1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 57b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 87b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool 117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 12b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL 13b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool 14b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 15519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP 167b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 177b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 187b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 197b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 207b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217b42f104SJohannes Weiner for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 227b42f104SJohannes Weiner used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 237b42f104SJohannes Weiner in your computer. If unsure say Y. 247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 25519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP 26fcab9b44SDavid Heidelberg bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on SWAP 28b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 29519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 351a44131dSSophia Gabriella in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 36519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 38b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 48b9c91c43SYosry Ahmedconfig ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS_DEFAULT_ON 49b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed bool "Invalidate zswap entries when pages are loaded" 50b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed depends on ZSWAP 51b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed help 52b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed If selected, exclusive loads for zswap will be enabled at boot, 53b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed otherwise it will be disabled. 54b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 55b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed If exclusive loads are enabled, when a page is loaded from zswap, 56b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed the zswap entry is invalidated at once, as opposed to leaving it 57b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed in zswap until the swap entry is freed. 58b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 59b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed This avoids having two copies of the same page in memory 60b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed (compressed and uncompressed) after faulting in a page from zswap. 61b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed The cost is that if the page was never dirtied and needs to be 62b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed swapped out again, it will be re-compressed. 63b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 64b5ba474fSNhat Phamconfig ZSWAP_SHRINKER_DEFAULT_ON 65b5ba474fSNhat Pham bool "Shrink the zswap pool on memory pressure" 66b5ba474fSNhat Pham depends on ZSWAP 67b5ba474fSNhat Pham default n 68b5ba474fSNhat Pham help 69b5ba474fSNhat Pham If selected, the zswap shrinker will be enabled, and the pages 70b5ba474fSNhat Pham stored in the zswap pool will become available for reclaim (i.e 71b5ba474fSNhat Pham written back to the backing swap device) on memory pressure. 72b5ba474fSNhat Pham 73b5ba474fSNhat Pham This means that zswap writeback could happen even if the pool is 74b5ba474fSNhat Pham not yet full, or the cgroup zswap limit has not been reached, 75b5ba474fSNhat Pham reducing the chance that cold pages will reside in the zswap pool 76b5ba474fSNhat Pham and consume memory indefinitely. 77b5ba474fSNhat Pham 78519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 79b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 80519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 83519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 85519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 86519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 89519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 91519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 92519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 95519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 96519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 97519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 98519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 101519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 102519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 104519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 107519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 108519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 110519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 113519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 114519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 115519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 117519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 118519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 120519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 126519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 128519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 129519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 131519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 132519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 133519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 135519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 141519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 143519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 144519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 145b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 14764d4d49cSNhat Pham default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC if MMU 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 149519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 150519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 151519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 152519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 155519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 156519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 157519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 158519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 159519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zbud" 161519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZBUD 162519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 163519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 164519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 165519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 166519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "z3fold" 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select Z3FOLD 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 170519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 171519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 172519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 173519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 174519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 175519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 176519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 177519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 178519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 180519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 181519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 182519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 183519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 184519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 185519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 186519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD 187b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 188b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 189519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 190519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 191519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 192519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 193519bcb79SJohannes Weiner deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 194519bcb79SJohannes Weiner density approach when reclaim will be used. 195519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 196519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig Z3FOLD 197b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 198b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 199519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 200519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 201519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 202519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 203519bcb79SJohannes Weiner still there. 204519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 205519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 206b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 207b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 208519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU 209519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 210519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 211b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 212b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 213519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 214519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 215519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 216519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 217519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 218519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 219519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 220519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 221519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 222519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 223519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2244ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 2254ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 226b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky default 8 2274ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky range 4 16 2284ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky depends on ZSMALLOC 2294ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky help 2304ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 2314ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 2324ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky chain size is calculated for each size class during the 2334ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky initialization of the pool. 2344ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2354ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 2364ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 2374ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 2384ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 2394ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky characteristics. 2404ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2414ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 2424ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2432a19be61SVlastimil Babkamenu "Slab allocator options" 2447b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2457b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 2462a19be61SVlastimil Babka def_bool y 247eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 248e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY 2492a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 2502a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT 251e240e53aSVlastimil Babka select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 252e240e53aSVlastimil Babka help 2532a19be61SVlastimil Babka Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 254e240e53aSVlastimil Babka footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 255e240e53aSVlastimil Babka This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 256e240e53aSVlastimil Babka SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 257e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 16MB RAM. 258e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 259e240e53aSVlastimil Babka If unsure, say N. 260e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 2617b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2627b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2637b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 2647b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2657b42f104SJohannes Weiner For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2667b42f104SJohannes Weiner merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2677b42f104SJohannes Weiner This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2687b42f104SJohannes Weiner overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2697b42f104SJohannes Weiner cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2707b42f104SJohannes Weiner by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2717b42f104SJohannes Weiner can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2727b42f104SJohannes Weiner merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2737b42f104SJohannes Weiner command line. 2747b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2757b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2767b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Randomize slab freelist" 2772a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2787b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2797b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2807b42f104SJohannes Weiner security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2817b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator against heap overflows. 