1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 57b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 87b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool 117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 12b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL 13b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool 14b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 15519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP 167b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 177b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 187b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 197b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 207b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217b42f104SJohannes Weiner for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 227b42f104SJohannes Weiner used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 237b42f104SJohannes Weiner in your computer. If unsure say Y. 247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 25519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP 26fcab9b44SDavid Heidelberg bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on SWAP 28b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 29519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 351a44131dSSophia Gabriella in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 36519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 38b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 48b5ba474fSNhat Phamconfig ZSWAP_SHRINKER_DEFAULT_ON 49b5ba474fSNhat Pham bool "Shrink the zswap pool on memory pressure" 50b5ba474fSNhat Pham depends on ZSWAP 51b5ba474fSNhat Pham default n 52b5ba474fSNhat Pham help 53b5ba474fSNhat Pham If selected, the zswap shrinker will be enabled, and the pages 54b5ba474fSNhat Pham stored in the zswap pool will become available for reclaim (i.e 55b5ba474fSNhat Pham written back to the backing swap device) on memory pressure. 56b5ba474fSNhat Pham 57b5ba474fSNhat Pham This means that zswap writeback could happen even if the pool is 58b5ba474fSNhat Pham not yet full, or the cgroup zswap limit has not been reached, 59b5ba474fSNhat Pham reducing the chance that cold pages will reside in the zswap pool 60b5ba474fSNhat Pham and consume memory indefinitely. 61b5ba474fSNhat Pham 62519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 63b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 64519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 65519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 66519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 67519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 73519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 79519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 80519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 82519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 83519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 85519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 86519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 88519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 89519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 91519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 92519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 94519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 95519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 97519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 98519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 100519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 101519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 102519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 104519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 106519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 107519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 108519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 110519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 112519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 113519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 115519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 117519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 118519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 119519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 120519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 128519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 129b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 130519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 13104cb7502SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC if MMU 132519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 135519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 141519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 142519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 143519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 144519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 145519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 147519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 149519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 150519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 151519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 152519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 155519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 156b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 1575ad7a998SSergey Senozhatsky prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if (ZSWAP || ZRAM) 15804cb7502SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) depends on MMU 159519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 161b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 162b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 163519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 164519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 165519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 166519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 170519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 171519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 172519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 173519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 1744ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 1754ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 176b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky default 8 1774ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky range 4 16 1784ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky depends on ZSMALLOC 1794ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky help 1804ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 1814ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 1824ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky chain size is calculated for each size class during the 1834ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky initialization of the pool. 1844ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 1854ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 1864ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 1874ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 1884ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 1894ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky characteristics. 1904ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 1914ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 1924ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 1932a19be61SVlastimil Babkamenu "Slab allocator options" 1947b42f104SJohannes Weiner 1957b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 1962a19be61SVlastimil Babka def_bool y 197eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 198e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY 1992a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 2002a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT 201e240e53aSVlastimil Babka select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 202e240e53aSVlastimil Babka help 2032a19be61SVlastimil Babka Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 204e240e53aSVlastimil Babka footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 205e240e53aSVlastimil Babka This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 206e240e53aSVlastimil Babka SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 207e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 16MB RAM. 208e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 209e240e53aSVlastimil Babka If unsure, say N. 210e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 2117b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2127b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2137b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 2147b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2157b42f104SJohannes Weiner For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 2167b42f104SJohannes Weiner merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 2177b42f104SJohannes Weiner This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 2187b42f104SJohannes Weiner overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 2197b42f104SJohannes Weiner cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 2207b42f104SJohannes Weiner by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 2217b42f104SJohannes Weiner can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 2227b42f104SJohannes Weiner merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 2237b42f104SJohannes Weiner command line. 2247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2257b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 2267b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Randomize slab freelist" 2272a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2287b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2297b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 2307b42f104SJohannes Weiner security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 2317b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator against heap overflows. 