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 12e1785e85SDave Hansen default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 13d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 14e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 15d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 16d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 17d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 18d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 19d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 203a9da765SDave Hansen 21e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 223a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 23c898ec16SAnton Blanchard depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 243a9da765SDave Hansen help 25d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 26d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 27d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 28d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 293a9da765SDave Hansen 30d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 31d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 32dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 33d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 34d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 353a9da765SDave Hansen 36e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 37f3519f91SDave Hansen bool "Discontiguous Memory" 383a9da765SDave Hansen depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 393a9da765SDave Hansen help 40785dcd44SDave Hansen This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous 41785dcd44SDave Hansen memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes 42785dcd44SDave Hansen in their physical address spaces, and this option provides 43d66d109dSMike Rapoport more efficient handling of these holes. 44785dcd44SDave Hansen 45d66d109dSMike Rapoport Although "Discontiguous Memory" is still used by several 46d66d109dSMike Rapoport architectures, it is considered deprecated in favor of 47d66d109dSMike Rapoport "Sparse Memory". 48785dcd44SDave Hansen 49d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Sparse Memory" over this option. 503a9da765SDave Hansen 51d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 52d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 53d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 54d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 55d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 56d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 57d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 58d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 59d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 60d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 61d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 62d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 63d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 643a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 653a9da765SDave Hansen 66e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig DISCONTIGMEM 67e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 68e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL 69e1785e85SDave Hansen 70d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 71d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 721a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 73d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 74e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 75e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 76d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL 77d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 78d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP 79d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 80d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on !SPARSEMEM 81e1785e85SDave Hansen 8293b7504eSDave Hansen# 8393b7504eSDave Hansen# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's 8493b7504eSDave Hansen# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows 8593b7504eSDave Hansen# those dependencies to exist individually. 8693b7504eSDave Hansen# 8793b7504eSDave Hansenconfig NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 8893b7504eSDave Hansen def_bool y 8993b7504eSDave Hansen depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA 90af705362SAndy Whitcroft 91af705362SAndy Whitcroftconfig HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 92af705362SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 93d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM 94802f192eSBob Picco 95802f192eSBob Picco# 963e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 973e347261SBob Picco# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot 983e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 993e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 1003e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 1013e347261SBob Picco# 1023e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 1033e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 1043e347261SBob Picco# 1053e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1069ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1073e347261SBob Picco 1083e347261SBob Picco# 10944c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 110802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 111802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 112802f192eSBob Picco# 1133e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 1143e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 1153e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 1164c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 11729c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 1189ba16087SJan Beulich bool 11929c71111SAndy Whitcroft 12029c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 121a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 122a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 123a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 124a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 125a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 126a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 127a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 12829c71111SAndy Whitcroft 1297c0caeb8STejun Heoconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 1306341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1317c0caeb8STejun Heo 13270210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 1336341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 13470210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 13567a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 136050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1376341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1382667f50eSSteve Capper 139350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 1406341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 141c378ddd5STejun Heo 142ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 1436341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 144ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 14546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 14746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 14846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 14946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 15046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 15146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 1523947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 1533947be19SDave Hansenconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1543947be19SDave Hansen bool "Allow for memory hot-add" 155ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 15640b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1573947be19SDave Hansen 158ec69acbbSKeith Manntheyconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE 159ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey def_bool y 160ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 161ec69acbbSKeith Mannthey 1628604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 1638604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 1648604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1658604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 1668604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 1678604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 1688604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 1698604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 170cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1718604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1728604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 1738604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 1748604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 1758604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 1768604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 1770c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1780c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 17946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu select MEMORY_ISOLATION 180f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 1810c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1820c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 1830c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1844c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 1854c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 1864c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 1874c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 1884c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 1897b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 190a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 1914c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 1924c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 1934c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 1949164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 195a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 196a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 1974c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 1987cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 199e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 2006341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 201e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 2027cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 20309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 20409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 2056341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20609316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 20709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 20818468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 20918468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 21018468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 21118468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 21209316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 21318468d93SRafael Aquini help 21418468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 21518468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 21618468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 21718468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 21818468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 21918468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 22018468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 22118468d93SRafael Aquini 22218468d93SRafael Aquini# 223e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 224e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 225e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 22605106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 227e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 22833a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 229e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 230b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 231b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 232b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 233b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 234b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 235b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 236b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 