1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 259e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 359e0b520SChristoph Hellwigmenu "Memory Management options" 459e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 57b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 67b42f104SJohannes Weiner# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 77b42f104SJohannes Weiner# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 87b42f104SJohannes Weiner# 97b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool 117b42f104SJohannes Weiner 12b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZPOOL 13b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool 14b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 15519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig SWAP 167b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 177b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 187b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 197b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 207b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217b42f104SJohannes Weiner for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 227b42f104SJohannes Weiner used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 237b42f104SJohannes Weiner in your computer. If unsure say Y. 247b42f104SJohannes Weiner 25519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP 26fcab9b44SDavid Heidelberg bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on SWAP 28b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO 29519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZPOOL 30519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 31519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 32519bcb79SJohannes Weiner pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 33519bcb79SJohannes Weiner compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 34519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 351a44131dSSophia Gabriella in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 36519bcb79SJohannes Weiner reads, can also improve workload performance. 37519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 38b3fbd58fSJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 39b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 40b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 41b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner help 42b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 43b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 44b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 45b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 46b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 47b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner 48b9c91c43SYosry Ahmedconfig ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS_DEFAULT_ON 49b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed bool "Invalidate zswap entries when pages are loaded" 50b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed depends on ZSWAP 51b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed help 52b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed If selected, exclusive loads for zswap will be enabled at boot, 53b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed otherwise it will be disabled. 54b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 55b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed If exclusive loads are enabled, when a page is loaded from zswap, 56b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed the zswap entry is invalidated at once, as opposed to leaving it 57b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed in zswap until the swap entry is freed. 58b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 59b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed This avoids having two copies of the same page in memory 60b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed (compressed and uncompressed) after faulting in a page from zswap. 61b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed The cost is that if the page was never dirtied and needs to be 62b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed swapped out again, it will be re-compressed. 63b9c91c43SYosry Ahmed 64519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 65b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default compressor" 66519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 67519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 68519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 69519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 70519bcb79SJohannes Weiner for swap pages. 71519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 72519bcb79SJohannes Weiner For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 73519bcb79SJohannes Weiner a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 74519bcb79SJohannes Weiner available at the following LWN page: 75519bcb79SJohannes Weiner https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 76519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 77519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 78519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 79519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 80519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 81519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 82519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 83519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Deflate" 84519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 85519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 86519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 87519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 88519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 89519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZO" 90519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZO 91519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 92519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 93519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 94519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 95519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "842" 96519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_842 97519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 98519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 99519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 100519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 101519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4" 102519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4 103519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 104519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 105519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 106519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 107519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "LZ4HC" 108519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 109519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 110519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 111519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 112519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 113519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zstd" 114519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select CRYPTO_ZSTD 115519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 116519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 117519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 118519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 119519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 120519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 121519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 122519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 123519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 124519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 125519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 126519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 127519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 128519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 129519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 130519bcb79SJohannes Weinerchoice 131b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "Default allocator" 132519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 133519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 134519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 135519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 136519bcb79SJohannes Weiner swap pages. 