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_PTLOCK_CPUS 583 int 584 default "999999" if !MMU 585 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 586 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 587 default "999999" if SPARC32 588 default "4" 589 590config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 591 bool 592 593# 594# support for memory balloon 595config MEMORY_BALLOON 596 bool 597 598# 599# support for memory balloon compaction 600config BALLOON_COMPACTION 601 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 602 default y 603 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 604 help 605 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 606 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 607 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 608 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 609 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 610 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 611 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 612 613# 614# support for memory compaction 615config COMPACTION 616 bool "Allow for memory compaction" 617 default y 618 select MIGRATION 619 depends on MMU 620 help 621 Compaction is the only memory management component to form 622 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 623 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 624 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 625 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 626 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 627 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 628 linux-mm@kvack.org. 629 630config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 631 int 632 depends on COMPACTION 633 default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 634 default 1 635 636# 637# support for free page reporting 638config PAGE_REPORTING 639 bool "Free page reporting" 640 help 641 Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 642 free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 643 those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 644 memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 645 646# 647# support for page migration 648# 649config MIGRATION 650 bool "Page migration" 651 default y 652 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 653 help 654 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 655 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 656 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 657 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 658 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 659 allocation instead of reclaiming. 660 661config DEVICE_MIGRATION 662 def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 663 664config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 665 bool 666 667config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 668 bool 669 670config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 671 def_bool n 672 help 673 Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 674 HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 675 on a platform. 676 677 Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 678 clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 679 680config CONTIG_ALLOC 681 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 682 683config PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 684 int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 685 default 5 686 range 0 6 687 help 688 In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 689 batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 690 allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 691 latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 692 the maximum latency. 693 694config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 695 def_bool 64BIT 696 697config BOUNCE 698 bool "Enable bounce buffers" 699 default y 700 depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 701 help 702 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 703 memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 704 selected, but you may say n to override this. 705 706config MMU_NOTIFIER 707 bool 708 select INTERVAL_TREE 709 710config KSM 711 bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 712 depends on MMU 713 select XXHASH 714 help 715 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 716 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 717 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 718 the many instances by a single page with that content, so 719 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 720 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 721 See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 722 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 723 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 724 725config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 726 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 727 depends on MMU 728 default 4096 729 help 730 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 731 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 732 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 733 734 For most ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 735 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 736 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 737 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 738 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 739 protection by setting the value to 0. 740 741 This value can be changed after boot using the 742 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 743 744config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 745 bool 746 747config MEMORY_FAILURE 748 depends on MMU 749 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 750 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 751 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 752 select RAS 753 help 754 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 755 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 756 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 757 special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 758 759config HWPOISON_INJECT 760 tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 761 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 762 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 763 764config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 765 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 766 depends on !MMU 767 default 1 768 help 769 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 770 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 771 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 772 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 773 the excess and return it to the allocator. 774 775 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 776 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 777 if there are a lot of transient processes. 778 779 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 780 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 781 782 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 783 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 784 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 785 no trimming is to occur. 786 787 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 788 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 789 790 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 791 792config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 793 bool 794 795config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 796 def_bool n 797 798menuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 799 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 800 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 801 select COMPACTION 802 select XARRAY_MULTI 803 help 804 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 805 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 806 This feature can improve computing performance to certain 807 applications by speeding up page faults during memory 808 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 809 up the pagetable walking. 810 811 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 812 813if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 814 815choice 816 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 817 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 818 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 819 help 820 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 821 822 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 823 bool "always" 824 help 825 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 826 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 827 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 828 829 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 830 bool "madvise" 831 help 832 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 833 performance improvement benefit to the applications using 834 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 835 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 836 benefit. 837 838 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 839 bool "never" 840 help 841 Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 842 enabled at runtime via sysfs. 843endchoice 844 845config THP_SWAP 846 def_bool y 847 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 848 help 849 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 850 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 851 will be split after swapout. 852 853 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 854 855config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 856 bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 857 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 858 859 help 860 Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 861 862 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 863 support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 864 cycles. 865 866endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 867 868# 869# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 870# 871config PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 872 def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 873 874# 875# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 876# 877config NEED_PER_CPU_KM 878 depends on !SMP || !MMU 879 bool 880 default y 881 882config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 883 bool 884 885config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 886 bool 887 888config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 889 bool 890 891config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 892 bool 893 894config CMA 895 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 896 depends on MMU 897 select MIGRATION 898 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 899 help 900 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 901 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 902 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 903 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 904 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 905 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 906 907 If unsure, say "n". 908 909config CMA_DEBUGFS 910 bool "CMA debugfs interface" 911 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 912 help 913 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 914 915config CMA_SYSFS 916 bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 917 depends on CMA && SYSFS 918 help 919 This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 920 from CMA. 921 922config CMA_AREAS 923 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 924 depends on CMA 925 default 20 if NUMA 926 default 8 927 help 928 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 929 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 930 number of CMA area in the system. 