1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 5e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 6e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 7a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 8e1785e85SDave Hansen 93a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 103a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 11e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 12d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 13e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 14d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 15d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 16d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 17d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 18d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 193a9da765SDave Hansen 20e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 213a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 22*bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 233a9da765SDave Hansen help 24d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 25d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 26d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 27d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 283a9da765SDave Hansen 29d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 30d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 31dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 32d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 33d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 343a9da765SDave Hansen 35d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 36d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 37d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 38d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 39d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 40d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 41d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 42d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 43d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 44d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 45d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 46d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 47d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 483a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 493a9da765SDave Hansen 50d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 51d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 521a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 53d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 54e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 55e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 56*bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 57d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 58d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP 59d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 60d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on !SPARSEMEM 61e1785e85SDave Hansen 6293b7504eSDave Hansen# 6393b7504eSDave Hansen# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's 6493b7504eSDave Hansen# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows 6593b7504eSDave Hansen# those dependencies to exist individually. 6693b7504eSDave Hansen# 6793b7504eSDave Hansenconfig NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 6893b7504eSDave Hansen def_bool y 69*bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on NUMA 70af705362SAndy Whitcroft 71802f192eSBob Picco# 723e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 73c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 743e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 753e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 763e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 773e347261SBob Picco# 783e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 793e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 803e347261SBob Picco# 813e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 829ba16087SJan Beulich bool 833e347261SBob Picco 843e347261SBob Picco# 8544c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 86802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 87802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 88802f192eSBob Picco# 893e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 903e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 913e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 924c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 9329c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 949ba16087SJan Beulich bool 9529c71111SAndy Whitcroft 9629c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 97a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 98a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 99a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 100a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 101a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 102a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 103a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 10429c71111SAndy Whitcroft 10570210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 1066341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 10770210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 10867a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 109050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1106341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1112667f50eSSteve Capper 11252219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 11352219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 11452219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 115350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 1166341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 117c378ddd5STejun Heo 1181e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 1191e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 1201e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 1211e5d8e1eSDan Williams 122ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 1236341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 124ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 12546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 12646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 12746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 12846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 12946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 13046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 13146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 13291024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 13391024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 13491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 1353947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 1363947be19SDave Hansenconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1373947be19SDave Hansen bool "Allow for memory hot-add" 138b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 139ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 14040b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 141b59d02edSMichal Hocko depends on 64BIT || BROKEN 1421e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 1433947be19SDave Hansen 144ec69acbbSKeith Manntheyconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE 145ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey def_bool y 146ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 147ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey 1488604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 1498604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 1508604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1518604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 1528604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 1538604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 1548604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 1558604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 156cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1578604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1588604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 1598604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 1608604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 1618604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 1628604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 16391024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 16491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 16591024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 1660c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1670c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 168f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 1690c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1700c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 1710c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 172a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 173a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 174a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 175a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 176a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 1774c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 1784c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 1794c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 1804c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 1814c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 1827b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 18360bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 18460bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 18560bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 186a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 1874c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 1884c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 1894c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 1909164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 191a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 192a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 19360bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 1944c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 1957cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 196e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 1976341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 198e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 1997cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 20009316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 20109316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 2026341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 20409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 20518468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 20618468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 20718468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 20818468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 20909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 21018468d93SRafael Aquini help 21118468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 21218468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 21318468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 21418468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 21518468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 21618468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 21718468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 21818468d93SRafael Aquini 21918468d93SRafael Aquini# 220e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 221e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 222e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 22305106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 224e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 22533a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 226e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 227b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 228b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 229b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 230b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 231b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 232b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 233b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 234b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 235e9e96b39SMel Gorman 