATED)" 1517a2369b7SYosry Ahmed select Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 152519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 1557a2369b7SYosry Ahmed Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles, 1567a2369b7SYosry Ahmed see CONFIG_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED. 1577a2369b7SYosry Ahmed 158519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 159519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 161519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 162519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 163519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 164519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 165519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 166519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 1697a2369b7SYosry Ahmed default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 170519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 171519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 172519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 173519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD 174b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 175b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 176519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 177519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 178519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 180519bcb79SJohannes Weiner deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 181519bcb79SJohannes Weiner density approach when reclaim will be used. 182519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 1837a2369b7SYosry Ahmedconfig Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 1847a2369b7SYosry Ahmed tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold) (DEPRECATED)" 185b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 186519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 1877a2369b7SYosry Ahmed Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. If you have 1887a2369b7SYosry Ahmed a good reason for using Z3FOLD over ZSMALLOC, please contact 1897a2369b7SYosry Ahmed linux-mm@kvack.org and the zswap maintainers. 1907a2369b7SYosry Ahmed 191519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 192519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 193519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 194519bcb79SJohannes Weiner still there. 195519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 1967a2369b7SYosry Ahmedconfig Z3FOLD 1977a2369b7SYosry Ahmed tristate 1987a2369b7SYosry Ahmed default y if Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED=y 1997a2369b7SYosry Ahmed default m if Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED=m 2007a2369b7SYosry Ahmed depends on Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 2017a2369b7SYosry Ahmed 202519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 203b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 2045ad7a998SSergey Senozhatsky prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if (ZSWAP || ZRAM) 20504cb7502SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on MMU 206519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 207519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 208b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 209b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 210519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 211519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 212519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 213519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 214519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 215519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 216519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 217519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 218519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 219519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 220519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2214ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 2224ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 223b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky default 8 2244ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky range 4 16 2254ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky depends on ZSMALLOC 2264ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky help 2274ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 2284ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 2294ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky chain size is calculated for each size class during the 2304ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky initialization of the pool. 2314ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2324ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 2334ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 2344ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 2354ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 2364ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky characteristics. 2374ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2384ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 2394ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2402a19be61SVlastimil Babkamenu "Slab allocator options" 2417b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2427b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 2432a19be61SVlastimil Babka def_bool y 244eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 245e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY 2462a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 2472a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT 248e240e53aSVlastimil Babka select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 249e240e53aSVlastimil Babka help 2502a19be61SVlastimil Babka Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 251e240e53aSVlastimil Babka footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 252e240e53aSVlastimil Babka This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 253e240e53aSVlastimil Babka SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 254e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 16MB RAM. 255e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 256e240e53aSVlastimil Babka If unsure, say N. 257e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 2587b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2597b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2607b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 2617b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2627b42f104SJohannes Weiner For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2637b42f104SJohannes Weiner merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2647b42f104SJohannes Weiner This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2657b42f104SJohannes Weiner overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2667b42f104SJohannes Weiner cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2677b42f104SJohannes Weiner by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2687b42f104SJohannes Weiner can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2697b42f104SJohannes Weiner merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2707b42f104SJohannes Weiner command line. 2717b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2727b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2737b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Randomize slab freelist" 2742a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2757b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2767b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2777b42f104SJohannes Weiner security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2787b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator against heap overflows. 2797b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2807b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2817b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 2822a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2837b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2847b42f104SJohannes Weiner Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 2857b42f104SJohannes Weiner other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 2867b42f104SJohannes Weiner sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 2872a19be61SVlastimil Babka freelist exploit methods. 2887b42f104SJohannes Weiner 28967f2df3bSKees Cookconfig SLAB_BUCKETS 29067f2df3bSKees Cook bool "Support allocation from separate kmalloc buckets" 29167f2df3bSKees Cook depends on !SLUB_TINY 29267f2df3bSKees Cook default SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 29367f2df3bSKees Cook help 29467f2df3bSKees Cook Kernel heap attacks frequently depend on being able to create 29567f2df3bSKees Cook specifically-sized allocations with user-controlled contents 29667f2df3bSKees Cook that will be allocated into the same kmalloc bucket as a 29767f2df3bSKees Cook target object. To avoid sharing these allocation buckets, 29867f2df3bSKees Cook provide an explicitly separated set of buckets to be used for 29967f2df3bSKees Cook user-controlled allocations. This may very slightly increase 30067f2df3bSKees Cook memory fragmentation, though in practice it's only a handful 30167f2df3bSKees Cook of extra pages since the bulk of user-controlled allocations 30267f2df3bSKees Cook are relatively long-lived. 30367f2df3bSKees Cook 30467f2df3bSKees Cook If unsure, say Y. 30567f2df3bSKees Cook 3060710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 3070710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3082a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable performance statistics" 3092a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 3100710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3112a19be61SVlastimil Babka The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 3120710d012SVlastimil Babka order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 3130710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 3140710d012SVlastimil Babka the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 3150710d012SVlastimil Babka supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 3160710d012SVlastimil Babka out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 3170710d012SVlastimil Babka Try running: slabinfo -DA 3180710d012SVlastimil Babka 319519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 320519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default y 3212a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 3222a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 323519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 324519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 325519bcb79SJohannes Weiner that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 326519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 327519bcb79SJohannes Weiner which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 328519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 329519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3303c615294SGONG, Ruiqiconfig RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 3313c615294SGONG, Ruiqi default n 3322a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 3333c615294SGONG, Ruiqi bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 3343c615294SGONG, Ruiqi help 3353c615294SGONG, Ruiqi A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 3363c615294SGONG, Ruiqi normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 3373c615294SGONG, Ruiqi on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 3383c615294SGONG, Ruiqi vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 3393c615294SGONG, Ruiqi memory vulnerabilities. 3403c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3413c615294SGONG, Ruiqi Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 3423c615294SGONG, Ruiqi that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 3433c615294SGONG, Ruiqi subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 3443c615294SGONG, Ruiqi limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 3453c615294SGONG, Ruiqi system workload. 3463c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3472a19be61SVlastimil Babkaendmenu # Slab allocator options 348519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3497b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3507b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3517b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3527b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3537b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3547b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3557b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3567b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3577b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3587b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3597b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 3605e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 36123baf831SKirill A. Shutemov order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 36223baf831SKirill A. Shutemov on x86. 