931 932 If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 933 934config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 935 bool "Track memory changes" 936 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 937 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 938 help 939 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 940 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 941 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 942 it can be cleared by hands. 943 944 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 945 946config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 947 bool 948 949config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 950 int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 951 default 100 952 range 8 2048 953 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 954 help 955 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 956 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 957 arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 958 959 A sane initial value is 100 MB. 960 961config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 962 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 963 depends on SPARSEMEM 964 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 965 depends on 64BIT 966 select PADATA 967 help 968 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 969 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 970 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 971 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 972 This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 973 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 974 initialisation. 975 976config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 977 bool 978 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 979 help 980 This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 981 bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 982 Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 983 984config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 985 bool "Enable idle page tracking" 986 depends on SYSFS && MMU 987 select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 988 help 989 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 990 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 991 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 992 within a compute cluster. 993 994 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 995 more details. 996 997# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 998# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 999# aliasing) need to select this. 1000config ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 1001 bool 1002 1003config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1004 bool 1005 1006config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 1007 bool 1008 help 1009 In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 1010 checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 1011 is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 1012 register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 1013 selected. 1014 1015config ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1016 bool 1017 1018config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1019 bool 1020 1021config ZONE_DMA 1022 bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1023 default y if ARM64 || X86 1024 1025config ZONE_DMA32 1026 bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1027 depends on !X86_32 1028 default y if ARM64 1029 1030config ZONE_DEVICE 1031 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1032 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1033 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1034 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1035 depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1036 select XARRAY_MULTI 1037 1038 help 1039 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1040 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1041 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1042 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1043 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1044 1045 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 1046 1047# 1048# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 1049# tables. 1050# 1051config HMM_MIRROR 1052 bool 1053 depends on MMU 1054 1055config GET_FREE_REGION 1056 depends on SPARSEMEM 1057 bool 1058 1059config DEVICE_PRIVATE 1060 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 1061 depends on ZONE_DEVICE 1062 select GET_FREE_REGION 1063 1064 help 1065 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 1066 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 1067 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 1068 1069config VMAP_PFN 1070 bool 1071 1072config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1073 bool 1074config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1075 bool 1076 1077config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1078 bool 1079 help 1080 Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1081 suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1082 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1083 enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1084 1085config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1086 default y 1087 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1088 help 1089 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1090 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1091 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1092 if VM event counters are disabled. 1093 1094config PERCPU_STATS 1095 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 1096 help 1097 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 1098 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 1099 be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 1100 1101config GUP_TEST 1102 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1103 depends on DEBUG_FS 1104 help 1105 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 1106 to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 1107 the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 1108 1109 These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 1110 get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 1111 the non-_fast variants. 1112 1113 There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1114 of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1115 range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1116 pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1117 by other command line arguments. 1118 1119 See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 1120 1121comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1122 depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 1123 1124config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 1125 bool 1126 1127config DMAPOOL_TEST 1128 tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1129 depends on HAS_DMA 1130 help 1131 Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1132 various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1133 provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1134 dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1135 1136config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 1137 bool 1138 1139# 1140# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1141# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1142# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1143# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1144# pagetable layouts. 1145# 1146config ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1147 bool 1148 1149config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1150 bool 1151 1152config KMAP_LOCAL 1153 bool 1154 1155config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1156 bool 1157 1158# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 1159config IO_MAPPING 1160 bool 1161 1162config MEMFD_CREATE 1163 bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1164 1165config SECRETMEM 1166 default y 1167 bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 1168 depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 1169 help 1170 Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 1171 memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 1172 not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 1173 1174config ANON_VMA_NAME 1175 bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 1176 depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 1177 1178 help 1179 Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 1180 1181 This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 1182 names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 1183 and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 1184 Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 1185 area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 1186 difference in their name. 1187 1188config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1189 bool 1190 help 1191 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1192 1193config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1194 bool 1195 help 1196 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1197 1198menuconfig USERFAULTFD 1199 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1200 depends on MMU 1201 help 1202 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1203 handle page faults in userland. 1204 1205if USERFAULTFD 1206config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 1207 bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 1208 default y 1209 depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1210 1211 help 1212 Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 1213 purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 1214 file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 1215endif # USERFAULTFD 1216 1217# multi-gen LRU { 1218config LRU_GEN 1219 bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1220 depends on MMU 1221 # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1222 depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1223 help 1224 A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 1225 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1226 1227config LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1228 bool "Enable by default" 1229 depends on LRU_GEN 1230 help 1231 This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1232 1233config LRU_GEN_STATS 1234 bool "Full stats for debugging" 1235 depends on LRU_GEN 1236 help 1237 Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1238 from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1239 1240 This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1241 1242config LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 1243 def_bool y 1244 depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1245# } 1246 1247config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 1248 def_bool n 1249 1250config PER_VMA_LOCK 1251 def_bool y 1252 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 1253 help 1254 Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 1255 1256 This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 1257 handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 1258 1259config LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1260 bool 1261 depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1262 1263config IOMMU_MM_DATA 1264 bool 1265 1266config EXECMEM 1267 bool 1268 1269source "mm/damon/Kconfig" 1270 1271endmenu 1272