2327b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2337b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 2347b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 2352a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2367b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2377b42f104SJohannes Weiner Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 2387b42f104SJohannes Weiner other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 2397b42f104SJohannes Weiner sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 2402a19be61SVlastimil Babka freelist exploit methods. 2417b42f104SJohannes Weiner 24267f2df3bSKees Cookconfig SLAB_BUCKETS 24367f2df3bSKees Cook bool "Support allocation from separate kmalloc buckets" 24467f2df3bSKees Cook depends on !SLUB_TINY 24567f2df3bSKees Cook default SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 24667f2df3bSKees Cook help 24767f2df3bSKees Cook Kernel heap attacks frequently depend on being able to create 24867f2df3bSKees Cook specifically-sized allocations with user-controlled contents 24967f2df3bSKees Cook that will be allocated into the same kmalloc bucket as a 25067f2df3bSKees Cook target object. To avoid sharing these allocation buckets, 25167f2df3bSKees Cook provide an explicitly separated set of buckets to be used for 25267f2df3bSKees Cook user-controlled allocations. This may very slightly increase 25367f2df3bSKees Cook memory fragmentation, though in practice it's only a handful 25467f2df3bSKees Cook of extra pages since the bulk of user-controlled allocations 25567f2df3bSKees Cook are relatively long-lived. 25667f2df3bSKees Cook 25767f2df3bSKees Cook If unsure, say Y. 25867f2df3bSKees Cook 2590710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 2600710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 2612a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable performance statistics" 2622a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 2630710d012SVlastimil Babka help 2642a19be61SVlastimil Babka The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 2650710d012SVlastimil Babka order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 2660710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 2670710d012SVlastimil Babka the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 2680710d012SVlastimil Babka supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 2690710d012SVlastimil Babka out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 2700710d012SVlastimil Babka Try running: slabinfo -DA 2710710d012SVlastimil Babka 272519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 273519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default y 2742a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 2752a19be61SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 276519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 277519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 278519bcb79SJohannes Weiner that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 279519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 280519bcb79SJohannes Weiner which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 281519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 282519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2833c615294SGONG, Ruiqiconfig RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 2843c615294SGONG, Ruiqi default n 2852a19be61SVlastimil Babka depends on !SLUB_TINY 2863c615294SGONG, Ruiqi bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 2873c615294SGONG, Ruiqi help 2883c615294SGONG, Ruiqi A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 2893c615294SGONG, Ruiqi normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 2903c615294SGONG, Ruiqi on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 2913c615294SGONG, Ruiqi vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 2923c615294SGONG, Ruiqi memory vulnerabilities. 2933c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 2943c615294SGONG, Ruiqi Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 2953c615294SGONG, Ruiqi that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 2963c615294SGONG, Ruiqi subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 2973c615294SGONG, Ruiqi limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 2983c615294SGONG, Ruiqi system workload. 2993c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3002a19be61SVlastimil Babkaendmenu # Slab allocator options 301519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3027b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3037b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3047b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3057b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3067b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3077b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3087b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3097b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3107b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3117b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3127b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 3135e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 31423baf831SKirill A. Shutemov order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 31523baf831SKirill A. Shutemov on x86. 3167b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3177b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3187b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 319b413f9cdSMaíra Canal this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even 320b413f9cdSMaíra Canal if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled 321b413f9cdSMaíra Canal with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3227b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3237b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3250710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 3260710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 3270710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 3280710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3290710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 3300710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 3310710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 3320710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 3330710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 3340710d012SVlastimil Babka 3350710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 3360710d012SVlastimil Babka 3370710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 3380710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 3390710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 3400710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3410710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3420710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 3430710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 3440710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 3450710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 3460710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 3470710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 3480710d012SVlastimil Babka 3490710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 3500710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 3510710d012SVlastimil Babka 3520710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 3530710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 3540710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 3550710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 3560710d012SVlastimil Babka 3570710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 3580710d012SVlastimil Babka 359e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 360e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 361a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 362e1785e85SDave Hansen 3633a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 3643a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 365e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 366d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 367e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 368d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 369d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 370d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 371d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 372d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 3733a9da765SDave Hansen 374e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 3753a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 376bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 3773a9da765SDave Hansen help 378d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 379d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 380d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 381d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 3823a9da765SDave Hansen 383d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 384d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 385dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 386d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 387d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 3883a9da765SDave Hansen 389d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 390d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 391d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 392d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 393d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 394d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 395d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 396d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 397d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 398d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 399d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 400d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 401d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4023a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4033a9da765SDave Hansen 404d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 405d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4061a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 407d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 408e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 