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 help 133 Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 134 swap pages. 135 The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 136 read the description of each of the allocators below before 137 making a right choice. 138 139 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 140 command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 141 142config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 143 bool "zsmalloc" 144 select ZSMALLOC 145 help 146 Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 147endchoice 148 149config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 150 string 151 depends on ZSWAP 152 default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 153 default "" 154 155config ZSMALLOC 156 tristate 157 prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if (ZSWAP || ZRAM) 158 depends on MMU 159 help 160 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 161 pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 162 the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 163 164config ZSMALLOC_STAT 165 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 166 depends on ZSMALLOC 167 select DEBUG_FS 168 help 169 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 170 statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 171 information to userspace via debugfs. 172 If unsure, say N. 173 174config ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 175 int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 176 default 8 177 range 4 16 178 depends on ZSMALLOC 179 help 180 This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 181 that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 182 chain size is calculated for each size class during the 183 initialization of the pool. 184 185 Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 186 such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 187 per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 188 the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 189 characteristics. 190 191 For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 192 193menu "Slab allocator options" 194 195config SLUB 196 def_bool y 197 198config SLUB_TINY 199 bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 200 depends on EXPERT 201 select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 202 help 203 Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 204 footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 205 This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 206 SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 207 16MB RAM. 208 209 If unsure, say N. 210 211config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 212 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 213 default y 214 help 215 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 216 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 217 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 218 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 219 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 220 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 221 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 222 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 223 command line. 224 225config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 226 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 227 depends on !SLUB_TINY 228 help 229 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 230 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 231 allocator against heap overflows. 232 233config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 234 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 235 depends on !SLUB_TINY 236 help 237 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 238 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 239 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 240 freelist exploit methods. 241 242config SLAB_BUCKETS 243 bool "Support allocation from separate kmalloc buckets" 244 depends on !SLUB_TINY 245 default SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 246 help 247 Kernel heap attacks frequently depend on being able to create 248 specifically-sized allocations with user-controlled contents 249 that will be allocated into the same kmalloc bucket as a 250 target object. To avoid sharing these allocation buckets, 251 provide an explicitly separated set of buckets to be used for 252 user-controlled allocations. This may very slightly increase 253 memory fragmentation, though in practice it's only a handful 254 of extra pages since the bulk of user-controlled allocations 255 are relatively long-lived. 256 257 If unsure, say Y. 258 259config SLUB_STATS 260 default n 261 bool "Enable performance statistics" 262 depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 263 help 264 The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 265 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 266 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 267 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 268 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 269 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 270 Try running: slabinfo -DA 271 272config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 273 default y 274 depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 275 bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 276 help 277 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 278 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 279 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 280 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 281 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 282 283config RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 284 default n 285 depends on !SLUB_TINY 286 bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 287 help 288 A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 289 normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 290 on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 291 vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 292 memory vulnerabilities. 293 294 Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 295 that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 296 subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 297 limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 298 system workload. 299 300endmenu # Slab allocator options 301 302config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 303 bool "Page allocator randomization" 304 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 305 help 306 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 307 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 308 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 309 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 310 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 311 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 312 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 313 default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 314 order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 315 on x86. 316 317 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 318 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 319 this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even 320 if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled 321 with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 322 323 Say Y if unsure. 324 325config COMPAT_BRK 326 bool "Disable heap randomization" 327 default y 328 help 329 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 330 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 331 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 332 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 333 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 334 335 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 336 337config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 338 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 339 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 340 default n 341 help 342 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 343 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 344 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 345 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 346 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 347 then the flag will be ignored. 348 349 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 350 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 351 352 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 353 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 354 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 355 it is normally safe to say Y here. 356 357 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 358 359config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 360 def_bool y 361 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 362 363choice 364 prompt "Memory model" 365 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 366 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 367 default FLATMEM_MANUAL 368 help 369 This option allows you to change some of the ways that 370 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 371 only have one option here selected by the architecture 372 configuration. This is normal. 373 374config FLATMEM_MANUAL 375 bool "Flat Memory" 376 depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 377 help 378 This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 379 flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 380 system in terms of performance and resource consumption 381 and it is the best option for smaller systems. 382 383 For systems that have holes in their physical address 384 spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 385 choose "Sparse Memory". 386 387 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 388 389config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 390 bool "Sparse Memory" 391 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 392 help 393 This will be the only option for some systems, including 394 memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 395 396 This option provides efficient support for systems with 397 holes is their physical address space and allows memory 398 hot-plug and hot-remove. 