2827b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2837b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2847b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 2852a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2867b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2877b42f104SJohannes Weiner Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 2887b42f104SJohannes Weiner other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 2897b42f104SJohannes Weiner sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 2902a19be61SVlastimil Babka freelist exploit methods. 2917b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2920710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 2930710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 2942a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable performance statistics" 2952a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 2960710d012SVlastimil Babka help 2972a19be61SVlastimil Babka The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 2980710d012SVlastimil Babka order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 2990710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 3000710d012SVlastimil Babka the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 3010710d012SVlastimil Babka supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 3020710d012SVlastimil Babka out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 3030710d012SVlastimil Babka Try running: slabinfo -DA 3040710d012SVlastimil Babka 305519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 306519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default y 3072a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 3082a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 309519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 310519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 311519bcb79SJohannes Weiner that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 312519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 313519bcb79SJohannes Weiner which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 314519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 315519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3163c615294SGONG, Ruiqiconfig RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 3173c615294SGONG, Ruiqi default n 3182a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 3193c615294SGONG, Ruiqi bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 3203c615294SGONG, Ruiqi help 3213c615294SGONG, Ruiqi A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 3223c615294SGONG, Ruiqi normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 3233c615294SGONG, Ruiqi on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 3243c615294SGONG, Ruiqi vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 3253c615294SGONG, Ruiqi memory vulnerabilities. 3263c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3273c615294SGONG, Ruiqi Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 3283c615294SGONG, Ruiqi that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 3293c615294SGONG, Ruiqi subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 3303c615294SGONG, Ruiqi limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 3313c615294SGONG, Ruiqi system workload. 3323c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3332a19be61SVlastimil Babkaendmenu # Slab allocator options 334519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3357b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3367b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3377b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3387b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3397b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3407b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3417b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3427b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3437b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3447b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3457b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 3465e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 34723baf831SKirill A. Shutemov order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 34823baf831SKirill A. Shutemov on x86. 3497b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3507b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3517b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 3527b42f104SJohannes Weiner this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 3537b42f104SJohannes Weiner after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 3547b42f104SJohannes Weiner Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 3557b42f104SJohannes Weiner 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3567b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3577b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3587b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3590710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 3600710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 3610710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 3620710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3630710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 3640710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 3650710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 3660710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 3670710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 3680710d012SVlastimil Babka 3690710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 3700710d012SVlastimil Babka 3710710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 3720710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 3730710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 3740710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3750710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3760710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 3770710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 3780710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 3790710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 3800710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 3810710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 3820710d012SVlastimil Babka 3830710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 3840710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 3850710d012SVlastimil Babka 3860710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 3870710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 3880710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 3890710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 3900710d012SVlastimil Babka 3910710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 3920710d012SVlastimil Babka 393e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 394e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 395a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 396e1785e85SDave Hansen 3973a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 3983a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 399e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 400d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 401e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 402d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 403d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 404d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 405d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 406d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 4073a9da765SDave Hansen 408e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 4093a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 410bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 4113a9da765SDave Hansen help 412d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 413d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 414d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 415d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 4163a9da765SDave Hansen 417d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 418d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 419dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 420d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 421d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 4223a9da765SDave Hansen 423d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 424d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 425d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 426d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 427d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 428d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 429d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 430d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 431d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 432d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 433d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 434d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 435d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4363a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4373a9da765SDave Hansen 438d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 439d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4401a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 441d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 442e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 443e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 444bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 445d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 44693b7504eSDave Hansen# 4473e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 448c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4493e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4503e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4513e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4523e347261SBob Picco# 4533e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4543e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4553e347261SBob Picco# 4563e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4579ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4583e347261SBob Picco 4593e347261SBob Picco# 46044c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 461802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 462802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 463802f192eSBob Picco# 4643e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 4653e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 4663e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4674c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 46829c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 4699ba16087SJan Beulich bool 47029c71111SAndy Whitcroft 47129c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 472a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 473a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 474a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 475a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 476a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 477a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 478a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 4790b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4800b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 4810b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 4820b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4830b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 4840b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 4850b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V 4860b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 4870b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V bool 48829c71111SAndy Whitcroft 48970210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 4906341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 49170210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 49267a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 493050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 4946341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 4952667f50eSSteve Capper 49652219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 49752219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 49852219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 499350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 5006341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 501c378ddd5STejun Heo 5021e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 5031e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 5041e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 5051e5d8e1eSDan Williams 506ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 5076341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 508ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 509a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 510a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 511a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 512a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 513a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 514a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 515a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 51646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 51746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 51846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 51946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 52046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 