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_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS_DEFAULT_ON 49 bool "Invalidate zswap entries when pages are loaded" 50 depends on ZSWAP 51 help 52 If selected, exclusive loads for zswap will be enabled at boot, 53 otherwise it will be disabled. 54 55 If exclusive loads are enabled, when a page is loaded from zswap, 56 the zswap entry is invalidated at once, as opposed to leaving it 57 in zswap until the swap entry is freed. 58 59 This avoids having two copies of the same page in memory 60 (compressed and uncompressed) after faulting in a page from zswap. 61 The cost is that if the page was never dirtied and needs to be 62 swapped out again, it will be re-compressed. 63 64choice 65 prompt "Default compressor" 66 depends on ZSWAP 67 default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 68 help 69 Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 70 for swap pages. 71 72 For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 73 a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 74 available at the following LWN page: 75 https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 76 77 If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 78 79 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 80 command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 81 82config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 83 bool "Deflate" 84 select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 85 help 86 Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 87 88config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 89 bool "LZO" 90 select CRYPTO_LZO 91 help 92 Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 93 94config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 95 bool "842" 96 select CRYPTO_842 97 help 98 Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 99 100config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 101 bool "LZ4" 102 select CRYPTO_LZ4 103 help 104 Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 105 106config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 107 bool "LZ4HC" 108 select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 109 help 110 Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 111 112config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 113 bool "zstd" 114 select CRYPTO_ZSTD 115 help 116 Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 117endchoice 118 119config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 120 string 121 depends on ZSWAP 122 default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 123 default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 124 default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 125 default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 126 default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 127 default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 128 default "" 129 130choice 131 prompt "Default allocator" 132 depends on ZSWAP 133 default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 134 help 135 Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 136 swap pages. 137 The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 138 read the description of each of the allocators below before 139 making a right choice. 140 141 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 142 command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 143 144config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 145 bool "zbud" 146 select ZBUD 147 help 148 Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 149 150config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 151 bool "z3fold" 152 select Z3FOLD 153 help 154 Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 155 156config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 157 bool "zsmalloc" 158 select ZSMALLOC 159 help 160 Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 161endchoice 162 163config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 164 string 165 depends on ZSWAP 166 default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 167 default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 168 default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 169 default "" 170 171config ZBUD 172 tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 173 depends on ZSWAP 174 help 175 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 176 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 177 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 178 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 179 density approach when reclaim will be used. 180 181config Z3FOLD 182 tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 183 depends on ZSWAP 184 help 185 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 186 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 187 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 188 still there. 189 190config ZSMALLOC 191 tristate 192 prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 193 depends on MMU 194 help 195 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 196 pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 197 the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 198 199config ZSMALLOC_STAT 200 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 201 depends on ZSMALLOC 202 select DEBUG_FS 203 help 204 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 205 statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 206 information to userspace via debugfs. 207 If unsure, say N. 208 209config ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 210 int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 211 default 8 212 range 4 16 213 depends on ZSMALLOC 214 help 215 This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 216 that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 217 chain size is calculated for each size class during the 218 initialization of the pool. 219 220 Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 221 such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 222 per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 223 the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 224 characteristics. 225 226 For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 227 228menu "SLAB allocator options" 229 230choice 231 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 232 default SLUB 233 help 234 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 235 236config SLAB_DEPRECATED 237 bool "SLAB (DEPRECATED)" 238 depends on !PREEMPT_RT 239 help 240 Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. Replaced by 241 SLUB. 242 243 If you cannot migrate to SLUB, please contact linux-mm@kvack.org 244 and the people listed in the SLAB ALLOCATOR section of MAINTAINERS 245 file, explaining why. 246 247 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 248 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 249 per cpu and per node queues. 250 251config SLUB 252 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 253 help 254 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 255 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 256 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 257 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 258 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 259 a slab allocator. 260 261endchoice 262 263config SLAB 264 bool 265 default y 266 depends on SLAB_DEPRECATED 267 268config SLUB_TINY 269 bool "Configure SLUB for minimal memory footprint" 270 depends on SLUB && EXPERT 271 select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 272 help 273 Configures the SLUB allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 274 footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 275 This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 276 SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 277 16MB RAM. 278 279 If unsure, say N. 280 281config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 282 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 283 default y 284 depends on SLAB || SLUB 285 help 286 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 287 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 288 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 289 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 290 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 291 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 292 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 293 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 294 command line. 295 296config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 297 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 298 depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 299 help 300 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 301 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 302 allocator against heap overflows. 303 304config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 305 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 306 depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 307 help 308 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 309 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 310 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 311 freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 312 sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 313 CONFIG_SLUB. 314 315config SLUB_STATS 316 default n 317 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 318 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 319 help 320 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 321 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 322 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 323 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 324 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 325 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 326 Try running: slabinfo -DA 327 328config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 329 default y 330 depends on SLUB && SMP && !SLUB_TINY 331 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 332 help 333 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 334 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 335 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 336 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 337 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 338 339endmenu # SLAB allocator options 340 341config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 342 bool "Page allocator randomization" 343 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 344 help 345 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 346 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 347 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 348 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 349 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 350 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 351 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 352 default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_ORDER i.e, 10th 353 order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 354 on x86. 