237b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 238e9e96b39SMel Gorman 239e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 24036e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 24136e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 24236e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 24336e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 24436e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 24536e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 24636e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 24736e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 24836e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 24936e66c55SAlexander Duyck 25036e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 2517cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 2527cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 2537cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 254b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 2556c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 256de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 257b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 258b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 259e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 260e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 261e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 262e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 263e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 2646550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 265c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 2666341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 267c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 2689c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 2699c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 2709c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 2718df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 2728df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 2738df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 274600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 275d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 276600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 2772a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 2789ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 2799ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 2802a7326b5SChristoph Lameter depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM) 2819ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 2829ca24e2eSVinayak Menon Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access 2839ca24e2eSVinayak Menon the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled 2849ca24e2eSVinayak Menon by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you 2859ca24e2eSVinayak Menon may say n to override this. 2862a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 287f057eac0SStephen Rothwellconfig VIRT_TO_BUS 2884febd95aSStephen Rothwell bool 2894febd95aSStephen Rothwell help 2904febd95aSStephen Rothwell An architecture should select this if it implements the 2914febd95aSStephen Rothwell deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures 2924febd95aSStephen Rothwell should probably not select this. 2934febd95aSStephen Rothwell 294cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli 295cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 296cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 29783fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 29899cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 299fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 300f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 301f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 302f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 30359e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 304f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 305f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 306f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 307f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 308d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 309f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 310f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 311ad56b738SMike Rapoport See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 312c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 313c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 314f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 315e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 316e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 3176e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 318e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 319e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 320e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 321e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 322e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 323e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 324e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 325e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 326e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 327788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 328788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 329788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 330e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 331e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 332e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 333e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 334d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 335d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 336e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 3376a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 3386a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 339d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 3406a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 341ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 34297f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 3436a46079cSAndi Kleen help 3446a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 3456a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 3466a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 3476a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 3486a46079cSAndi Kleen 349cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 350413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 35127df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 352478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 353cae681fcSAndi Kleen 354fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 355fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 356fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 357fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 358fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 359fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 360fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 361fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 362fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 363fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 364fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 365fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 366fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 367fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 368fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 369fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 370fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 371fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 372fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 373fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 374fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 375fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 376fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 377fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 378fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 379fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 380fc4d5c29SDavid Howells See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 381bbddff05STejun Heo 3824c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeliconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 38313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 38415626062SGerald Schaefer depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 3855d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 3863a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 3874c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 3884c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 3894c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 3904c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 3914c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 3924c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 3934c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 3944c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 3954c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 3964c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 39713ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 39813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 39913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 40013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 40113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 40213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 40313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 40413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 40513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 40613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 40713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 40813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 40913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 41013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 41113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 41213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 41313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 41413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 41513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 41613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 41713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 41813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 41913ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 42013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 42138d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 42238d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool n 42338d8b4e6SHuang Ying 42438d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 42538d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 42614fef284SHuang Ying depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP 42738d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 42838d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 42914fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 43014fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 43138d8b4e6SHuang Ying 43238d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 43338d8b4e6SHuang Ying 434e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 435bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 436bbddff05STejun Heo# 437bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 438bbddff05STejun Heo depends on !SMP 439bbddff05STejun Heo bool 440bbddff05STejun Heo default y 441077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 442077b1f83SDan Magenheimerconfig CLEANCACHE 443077b1f83SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" 444077b1f83SDan Magenheimer help 445077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache 446077b1f83SDan Magenheimer for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm 447077b1f83SDan Magenheimer (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough 448077b1f83SDan Magenheimer memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use 449140a1ef2SMichael Witten cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into 450077b1f83SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 451077b1f83SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 452077b1f83SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled 453077b1f83SDan Magenheimer filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first 454077b1f83SDan Magenheimer checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, 455077b1f83SDan Magenheimer the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. 