409e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 410bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 411d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 41293b7504eSDave Hansen# 4133e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 414c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4153e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4163e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4173e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4183e347261SBob Picco# 4193e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4203e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4213e347261SBob Picco# 4223e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4239ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4243e347261SBob Picco 4253e347261SBob Picco# 42644c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 427802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 428802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 429802f192eSBob Picco# 4303e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 4313e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 4323e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4334c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 43429c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 4359ba16087SJan Beulich bool 43629c71111SAndy Whitcroft 43729c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 438a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 439a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 440a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 441a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 442a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 443a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 444a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 445*d65917c4SFrank van der Linden 446*d65917c4SFrank van der Lindenconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT 447*d65917c4SFrank van der Linden bool 4480b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4490b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 4500b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 4510b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 4520b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 4530b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 4540b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V 4550b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 4560b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V bool 45729c71111SAndy Whitcroft 458*d65917c4SFrank van der Lindenconfig ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_PREINIT 459*d65917c4SFrank van der Linden bool 460*d65917c4SFrank van der Linden 46170210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 4626341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 46370210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 46425176ad0SDavid Hildenbrandconfig HAVE_GUP_FAST 465050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 4666341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 4672667f50eSSteve Capper 46852219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 46952219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 47052219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 471350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 4726341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 473c378ddd5STejun Heo 4741e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 4751e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 4761e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 4771e5d8e1eSDan Williams 478ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 4796341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 480ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 481a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 482a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 483a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 484a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 485a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 486a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 487a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 48846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 48946723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 49046723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 49146723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 49246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 49346723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 49446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 49591024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 49691024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 49791024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 498519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 499519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 500519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5013947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 502519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 503519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 504b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 50571b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 50640b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5077ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 5081e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 5093947be19SDave Hansen 510519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 511519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 51244d46b76SGregory Pricechoice 51344d46b76SGregory Price prompt "Memory Hotplug Default Online Type" 51444d46b76SGregory Price default MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE 5158604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 51644d46b76SGregory Price Default memory type for hotplugged memory. 51744d46b76SGregory Price 5188604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5198604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5208604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5218604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 52244d46b76SGregory Price 52344d46b76SGregory Price The default is 'offline'. 52444d46b76SGregory Price 52544d46b76SGregory Price Select offline to defer onlining to drivers and user policy. 52644d46b76SGregory Price Select auto to let the kernel choose what zones to utilize. 52744d46b76SGregory Price Select online_kernel to generally allow kernel usage of this memory. 52844d46b76SGregory Price Select online_movable to generally disallow kernel usage of this memory. 52944d46b76SGregory Price 53044d46b76SGregory Price Example kernel usage would be page structs and page tables. 53144d46b76SGregory Price 532cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5338604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 53444d46b76SGregory Priceconfig MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE 53544d46b76SGregory Price bool "offline" 53644d46b76SGregory Price help 53744d46b76SGregory Price Hotplugged memory will not be onlined by default. 53844d46b76SGregory Price Choose this for systems with drivers and user policy that 53944d46b76SGregory Price handle onlining of hotplug memory policy. 54044d46b76SGregory Price 54144d46b76SGregory Priceconfig MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_AUTO 54244d46b76SGregory Price bool "auto" 54344d46b76SGregory Price help 54444d46b76SGregory Price Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 54544d46b76SGregory Price hotplugged memory into the zone it thinks is reasonable. 54644d46b76SGregory Price This memory may be utilized for kernel data. 54744d46b76SGregory Price 54844d46b76SGregory Priceconfig MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_KERNEL 54944d46b76SGregory Price bool "kernel" 55044d46b76SGregory Price help 55144d46b76SGregory Price Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 55244d46b76SGregory Price hotplugged memory into a zone capable of being used for kernel 55344d46b76SGregory Price data. This typically means ZONE_NORMAL. 55444d46b76SGregory Price 55544d46b76SGregory Priceconfig MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_MOVABLE 55644d46b76SGregory Price bool "movable" 55744d46b76SGregory Price help 55844d46b76SGregory Price Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 55944d46b76SGregory Price hotplug memory into ZONE_MOVABLE. This memory will generally 56044d46b76SGregory Price not be utilized for kernel data. 56144d46b76SGregory Price 56244d46b76SGregory Price This should only be used when the admin knows sufficient 56344d46b76SGregory Price ZONE_NORMAL memory is available to describe hotplug memory, 56444d46b76SGregory Price otherwise hotplug memory may fail to online. For example, 56544d46b76SGregory Price sufficient kernel-capable memory (ZONE_NORMAL) must be 56644d46b76SGregory Price available to allocate page structs to describe ZONE_MOVABLE. 