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 28519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select FRONTSWAP 29b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 35519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 361a44131dSSophia Gabriella in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 38519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 48b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 49*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmedconfig ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS_DEFAULT_ON 50*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed bool "Invalidate zswap entries when pages are loaded" 51*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed depends on ZSWAP 52*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed help 53*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed If selected, exclusive loads for zswap will be enabled at boot, 54*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed otherwise it will be disabled. 55*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 56*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed If exclusive loads are enabled, when a page is loaded from zswap, 57*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed the zswap entry is invalidated at once, as opposed to leaving it 58*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed in zswap until the swap entry is freed. 59*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 60*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed This avoids having two copies of the same page in memory 61*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed (compressed and uncompressed) after faulting in a page from zswap. 62*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed The cost is that if the page was never dirtied and needs to be 63*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed swapped out again, it will be re-compressed. 64*b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 65519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 66b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 67519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 73519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 79519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 80519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 83519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 85519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 86519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 89519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 91519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 92519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 95519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 97519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 98519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 101519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 102519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 104519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 107519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 108519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 110519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 113519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 115519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 117519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 118519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 120519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 128519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 129519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 131519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 132b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 135519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 141519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 143519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 144519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 145519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zbud" 147519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZBUD 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 149519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 150519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 151519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 152519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "z3fold" 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select Z3FOLD 154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 155519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 156519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 157519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 158519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 159519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 161519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 162519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 163519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 164519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 165519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 166519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 170519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 171519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 172519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD 173b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 174b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 175519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 176519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 177519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 178519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 180519bcb79SJohannes Weiner density approach when reclaim will be used. 181519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 182519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig Z3FOLD 183b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 184b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 185519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 186519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 187519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 188519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 189519bcb79SJohannes Weiner still there. 190519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 191519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 192b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 193b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 194519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU 195519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 196519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 197b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 198b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 199519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 200519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 201519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 202519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 203519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 204519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 205519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 206519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 207519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 208519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 209519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2104ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 2114ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 212b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky default 8 2134ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky range 4 16 2144ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky depends on ZSMALLOC 2154ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky help 2164ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 2174ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 2184ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky chain size is calculated for each size class during the 2194ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky initialization of the pool. 2204ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2214ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 2224ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 2234ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 2244ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 2254ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky characteristics. 2264ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2274ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 2284ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 229519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenu "SLAB allocator options" 230519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2317b42f104SJohannes Weinerchoice 2327b42f104SJohannes Weiner prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 2337b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLUB 2347b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2357b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows to select a slab allocator. 2367b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2377b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB 2387b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "SLAB" 2397b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on !PREEMPT_RT 2407b42f104SJohannes Weiner select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 2417b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2427b42f104SJohannes Weiner The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 2437b42f104SJohannes Weiner well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 2447b42f104SJohannes Weiner per cpu and per node queues. 2457b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2467b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 2477b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 2487b42f104SJohannes Weiner select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 2497b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2507b42f104SJohannes Weiner SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 2517b42f104SJohannes Weiner instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 2527b42f104SJohannes Weiner Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 2537b42f104SJohannes Weiner of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 2547b42f104SJohannes Weiner and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 2557b42f104SJohannes Weiner a slab allocator. 2567b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2577b42f104SJohannes Weinerendchoice 2587b42f104SJohannes Weiner 259e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY 260e240e53aSVlastimil Babka bool "Configure SLUB for minimal memory footprint" 261e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && EXPERT 262e240e53aSVlastimil Babka select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 263e240e53aSVlastimil Babka help 264e240e53aSVlastimil Babka Configures the SLUB allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 265e240e53aSVlastimil Babka footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 266e240e53aSVlastimil Babka This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 267e240e53aSVlastimil Babka SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 268e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 16MB RAM. 269e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 270e240e53aSVlastimil Babka If unsure, say N. 271e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 2727b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2737b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2747b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 2757b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on SLAB || SLUB 2767b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2777b42f104SJohannes Weiner For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2787b42f104SJohannes Weiner merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2797b42f104SJohannes Weiner This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2807b42f104SJohannes Weiner overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2817b42f104SJohannes Weiner cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2827b42f104SJohannes Weiner by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2837b42f104SJohannes Weiner can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2847b42f104SJohannes Weiner merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2857b42f104SJohannes Weiner command line. 2867b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2877b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2887b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Randomize slab freelist" 289e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 2907b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2917b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2927b42f104SJohannes Weiner security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2937b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator against heap overflows. 2947b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2957b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2967b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 297e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 2987b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2997b42f104SJohannes Weiner Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 3007b42f104SJohannes Weiner other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 3017b42f104SJohannes Weiner sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 3027b42f104SJohannes Weiner freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 3037b42f104SJohannes Weiner sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 3047b42f104SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_SLUB. 3057b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3060710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 3070710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3080710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 309e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 3100710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3110710d012SVlastimil Babka SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs 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 321e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && SMP && !SLUB_TINY 322519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 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 330519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendmenu # SLAB allocator options 331519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3327b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3337b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3347b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3357b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3367b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3377b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3387b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3397b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3407b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3417b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3427b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 34323baf831SKirill A. Shutemov default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_ORDER i.e, 10th 34423baf831SKirill A. Shutemov order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 34523baf831SKirill A. Shutemov on x86. 