399 400 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 401 402endchoice 403 404config SPARSEMEM 405 def_bool y 406 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 407 408config FLATMEM 409 def_bool y 410 depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 411 412# 413# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 414# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 415# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 416# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 417# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 418# 419# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 420# with gcc 3.4 and later. 421# 422config SPARSEMEM_STATIC 423 bool 424 425# 426# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 427# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 428# an extremely sparse physical address space. 429# 430config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 431 def_bool y 432 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 433 434config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 435 bool 436 437config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 438 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 439 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 440 default y 441 help 442 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 443 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 444 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 445# 446# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 447# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 448# 449config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 450 bool 451 452config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 453 bool 454 455config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 456 bool 457 458config HAVE_GUP_FAST 459 depends on MMU 460 bool 461 462# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 463# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 464# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 465config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 466 bool 467 468# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 469config NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 470 bool 471 472config MEMORY_ISOLATION 473 bool 474 475# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 476# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 477# /dev/mem. 478config EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 479 def_bool y 480 depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 481 482# 483# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 484# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 485# 486config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 487 def_bool n 488 489config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 490 bool 491 492config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 493 bool 494 495# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 496menuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 497 bool "Memory hotplug" 498 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 499 depends on SPARSEMEM 500 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 501 depends on 64BIT 502 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 503 504if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 505 506choice 507 prompt "Memory Hotplug Default Online Type" 508 default MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE 509 help 510 Default memory type for hotplugged memory. 511 512 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 513 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 514 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 515 can always be changed at runtime. 516 517 The default is 'offline'. 518 519 Select offline to defer onlining to drivers and user policy. 520 Select auto to let the kernel choose what zones to utilize. 521 Select online_kernel to generally allow kernel usage of this memory. 522 Select online_movable to generally disallow kernel usage of this memory. 523 524 Example kernel usage would be page structs and page tables. 525 526 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 527 528config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE 529 bool "offline" 530 help 531 Hotplugged memory will not be onlined by default. 532 Choose this for systems with drivers and user policy that 533 handle onlining of hotplug memory policy. 534 535config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_AUTO 536 bool "auto" 537 help 538 Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 539 hotplugged memory into the zone it thinks is reasonable. 540 This memory may be utilized for kernel data. 541 542config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_KERNEL 543 bool "kernel" 544 help 545 Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 546 hotplugged memory into a zone capable of being used for kernel 547 data. This typically means ZONE_NORMAL. 548 549config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_MOVABLE 550 bool "movable" 551 help 552 Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 553 hotplug memory into ZONE_MOVABLE. This memory will generally 554 not be utilized for kernel data. 555 556 This should only be used when the admin knows sufficient 557 ZONE_NORMAL memory is available to describe hotplug memory, 558 otherwise hotplug memory may fail to online. For example, 559 sufficient kernel-capable memory (ZONE_NORMAL) must be 560 available to allocate page structs to describe ZONE_MOVABLE. 561 562endchoice 563 564config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 565 bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 566 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 567 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 568 depends on MIGRATION 569 570config MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 571 def_bool y 572 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 573 depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 574 575endif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 576 577config ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 578 bool 579 580# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 581# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 582# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 583# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 584# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 585# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 586# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 587# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 588# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 589# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 590# 591config SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS 592 def_bool y 593 depends on MMU 594 depends on SMP 595 depends on NR_CPUS >= 4 596 depends on !ARM || CPU_CACHE_VIPT 597 depends on !PARISC || PA20 598 depends on !SPARC32 599 600config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 601 bool 602 603config SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS 604 def_bool y 605 depends on SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 606 607# 608# support for memory balloon 609config MEMORY_BALLOON 610 bool 611 612# 613# support for memory balloon compaction 614config BALLOON_COMPACTION 615 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 616 default y 617 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 618 help 619 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 620 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 621 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 622 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 623 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 624 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 625 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 626 627# 628# support for memory compaction 629config COMPACTION 630 bool "Allow for memory compaction" 631 default y 632 select MIGRATION 633 depends on MMU 634 help 635 Compaction is the only memory management component to form 636 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 637 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 638 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 639 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 640 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 641 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 642 linux-mm@kvack.org. 643 644config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 645 int 646 depends on COMPACTION 647 default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 648 default 1 649 650# 651# support for free page reporting 652config PAGE_REPORTING 653 bool "Free page reporting" 654 help 655 Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 656 free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 657 those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 658 memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 659 660# 661# support for page migration 662# 663config MIGRATION 664 bool "Page migration" 665 default y 666 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 667 help 668 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 669 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 670 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 671 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 672 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 673 allocation instead of reclaiming. 674 675config DEVICE_MIGRATION 676 def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 677 678config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 679 bool 680 681config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 682 bool 683 684config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 685 def_bool n 686 help 687 Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 688 HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 689 on a platform. 690 691 Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 692 clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 693 694config CONTIG_ALLOC 695 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 696 697config PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 698 int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 699 default 5 700 range 0 6 701 help 702 In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 703 batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 704 allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 705 latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 706 the maximum latency. 