355 356 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 357 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 358 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 359 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 360 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 361 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 362 363 Say Y if unsure. 364 365config COMPAT_BRK 366 bool "Disable heap randomization" 367 default y 368 help 369 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 370 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 371 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 372 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 373 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 374 375 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 376 377config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 378 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 379 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 380 default n 381 help 382 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 383 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 384 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 385 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 386 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 387 then the flag will be ignored. 388 389 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 390 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 391 392 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 393 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 394 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 395 it is normally safe to say Y here. 396 397 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 398 399config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 400 def_bool y 401 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 402 403choice 404 prompt "Memory model" 405 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 406 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 407 default FLATMEM_MANUAL 408 help 409 This option allows you to change some of the ways that 410 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 411 only have one option here selected by the architecture 412 configuration. This is normal. 413 414config FLATMEM_MANUAL 415 bool "Flat Memory" 416 depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 417 help 418 This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 419 flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 420 system in terms of performance and resource consumption 421 and it is the best option for smaller systems. 422 423 For systems that have holes in their physical address 424 spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 425 choose "Sparse Memory". 426 427 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 428 429config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 430 bool "Sparse Memory" 431 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 432 help 433 This will be the only option for some systems, including 434 memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 435 436 This option provides efficient support for systems with 437 holes is their physical address space and allows memory 438 hot-plug and hot-remove. 439 440 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 441 442endchoice 443 444config SPARSEMEM 445 def_bool y 446 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 447 448config FLATMEM 449 def_bool y 450 depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 451 452# 453# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 454# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 455# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 456# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 457# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 458# 459# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 460# with gcc 3.4 and later. 461# 462config SPARSEMEM_STATIC 463 bool 464 465# 466# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 467# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 468# an extremely sparse physical address space. 469# 470config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 471 def_bool y 472 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 473 474config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 475 bool 476 477config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 478 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 479 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 480 default y 481 help 482 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 483 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 484 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 485# 486# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 487# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 488# 489config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 490 bool 491 492config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 493 bool 494 495config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 496 bool 497 498config HAVE_FAST_GUP 499 depends on MMU 500 bool 501 502# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 503# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 504# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 505config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 506 bool 507 508# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 509config NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 510 bool 511 512config MEMORY_ISOLATION 513 bool 514 515# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 516# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 517# /dev/mem. 518config EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 519 def_bool y 520 depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 521 522# 523# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 524# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 525# 526config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 527 def_bool n 528 529config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 530 bool 531 532config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 533 bool 534 535# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 536menuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 537 bool "Memory hotplug" 538 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 539 depends on SPARSEMEM 540 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 541 depends on 64BIT 542 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 543 544if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 545 546config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 547 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 548 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 549 help 550 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 551 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 552 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 553 can always be changed at runtime. 554 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 555 556 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 557 'online' state by default. 558 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 559 memory blocks in 'offline' state. 560 561config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 562 bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 563 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 564 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 565 depends on MIGRATION 566 567config MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 568 def_bool y 569 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 570 depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 571 572endif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 573 574config ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 575 bool 576 577# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 578# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 579# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 580# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 581# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 582# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 583# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 584# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 585# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 586# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 587# 588config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 589 int 590 default "999999" if !MMU 591 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 592 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 593 default "999999" if SPARC32 594 default "4" 595 596config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 597 bool 598 599# 600# support for memory balloon 601config MEMORY_BALLOON 602 bool 603 604# 605# support for memory balloon compaction 606config BALLOON_COMPACTION 607 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 608 def_bool y 609 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 610 help 611 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 612 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 613 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 614 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 615 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 616 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 617 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 618 619# 620# support for memory compaction 621config COMPACTION 622 bool "Allow for memory compaction" 623 def_bool y 624 select MIGRATION 625 depends on MMU 626 help 627 Compaction is the only memory management component to form 628 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 629 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 630 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 631 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 632 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 633 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 634 linux-mm@kvack.org. 635 636config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 637 int 638 depends on COMPACTION 639 default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 640 default 1 641 642# 643# support for free page reporting 644config PAGE_REPORTING 645 bool "Free page reporting" 646 def_bool n 647 help 648 Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 649 free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 650 those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 651 memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 652 653# 654# support for page migration 655# 656config MIGRATION 657 bool "Page migration" 658 def_bool y 659 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 660 help 661 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 662 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 663 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 664 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 665 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 666 allocation instead of reclaiming. 