3467b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3477b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3487b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 3497b42f104SJohannes Weiner this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 3507b42f104SJohannes Weiner after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 3517b42f104SJohannes Weiner Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 3527b42f104SJohannes Weiner 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3537b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3547b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3557b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3560710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 3570710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 3580710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 3590710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3600710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 3610710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 3620710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 3630710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 3640710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 3650710d012SVlastimil Babka 3660710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 3670710d012SVlastimil Babka 3680710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 3690710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 3700710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 3710710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3720710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3730710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 3740710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 3750710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 3760710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 3770710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 3780710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 3790710d012SVlastimil Babka 3800710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 3810710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 3820710d012SVlastimil Babka 3830710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 3840710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 3850710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 3860710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 3870710d012SVlastimil Babka 3880710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 3890710d012SVlastimil Babka 390e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 391e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 392a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 393e1785e85SDave Hansen 3943a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 3953a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 396e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 397d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 398e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 399d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 400d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 401d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 402d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 403d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 4043a9da765SDave Hansen 405e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 4063a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 407bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 4083a9da765SDave Hansen help 409d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 410d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 411d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 412d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 4133a9da765SDave Hansen 414d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 415d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 416dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 417d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 418d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 4193a9da765SDave Hansen 420d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 421d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 422d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 423d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 424d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 425d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 426d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 427d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 428d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 429d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 430d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 431d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 432d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4333a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4343a9da765SDave Hansen 435d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 436d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4371a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 438d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 439e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 440e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 441bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 442d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 44393b7504eSDave Hansen# 4443e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 445c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4463e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4473e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4483e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4493e347261SBob Picco# 4503e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4513e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4523e347261SBob Picco# 4533e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4549ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4553e347261SBob Picco 4563e347261SBob Picco# 45744c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 458802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 459802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 460802f192eSBob Picco# 4613e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 4623e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 4633e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4644c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 46529c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 4669ba16087SJan Beulich bool 46729c71111SAndy Whitcroft 46829c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 469a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 470a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 471a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 472a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 473a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 474a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 475a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 4760b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4770b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 4780b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 4790b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4800b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 4810b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V bool 48229c71111SAndy Whitcroft 48370210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 4846341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 48570210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 48667a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 487050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 4886341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 4892667f50eSSteve Capper 49052219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 49152219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 49252219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 493350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 4946341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 495c378ddd5STejun Heo 4961e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 4971e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 4981e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 4991e5d8e1eSDan Williams 500ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 5016341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 502ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 503a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 504a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 505a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 506a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 507a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 508a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 509a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 51046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 51146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 51246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 51346723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 51446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 51546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 51646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 51791024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 51891024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 51991024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 520519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 521519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 522519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5233947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 524519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 525519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 526b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 52771b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 52840b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5297ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 5301e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 5313947be19SDave Hansen 532519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 533519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5348604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 5358604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 5368604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5378604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 5388604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5398604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5408604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5418604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 542cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5438604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5448604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 5458604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 5468604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 5478604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 5488604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5490c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5500c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 551f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5520c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5530c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5540c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 555a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 556a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 557a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 558a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 559a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 560519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 561519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5624c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 5634c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 5644c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 5654c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 5664c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 5677b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 56860bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 56960bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 57060bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 571a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 5724c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 5734c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 5744c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 5759164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 576a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 577a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 57860bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 5794c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 5807cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 581e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 5826341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 583e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 5847cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 58509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 58609316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 5876341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 58809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 58909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 59018468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 59118468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 59218468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 59318468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 59409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 59518468d93SRafael Aquini help 59618468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 59718468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 59818468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 59918468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 60018468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 60118468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 60218468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 60318468d93SRafael Aquini 60418468d93SRafael Aquini# 605e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 606e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 607e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 60805106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 609e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 61033a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 611e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 612b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 613b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 614b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 615b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 616b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 617b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 618b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 619b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 620e9e96b39SMel Gorman 621c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 622c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner int 623c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner depends on COMPACTION 624c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 625c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 1 626c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner 627e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 62836e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 62936e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 63036e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 63136e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 63236e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 63336e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 63436e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 63536e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 63636e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 63736e66c55SAlexander Duyck 63836e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 6397cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 6407cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 6417cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 642b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 6436c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 644de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 645b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 646b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 647e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 648e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 649e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 650e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 651e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6526550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 65376cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 654d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 65576cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 656c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 6576341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 658c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 6599c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 6609c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 6619c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 6624bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 6634bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 6644bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 6654bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 6664bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 6674bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 6684bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 66923baf831SKirill A. Shutemov Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER and will be 67023baf831SKirill A. Shutemov clamped down to MAX_ORDER. 