56744d46b76SGregory Price 56844d46b76SGregory Priceendchoice 5698604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5700c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5710c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 572f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5730c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5740c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5750c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 576a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 577a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 578a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 579a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 580a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 581519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 582519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 58304d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 58404d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 58504d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V 5864c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 5874c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 5884c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 5894c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 5904c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 5917b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 59260bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 59360bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 59460bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 595a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 5964c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 597394290cbSDavid Hildenbrandconfig SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS 598394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 599394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on MMU 600a3344078SGuenter Roeck depends on SMP 601394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on NR_CPUS >= 4 602394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !ARM || CPU_CACHE_VIPT 603394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !PARISC || PA20 604394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on !SPARC32 6057cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 606e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 6076341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 608e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 609394290cbSDavid Hildenbrandconfig SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS 610394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 611394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 612394290cbSDavid Hildenbrand 6137cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 61409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 61509316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 6166341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 61709316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 61809316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 61918468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 62018468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 62118468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 622cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 62309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 62418468d93SRafael Aquini help 62518468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 62618468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 62718468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 62818468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 62918468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 63018468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 63118468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 63218468d93SRafael Aquini 63318468d93SRafael Aquini# 634e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 635e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 636e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 637cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 638e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 63933a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 640e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 641b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 642b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 643b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 644b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 645b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 646b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 647b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 648b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 649e9e96b39SMel Gorman 650c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 651c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner int 652c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner depends on COMPACTION 653c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 654c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 1 655c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner 656e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 65736e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 65836e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 65936e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 66036e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 66136e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 66236e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 66336e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 66436e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 66536e66c55SAlexander Duyck 66636e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 6677cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 6687cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 6697cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 670b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 671cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default y 672de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 673b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 674b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 675e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 676e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 677e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 678e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 679e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6806550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 68176cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 682d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 68376cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 684c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 6856341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 686c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 6879c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 6889c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 6899c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 6904bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 6914bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 6924bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 6934bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 6944bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 6954bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 6964bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 6975e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 6985e0a760bSKirill A. Shutemov clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 699b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 7008df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 7018df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 7028df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 70352166607SHuang Yingconfig PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 70452166607SHuang Ying int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 70552166607SHuang Ying default 5 70652166607SHuang Ying range 0 6 70752166607SHuang Ying help 70852166607SHuang Ying In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 70952166607SHuang Ying batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 71052166607SHuang Ying allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 71152166607SHuang Ying latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 71252166607SHuang Ying the maximum latency. 71352166607SHuang Ying 714600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 715d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 716600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 7172a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 7189ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 7199ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 720ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 7219ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 722ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 723ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 724ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 7252a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 726cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 727cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 72899cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 729fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 730f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 731f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 732f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 73359e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 734f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 735f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 736f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 737f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 738d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 739f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 740f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 741ee65728eSMike Rapoport See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 742c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 743c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 744f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 745e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 746e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 7476e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 748e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 749e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 750e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 751e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 752e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 753e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 75434f7c528SJavier Martinez Canillas For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 755e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 756e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 757788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 758788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 759788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 760e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 761e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 762e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 763e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 764d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 