3637b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3647b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3657b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 366b413f9cdSMaíra Canal this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even 367b413f9cdSMaíra Canal if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled 368b413f9cdSMaíra Canal with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3697b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3707b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3717b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3720710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 3730710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 3740710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 3750710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3760710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 3770710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 3780710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 3790710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 3800710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 3810710d012SVlastimil Babka 3820710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 3830710d012SVlastimil Babka 3840710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 3850710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 3860710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 3870710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3880710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3890710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 3900710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 3910710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 3920710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 3930710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 3940710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 3950710d012SVlastimil Babka 3960710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 3970710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 3980710d012SVlastimil Babka 3990710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 4000710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 4010710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 4020710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 4030710d012SVlastimil Babka 4040710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 4050710d012SVlastimil Babka 406e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 407e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 408a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 409e1785e85SDave Hansen 4103a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 4113a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 412e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 413d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 414e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 415d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 416d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 417d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 418d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 419d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 4203a9da765SDave Hansen 421e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 4223a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 423bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 4243a9da765SDave Hansen help 425d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 426d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 427d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 428d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 4293a9da765SDave Hansen 430d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 431d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 432dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 433d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 434d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 4353a9da765SDave Hansen 436d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 437d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 438d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 439d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 440d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 441d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 442d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 443d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 444d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 445d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 446d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 447d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 448d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4493a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4503a9da765SDave Hansen 451d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 452d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4531a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 454d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 455e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 456e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 457bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 458d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 45993b7504eSDave Hansen# 4603e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 461c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4623e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4633e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4643e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4653e347261SBob Picco# 4663e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4673e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4683e347261SBob Picco# 4693e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4709ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4713e347261SBob Picco 4723e347261SBob Picco# 47344c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 474802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 475802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 476802f192eSBob Picco# 4773e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 4783e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 4793e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4804c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 48129c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 4829ba16087SJan Beulich bool 48329c71111SAndy Whitcroft 48429c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 485a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 486a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 487a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 488a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 489a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 490a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 491a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 4920b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4930b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 4940b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 4950b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4960b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 4970b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 4980b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V 4990b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 5000b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V bool 50129c71111SAndy Whitcroft 50270210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 5036341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 50470210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 50525176ad0SDavid Hildenbrandconfig HAVE_GUP_FAST 506050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 5076341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 5082667f50eSSteve Capper 50952219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 51052219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 51152219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 512350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 5136341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 514c378ddd5STejun Heo 5151e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 5161e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 5171e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 5181e5d8e1eSDan Williams 519ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 5206341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 521ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 522a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 523a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 524a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 525a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 526a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 527a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 528a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 52946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 53046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 53146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 53246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 53346723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 53446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 53546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 53691024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 53791024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 53891024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 539519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 540519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 541519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5423947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 543519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 544519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 545b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 54671b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 54740b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5487ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 5491e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 5503947be19SDave Hansen 551519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 552519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5538604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 5548604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 5558604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5568604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 5578604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5588604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5598604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5608604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 561cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5628604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5638604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 5648604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 5658604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 5668604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 5678604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5680c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5690c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 570f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5710c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5720c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5730c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 574a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 575a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 576a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 577a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 578a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 579519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 580519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 58104d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 58204d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 58304d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V 5844c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 5854c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 5864c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 5874c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 5884c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 5897b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 59060bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 59160bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 59260bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 593a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 5944c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 595394290cbSDavid Hildenbrandconfig SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS 596394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 597394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on MMU 598*a3344078SGuenter