667 668config DEVICE_MIGRATION 669 def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 670 671config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 672 bool 673 674config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 675 bool 676 677config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 678 def_bool n 679 help 680 Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 681 HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 682 on a platform. 683 684 Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER and will be 685 clamped down to MAX_ORDER. 686 687config CONTIG_ALLOC 688 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 689 690config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 691 def_bool 64BIT 692 693config BOUNCE 694 bool "Enable bounce buffers" 695 default y 696 depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 697 help 698 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 699 memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 700 selected, but you may say n to override this. 701 702config MMU_NOTIFIER 703 bool 704 select INTERVAL_TREE 705 706config KSM 707 bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 708 depends on MMU 709 select XXHASH 710 help 711 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 712 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 713 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 714 the many instances by a single page with that content, so 715 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 716 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 717 See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 718 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 719 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 720 721config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 722 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 723 depends on MMU 724 default 4096 725 help 726 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 727 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 728 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 729 730 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 731 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 732 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 733 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 734 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 735 protection by setting the value to 0. 736 737 This value can be changed after boot using the 738 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 739 740config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 741 bool 742 743config MEMORY_FAILURE 744 depends on MMU 745 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 746 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 747 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 748 select RAS 749 help 750 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 751 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 752 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 753 special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 754 755config HWPOISON_INJECT 756 tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 757 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 758 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 759 760config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 761 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 762 depends on !MMU 763 default 1 764 help 765 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 766 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 767 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 768 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 769 the excess and return it to the allocator. 770 771 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 772 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 773 if there are a lot of transient processes. 774 775 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 776 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 777 778 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 779 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 780 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 781 no trimming is to occur. 782 783 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 784 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 785 786 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 787 788config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 789 bool 790 791config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 792 def_bool n 793 794menuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 795 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 796 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 797 select COMPACTION 798 select XARRAY_MULTI 799 help 800 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 801 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 802 This feature can improve computing performance to certain 803 applications by speeding up page faults during memory 804 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 805 up the pagetable walking. 806 807 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 808 809if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 810 811choice 812 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 813 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 814 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 815 help 816 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 817 818 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 819 bool "always" 820 help 821 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 822 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 823 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 824 825 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 826 bool "madvise" 827 help 828 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 829 performance improvement benefit to the applications using 830 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 831 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 832 benefit. 833endchoice 834 835config THP_SWAP 836 def_bool y 837 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 838 help 839 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 840 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 841 will be split after swapout. 842 843 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 844 845config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 846 bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 847 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 848 849 help 850 Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 851 852 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 853 support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 854 cycles. 855 856endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 857 858# 859# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 860# 861config NEED_PER_CPU_KM 862 depends on !SMP || !MMU 863 bool 864 default y 865 866config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 867 bool 868 869config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 870 bool 871 872config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 873 bool 874 875config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 876 bool 877 878config CMA 879 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 880 depends on MMU 881 select MIGRATION 882 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 883 help 884 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 885 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 886 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 887 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 888 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 889 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 890 891 If unsure, say "n". 892 893config CMA_DEBUG 894 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 895 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 896 help 897 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 898 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 899 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 900 This option does not affect warning and error messages. 901 902config CMA_DEBUGFS 903 bool "CMA debugfs interface" 904 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 905 help 906 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 907 908config CMA_SYSFS 909 bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 910 depends on CMA && SYSFS 911 help 912 This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 913 from CMA. 914 915config CMA_AREAS 916 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 917 depends on CMA 918 default 19 if NUMA 919 default 7 920 help 921 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 922 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 923 number of CMA area in the system. 924 925 If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 926 927config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 928 bool "Track memory changes" 929 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 930 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 931 help 932 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 933 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 934 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 935 it can be cleared by hands. 