765d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 766e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 7676a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 7686a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 769d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7706a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 771ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 77297f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 7736a46079cSAndi Kleen help 7746a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7756a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7766a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7776a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7786a46079cSAndi Kleen 779cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 780413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 78127df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 782478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 783cae681fcSAndi Kleen 784fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 785fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 786fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 787fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 788fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 789fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 790fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 791fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 792fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 793fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 794fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 795fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 796fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 797fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 798fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 799fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 800fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 801fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 802fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 803fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 804fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 805fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 806fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 807fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 808fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 809fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 810dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 811bbddff05STejun Heo 812519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 813519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 814519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 815519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 816519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 817519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 818519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 81913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 820554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 8215d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 8223a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 8234c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 8244c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 8254c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 8264c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 8274c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 8284c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 8294c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 8304c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 8314c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 8324c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 833519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 834519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 83513ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 83613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 83713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 83813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 83913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 84013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 84113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 84213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 84313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 84413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 84513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 84613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 84713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 84813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 84913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 85013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 85113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 85213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 85313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 85413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 85513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 85613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 857683ec99fSDmytro Maluka 858683ec99fSDmytro Maluka config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 859683ec99fSDmytro Maluka bool "never" 860683ec99fSDmytro Maluka help 861683ec99fSDmytro Maluka Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 862683ec99fSDmytro Maluka enabled at runtime via sysfs. 86313ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 86413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 86538d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 86638d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 867dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 86838d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 86938d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 87014fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 87114fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 87238d8b4e6SHuang Ying 87338d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 87438d8b4e6SHuang Ying 875519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 876519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 877519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 878519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 879519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 880519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 881519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 882519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 883519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 884519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 885519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 886519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 887519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 888e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 889ac3830c3SPeter Xu# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 890ac3830c3SPeter Xu# 891ac3830c3SPeter Xuconfig PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 892ac3830c3SPeter Xu def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 893ac3830c3SPeter Xu 8946857be5fSPeter Xu# TODO: Allow to be enabled without THP 8956857be5fSPeter Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP 8966857be5fSPeter Xu def_bool n 8976857be5fSPeter Xu depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 8986857be5fSPeter Xu 8996857be5fSPeter Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_PFNMAP 9006857be5fSPeter Xu def_bool y 9016857be5fSPeter Xu depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 9026857be5fSPeter Xu 9036857be5fSPeter Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PUD_PFNMAP 9046857be5fSPeter Xu def_bool y 9056857be5fSPeter Xu depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 9066857be5fSPeter Xu 907ac3830c3SPeter Xu# 908bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 909bbddff05STejun Heo# 910bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 9113583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 912bbddff05STejun Heo bool 913bbddff05STejun Heo default y 914077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 9157ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 9167ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9177ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9187ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 9197ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9207ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9217ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 9227ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9237ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9247ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 9257ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9267ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 927f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 928f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 929aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 930f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 931f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 932f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 933f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 934f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 935f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 936f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 937f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 938f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 939f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 940f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 941f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 94228b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 94328b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 94428b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 94528b24c1fSSasha Levin help 94628b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 94728b24c1fSSasha Levin 94843ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 94943ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 