456077b1f83SDan Magenheimer When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or 457077b1f83SDan Magenheimer Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction 458077b1f83SDan Magenheimer may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls 459077b1f83SDan Magenheimer are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting 460077b1f83SDan Magenheimer in a negligible performance hit. 461077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 462077b1f83SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache 46327c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 46427c6aec2SDan Magenheimerconfig FRONTSWAP 46527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" 46627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer depends on SWAP 46727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer help 46827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite 46927c6aec2SDan Magenheimer of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into 47027c6aec2SDan Magenheimer "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 47127c6aec2SDan Magenheimer addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 47227c6aec2SDan Magenheimer time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, 47327c6aec2SDan Magenheimer a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is 47427c6aec2SDan Magenheimer available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- 47527c6aec2SDan Magenheimer compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit 47627c6aec2SDan Magenheimer and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. 47727c6aec2SDan Magenheimer 47827c6aec2SDan Magenheimer If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. 479f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 480f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 481f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 482aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 483f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 484f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 485f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 486f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 487f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 488f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 489f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 490f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 491f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 492f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 493f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 494f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 495f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 496f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 497f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 498f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 499f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 500f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 501f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 502f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 503bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 50428b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 50528b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 50628b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 50728b24c1fSSasha Levin help 50828b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 50928b24c1fSSasha Levin 510a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 511a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 512a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 513a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 514a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 515a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 516a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 517a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 518a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 519a254129eSJoonsoo Kim If unsure, leave the default value "7". 520a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 521af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 522af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 523af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 524af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 5254e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 526af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 527af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 528af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 529af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 530af8d417aSDan Streetman 5311ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 5324e2e2770SSeth Jennings 5332b281117SSeth Jenningsconfig ZSWAP 5342b281117SSeth Jennings bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5352b281117SSeth Jennings depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y 53612d79d64SDan Streetman select ZPOOL 5372b281117SSeth Jennings help 5382b281117SSeth Jennings A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 5392b281117SSeth Jennings pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 5402b281117SSeth Jennings compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 5412b281117SSeth Jennings This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 5422b281117SSeth Jennings in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device 5432b281117SSeth Jennings reads, can also improve workload performance. 5442b281117SSeth Jennings 5452b281117SSeth Jennings This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of 5462b281117SSeth Jennings v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these 5472b281117SSeth Jennings interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, 5482b281117SSeth Jennings they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential 5492b281117SSeth Jennings configurations and workloads that exist. 5502b281117SSeth Jennings 551*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 552*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default compressor" 553*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 554*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 555*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 556*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 557*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero for swap pages. 558*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 559*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 560*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 561*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero available at the following LWN page: 562*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 563*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 564*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 565*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 566*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 567*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 568*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 569*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 570*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Deflate" 571*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 572*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 573*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 574*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 575*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 576*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZO" 577*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZO 578*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 579*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 580*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 581*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 582*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "842" 583*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_842 584*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 585*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 586*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 587*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 588*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4" 589*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4 590*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 591*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 592*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 593*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 594*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "LZ4HC" 595*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 596*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 597*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 598*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 599*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 600*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zstd" 601*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select CRYPTO_ZSTD 602*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 603*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 604*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 605*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 606*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 607*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 608*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 609*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 610*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 611*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 612*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 613*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 614*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 615*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 616*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 617*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigierochoice 618*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero prompt "Compressed cache for swap pages default allocator" 619*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 620*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 621*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 622*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 623*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero swap pages. 624*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 625*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero read the description of each of the allocators below before 626*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero making a right choice. 627*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 628*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 629*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 630*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 631*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 632*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zbud" 633*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZBUD 634*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 635*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 636*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 637*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 638*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "z3fold" 639*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select Z3FOLD 640*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 641*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 642*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 643*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 644*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "zsmalloc" 645*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero select ZSMALLOC 646*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 647*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 648*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroendchoice 649*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 650*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 651*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero string 652*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 653*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 654*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 655*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 656*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero default "" 657*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 658*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigieroconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 659*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 660*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero depends on ZSWAP 661*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero help 662*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 663*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 664*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 665*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 666*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 667*bb8b93b5SMaciej S. Szmigiero 668af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZPOOL 669af8d417aSDan Streetman tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" 6700f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov help 671af8d417aSDan Streetman Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or 672af8d417aSDan Streetman zsmalloc. 