1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2 3menu "Memory Management options" 4 5# 6# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 7# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 8# 9config ARCH_NO_SWAP 10 bool 11 12config ZPOOL 13 bool 14 15menuconfig SWAP 16 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 17 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 18 default y 19 help 20 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 21 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 22 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 23 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 24 25config ZSWAP 26 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27 depends on SWAP 28 select CRYPTO 29 select ZPOOL 30 help 31 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 32 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 33 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 34 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 35 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 36 reads, can also improve workload performance. 37 38config ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 39 bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 40 depends on ZSWAP 41 help 42 If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 43 at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 44 45 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 46 command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 47 48config ZSWAP_SHRINKER_DEFAULT_ON 49 bool "Shrink the zswap pool on memory pressure" 50 depends on ZSWAP 51 default n 52 help 53 If selected, the zswap shrinker will be enabled, and the pages 54 stored in the zswap pool will become available for reclaim (i.e 55 written back to the backing swap device) on memory pressure. 56 57 This means that zswap writeback could happen even if the pool is 58 not yet full, or the cgroup zswap limit has not been reached, 59 reducing the chance that cold pages will reside in the zswap pool 60 and consume memory indefinitely. 61 62choice 63 prompt "Default compressor" 64 depends on ZSWAP 65 default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 66 help 67 Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 68 for swap pages. 69 70 For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 71 a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 72 available at the following LWN page: 73 https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 74 75 If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 76 77 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 78 command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 79 80config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 81 bool "Deflate" 82 select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 83 help 84 Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 85 86config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 87 bool "LZO" 88 select CRYPTO_LZO 89 help 90 Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 91 92config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 93 bool "842" 94 select CRYPTO_842 95 help 96 Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 97 98config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 99 bool "LZ4" 100 select CRYPTO_LZ4 101 help 102 Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 103 104config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 105 bool "LZ4HC" 106 select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 107 help 108 Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 109 110config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 111 bool "zstd" 112 select CRYPTO_ZSTD 113 help 114 Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 115endchoice 116 117config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 118 string 119 depends on ZSWAP 120 default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 121 default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 122 default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 123 default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 124 default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 125 default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 126 default "" 127 128choice 129 prompt "Default allocator" 130 depends on ZSWAP 131 default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC if MMU 132 default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 133 help 134 Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 135 swap pages. 136 The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 137 read the description of each of the allocators below before 138 making a right choice. 139 140 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 141 command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 142 143config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 144 bool "zbud" 145 select ZBUD 146 help 147 Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 148 149config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 150 bool "z3fold" 151 select Z3FOLD 152 help 153 Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 154 155config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 156 bool "zsmalloc" 157 select ZSMALLOC 158 help 159 Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 160endchoice 161 162config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 163 string 164 depends on ZSWAP 165 default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 166 default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 167 default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 168 default "" 169 170config ZBUD 171 tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 172 depends on ZSWAP 173 help 174 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 175 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 176 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 177 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 178 density approach when reclaim will be used. 179 180config Z3FOLD 181 tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 182 depends on ZSWAP 183 help 184 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 185 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 186 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 187 still there. 188 189config ZSMALLOC 190 tristate 191 prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 192 depends on MMU 193 help 194 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 195 pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 196 the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 197 198config ZSMALLOC_STAT 199 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 200 depends on ZSMALLOC 201 select DEBUG_FS 202 help 203 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 204 statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 205 information to userspace via debugfs. 206 If unsure, say N. 207 208config ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 209 int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 210 default 8 211 range 4 16 212 depends on ZSMALLOC 213 help 214 This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 215 that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 216 chain size is calculated for each size class during the 217 initialization of the pool. 218 219 Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 220 such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 221 per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 222 the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 223 characteristics. 224 225 For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 226 227menu "Slab allocator options" 228 229config SLUB 230 def_bool y 231 232config SLUB_TINY 233 bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 234 depends on EXPERT 235 select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 236 help 237 Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 238 footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 239 This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 240 SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 241 16MB RAM. 242 243 If unsure, say N. 244 245config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 246 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 247 default y 248 help 249 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 250 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 251 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 252 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 253 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 254 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 255 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 256 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 257 command line. 258 259config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 260 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 261 depends on !SLUB_TINY 262 help 263 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 264 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 265 allocator against heap overflows. 