95043ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 95143ca106fSMinchan Kim help 95243ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 95343ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 95443ca106fSMinchan Kim 955a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 956a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 957a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 95873307523SAnshuman Khandual default 20 if NUMA 95973307523SAnshuman Khandual default 8 960a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 961a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 962a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 963a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 964a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 96573307523SAnshuman Khandual If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 966a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 967af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 968af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 969af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 970af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 9714e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 972af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 973af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 974af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 975af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 976af8d417aSDan Streetman 9771ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 9784e2e2770SSeth Jennings 9799e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 9809e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 981042d27acSHelge Deller 98222ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 98322ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 98422ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 985042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 986042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 987042d27acSHelge Deller help 988042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 989042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 99022ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 991042d27acSHelge Deller 99222ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9933a80a7faSMel Gorman 9943a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9951ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 996d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 997ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 998889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 999854fa98dSIlya Leoshkevich depends on !KMSAN 1000e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 10013a80a7faSMel Gorman help 10023a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 10033a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 10043a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 1005e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 1006e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 10071ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 10081ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 1009033fbae9SDan Williams 10101c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 10111c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 10121c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 10131c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 10141c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 10151c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 10161c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 10171c676e0dSSeongJae Park 101833c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 101933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 102033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 10211c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 102233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 102333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 102433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 102533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 102633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 102733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 10281ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 10291ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 103033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 10318690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 10328690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 10338690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers# aliasing) need to select this. 10348690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 10358690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers bool 10368690bbcfSMathieu Desnoyers 1037c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1038c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 1039c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 10402792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 10412792d84eSKees Cook bool 10422792d84eSKees Cook help 10432792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 10442792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 10452792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 10462792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 10472792d84eSKees Cook selected. 10482792d84eSKees Cook 104917596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 105065f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 105165f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 105263703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 105363703f37SKefeng Wang bool 105463703f37SKefeng Wang 105563703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 105663703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 105763703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 105863703f37SKefeng Wang 105963703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 106063703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 106163703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 106263703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 106363703f37SKefeng Wang 1064033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 10655042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1066033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1067033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 106899490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 106917596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 10703a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 1071033fbae9SDan Williams 1072033fbae9SDan Williams help 1073033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1074033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1075033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1076033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1077033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1078033fbae9SDan Williams 1079033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 108006a660adSLinus Torvalds 10819c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 10829c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 10839c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 10849c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 1085c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 10869c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 1087f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1088c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 108914b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION 109014b80582SDan Williams bool 109114b80582SDan Williams 10925042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 10935042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 10947328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 109514b80582SDan Williams select GET_FREE_REGION 10965042db43SJérôme Glisse 10975042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10985042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10995042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 11005042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 11015042db43SJérôme Glisse 11023e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 11033e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 11043e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 110563c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 110663c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 110766d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 110866d37570SDave Hansen bool 110930a5b536SDennis Zhou 11107a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 1111b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas bool 11127a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_3 11137a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) bool 1114b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas 11150710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 11160710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 11170710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 11180710d012SVlastimil Babka help 11190710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 11200710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 11210710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 11220710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 11230710d012SVlastimil Babka 112430a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 112530a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 112630a5b536SDennis Zhou help 112730a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 112830a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 112930a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 113064c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11319c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 11329c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1133d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 113464c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 11359c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 11369c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 11379c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 113864c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11399c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 