671b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 6728df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 6738df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 6748df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 675600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 676d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 677600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 6782a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 6799ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 6809ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 681ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 6829ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 683ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 684ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 685ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 6862a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 687cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 688cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 68999cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 690fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 691f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 692f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 693f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 69459e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 695f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 696f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 697f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 698f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 699d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 700f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 701f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 702ee65728eSMike Rapoport See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 703c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 704c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 705f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 706e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 707e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 7086e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 709e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 710e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 711e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 712e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 713e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 714e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 715e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 716e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 717e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 718788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 719788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 720788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 721e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 722e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 723e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 724e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 725d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 726d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 727e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 7286a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 7296a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 730d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7316a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 732ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 73397f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 7346a46079cSAndi Kleen help 7356a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7366a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7376a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7386a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7396a46079cSAndi Kleen 740cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 741413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 74227df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 743478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 744cae681fcSAndi Kleen 745fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 746fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 747fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 748fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 749fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 750fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 751fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 752fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 753fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 754fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 755fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 756fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 757fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 758fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 759fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 760fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 761fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 762fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 763fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 764fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 765fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 766fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 767fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 768fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 769fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 770fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 771dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 772bbddff05STejun Heo 773519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 774519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 775519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 776519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 777519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 778519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 779519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 78013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 781554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 7825d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 7833a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 7844c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 7854c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 7864c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 7874c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 7884c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 7894c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 7904c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 7914c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 7924c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 7934c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 794519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 795519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 79613ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 79713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 79813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 79913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 80013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 80113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 80213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 80313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 80413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 80513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 80613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 80713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 80813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 80913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 81013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 81113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 81213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 81313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 81413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 81513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 81613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 81713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 81813ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 81913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 82038d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 82138d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 822dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 82338d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 82438d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 82514fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 82614fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 82738d8b4e6SHuang Ying 82838d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 82938d8b4e6SHuang Ying 830519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 831519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 832519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 833519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 834519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 835519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 836519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 837519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 838519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 839519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 840519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 841519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 842519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 843e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 844bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 845bbddff05STejun Heo# 846bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 8473583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 848bbddff05STejun Heo bool 849bbddff05STejun Heo default y 850077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 8517ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 8527ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8537ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8547ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 8557ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8567ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8577ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 8587ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8597ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8607ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 8617ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8627ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 86327c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 8646e61dde8SChristoph Hellwig bool 865f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 866f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 867f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 868aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 869f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 870f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 871f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 872f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 873f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 874f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 875f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 876f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 877f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 878f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 879f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 880f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 881f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 882f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 883f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 884f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 885f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 886f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 887f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 888f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 889bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 89028b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 89128b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 89228b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 89328b24c1fSSasha Levin help 89428b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 89528b24c1fSSasha Levin 89643ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 89743ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 89843ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 89943ca106fSMinchan Kim help 90043ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 90143ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 90243ca106fSMinchan Kim 903a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 904a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 905a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 906b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 907a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 908a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 909a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 910a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 911a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 912a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 913b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 914a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 915af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 916af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 917af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 918af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 9194e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 920af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 921af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 922af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 923af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 924af8d417aSDan Streetman 9251ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 9264e2e2770SSeth Jennings 9279e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 9289e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 929042d27acSHelge Deller 93022ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 