52146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 52246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 52391024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 52491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 52591024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 526519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 527519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 528519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5293947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 530519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 531519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 532b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 53371b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 53440b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5357ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 5361e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 5373947be19SDave Hansen 538519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 539519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5408604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 5418604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 5428604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5438604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 5448604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5458604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5468604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5478604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 548cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5498604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5508604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 5518604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 5528604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 5538604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 5548604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5550c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5560c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 557f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5580c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5590c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5600c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 561a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 562a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 563a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 564a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 565a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 566519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 567519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 56804d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 56904d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 57004d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V 5714c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 5724c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 5734c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 5744c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 5754c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 5767b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 57760bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 57860bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 57960bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 580a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 5814c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 5824c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 5834c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 5849164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 585a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 586a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 58760bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 5884c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 5897cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 590e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 5916341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 592e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 5937cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 59409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 59509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 5966341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 59709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 59809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 59918468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 60018468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 60118468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 602*cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 60309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 60418468d93SRafael Aquini help 60518468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 60618468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 60718468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 60818468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 60918468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 61018468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 61118468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 61218468d93SRafael Aquini 61318468d93SRafael Aquini# 614e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 615e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 616e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 617*cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 618e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 61933a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 620e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 621b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 622b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 623b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 624b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 625b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 626b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 627b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 628b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 629e9e96b39SMel Gorman 630c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 631c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner int 632c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner depends on COMPACTION 633c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 634c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 1 635c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner 636e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 63736e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 63836e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 63936e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 64036e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 64136e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 64236e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 64336e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 64436e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 64536e66c55SAlexander Duyck 64636e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 6477cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 6487cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 6497cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 650b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 651*cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 652de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 653b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 654b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 655e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 656e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 657e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 658e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 659e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6606550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 66176cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 662d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 66376cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 664c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 6656341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 666c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 6679c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 6689c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 6699c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 6704bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 6714bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 6724bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 6734bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 6744bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 6754bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 6764bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 6775e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 6785e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 679b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 6808df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 6818df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 6828df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 68352166607SHuang Yingconfig PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 68452166607SHuang Ying int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 68552166607SHuang Ying default 5 68652166607SHuang Ying range 0 6 68752166607SHuang Ying help 68852166607SHuang Ying In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 68952166607SHuang Ying batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 69052166607SHuang Ying allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 69152166607SHuang Ying latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 69252166607SHuang Ying the maximum latency. 69352166607SHuang Ying 694600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 695d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 696600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 6972a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 6989ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 6999ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 700ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 7019ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 702ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 703ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 704ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 7052a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 706cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 707cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 70899cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 709fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 710f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 711f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 712f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 71359e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 714f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 715f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 716f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 717f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 718d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 719f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 720f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 721ee65728eSMike Rapoport See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 722c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 723c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 724f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 725e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 726e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 7276e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 728e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 729e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 730e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 731e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 732e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 733e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 734e99fb98dSKefeng Wang For most ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 735e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 736e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 737788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 738788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 739788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 740e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 741e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 742e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 743e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 744d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 745d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 746e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 7476a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 7486a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 749d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7506a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 751ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 75297f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 7536a46079cSAndi Kleen help 7546a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7556a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7566a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7576a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7586a46079cSAndi Kleen 759cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 760413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 