266 267config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 268 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 269 depends on !SLUB_TINY 270 help 271 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 272 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 273 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 274 freelist exploit methods. 275 276config SLAB_BUCKETS 277 bool "Support allocation from separate kmalloc buckets" 278 depends on !SLUB_TINY 279 default SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 280 help 281 Kernel heap attacks frequently depend on being able to create 282 specifically-sized allocations with user-controlled contents 283 that will be allocated into the same kmalloc bucket as a 284 target object. To avoid sharing these allocation buckets, 285 provide an explicitly separated set of buckets to be used for 286 user-controlled allocations. This may very slightly increase 287 memory fragmentation, though in practice it's only a handful 288 of extra pages since the bulk of user-controlled allocations 289 are relatively long-lived. 290 291 If unsure, say Y. 292 293config SLUB_STATS 294 default n 295 bool "Enable performance statistics" 296 depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 297 help 298 The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 299 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 300 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 301 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 302 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 303 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 304 Try running: slabinfo -DA 305 306config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 307 default y 308 depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 309 bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 310 help 311 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 312 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 313 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 314 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 315 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 316 317config RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 318 default n 319 depends on !SLUB_TINY 320 bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 321 help 322 A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 323 normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 324 on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 325 vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 326 memory vulnerabilities. 327 328 Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 329 that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 330 subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 331 limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 332 system workload. 333 334endmenu # Slab allocator options 335 336config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 337 bool "Page allocator randomization" 338 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 339 help 340 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 341 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 342 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 343 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 344 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 345 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 346 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 347 default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 348 order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 349 on x86. 350 351 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 352 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 353 this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even 354 if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled 355 with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 356 357 Say Y if unsure. 358 359config COMPAT_BRK 360 bool "Disable heap randomization" 361 default y 362 help 363 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 364 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 365 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 366 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 367 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 368 369 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 370 371config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 372 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 373 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 374 default n 375 help 376 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 377 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 378 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 379 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 380 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 381 then the flag will be ignored. 382 383 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 384 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 385 386 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 387 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 388 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 389 it is normally safe to say Y here. 390 391 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 392 393config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 394 def_bool y 395 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 396 397choice 398 prompt "Memory model" 399 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 400 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 401 default FLATMEM_MANUAL 402 help 403 This option allows you to change some of the ways that 404 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 405 only have one option here selected by the architecture 406 configuration. This is normal. 407 408config FLATMEM_MANUAL 409 bool "Flat Memory" 410 depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 411 help 412 This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 413 flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 414 system in terms of performance and resource consumption 415 and it is the best option for smaller systems. 416 417 For systems that have holes in their physical address 418 spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 419 choose "Sparse Memory". 420 421 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 422 423config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 424 bool "Sparse Memory" 425 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 426 help 427 This will be the only option for some systems, including 428 memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 429 430 This option provides efficient support for systems with 431 holes is their physical address space and allows memory 432 hot-plug and hot-remove. 433 434 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 435 436endchoice 437 438config SPARSEMEM 439 def_bool y 440 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 441 442config FLATMEM 443 def_bool y 444 depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 445 446# 447# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 448# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 449# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 450# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 451# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 452# 453# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 454# with gcc 3.4 and later. 455# 456config SPARSEMEM_STATIC 457 bool 458 459# 460# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 461# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 462# an extremely sparse physical address space. 