707 708config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 709 def_bool 64BIT 710 711config BOUNCE 712 bool "Enable bounce buffers" 713 default y 714 depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 715 help 716 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 717 memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 718 selected, but you may say n to override this. 719 720config MMU_NOTIFIER 721 bool 722 select INTERVAL_TREE 723 724config KSM 725 bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 726 depends on MMU 727 select XXHASH 728 help 729 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 730 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 731 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 732 the many instances by a single page with that content, so 733 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 734 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 735 See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 736 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 737 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 738 739config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 740 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 741 depends on MMU 742 default 4096 743 help 744 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 745 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 746 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 747 748 For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 749 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 750 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 751 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 752 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 753 protection by setting the value to 0. 754 755 This value can be changed after boot using the 756 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 757 758config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 759 bool 760 761config MEMORY_FAILURE 762 depends on MMU 763 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 764 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 765 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 766 select RAS 767 help 768 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 769 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 770 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 771 special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 772 773config HWPOISON_INJECT 774 tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 775 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 776 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 777 778config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 779 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 780 depends on !MMU 781 default 1 782 help 783 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 784 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 785 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 786 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 787 the excess and return it to the allocator. 788 789 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 790 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 791 if there are a lot of transient processes. 792 793 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 794 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 795 796 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 797 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 798 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 799 no trimming is to occur. 800 801 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 802 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 803 804 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 805 806config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 807 bool 808 809config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 810 def_bool n 811 812menuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 813 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 814 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 815 select COMPACTION 816 select XARRAY_MULTI 817 help 818 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 819 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 820 This feature can improve computing performance to certain 821 applications by speeding up page faults during memory 822 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 823 up the pagetable walking. 824 825 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 826 827if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 828 829choice 830 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 831 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 832 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 833 help 834 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 835 836 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 837 bool "always" 838 help 839 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 840 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 841 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 842 843 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 844 bool "madvise" 845 help 846 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 847 performance improvement benefit to the applications using 848 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 849 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 850 benefit. 851 852 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 853 bool "never" 854 help 855 Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 856 enabled at runtime via sysfs. 857endchoice 858 859config THP_SWAP 860 def_bool y 861 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 862 help 863 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 864 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 865 will be split after swapout. 866 867 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 868 869config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 870 bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 871 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 872 873 help 874 Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 875 876 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 877 support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 878 cycles. 879 880endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 881 882# 883# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 884# 885config PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 886 def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 887 888# TODO: Allow to be enabled without THP 889config ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP 890 def_bool n 891 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 892 893config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_PFNMAP 894 def_bool y 895 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 896 897config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PUD_PFNMAP 898 def_bool y 899 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 900 901# 902# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 903# 904config NEED_PER_CPU_KM 905 depends on !SMP || !MMU 906 bool 907 default y 908 909config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 910 bool 911 912config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 913 bool 914 915config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 916 bool 917 918config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 919 bool 920 921config CMA 922 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 923 depends on MMU 924 select MIGRATION 925 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 926 help 927 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 928 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 929 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 930 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 931 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 932 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 933 934 If unsure, say "n". 935 936config CMA_DEBUGFS 937 bool "CMA debugfs interface" 938 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 939 help 940 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 941 942config CMA_SYSFS 943 bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 944 depends on CMA && SYSFS 945 help 946 This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 947 from CMA. 948 949config CMA_AREAS 950 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 951 depends on CMA 952 default 20 if NUMA 953 default 8 954 help 955 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 956 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 957 number of CMA area in the system. 958 959 If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 960 961config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 962 bool "Track memory changes" 963 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 964 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 965 help 966 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 967 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 968 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 969 it can be cleared by hands. 970 971 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 972 973config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 974 bool 975 976config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 977 int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 978 default 100 979 range 8 2048 980 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 981 help 982 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 983 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 984 arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 985 986 A sane initial value is 100 MB. 987 988config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 989 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 990 depends on SPARSEMEM 991 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 992 depends on 64BIT 993 depends on !KMSAN 994 select PADATA 995 help 996 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 997 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 998 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 999 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 1000 This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 1001 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 1002 initialisation. 