76127df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 762478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 763cae681fcSAndi Kleen 764fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 765fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 766fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 767fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 768fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 769fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 770fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 771fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 772fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 773fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 774fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 775fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 776fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 777fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 778fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 779fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 780fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 781fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 782fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 783fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 784fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 785fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 786fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 787fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 788fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 789fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 790dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 791bbddff05STejun Heo 792519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 793519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 794519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 795519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 796519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 797519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 798519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 79913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 800554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 8015d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 8023a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 8034c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 8044c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 8054c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 8064c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 8074c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 8084c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 8094c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 8104c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 8114c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 8124c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 813519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 814519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 81513ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 81613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 81713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 81813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 81913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 82013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 82113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 82213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 82313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 82413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 82513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 82613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 82713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 82813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 82913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 83013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 83113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 83213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 83313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 83413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 83513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 83613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 837683ec99fSDmytro Maluka 838683ec99fSDmytro Maluka config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 839683ec99fSDmytro Maluka bool "never" 840683ec99fSDmytro Maluka help 841683ec99fSDmytro Maluka Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 842683ec99fSDmytro Maluka enabled at runtime via sysfs. 84313ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 84413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 84538d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 84638d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 847dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 84838d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 84938d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 85014fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 85114fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 85238d8b4e6SHuang Ying 85338d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 85438d8b4e6SHuang Ying 855519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 856519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 857519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 858519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 859519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 860519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 861519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 862519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 863519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 864519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 865519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 866519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 867519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 868e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 869bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 870bbddff05STejun Heo# 871bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 8723583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 873bbddff05STejun Heo bool 874bbddff05STejun Heo default y 875077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 8767ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 8777ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8787ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8797ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 8807ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8817ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8827ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 8837ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8847ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 8857ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 8867ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 8877ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 888f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 889f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 890aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 891f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 892f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 893f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 894f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 895f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 896f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 897f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 898f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 899f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 900f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 901f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 902f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 903f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 904f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 905f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 906f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 907f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 908f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 909f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 910f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 911bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 91228b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 91328b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 91428b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 91528b24c1fSSasha Levin help 91628b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 91728b24c1fSSasha Levin 91843ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 91943ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 92043ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 92143ca106fSMinchan Kim help 92243ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 92343ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 92443ca106fSMinchan Kim 925a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 926a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 927a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 928b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 929a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 930a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 931a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 932a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 933a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 934a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 935b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 936a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 937af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 938af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 939af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 940af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 9414e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 942af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 943af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 944af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 945af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 946af8d417aSDan Streetman 9471ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 9484e2e2770SSeth Jennings 9499e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 9509e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 951042d27acSHelge Deller 95222ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 95322ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 95422ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 955042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 956042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 957042d27acSHelge Deller help 958042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 959042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 96022ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 961042d27acSHelge Deller 96222ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9633a80a7faSMel Gorman 9643a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9651ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 966d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 967ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 968889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 969e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 9703a80a7faSMel Gorman help 9713a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 9723a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 9733a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 974e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 975e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 9761ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 9771ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 978033fbae9SDan Williams 9791c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 9801c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 9811c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 9821c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 9831c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 9841c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 9851c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 9861c676e0dSSeongJae Park 98733c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 98833c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 98933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 9901c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 99133c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 99233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 99333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 99433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 99533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 99633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 9971ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 9981ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 99933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 1000c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1001c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 1002c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 10032792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 10042792d84eSKees Cook bool 10052792d84eSKees Cook help 10062792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 10072792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 10082792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 10092792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 10102792d84eSKees Cook selected. 