463# 464config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 465 def_bool y 466 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 467 468config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 469 bool 470 471config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 472 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 473 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 474 default y 475 help 476 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 477 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 478 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 479# 480# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 481# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 482# 483config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 484 bool 485 486config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 487 bool 488 489config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 490 bool 491 492config HAVE_GUP_FAST 493 depends on MMU 494 bool 495 496# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 497# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 498# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 499config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 500 bool 501 502# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 503config NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 504 bool 505 506config MEMORY_ISOLATION 507 bool 508 509# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 510# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 511# /dev/mem. 512config EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 513 def_bool y 514 depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 515 516# 517# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 518# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 519# 520config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 521 def_bool n 522 523config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 524 bool 525 526config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 527 bool 528 529# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 530menuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 531 bool "Memory hotplug" 532 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 533 depends on SPARSEMEM 534 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 535 depends on 64BIT 536 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 537 538if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 539 540config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 541 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 542 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 543 help 544 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 545 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 546 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 547 can always be changed at runtime. 548 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 549 550 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 551 'online' state by default. 552 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 553 memory blocks in 'offline' state. 554 555config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 556 bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 557 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 558 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 559 depends on MIGRATION 560 561config MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 562 def_bool y 563 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 564 depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 565 566endif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 567 568config ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 569 bool 570 571# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 572# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 573# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 574# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 575# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 576# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 577# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 578# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 579# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 580# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 581# 582config SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS 583 def_bool y 584 depends on MMU 585 depends on NR_CPUS >= 4 586 depends on !ARM || CPU_CACHE_VIPT 587 depends on !PARISC || PA20 588 depends on !SPARC32 589 590config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 591 bool 592 593config SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS 594 def_bool y 595 depends on SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 596 597# 598# support for memory balloon 599config MEMORY_BALLOON 600 bool 601 602# 603# support for memory balloon compaction 604config BALLOON_COMPACTION 605 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 606 default y 607 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 608 help 609 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 610 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 611 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 612 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 613 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 614 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 615 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 616 617# 618# support for memory compaction 619config COMPACTION 620 bool "Allow for memory compaction" 621 default y 622 select MIGRATION 623 depends on MMU 624 help 625 Compaction is the only memory management component to form 626 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 627 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 628 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 629 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 630 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 631 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 632 linux-mm@kvack.org. 633 634config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 635 int 636 depends on COMPACTION 637 default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 638 default 1 639 640# 641# support for free page reporting 642config PAGE_REPORTING 643 bool "Free page reporting" 644 help 645 Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 646 free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 647 those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 648 memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 649 650# 651# support for page migration 652# 653config MIGRATION 654 bool "Page migration" 655 default y 656 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 657 help 658 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 659 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 660 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 661 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 662 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 663 allocation instead of reclaiming. 664 665config DEVICE_MIGRATION 666 def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 667 668config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 669 bool 670 671config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 672 bool 673 674config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 675 def_bool n 676 help 677 Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 678 HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 679 on a platform. 680 681 Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 682 clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 683 684config CONTIG_ALLOC 685 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 686 687config PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 688 int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 689 default 5 690 range 0 6 691 help 692 In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 693 batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 694 allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 695 latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 696 the maximum latency. 697 698config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 699 def_bool 64BIT 700 701config BOUNCE 702 bool "Enable bounce buffers" 703 default y 704 depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 705 help 706 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 707 memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 708 selected, but you may say n to override this. 709 710config MMU_NOTIFIER 711 bool 712 select INTERVAL_TREE 713 714config KSM 715 bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 716 depends on MMU 717 select XXHASH 718 help 719 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 720 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 721 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 722 the many instances by a single page with that content, so 723 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 724 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 725 See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 726 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 727 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 728 729config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 730 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 731 depends on MMU 732 default 4096 733 help 734 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 735 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 736 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 737 738 For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 739 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 740 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 741 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 742 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 743 protection by setting the value to 0. 