137519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 138519bcb79SJohannes Weiner read the description of each of the allocators below before 139519bcb79SJohannes Weiner making a right choice. 140519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 141519bcb79SJohannes Weiner The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 142519bcb79SJohannes Weiner command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 143519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 144519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 145519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zbud" 146519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZBUD 147519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 148519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 149519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 150*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmedconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 151*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed bool "z3foldi (DEPRECATED)" 152*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed select Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 153519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 154519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 155519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 156*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles, 157*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed see CONFIG_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED. 158*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed 159519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 160519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "zsmalloc" 161519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select ZSMALLOC 162519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 163519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 164519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendchoice 165519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 166519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 167519bcb79SJohannes Weiner string 168519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 169519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 170*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 171519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 172519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default "" 173519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 174519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZBUD 175b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 176b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 177519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 178519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 179519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 180519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 181519bcb79SJohannes Weiner deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 182519bcb79SJohannes Weiner density approach when reclaim will be used. 183519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 184*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmedconfig Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 185*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold) (DEPRECATED)" 186b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner depends on ZSWAP 187519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 188*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. If you have 189*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed a good reason for using Z3FOLD over ZSMALLOC, please contact 190*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed linux-mm@kvack.org and the zswap maintainers. 191*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed 192519bcb79SJohannes Weiner A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 193519bcb79SJohannes Weiner It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 194519bcb79SJohannes Weiner page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 195519bcb79SJohannes Weiner still there. 196519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 197*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmedconfig Z3FOLD 198*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed tristate 199*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed default y if Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED=y 200*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed default m if Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED=m 201*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed depends on Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED 202*54ad9c76SYosry Ahmed 203519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC 204b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner tristate 205b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 206519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on MMU 207519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 208519bcb79SJohannes Weiner zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 209b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 210b3fbd58fSJohannes Weiner the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 211519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 212519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ZSMALLOC_STAT 213519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 214519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on ZSMALLOC 215519bcb79SJohannes Weiner select DEBUG_FS 216519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 217519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 218519bcb79SJohannes Weiner statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 219519bcb79SJohannes Weiner information to userspace via debugfs. 220519bcb79SJohannes Weiner If unsure, say N. 221519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2224ff93b29SSergey Senozhatskyconfig ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 2234ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 224b46402faSSergey Senozhatsky default 8 2254ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky range 4 16 2264ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky depends on ZSMALLOC 2274ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky help 2284ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 2294ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 2304ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky chain size is calculated for each size class during the 2314ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky initialization of the pool. 2324ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2334ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 2344ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 2354ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 2364ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 2374ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky characteristics. 2384ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 2394ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 2404ff93b29SSergey Senozhatsky 241519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenu "SLAB allocator options" 242519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 2437b42f104SJohannes Weinerchoice 2447b42f104SJohannes Weiner prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 2457b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLUB 2467b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2477b42f104SJohannes Weiner This option allows to select a slab allocator. 