Roeck depends on SMP 599394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on NR_CPUS >= 4 600394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !ARM || CPU_CACHE_VIPT 601394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !PARISC || PA20 602394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !SPARC32 6037cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 604e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 6056341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 606e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 607394290cbSDavid Hildenbrandconfig SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS 608394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 609394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 610394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand 6117cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 61209316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 61309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 6146341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 61509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 61609316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 61718468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 61818468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 61918468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 620cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 62109316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 62218468d93SRafael Aquini help 62318468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 62418468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 62518468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 62618468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 62718468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 62818468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 62918468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 63018468d93SRafael Aquini 63118468d93SRafael Aquini# 632e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 633e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 634e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 635cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 636e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 63733a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 638e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 639b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 640b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 641b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 642b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 643b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 644b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 645b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 646b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 647e9e96b39SMel Gorman 648c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 649c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner int 650c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner depends on COMPACTION 651c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 652c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 1 653c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner 654e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 65536e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 65636e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 65736e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 65836e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 65936e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 66036e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 66136e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 66236e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 66336e66c55SAlexander Duyck 66436e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 6657cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 6667cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 6677cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 668b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 669cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 670de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 671b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 672b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 673e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 674e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 675e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 676e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 677e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6786550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 67976cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 680d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 68176cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 682c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 6836341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 684c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 6859c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 6869c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 6879c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 6884bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 6894bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 6904bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 6914bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 6924bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 6934bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 6944bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 6955e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 6965e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 697b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 6988df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 6998df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 7008df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 70152166607SHuang Yingconfig PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 70252166607SHuang Ying int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 70352166607SHuang Ying default 5 70452166607SHuang Ying range 0 6 70552166607SHuang Ying help 70652166607SHuang Ying In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 70752166607SHuang Ying batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 70852166607SHuang Ying allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 70952166607SHuang Ying latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 71052166607SHuang Ying the maximum latency. 71152166607SHuang Ying 712600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 713d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 714600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 7152a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 7169ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 7179ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 718ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 7199ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 720ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 721ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 722ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 7232a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 724cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 725cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 72699cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 727fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 728f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 729f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 730f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 73159e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 732f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 733f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 734f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 735f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 736d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 737f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 738f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 739ee65728eSMike Rapoport See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 740c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 741c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 742f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 743e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 744e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 7456e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 746e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 747e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 748e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 749e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 750e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 751e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 75234f7c528SJavier Martinez Canillas For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 753e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 754e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 755788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 756788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 757788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 758e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 759e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 760e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 761e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 762d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 763d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 764e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 7656a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 7666a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 767d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7686a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 769ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 77097f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 7716a46079cSAndi Kleen help 7726a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7736a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7746a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7756a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7766a46079cSAndi Kleen 777cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 778413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 77927df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 780478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 781cae681fcSAndi Kleen 782fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 783fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 784fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 785fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 786fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 787fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 788fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 789fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 790fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 791fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 792fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 793fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 794fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 795fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 796fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 797fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 798fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 799fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 800fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 801fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 802fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 803fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 804fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 805fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 806fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 807fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 808dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 809bbddff05STejun Heo 810519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 811519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 812519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 813519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 814519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 815519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 816519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 81713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 818554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 8195d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 8203a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 8214c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 8224c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 8234c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 8244c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 8254c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 