744 745 This value can be changed after boot using the 746 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 747 748config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 749 bool 750 751config MEMORY_FAILURE 752 depends on MMU 753 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 754 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 755 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 756 select RAS 757 help 758 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 759 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 760 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 761 special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 762 763config HWPOISON_INJECT 764 tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 765 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 766 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 767 768config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 769 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 770 depends on !MMU 771 default 1 772 help 773 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 774 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 775 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 776 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 777 the excess and return it to the allocator. 778 779 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 780 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 781 if there are a lot of transient processes. 782 783 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 784 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 785 786 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 787 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 788 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 789 no trimming is to occur. 790 791 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 792 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 793 794 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 795 796config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 797 bool 798 799config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 800 def_bool n 801 802menuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 803 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 804 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 805 select COMPACTION 806 select XARRAY_MULTI 807 help 808 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 809 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 810 This feature can improve computing performance to certain 811 applications by speeding up page faults during memory 812 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 813 up the pagetable walking. 814 815 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 816 817if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 818 819choice 820 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 821 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 822 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 823 help 824 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 825 826 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 827 bool "always" 828 help 829 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 830 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 831 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 832 833 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 834 bool "madvise" 835 help 836 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 837 performance improvement benefit to the applications using 838 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 839 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 840 benefit. 841 842 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 843 bool "never" 844 help 845 Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 846 enabled at runtime via sysfs. 847endchoice 848 849config THP_SWAP 850 def_bool y 851 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 852 help 853 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 854 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 855 will be split after swapout. 856 857 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 858 859config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 860 bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 861 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 862 863 help 864 Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 865 866 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 867 support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 868 cycles. 869 870endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 871 872# 873# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 874# 875config PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 876 def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 877 878# 879# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 880# 881config NEED_PER_CPU_KM 882 depends on !SMP || !MMU 883 bool 884 default y 885 886config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 887 bool 888 889config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 890 bool 891 892config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 893 bool 894 895config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 896 bool 897 898config CMA 899 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 900 depends on MMU 901 select MIGRATION 902 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 903 help 904 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 905 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 906 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 907 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 908 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 909 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 910 911 If unsure, say "n". 912 913config CMA_DEBUGFS 914 bool "CMA debugfs interface" 915 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 916 help 917 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 918 919config CMA_SYSFS 920 bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 921 depends on CMA && SYSFS 922 help 923 This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 924 from CMA. 925 926config CMA_AREAS 927 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 928 depends on CMA 929 default 20 if NUMA 930 default 8 931 help 932 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 933 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 934 number of CMA area in the system. 935 936 If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 937 938config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 939 bool "Track memory changes" 940 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 941 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 942 help 943 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 944 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 945 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 946 it can be cleared by hands. 947 948 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 949 950config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 951 bool 952 953config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 954 int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 955 default 100 956 range 8 2048 957 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 958 help 959 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 960 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 961 arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 962 963 A sane initial value is 100 MB. 964 965config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 966 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 967 depends on SPARSEMEM 968 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 969 depends on 64BIT 970 depends on !KMSAN 971 select PADATA 972 help 973 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 974 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 975 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 976 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 977 This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 978 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 979 initialisation. 980 981config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 982 bool 983 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 984 help 985 This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 986 bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 987 Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 988 989config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 990 bool "Enable idle page tracking" 991 depends on SYSFS && MMU 992 select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 993 help 994 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 995 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 996 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 997 within a compute cluster. 998 999 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 1000 more details. 