2487b42f104SJohannes Weiner 249eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLAB_DEPRECATED 250eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka bool "SLAB (DEPRECATED)" 2517b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on !PREEMPT_RT 2527b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 253eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. Replaced by 254eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka SLUB. 255eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 256eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka If you cannot migrate to SLUB, please contact linux-mm@kvack.org 257eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka and the people listed in the SLAB ALLOCATOR section of MAINTAINERS 258eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka file, explaining why. 259eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 2607b42f104SJohannes Weiner The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 2617b42f104SJohannes Weiner well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 2627b42f104SJohannes Weiner per cpu and per node queues. 2637b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2647b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB 2657b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 2667b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2677b42f104SJohannes Weiner SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 2687b42f104SJohannes Weiner instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 2697b42f104SJohannes Weiner Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 2707b42f104SJohannes Weiner of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 2717b42f104SJohannes Weiner and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 2727b42f104SJohannes Weiner a slab allocator. 2737b42f104SJohannes Weiner 2747b42f104SJohannes Weinerendchoice 2757b42f104SJohannes Weiner 276eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLAB 277eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka bool 278eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka default y 279eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka depends on SLAB_DEPRECATED 280eb07c4f3SVlastimil Babka 281e240e53aSVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_TINY 282e240e53aSVlastimil Babka bool "Configure SLUB for minimal memory footprint" 283e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && EXPERT 284e240e53aSVlastimil Babka select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 285e240e53aSVlastimil Babka help 286e240e53aSVlastimil Babka Configures the SLUB allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 287e240e53aSVlastimil Babka footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 288e240e53aSVlastimil Babka This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 289e240e53aSVlastimil Babka SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 290e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 16MB RAM. 291e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 292e240e53aSVlastimil Babka If unsure, say N. 293e240e53aSVlastimil Babka 2947b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 2957b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 2967b42f104SJohannes Weiner default y 2977b42f104SJohannes Weiner depends on SLAB || SLUB 2987b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 2997b42f104SJohannes Weiner For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 3007b42f104SJohannes Weiner merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 3017b42f104SJohannes Weiner This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 3027b42f104SJohannes Weiner overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 3037b42f104SJohannes Weiner cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 3047b42f104SJohannes Weiner by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 3057b42f104SJohannes Weiner can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 3067b42f104SJohannes Weiner merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 3077b42f104SJohannes Weiner command line. 3087b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3097b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 3107b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Randomize slab freelist" 311e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 3127b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3137b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 3147b42f104SJohannes Weiner security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 3157b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocator against heap overflows. 3167b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3177b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 3187b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 319e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 3207b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3217b42f104SJohannes Weiner Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 3227b42f104SJohannes Weiner other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 3237b42f104SJohannes Weiner sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 3247b42f104SJohannes Weiner freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 3257b42f104SJohannes Weiner sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 3267b42f104SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_SLUB. 3277b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3280710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig SLUB_STATS 3290710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 3300710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 331e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 3320710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3330710d012SVlastimil Babka SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 3340710d012SVlastimil Babka order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 3350710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 3360710d012SVlastimil Babka the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 3370710d012SVlastimil Babka supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 3380710d012SVlastimil Babka out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 3390710d012SVlastimil Babka Try running: slabinfo -DA 3400710d012SVlastimil Babka 341519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 342519bcb79SJohannes Weiner default y 343e240e53aSVlastimil Babka depends on SLUB && SMP && !SLUB_TINY 344519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 345519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 346519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 347519bcb79SJohannes Weiner that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 348519bcb79SJohannes Weiner in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 349519bcb79SJohannes Weiner which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 350519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 351519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3523c615294SGONG, Ruiqiconfig RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 3533c615294SGONG, Ruiqi default n 3543c615294SGONG, Ruiqi depends on SLUB && !SLUB_TINY 3553c615294SGONG, Ruiqi bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 3563c615294SGONG, Ruiqi help 3573c615294SGONG, Ruiqi A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 3583c615294SGONG, Ruiqi normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 3593c615294SGONG, Ruiqi on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 3603c615294SGONG, Ruiqi vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 3613c615294SGONG, Ruiqi memory vulnerabilities. 3623c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 3633c615294SGONG, Ruiqi Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 3643c615294SGONG, Ruiqi that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 3653c615294SGONG, Ruiqi subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 3663c615294SGONG, Ruiqi limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 3673c615294SGONG, Ruiqi system workload. 