8264c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 8274c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 8284c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 8294c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 8304c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 831519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 832519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 83313ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 83413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 83513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 83613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 83713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 83813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 83913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 84013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 84113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 84213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 84313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 84413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 84513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 84613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 84713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 84813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 84913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 85013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 85113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 85213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 85313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 85413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 855683ec99fSDmytro Maluka 856683ec99fSDmytro Maluka config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 857683ec99fSDmytro Maluka bool "never" 858683ec99fSDmytro Maluka help 859683ec99fSDmytro Maluka Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 860683ec99fSDmytro Maluka enabled at runtime via sysfs. 86113ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 86213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 86338d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 86438d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 865dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 86638d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 86738d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 86814fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 86914fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 87038d8b4e6SHuang Ying 87138d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 87238d8b4e6SHuang Ying 873519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 874519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 875519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 876519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 877519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 878519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 879519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 880519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 881519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 882519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 883519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 884519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 885519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 886e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 887ac3830c3SPeter Xu# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 888ac3830c3SPeter Xu# 889ac3830c3SPeter Xuconfig PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 890ac3830c3SPeter Xu def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 891ac3830c3SPeter Xu 8926857be5fSPeter Xu# TODO: Allow to be enabled without THP 8936857be5fSPeter Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP 8946857be5fSPeter Xu def_bool n 8956857be5fSPeter Xu depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 8966857be5fSPeter Xu 8976857be5fSPeter Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_PFNMAP 8986857be5fSPeter Xu def_bool y 8996857be5fSPeter Xu depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 9006857be5fSPeter Xu 9016857be5fSPeter Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PUD_PFNMAP 9026857be5fSPeter Xu def_bool y 9036857be5fSPeter Xu depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 9046857be5fSPeter Xu 905ac3830c3SPeter Xu# 906bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 907bbddff05STejun Heo# 908bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 9093583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 910bbddff05STejun Heo bool 911bbddff05STejun Heo default y 912077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 9137ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 9147ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9157ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9167ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 9177ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9187ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9197ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 9207ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9217ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9227ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 9237ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9247ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 925f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 926f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 927aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 928f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 929f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 930f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 931f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 932f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 933f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 934f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 935f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 936f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 937f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 938f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 939f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 94028b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 94128b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 94228b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 94328b24c1fSSasha Levin help 94428b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 94528b24c1fSSasha Levin 94643ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 94743ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 94843ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 94943ca106fSMinchan Kim help 95043ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 95143ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 95243ca106fSMinchan Kim 953a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 954a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 955a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 95673307523SAnshuman Khandual default 20 if NUMA 95773307523SAnshuman Khandual default 8 958a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 959a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 960a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 961a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 962a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 96373307523SAnshuman Khandual If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 964a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 965af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 966af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 967af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 968af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 9694e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 970af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 971af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 972af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 973af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 974af8d417aSDan Streetman 9751ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 9764e2e2770SSeth Jennings 9779e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 9789e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 979042d27acSHelge Deller 98022ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 98122ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 98222ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 983042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 984042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 985042d27acSHelge Deller help 986042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 987042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 98822ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 989042d27acSHelge Deller 99022ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9913a80a7faSMel Gorman 9923a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9931ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 994d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 995ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 996889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 997854fa98dSIlya Leoshkevich depends on !KMSAN 998e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 9993a80a7faSMel Gorman help 10003a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 10013a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 10023a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 1003e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 1004e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 10051ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 10061ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 1007033fbae9SDan Williams 10081c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 10091c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 10101c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 10111c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 10121c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 10131c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 10141c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 10151c676e0dSSeongJae Park 101633c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 101733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 101833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 10191c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 102033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 102133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 102233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 102333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 102433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 102533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 10261ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 10271ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 102833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 10298690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 10308690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 10318690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# aliasing) need to select this. 10328690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 10338690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers bool 10348690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers 1035c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1036c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 1037c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 10382792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 10392792d84eSKees Cook bool 10402792d84eSKees Cook help 10412792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 10422792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 10432792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 10442792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 10452792d84eSKees Cook selected. 