936 937 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 938 939config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 940 bool 941 942config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 943 int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 944 default 100 945 range 8 2048 946 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 947 help 948 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 949 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 950 arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 951 952 A sane initial value is 100 MB. 953 954config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 955 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 956 depends on SPARSEMEM 957 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 958 depends on 64BIT 959 select PADATA 960 help 961 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 962 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 963 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 964 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 965 This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 966 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 967 initialisation. 968 969config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 970 bool 971 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 972 help 973 This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 974 bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 975 Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 976 977config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 978 bool "Enable idle page tracking" 979 depends on SYSFS && MMU 980 select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 981 help 982 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 983 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 984 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 985 within a compute cluster. 986 987 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 988 more details. 989 990config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 991 bool 992 993config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 994 bool 995 help 996 In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 997 checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 998 is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 999 register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 1000 selected. 1001 1002config ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1003 bool 1004 1005config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1006 bool 1007 1008config ZONE_DMA 1009 bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1010 default y if ARM64 || X86 1011 1012config ZONE_DMA32 1013 bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1014 depends on !X86_32 1015 default y if ARM64 1016 1017config ZONE_DEVICE 1018 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1019 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1020 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1021 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1022 depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1023 select XARRAY_MULTI 1024 1025 help 1026 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1027 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1028 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1029 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1030 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1031 1032 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 1033 1034# 1035# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 1036# tables. 1037# 1038config HMM_MIRROR 1039 bool 1040 depends on MMU 1041 1042config GET_FREE_REGION 1043 depends on SPARSEMEM 1044 bool 1045 1046config DEVICE_PRIVATE 1047 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 1048 depends on ZONE_DEVICE 1049 select GET_FREE_REGION 1050 1051 help 1052 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 1053 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 1054 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 1055 1056config VMAP_PFN 1057 bool 1058 1059config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1060 bool 1061config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1062 bool 1063 1064config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1065 bool 1066 help 1067 Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1068 suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1069 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1070 enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1071 1072config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1073 default y 1074 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1075 help 1076 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1077 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1078 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1079 if VM event counters are disabled. 1080 1081config PERCPU_STATS 1082 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 1083 help 1084 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 1085 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 1086 be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 1087 1088config GUP_TEST 1089 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1090 depends on DEBUG_FS 1091 help 1092 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 1093 to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 1094 the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 1095 1096 These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 1097 get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 1098 the non-_fast variants. 1099 1100 There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1101 of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1102 range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1103 pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1104 by other command line arguments. 1105 1106 See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 1107 1108comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1109 depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 1110 1111config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 1112 bool 1113 1114config DMAPOOL_TEST 1115 tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1116 depends on HAS_DMA 1117 help 1118 Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1119 various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1120 provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1121 dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1122 1123config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 1124 bool 1125 1126# 1127# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1128# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1129# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1130# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1131# pagetable layouts. 1132# 1133config ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1134 bool 1135 1136config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1137 bool 1138 1139config KMAP_LOCAL 1140 bool 1141 1142config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1143 bool 1144 1145# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 1146config IO_MAPPING 1147 bool 1148 1149config MEMFD_CREATE 1150 bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1151 1152config SECRETMEM 1153 default y 1154 bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 1155 depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 1156 help 1157 Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 1158 memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 1159 not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 1160 1161config ANON_VMA_NAME 1162 bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 1163 depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 1164 1165 help 1166 Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 1167 1168 This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 1169 names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 1170 and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 1171 Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 1172 area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 1173 difference in their name. 1174 1175config USERFAULTFD 1176 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1177 depends on MMU 1178 help 1179 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1180 handle page faults in userland. 1181 1182config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1183 bool 1184 help 1185 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1186 1187config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1188 bool 1189 help 1190 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1191 1192config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 1193 bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 1194 default y 1195 depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1196 1197 help 1198 Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 1199 purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 1200 file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 1201 1202# multi-gen LRU { 1203config LRU_GEN 1204 bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1205 depends on MMU 1206 # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1207 depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1208 help 1209 A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 1210 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1211 1212config LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1213 bool "Enable by default" 1214 depends on LRU_GEN 1215 help 1216 This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1217 1218config LRU_GEN_STATS 1219 bool "Full stats for debugging" 1220 depends on LRU_GEN 1221 help 1222 Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1223 from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1224 1225 This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1226# } 1227 1228config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 1229 def_bool n 1230 1231config PER_VMA_LOCK 1232 def_bool y 1233 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 1234 help 1235 Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 1236 1237 This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 1238 handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 1239 1240config LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1241 bool 1242 depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1243 1244source "mm/damon/Kconfig" 1245 1246endmenu 1247