10112792d84eSKees Cook 101217596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 101365f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 101465f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 101563703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 101663703f37SKefeng Wang bool 101763703f37SKefeng Wang 101863703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 101963703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 102063703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 102163703f37SKefeng Wang 102263703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 102363703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 102463703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 102563703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 102663703f37SKefeng Wang 1027033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 10285042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1029033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1030033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 103199490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 103217596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 10333a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 1034033fbae9SDan Williams 1035033fbae9SDan Williams help 1036033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1037033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1038033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1039033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1040033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1041033fbae9SDan Williams 1042033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 104306a660adSLinus Torvalds 10449c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 10459c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 10469c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 10479c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 1048c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 10499c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 1050f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1051c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 105214b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION 105314b80582SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM 105414b80582SDan Williams bool 105514b80582SDan Williams 10565042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 10575042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 10587328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 105914b80582SDan Williams select GET_FREE_REGION 10605042db43SJérôme Glisse 10615042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10625042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10635042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 10645042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 10655042db43SJérôme Glisse 10663e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 10673e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 10683e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 106963c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 107063c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 107166d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 107266d37570SDave Hansen bool 107330a5b536SDennis Zhou 1074b0284cd2SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1075b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas bool 1076b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas help 1077b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1078b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1079b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1080b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1081b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas 10820710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 10830710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 10840710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 10850710d012SVlastimil Babka help 10860710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10870710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10880710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10890710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 10900710d012SVlastimil Babka 109130a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 109230a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 109330a5b536SDennis Zhou help 109430a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 109530a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 109630a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 109764c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 10989c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 10999c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1100d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 110164c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 11029c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 11039c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 11049c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 110564c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11069c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 11079c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 11089c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 11099c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1110f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1111f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1112f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1113f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1114f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1115f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 1116baa489faSSeongJae Park See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 11173010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1118d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1119d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 11203010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 11216ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 112239656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 112339656e83SChristoph Hellwig 1124def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST 1125def85743SKeith Busch tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1126def85743SKeith Busch depends on HAS_DMA 1127def85743SKeith Busch help 1128def85743SKeith Busch Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1129def85743SKeith Busch various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1130def85743SKeith Busch provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1131def85743SKeith Busch dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1132def85743SKeith Busch 11333010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 11343010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 113559e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1136cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1137cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1138cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1139cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1140cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1141cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 1142cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1143cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1144cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 1145cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 1146c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1147c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1148c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1149298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1150298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1151298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1152825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1153825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1154825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 11551fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 11561fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 11571fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 11581507f512SMike Rapoport 1159626e98cbSThomas Weißschuhconfig MEMFD_CREATE 1160626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1161626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh 11621507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 116374947724SLukas Bulwahn default y 116474947724SLukas Bulwahn bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 116574947724SLukas Bulwahn depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 116674947724SLukas Bulwahn help 116774947724SLukas Bulwahn Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 116874947724SLukas Bulwahn memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 116974947724SLukas Bulwahn not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 11701507f512SMike Rapoport 11719a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 11729a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 11739a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 11749a10064fSColin Cross 11759a10064fSColin Cross help 11769a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 11779a10064fSColin Cross 11789a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 11799a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 11809a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 11819a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 11829a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 11839a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 11849a10064fSColin Cross 1185430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1186430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1187430529b5SPeter Xu help 1188430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1189430529b5SPeter Xu 1190430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1191430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1192430529b5SPeter Xu help 1193430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1194430529b5SPeter Xu 119597219cc3SPeter Xumenuconfig USERFAULTFD 119697219cc3SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 119797219cc3SPeter Xu depends on MMU 119897219cc3SPeter Xu help 119997219cc3SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 120097219cc3SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 120197219cc3SPeter Xu 120297219cc3SPeter Xuif USERFAULTFD 12031db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 120481e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 120581e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 120681e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 12071db9dbc2SPeter Xu 12081db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 12091db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 12101db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 12111db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 121297219cc3SPeter Xuendif # USERFAULTFD 12131db9dbc2SPeter Xu 1214ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU { 1215ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN 1216ec1c86b2SYu Zhao bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1217ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on MMU 1218ec1c86b2SYu Zhao # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1219ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1220ec1c86b2SYu Zhao help 122107017acbSYu Zhao A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 122207017acbSYu Zhao Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1223ec1c86b2SYu Zhao 1224354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1225354ed597SYu Zhao bool "Enable by default" 1226354ed597SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1227354ed597SYu Zhao help 1228354ed597SYu Zhao This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1229354ed597SYu Zhao 1230ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS 1231ac35a490SYu Zhao bool "Full stats for debugging" 1232ac35a490SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1233ac35a490SYu Zhao help 1234ac35a490SYu Zhao Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1235ac35a490SYu Zhao from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1236ac35a490SYu Zhao 1237ac35a490SYu Zhao This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 123861dd3f24SKinsey Ho 123961dd3f24SKinsey Hoconfig LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 124061dd3f24SKinsey Ho def_bool y 124161dd3f24SKinsey Ho depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1242ac35a490SYu Zhao# } 1243ac35a490SYu Zhao 12440b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 12450b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool n 12460b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12470b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK 12480b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool y 12490b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 12500b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan help 12510b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 12520b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12530b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 12540b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 12550b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 1256c2508ec5SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1257c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds bool 1258c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1259c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds 12608f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpeconfig IOMMU_MM_DATA 12618f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe bool 12628f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe 12632224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 12642224d848SSeongJae Park 126559e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1266