10462792d84eSKees Cook 104717596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 104865f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 104965f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 105063703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 105163703f37SKefeng Wang bool 105263703f37SKefeng Wang 105363703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 105463703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 105563703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 105663703f37SKefeng Wang 105763703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 105863703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 105963703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 106063703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 106163703f37SKefeng Wang 1062033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 10635042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1064033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1065033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 106699490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 106717596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 10683a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 1069033fbae9SDan Williams 1070033fbae9SDan Williams help 1071033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1072033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1073033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1074033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1075033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1076033fbae9SDan Williams 1077033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 107806a660adSLinus Torvalds 10799c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 10809c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 10819c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 10829c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 1083c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 10849c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 1085f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1086c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 108714b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION 108814b80582SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM 108914b80582SDan Williams bool 109014b80582SDan Williams 10915042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 10925042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 10937328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 109414b80582SDan Williams select GET_FREE_REGION 10955042db43SJérôme Glisse 10965042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10975042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10985042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 10995042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 11005042db43SJérôme Glisse 11013e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 11023e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 11033e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 110463c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 110563c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 110666d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 110766d37570SDave Hansen bool 110830a5b536SDennis Zhou 11097a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 1110b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas bool 11117a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_3 11127a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) bool 1113b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas 11140710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 11150710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 11160710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 11170710d012SVlastimil Babka help 11180710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 11190710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 11200710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 11210710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 11220710d012SVlastimil Babka 112330a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 112430a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 112530a5b536SDennis Zhou help 112630a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 112730a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 112830a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 112964c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11309c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 11319c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1132d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 113364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 11349c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 11359c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 11369c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 113764c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11389c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 11399c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 11409c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 11419c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1142f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1143f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1144f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1145f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1146f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1147f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 1148baa489faSSeongJae Park See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 11493010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1150d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1151d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 11523010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 11536ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 115439656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 115539656e83SChristoph Hellwig 1156def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST 1157def85743SKeith Busch tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1158def85743SKeith Busch depends on HAS_DMA 1159def85743SKeith Busch help 1160def85743SKeith Busch Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1161def85743SKeith Busch various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1162def85743SKeith Busch provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1163def85743SKeith Busch dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1164def85743SKeith Busch 11653010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 11663010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 116759e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1168c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1169c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1170c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1171298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1172298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1173298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1174825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1175825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1176825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 11771fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 11781fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 11791fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 11801507f512SMike Rapoport 1181626e98cbSThomas Weißschuhconfig MEMFD_CREATE 1182626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1183626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh 11841507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 118574947724SLukas Bulwahn default y 118674947724SLukas Bulwahn bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 118774947724SLukas Bulwahn depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 118874947724SLukas Bulwahn help 118974947724SLukas Bulwahn Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 119074947724SLukas Bulwahn memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 119174947724SLukas Bulwahn not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 11921507f512SMike Rapoport 11939a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 11949a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 11959a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 11969a10064fSColin Cross 11979a10064fSColin Cross help 11989a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 11999a10064fSColin Cross 12009a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 12019a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 12029a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 12039a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 12049a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 12059a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 12069a10064fSColin Cross 1207430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1208430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1209430529b5SPeter Xu help 1210430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1211430529b5SPeter Xu 1212430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1213430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1214430529b5SPeter Xu help 1215430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1216430529b5SPeter Xu 121797219cc3SPeter Xumenuconfig USERFAULTFD 121897219cc3SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 121997219cc3SPeter Xu depends on MMU 122097219cc3SPeter Xu help 122197219cc3SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 122297219cc3SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 122397219cc3SPeter Xu 122497219cc3SPeter Xuif USERFAULTFD 12251db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 122681e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 122781e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 122881e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 12291db9dbc2SPeter Xu 12301db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 12311db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 12321db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 12331db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 123497219cc3SPeter Xuendif # USERFAULTFD 12351db9dbc2SPeter Xu 1236ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU { 1237ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN 1238ec1c86b2SYu Zhao bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1239ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on MMU 1240ec1c86b2SYu Zhao # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1241ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1242ec1c86b2SYu Zhao help 124307017acbSYu Zhao A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 124407017acbSYu Zhao Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1245ec1c86b2SYu Zhao 1246354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1247354ed597SYu Zhao bool "Enable by default" 1248354ed597SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1249354ed597SYu Zhao help 1250354ed597SYu Zhao This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1251354ed597SYu Zhao 1252ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS 1253ac35a490SYu Zhao bool "Full stats for debugging" 1254ac35a490SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1255ac35a490SYu Zhao help 1256ac35a490SYu Zhao Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1257ac35a490SYu Zhao from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1258ac35a490SYu Zhao 1259ac35a490SYu Zhao This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 126061dd3f24SKinsey Ho 126161dd3f24SKinsey Hoconfig LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 126261dd3f24SKinsey Ho def_bool y 126361dd3f24SKinsey Ho depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1264ac35a490SYu Zhao# } 1265ac35a490SYu Zhao 12660b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 12670b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool n 12680b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12690b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK 12700b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool y 12710b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 12720b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan help 12730b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 12740b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12750b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 12760b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 12770b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 1278c2508ec5SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1279c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds bool 1280c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1281c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds 12828f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpeconfig IOMMU_MM_DATA 12838f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe bool 12848f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe 128512af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM)config EXECMEM 128612af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM) bool 128712af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM) 128887482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft)config NUMA_MEMBLKS 128987482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft) bool 129087482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft) 1291b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft)config NUMA_EMU 1292b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) bool "NUMA emulation" 1293b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) depends on NUMA_MEMBLKS 1294b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) help 1295b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1296b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1297b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1298b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) 12992224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 13002224d848SSeongJae Park 130159e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1302