11409c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 11419c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 11429c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1143f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1144f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1145f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1146f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1147f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1148f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 1149baa489faSSeongJae Park See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 11503010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1151d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1152d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 11533010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 11546ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 115539656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 115639656e83SChristoph Hellwig 1157def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST 1158def85743SKeith Busch tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1159def85743SKeith Busch depends on HAS_DMA 1160def85743SKeith Busch help 1161def85743SKeith Busch Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1162def85743SKeith Busch various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1163def85743SKeith Busch provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1164def85743SKeith Busch dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1165def85743SKeith Busch 11663010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 11673010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 116859e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1169c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1170c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1171c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1172298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1173298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1174298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1175825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1176825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1177825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 11781fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 11791fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 11801fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 11811507f512SMike Rapoport 1182626e98cbSThomas Weißschuhconfig MEMFD_CREATE 1183626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1184626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh 11851507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 118674947724SLukas Bulwahn default y 118774947724SLukas Bulwahn bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 118874947724SLukas Bulwahn depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 118974947724SLukas Bulwahn help 119074947724SLukas Bulwahn Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 119174947724SLukas Bulwahn memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 119274947724SLukas Bulwahn not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 11931507f512SMike Rapoport 11949a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 11959a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 11969a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 11979a10064fSColin Cross 11989a10064fSColin Cross help 11999a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 12009a10064fSColin Cross 12019a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 12029a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 12039a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 12049a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 12059a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 12069a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 12079a10064fSColin Cross 1208430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1209430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1210430529b5SPeter Xu help 1211430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1212430529b5SPeter Xu 1213430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1214430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1215430529b5SPeter Xu help 1216430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1217430529b5SPeter Xu 121897219cc3SPeter Xumenuconfig USERFAULTFD 121997219cc3SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 122097219cc3SPeter Xu depends on MMU 122197219cc3SPeter Xu help 122297219cc3SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 122397219cc3SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 122497219cc3SPeter Xu 122597219cc3SPeter Xuif USERFAULTFD 12261db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 122781e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 122881e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 122981e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 12301db9dbc2SPeter Xu 12311db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 12321db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 12331db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 12341db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 123597219cc3SPeter Xuendif # USERFAULTFD 12361db9dbc2SPeter Xu 1237ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU { 1238ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN 1239ec1c86b2SYu Zhao bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1240ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on MMU 1241ec1c86b2SYu Zhao # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1242ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1243ec1c86b2SYu Zhao help 124407017acbSYu Zhao A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 124507017acbSYu Zhao Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1246ec1c86b2SYu Zhao 1247354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1248354ed597SYu Zhao bool "Enable by default" 1249354ed597SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1250354ed597SYu Zhao help 1251354ed597SYu Zhao This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1252354ed597SYu Zhao 1253ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS 1254ac35a490SYu Zhao bool "Full stats for debugging" 1255ac35a490SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1256ac35a490SYu Zhao help 1257ac35a490SYu Zhao Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1258ac35a490SYu Zhao from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1259ac35a490SYu Zhao 1260ac35a490SYu Zhao This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 126161dd3f24SKinsey Ho 126261dd3f24SKinsey Hoconfig LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 126361dd3f24SKinsey Ho def_bool y 126461dd3f24SKinsey Ho depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1265ac35a490SYu Zhao# } 1266ac35a490SYu Zhao 12670b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 12680b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool n 12690b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12700b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK 12710b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool y 12720b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 12730b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan help 12740b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 12750b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12760b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 12770b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 12780b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 1279c2508ec5SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1280c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds bool 1281c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1282c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds 12838f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpeconfig IOMMU_MM_DATA 12848f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe bool 12858f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe 128612af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM)config EXECMEM 128712af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM) bool 128812af2b83SMike Rapoport (IBM) 128987482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft)config NUMA_MEMBLKS 129087482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft) bool 129187482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft) 1292b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft)config NUMA_EMU 1293b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) bool "NUMA emulation" 1294b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) depends on NUMA_MEMBLKS 1295b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) help 1296b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1297b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1298b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1299b0c4e27cSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) 1300bcc9d04eSMark Brownconfig ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK 1301bcc9d04eSMark Brown bool 1302bcc9d04eSMark Brown help 1303bcc9d04eSMark Brown The architecture has hardware support for userspace shadow call 1304bcc9d04eSMark Brown stacks (eg, x86 CET, arm64 GCS or RISC-V Zicfiss). 1305bcc9d04eSMark Brown 13066375e95fSQi Zhengconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM 13076375e95fSQi Zheng def_bool n 13086375e95fSQi Zheng 13096375e95fSQi Zhengconfig PT_RECLAIM 13106375e95fSQi Zheng bool "reclaim empty user page table pages" 13116375e95fSQi Zheng default y 13126375e95fSQi Zheng depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM && MMU && SMP 13136375e95fSQi Zheng select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 13146375e95fSQi Zheng help 13156375e95fSQi Zheng Try to reclaim empty user page table pages in paths other than munmap 13166375e95fSQi Zheng and exit_mmap path. 13176375e95fSQi Zheng 13186375e95fSQi Zheng Note: now only empty user PTE page table pages will be reclaimed. 13196375e95fSQi Zheng 13206375e95fSQi Zheng 13212224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 13222224d848SSeongJae Park 132359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1324