6730f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 674af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig ZBUD 6759a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" 676af8d417aSDan Streetman help 677af8d417aSDan Streetman A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 678af8d417aSDan Streetman It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 679af8d417aSDan Streetman page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 680af8d417aSDan Streetman deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 681af8d417aSDan Streetman density approach when reclaim will be used. 682bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 6839a001fc1SVitaly Woolconfig Z3FOLD 6849a001fc1SVitaly Wool tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" 6859a001fc1SVitaly Wool depends on ZPOOL 6869a001fc1SVitaly Wool help 6879a001fc1SVitaly Wool A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 6889a001fc1SVitaly Wool It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 6899a001fc1SVitaly Wool page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 6909a001fc1SVitaly Wool still there. 6919a001fc1SVitaly Wool 692bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig ZSMALLOC 693d867f203SMinchan Kim tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" 694bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on MMU 695bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 696bcf1647dSMinchan Kim zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 697bcf1647dSMinchan Kim compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping 698bcf1647dSMinchan Kim in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a 699bcf1647dSMinchan Kim non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is 700bcf1647dSMinchan Kim returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to 701bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access the allocated space. 702bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 703bcf1647dSMinchan Kimconfig PGTABLE_MAPPING 704bcf1647dSMinchan Kim bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc" 705bcf1647dSMinchan Kim depends on ZSMALLOC 706bcf1647dSMinchan Kim help 707bcf1647dSMinchan Kim By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to 708bcf1647dSMinchan Kim access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular 709bcf1647dSMinchan Kim architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying, 710bcf1647dSMinchan Kim then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table 711bcf1647dSMinchan Kim mapping rather than copying for object mapping. 712bcf1647dSMinchan Kim 7132216ee85SBen Hutchings You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark: 7142216ee85SBen Hutchings https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench 7159e5c33d7SMark Salter 7160f050d99SGanesh Mahendranconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 7170f050d99SGanesh Mahendran bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 7180f050d99SGanesh Mahendran depends on ZSMALLOC 7190f050d99SGanesh Mahendran select DEBUG_FS 7200f050d99SGanesh Mahendran help 7210f050d99SGanesh Mahendran This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 7220f050d99SGanesh Mahendran statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that 7230f050d99SGanesh Mahendran information to userspace via debugfs. 7240f050d99SGanesh Mahendran If unsure, say N. 7250f050d99SGanesh Mahendran 7269e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 7279e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 728042d27acSHelge Deller 729042d27acSHelge Dellerconfig MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB 730042d27acSHelge Deller int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 731042d27acSHelge Deller default 80 732042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 733042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 734042d27acSHelge Deller help 735042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 736042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 7375f171577SJames Hogan arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory address minus 7385f171577SJames Hogan the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is changed to a 7395f171577SJames Hogan smaller value in which case that is used. 740042d27acSHelge Deller 741042d27acSHelge Deller A sane initial value is 80 MB. 7423a80a7faSMel Gorman 7433a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 7441ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 745d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 746ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 747889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 7483a80a7faSMel Gorman help 7493a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 7503a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 7513a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 7523a80a7faSMel Gorman a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel 7531ce22103SVlastimil Babka by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This 7541ce22103SVlastimil Babka has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the 7551ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 7561ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 757033fbae9SDan Williams 75833c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 75933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 76033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 76133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 76233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 76333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 76433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 76533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 76633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 76733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 7681ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 7691ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 77033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 77117596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 77265f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 77365f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 774033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 7755042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 776033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 777033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 77899490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 77917596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 7803a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 781033fbae9SDan Williams 782033fbae9SDan Williams help 783033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 784033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 785033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 786033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 787033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 788033fbae9SDan Williams 789033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 79006a660adSLinus Torvalds 791e7638488SDan Williamsconfig DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 792e7638488SDan Williams bool 793e7638488SDan Williams 7949c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 7959c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 7969c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 7979c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 798c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 7999c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 800f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 801c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 8025042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 8035042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 8047328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 805e7638488SDan Williams select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 8065042db43SJérôme Glisse 8075042db43SJérôme Glisse help 8085042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 8095042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 8105042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 8115042db43SJérôme Glisse 8128025e5ddSJan Karaconfig FRAME_VECTOR 8138025e5ddSJan Kara bool 81463c17fb8SDave Hansen 81563c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 81663c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 81766d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 81866d37570SDave Hansen bool 81930a5b536SDennis Zhou 82030a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 82130a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 82230a5b536SDennis Zhou help 82330a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 82430a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 82530a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 82664c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 82764c349f4SKirill A. Shutemovconfig GUP_BENCHMARK 82864c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking" 82964c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 83064c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_benchmark that helps with testing 83164c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov performance of get_user_pages_fast(). 83264c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 83364c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c 8343010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 83539656e83SChristoph Hellwigconfig GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH 83639656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 83739656e83SChristoph Hellwig 83899cb0dbdSSong Liuconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 83999cb0dbdSSong Liu bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 840396bcc52SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 84199cb0dbdSSong Liu 84299cb0dbdSSong Liu help 84399cb0dbdSSong Liu Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 84499cb0dbdSSong Liu 84599cb0dbdSSong Liu This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 84699cb0dbdSSong Liu support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 84799cb0dbdSSong Liu cycles. 84899cb0dbdSSong Liu 8493010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 8503010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 85159e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 852cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 853cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 854cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 855cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 856cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 857cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 858cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 859cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 860cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 861cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 862c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 863c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 864c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 86559e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 866