236e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 23736e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 23836e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 23936e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 24036e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 24136e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 24236e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 24336e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 24436e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 24536e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 24636e66c55SAlexander Duyck 24736e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 2487cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 2497cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 2507cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 251b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 2526c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 253de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 254b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 255b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 256e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 257e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 258e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 259e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 260e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 2616550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 262c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 2636341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 264c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 2659c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 2669c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 2679c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 2684bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 2694bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 2704bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 2714bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 2724bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 2734bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 2744bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 2758df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 2768df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 2778df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 278600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 279d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 280600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 2812a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 2829ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 2839ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 284ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 2859ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 286ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 287ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 288ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 2892a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 290f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS 2914febd95aSStephen Rothwell bool 2924febd95aSStephen Rothwell help 2934febd95aSStephen Rothwell An architecture should select this if it implements the 2944febd95aSStephen Rothwell deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures 2954febd95aSStephen Rothwell should probably not select this. 2964febd95aSStephen Rothwell 297cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli 298cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 299cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 30083fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 30199cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 302fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 303f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 304f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 305f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 30659e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 307f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 308f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 309f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 310f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 311d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 312f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 313f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 314ad56b738SMike Rapoport See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 315c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 316c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 317f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 318e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 319e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 3206e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 321e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 322e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 323e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 324e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 325e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 326e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 327e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 328e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 329e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 330788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 331788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 332788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 333e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 334e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 335e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 336e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 337d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 338d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 339e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 3406a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 3416a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 342d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 3436a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 344ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 34597f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 3466a46079cSAndi Kleen help 3476a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 3486a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 3496a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 3506a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 3516a46079cSAndi Kleen 352cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 353413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 35427df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 355478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 356cae681fcSAndi Kleen 357fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 358fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 359fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 360fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 361fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 362fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 363fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 364fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 365fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 366fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 367fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 368fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 369fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 370fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 371fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 372fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 373fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 374fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 375fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 376fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 377fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 378fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 379fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 380fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 381fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 382fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 383dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 384bbddff05STejun Heo 3854c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeliconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 38613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 38715626062SGerald Schaefer depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 3885d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 3893a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 3904c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 3914c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 3924c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 3934c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 3944c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 3954c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 3964c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 3974c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 3984c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 3994c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 40013ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 40113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 40213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 40313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 40413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 40513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 40613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 40713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 40813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 40913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 41013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 41113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 41213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 41313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 41413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 41513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 41613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 41713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 41813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 41913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 42013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 42113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 42213ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 42313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 42438d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 42538d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool n 42638d8b4e6SHuang Ying 42738d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 42838d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 42914fef284SHuang Ying depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP 43038d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 43138d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 43214fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 43314fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 43438d8b4e6SHuang Ying 43538d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 43638d8b4e6SHuang Ying 437e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 438bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 439bbddff05STejun Heo# 440bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 441bbddff05STejun Heo depends on !SMP 442bbddff05STejun Heo bool 443bbddff05STejun Heo default y 444077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 445077b1f83SDan Magenheimerconfig CLEANCACHE 446077b1f83SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" 447077b1f83SDan Magenheimer help 448077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache 449077b1f83SDan Magenheimer for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm 450077b1f83SDan Magenheimer (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough 451077b1f83SDan Magenheimer memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use 452140a1ef2SMichael Witten cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into 453077b1f83SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 454077b1f83SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 455077b1f83SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled 456077b1f83SDan Magenheimer filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first 457077b1f83SDan Magenheimer checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, 458077b1f83SDan Magenheimer the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. 