1003 1004config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 1005 bool 1006 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 1007 help 1008 This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 1009 bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 1010 Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 1011 1012config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 1013 bool "Enable idle page tracking" 1014 depends on SYSFS && MMU 1015 select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 1016 help 1017 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 1018 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 1019 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 1020 within a compute cluster. 1021 1022 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 1023 more details. 1024 1025# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 1026# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 1027# aliasing) need to select this. 1028config ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 1029 bool 1030 1031config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1032 bool 1033 1034config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 1035 bool 1036 help 1037 In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 1038 checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 1039 is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 1040 register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 1041 selected. 1042 1043config ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1044 bool 1045 1046config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1047 bool 1048 1049config ZONE_DMA 1050 bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1051 default y if ARM64 || X86 1052 1053config ZONE_DMA32 1054 bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1055 depends on !X86_32 1056 default y if ARM64 1057 1058config ZONE_DEVICE 1059 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1060 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1061 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1062 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1063 depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1064 select XARRAY_MULTI 1065 1066 help 1067 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1068 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1069 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1070 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1071 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1072 1073 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 1074 1075# 1076# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 1077# tables. 1078# 1079config HMM_MIRROR 1080 bool 1081 depends on MMU 1082 1083config GET_FREE_REGION 1084 bool 1085 1086config DEVICE_PRIVATE 1087 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 1088 depends on ZONE_DEVICE 1089 select GET_FREE_REGION 1090 1091 help 1092 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 1093 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 1094 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 1095 1096config VMAP_PFN 1097 bool 1098 1099config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1100 bool 1101config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1102 bool 1103 1104config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 1105 bool 1106config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_3 1107 bool 1108 1109config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1110 default y 1111 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1112 help 1113 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1114 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1115 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1116 if VM event counters are disabled. 1117 1118config PERCPU_STATS 1119 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 1120 help 1121 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 1122 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 1123 be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 1124 1125config GUP_TEST 1126 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1127 depends on DEBUG_FS 1128 help 1129 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 1130 to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 1131 the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 1132 1133 These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 1134 get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 1135 the non-_fast variants. 1136 1137 There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1138 of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1139 range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1140 pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1141 by other command line arguments. 1142 1143 See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 1144 1145comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1146 depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 1147 1148config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 1149 bool 1150 1151config DMAPOOL_TEST 1152 tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1153 depends on HAS_DMA 1154 help 1155 Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1156 various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1157 provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1158 dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1159 1160config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 1161 bool 1162 1163config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1164 bool 1165 1166config KMAP_LOCAL 1167 bool 1168 1169config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1170 bool 1171 1172# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 1173config IO_MAPPING 1174 bool 1175 1176config MEMFD_CREATE 1177 bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1178 1179config SECRETMEM 1180 default y 1181 bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 1182 depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 1183 help 1184 Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 1185 memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 1186 not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 1187 1188config ANON_VMA_NAME 1189 bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 1190 depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 1191 1192 help 1193 Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 1194 1195 This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 1196 names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 1197 and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 1198 Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 1199 area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 1200 difference in their name. 1201 1202config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1203 bool 1204 help 1205 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1206 1207config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1208 bool 1209 help 1210 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1211 1212menuconfig USERFAULTFD 1213 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1214 depends on MMU 1215 help 1216 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1217 handle page faults in userland. 1218 1219if USERFAULTFD 1220config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 1221 bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 1222 default y 1223 depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1224 1225 help 1226 Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 1227 purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 1228 file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 1229endif # USERFAULTFD 1230 1231# multi-gen LRU { 1232config LRU_GEN 1233 bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1234 depends on MMU 1235 # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1236 depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1237 help 1238 A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 1239 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1240 1241config LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1242 bool "Enable by default" 1243 depends on LRU_GEN 1244 help 1245 This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1246 1247config LRU_GEN_STATS 1248 bool "Full stats for debugging" 1249 depends on LRU_GEN 1250 help 1251 Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1252 from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1253 1254 This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1255 1256config LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 1257 def_bool y 1258 depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1259# } 1260 1261config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 1262 def_bool n 1263 1264config PER_VMA_LOCK 1265 def_bool y 1266 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 1267 help 1268 Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 1269 1270 This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 1271 handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 1272 1273config LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1274 bool 1275 depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1276 1277config IOMMU_MM_DATA 1278 bool 1279 1280config EXECMEM 1281 bool 1282 1283config NUMA_MEMBLKS 1284 bool 1285 1286config NUMA_EMU 1287 bool "NUMA emulation" 1288 depends on NUMA_MEMBLKS 1289 help 1290 Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1291 into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1292 number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1293 1294config ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK 1295 bool 1296 help 1297 The architecture has hardware support for userspace shadow call 1298 stacks (eg, x86 CET, arm64 GCS or RISC-V Zicfiss). 1299 1300config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM 1301 def_bool n 1302 1303config PT_RECLAIM 1304 bool "reclaim empty user page table pages" 1305 default y 1306 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM && MMU && SMP 1307 select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 1308 help 1309 Try to reclaim empty user page table pages in paths other than munmap 1310 and exit_mmap path. 1311 1312 Note: now only empty user PTE page table pages will be reclaimed. 1313 1314 1315source "mm/damon/Kconfig" 1316 1317endmenu 1318