1001 1002# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 1003# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 1004# aliasing) need to select this. 1005config ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 1006 bool 1007 1008config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1009 bool 1010 1011config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 1012 bool 1013 help 1014 In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 1015 checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 1016 is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 1017 register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 1018 selected. 1019 1020config ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1021 bool 1022 1023config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1024 bool 1025 1026config ZONE_DMA 1027 bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1028 default y if ARM64 || X86 1029 1030config ZONE_DMA32 1031 bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1032 depends on !X86_32 1033 default y if ARM64 1034 1035config ZONE_DEVICE 1036 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1037 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1038 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1039 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1040 depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1041 select XARRAY_MULTI 1042 1043 help 1044 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1045 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1046 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1047 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1048 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1049 1050 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 1051 1052# 1053# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 1054# tables. 1055# 1056config HMM_MIRROR 1057 bool 1058 depends on MMU 1059 1060config GET_FREE_REGION 1061 depends on SPARSEMEM 1062 bool 1063 1064config DEVICE_PRIVATE 1065 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 1066 depends on ZONE_DEVICE 1067 select GET_FREE_REGION 1068 1069 help 1070 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 1071 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 1072 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 1073 1074config VMAP_PFN 1075 bool 1076 1077config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1078 bool 1079config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1080 bool 1081 1082config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 1083 bool 1084config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_3 1085 bool 1086 1087config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1088 default y 1089 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1090 help 1091 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1092 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1093 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1094 if VM event counters are disabled. 1095 1096config PERCPU_STATS 1097 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 1098 help 1099 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 1100 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 1101 be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 1102 1103config GUP_TEST 1104 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1105 depends on DEBUG_FS 1106 help 1107 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 1108 to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 1109 the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 1110 1111 These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 1112 get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 1113 the non-_fast variants. 1114 1115 There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1116 of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1117 range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1118 pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1119 by other command line arguments. 1120 1121 See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 1122 1123comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1124 depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 1125 1126config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 1127 bool 1128 1129config DMAPOOL_TEST 1130 tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1131 depends on HAS_DMA 1132 help 1133 Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1134 various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1135 provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1136 dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1137 1138config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 1139 bool 1140 1141config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1142 bool 1143 1144config KMAP_LOCAL 1145 bool 1146 1147config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1148 bool 1149 1150# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 1151config IO_MAPPING 1152 bool 1153 1154config MEMFD_CREATE 1155 bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1156 1157config SECRETMEM 1158 default y 1159 bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 1160 depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 1161 help 1162 Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 1163 memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 1164 not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 1165 1166config ANON_VMA_NAME 1167 bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 1168 depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 1169 1170 help 1171 Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 1172 1173 This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 1174 names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 1175 and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 1176 Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 1177 area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 1178 difference in their name. 1179 1180config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1181 bool 1182 help 1183 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1184 1185config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1186 bool 1187 help 1188 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1189 1190menuconfig USERFAULTFD 1191 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1192 depends on MMU 1193 help 1194 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1195 handle page faults in userland. 1196 1197if USERFAULTFD 1198config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 1199 bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 1200 default y 1201 depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1202 1203 help 1204 Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 1205 purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 1206 file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 1207endif # USERFAULTFD 1208 1209# multi-gen LRU { 1210config LRU_GEN 1211 bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1212 depends on MMU 1213 # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1214 depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1215 help 1216 A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 1217 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1218 1219config LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1220 bool "Enable by default" 1221 depends on LRU_GEN 1222 help 1223 This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1224 1225config LRU_GEN_STATS 1226 bool "Full stats for debugging" 1227 depends on LRU_GEN 1228 help 1229 Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1230 from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1231 1232 This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1233 1234config LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 1235 def_bool y 1236 depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1237# } 1238 1239config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 1240 def_bool n 1241 1242config PER_VMA_LOCK 1243 def_bool y 1244 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 1245 help 1246 Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 1247 1248 This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 1249 handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 1250 1251config LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1252 bool 1253 depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1254 1255config IOMMU_MM_DATA 1256 bool 1257 1258config EXECMEM 1259 bool 1260 1261config NUMA_MEMBLKS 1262 bool 1263 1264config NUMA_EMU 1265 bool "NUMA emulation" 1266 depends on NUMA_MEMBLKS 1267 help 1268 Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1269 into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1270 number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1271 1272source "mm/damon/Kconfig" 1273 1274endmenu 1275