459077b1f83SDan Magenheimer When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or 460077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction 461077b1f83SDan Magenheimer may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls 462077b1f83SDan Magenheimer are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting 463077b1f83SDan Magenheimer in a negligible performance hit. 464077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 465077b1f83SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache 46627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 46727c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 46827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" 46927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer depends on SWAP 47027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer help 47127c6aec2SDan Magenheimer Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite 47227c6aec2SDan Magenheimer of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into 47327c6aec2SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 47427c6aec2SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 47527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, 47627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is 47727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- 47827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit 47927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. 48027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 48127c6aec2SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. 482f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 483f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 484f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 485aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 486f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 487f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 488f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 489f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 490f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 491f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 492f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 493f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 494f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 495f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 496f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 497f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 498f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 499f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 500f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 501f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 502f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 503f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 504f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 505f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 506bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 50728b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 50828b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 50928b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 51028b24c1fSSasha Levin help 51128b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 51228b24c1fSSasha Levin 51343ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 51443ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 51543ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 51643ca106fSMinchan Kim help 51743ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 51843ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 51943ca106fSMinchan Kim 520a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 521a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 522a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 523b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 524a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 525a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 526a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 527a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 528a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 529a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 530b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 531a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 532af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 533af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 534af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 535af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 5364e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 537af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 538af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 539af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 540af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 541af8d417aSDan Streetman 5421ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 5434e2e2770SSeth Jennings 5442b281117SSeth Jenningsconfig ZSWAP 5452b281117SSeth Jennings bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5462b281117SSeth Jennings depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y 54712d79d64SDan Streetman select ZPOOL 5482b281117SSeth Jennings help 5492b281117SSeth Jennings A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 5502b281117SSeth Jennings pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 5512b281117SSeth Jennings compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 5522b281117SSeth Jennings This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 5532b281117SSeth Jennings in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device 5542b281117SSeth Jennings reads, can also improve workload performance. 5552b281117SSeth Jennings 5562b281117SSeth Jennings This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of 5572b281117SSeth Jennings v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these 5582b281117SSeth Jennings interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, 5592b281117SSeth Jennings they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential 5602b281117SSeth Jennings configurations and workloads that exist. 5612b281117SSeth Jennings 562bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 563bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default compressor" 564bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 565bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 566bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 567bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 568bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero for swap pages. 569bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 570bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 571bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 572bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero available at the following LWN page: 573bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 574bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 575bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 576bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 577bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 578bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 579bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 580bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 581bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Deflate" 582bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 583bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 584bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 585bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 586bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 587bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZO" 588bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZO 589bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 590bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 591bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 592bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 593bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "842" 594bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_842 595bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 596bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 597bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 598bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 599bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4" 600bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4 601bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 602bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 603bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 604bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 605bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4HC" 606bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 607bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 608bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 609bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 610bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 611bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zstd" 612bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_ZSTD 613bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 614bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 615bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 616bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 617bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 618bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 619bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 620bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 621bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 622bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 623bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 624bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 625bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 626bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 627bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 628bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 629bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default allocator" 630bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 631bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 632bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 633bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 634bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero swap pages. 635bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 636bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero read the description of each of the allocators below before 637bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero making a right choice. 638bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 639bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 640bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 641bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 642bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 643bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zbud" 644bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZBUD 645bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 646bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 647bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 648bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 649bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "z3fold" 650bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select Z3FOLD 651bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 652bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 653bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 654bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 655bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zsmalloc" 656bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZSMALLOC 657bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 658bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 659bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 660bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 661bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 662bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 663bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 664bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 665bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 666bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 667bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 668bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 669bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 670bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 671bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 672bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 673bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 674bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 675bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 676bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 677bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 678bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 679af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZPOOL 680af8d417aSDan Streetman tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" 6810f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov help 682af8d417aSDan Streetman Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or 683af8d417aSDan Streetman zsmalloc. 