93122ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 93222ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 933042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 934042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 935042d27acSHelge Deller help 936042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 937042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 93822ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 939042d27acSHelge Deller 94022ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9413a80a7faSMel Gorman 9423a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9431ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 944d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 945ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 946889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 947e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 9483a80a7faSMel Gorman help 9493a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 9503a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 9513a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 952e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 953e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 9541ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 9551ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 956033fbae9SDan Williams 9571c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 9581c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 9591c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 9601c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 9611c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 9621c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 9631c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 9641c676e0dSSeongJae Park 96533c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 96633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 96733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 9681c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 96933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 97033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 97133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 97233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 97333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 97433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 9751ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 9761ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 97733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 978c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 979c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 980c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 9812792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 9822792d84eSKees Cook bool 9832792d84eSKees Cook help 9842792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 9852792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 9862792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 9872792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 9882792d84eSKees Cook selected. 9892792d84eSKees Cook 99017596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 99165f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 99265f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 99363703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 99463703f37SKefeng Wang bool 99563703f37SKefeng Wang 99663703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 99763703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 99863703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 99963703f37SKefeng Wang 100063703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 100163703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 100263703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 100363703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 100463703f37SKefeng Wang 1005033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 10065042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1007033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1008033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 100999490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 101017596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 10113a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 1012033fbae9SDan Williams 1013033fbae9SDan Williams help 1014033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1015033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1016033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1017033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1018033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1019033fbae9SDan Williams 1020033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 102106a660adSLinus Torvalds 10229c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 10239c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 10249c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 10259c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 1026c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 10279c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 1028f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1029c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 103014b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION 103114b80582SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM 103214b80582SDan Williams bool 103314b80582SDan Williams 10345042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 10355042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 10367328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 103714b80582SDan Williams select GET_FREE_REGION 10385042db43SJérôme Glisse 10395042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10405042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10415042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 10425042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 10435042db43SJérôme Glisse 10443e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 10453e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 10463e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 104763c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 104863c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 104966d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 105066d37570SDave Hansen bool 105130a5b536SDennis Zhou 1052b0284cd2SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1053b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas bool 1054b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas help 1055b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1056b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1057b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1058b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1059b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas 10600710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 10610710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 10620710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 10630710d012SVlastimil Babka help 10640710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10650710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10660710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10670710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 10680710d012SVlastimil Babka 106930a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 107030a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 107130a5b536SDennis Zhou help 107230a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 107330a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 107430a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 107564c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10769c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 10779c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1078d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 107964c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 10809c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 10819c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 10829c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 108364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10849c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 10859c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 10869c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 10879c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1088f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1089f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1090f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1091f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1092f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1093f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 1094baa489faSSeongJae Park See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 10953010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1096d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1097d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 10983010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 10996ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 110039656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 110139656e83SChristoph Hellwig 1102def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST 1103def85743SKeith Busch tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1104def85743SKeith Busch depends on HAS_DMA 1105def85743SKeith Busch help 1106def85743SKeith Busch Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1107def85743SKeith Busch various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1108def85743SKeith Busch provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1109def85743SKeith Busch dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1110def85743SKeith Busch 11113010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 11123010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 111359e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1114cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1115cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1116cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1117cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1118cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1119cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 1120cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1121cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1122cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 1123cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 1124c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1125c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1126c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1127298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1128298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1129298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1130825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1131825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1132825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 11331fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 11341fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 11351fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 11361507f512SMike Rapoport 11371507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 113874947724SLukas Bulwahn default y 113974947724SLukas Bulwahn bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 114074947724SLukas Bulwahn depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 114174947724SLukas Bulwahn help 114274947724SLukas Bulwahn Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 114374947724SLukas Bulwahn memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 114474947724SLukas Bulwahn not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 11451507f512SMike Rapoport 11469a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 11479a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 11489a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 11499a10064fSColin Cross 11509a10064fSColin Cross help 11519a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 11529a10064fSColin Cross 11539a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 11549a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 11559a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 11569a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 11579a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 11589a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 11599a10064fSColin Cross 1160430529b5SPeter Xuconfig USERFAULTFD 1161430529b5SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1162430529b5SPeter Xu depends on MMU 1163430529b5SPeter Xu help 1164430529b5SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1165430529b5SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 1166430529b5SPeter Xu 1167430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1168430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1169430529b5SPeter Xu help 1170430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1171430529b5SPeter Xu 1172430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1173430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1174430529b5SPeter Xu help 1175430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1176430529b5SPeter Xu 11771db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 117881e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 117981e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 118081e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 11811db9dbc2SPeter Xu 11821db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 11831db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 11841db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 11851db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 11861db9dbc2SPeter Xu 1187ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU { 1188ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN 1189ec1c86b2SYu Zhao bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1190ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on MMU 1191ec1c86b2SYu Zhao # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1192ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1193ec1c86b2SYu Zhao help 119407017acbSYu Zhao A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 119507017acbSYu Zhao Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1196ec1c86b2SYu Zhao 1197354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1198354ed597SYu Zhao bool "Enable by default" 1199354ed597SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1200354ed597SYu Zhao help 1201354ed597SYu Zhao This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1202354ed597SYu Zhao 1203ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS 1204ac35a490SYu Zhao bool "Full stats for debugging" 1205ac35a490SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1206ac35a490SYu Zhao help 1207ac35a490SYu Zhao Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1208ac35a490SYu Zhao from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1209ac35a490SYu Zhao 1210ac35a490SYu Zhao This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1211ac35a490SYu Zhao# } 1212ac35a490SYu Zhao 12130b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 12140b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool n 12150b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12160b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK 12170b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool y 12180b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 12190b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan help 12200b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 12210b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12220b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 12230b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 12240b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12252224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 12262224d848SSeongJae Park 122759e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1228