6840f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 685af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZBUD 6869a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" 687af8d417aSDan Streetman help 688af8d417aSDan Streetman A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 689af8d417aSDan Streetman It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 690af8d417aSDan Streetman page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 691af8d417aSDan Streetman deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 692af8d417aSDan Streetman density approach when reclaim will be used. 693bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 6949a001fc1SVitaly Woolconfig Z3FOLD 6959a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" 6969a001fc1SVitaly Wool depends on ZPOOL 6979a001fc1SVitaly Wool help 6989a001fc1SVitaly Wool A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 6999a001fc1SVitaly Wool It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 7009a001fc1SVitaly Wool page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 7019a001fc1SVitaly Wool still there. 7029a001fc1SVitaly Wool 703bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig ZSMALLOC 704d867f203SMinchan Kim tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" 705bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on MMU 706bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 707bcf1647dSMinchan Kim zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 708bcf1647dSMinchan Kim compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping 709bcf1647dSMinchan Kim in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a 710bcf1647dSMinchan Kim non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is 711bcf1647dSMinchan Kim returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to 712bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access the allocated space. 713bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 7140f050d99SGanesh Mahendranconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 7150f050d99SGanesh Mahendran bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 7160f050d99SGanesh Mahendran depends on ZSMALLOC 7170f050d99SGanesh Mahendran select DEBUG_FS 7180f050d99SGanesh Mahendran help 7190f050d99SGanesh Mahendran This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 72001ab1edeSColin Ian King statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 7210f050d99SGanesh Mahendran information to userspace via debugfs. 7220f050d99SGanesh Mahendran If unsure, say N. 7230f050d99SGanesh Mahendran 7249e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 7259e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 726042d27acSHelge Deller 72722ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 72822ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 72922ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 730042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 731042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 732042d27acSHelge Deller help 733042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 734042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 73522ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 736042d27acSHelge Deller 73722ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 7383a80a7faSMel Gorman 7393a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 7401ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 741d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 742ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 743889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 744e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 7453a80a7faSMel Gorman help 7463a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 7473a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 7483a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 749e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 750e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 7511ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 7521ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 753033fbae9SDan Williams 75433c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 75533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 75633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 75733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 75833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 75933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 76033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 76133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 76233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 76333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 7641ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 7651ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 76633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 767c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 768c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 769c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 77017596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 77165f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 77265f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 773033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 7745042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 775033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 776033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 77799490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 77817596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 7793a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 780033fbae9SDan Williams 781033fbae9SDan Williams help 782033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 783033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 784033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 785033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 786033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 787033fbae9SDan Williams 788033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 78906a660adSLinus Torvalds 790e7638488SDan Williamsconfig DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 791e7638488SDan Williams bool 792e7638488SDan Williams 7939c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 7949c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 7959c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 7969c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 797c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 7989c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 799f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 800c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 8015042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 8025042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 8037328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 804e7638488SDan Williams select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 8055042db43SJérôme Glisse 8065042db43SJérôme Glisse help 8075042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 8085042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 8095042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 8105042db43SJérôme Glisse 8113e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 8123e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 8133e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 81463c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 81563c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 81666d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 81766d37570SDave Hansen bool 81830a5b536SDennis Zhou 81930a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 82030a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 82130a5b536SDennis Zhou help 82230a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 82330a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 82430a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 82564c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8269c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 8279c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 828d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 82964c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 8309c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 8319c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 8329c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 83364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 8349c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 8359c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 8369c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 8379c84f229SJohn Hubbard 838f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 839f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 840f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 841f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 842f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 843f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 8449c84f229SJohn Hubbard See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c 8453010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 846d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 847d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 8483010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 84939656e83SChristoph Hellwigconfig GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH 85039656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 85139656e83SChristoph Hellwig 85299cb0dbdSSong Liuconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 85399cb0dbdSSong Liu bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 854396bcc52SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 85599cb0dbdSSong Liu 85699cb0dbdSSong Liu help 85799cb0dbdSSong Liu Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 85899cb0dbdSSong Liu 85999cb0dbdSSong Liu This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 86099cb0dbdSSong Liu support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 86199cb0dbdSSong Liu cycles. 86299cb0dbdSSong Liu 8633010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 8643010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 86559e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 866cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 867cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 868cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 869cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 870cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 871cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 872cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 873cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 874cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 875cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 876c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 877c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 878c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 879298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 880298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 881298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 8821fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 8831fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 8841fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 88559e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 886