3683c615294SGONG, Ruiqi 369519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendmenu # SLAB allocator options 370519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 3717b42f104SJohannes Weinerconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 3727b42f104SJohannes Weiner bool "Page allocator randomization" 3737b42f104SJohannes Weiner default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 3747b42f104SJohannes Weiner help 3757b42f104SJohannes Weiner Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 3767b42f104SJohannes Weiner utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 3777b42f104SJohannes Weiner 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 3787b42f104SJohannes Weiner 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 3797b42f104SJohannes Weiner the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 3807b42f104SJohannes Weiner security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 3817b42f104SJohannes Weiner allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 38223baf831SKirill A. Shutemov default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_ORDER i.e, 10th 38323baf831SKirill A. Shutemov order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 38423baf831SKirill A. Shutemov on x86. 3857b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3867b42f104SJohannes Weiner While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 3877b42f104SJohannes Weiner negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 3887b42f104SJohannes Weiner this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 3897b42f104SJohannes Weiner after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 3907b42f104SJohannes Weiner Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 3917b42f104SJohannes Weiner 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 3927b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3937b42f104SJohannes Weiner Say Y if unsure. 3947b42f104SJohannes Weiner 3950710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig COMPAT_BRK 3960710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Disable heap randomization" 3970710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 3980710d012SVlastimil Babka help 3990710d012SVlastimil Babka Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 4000710d012SVlastimil Babka also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 4010710d012SVlastimil Babka This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 4020710d012SVlastimil Babka disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 4030710d012SVlastimil Babka /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 4040710d012SVlastimil Babka 4050710d012SVlastimil Babka On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 4060710d012SVlastimil Babka 4070710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 4080710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 4090710d012SVlastimil Babka depends on EXPERT && !MMU 4100710d012SVlastimil Babka default n 4110710d012SVlastimil Babka help 4120710d012SVlastimil Babka Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 4130710d012SVlastimil Babka from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 4140710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 4150710d012SVlastimil Babka mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 4160710d012SVlastimil Babka providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 4170710d012SVlastimil Babka then the flag will be ignored. 4180710d012SVlastimil Babka 4190710d012SVlastimil Babka This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 4200710d012SVlastimil Babka ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 4210710d012SVlastimil Babka 4220710d012SVlastimil Babka Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 4230710d012SVlastimil Babka enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 4240710d012SVlastimil Babka userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 4250710d012SVlastimil Babka it is normally safe to say Y here. 4260710d012SVlastimil Babka 4270710d012SVlastimil Babka See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 4280710d012SVlastimil Babka 429e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 430e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 431a8826eebSKees Cook depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 432e1785e85SDave Hansen 4333a9da765SDave Hansenchoice 4343a9da765SDave Hansen prompt "Memory model" 435e1785e85SDave Hansen depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 436d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 437e1785e85SDave Hansen default FLATMEM_MANUAL 438d66d109dSMike Rapoport help 439d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option allows you to change some of the ways that 440d66d109dSMike Rapoport Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 441d66d109dSMike Rapoport only have one option here selected by the architecture 442d66d109dSMike Rapoport configuration. This is normal. 4433a9da765SDave Hansen 444e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM_MANUAL 4453a9da765SDave Hansen bool "Flat Memory" 446bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 4473a9da765SDave Hansen help 448d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 449d66d109dSMike Rapoport flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 450d66d109dSMike Rapoport system in terms of performance and resource consumption 451d66d109dSMike Rapoport and it is the best option for smaller systems. 4523a9da765SDave Hansen 453d66d109dSMike Rapoport For systems that have holes in their physical address 454d66d109dSMike Rapoport spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 455dd33d29aSRandy Dunlap choose "Sparse Memory". 456d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 457d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 4583a9da765SDave Hansen 459d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 460d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft bool "Sparse Memory" 461d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 462d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft help 463d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft This will be the only option for some systems, including 464d66d109dSMike Rapoport memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 465d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 466d66d109dSMike Rapoport This option provides efficient support for systems with 467d66d109dSMike Rapoport holes is their physical address space and allows memory 468d66d109dSMike Rapoport hot-plug and hot-remove. 469d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 470d66d109dSMike Rapoport If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 471d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 4723a9da765SDave Hansenendchoice 4733a9da765SDave Hansen 474d41dee36SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM 475d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft def_bool y 4761a83e175SRussell King depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 477d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 478e1785e85SDave Hansenconfig FLATMEM 479e1785e85SDave Hansen def_bool y 480bb1c50d3SMike Rapoport depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 481d41dee36SAndy Whitcroft 48293b7504eSDave Hansen# 4833e347261SBob Picco# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 484c89ab04fSMike Rapoport# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 4853e347261SBob Picco# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 4863e347261SBob Picco# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 4873e347261SBob Picco# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 4883e347261SBob Picco# 4893e347261SBob Picco# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 4903e347261SBob Picco# with gcc 3.4 and later. 4913e347261SBob Picco# 4923e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_STATIC 4939ba16087SJan Beulich bool 4943e347261SBob Picco 4953e347261SBob Picco# 49644c09201SMatt LaPlante# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 497802f192eSBob Picco# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 498802f192eSBob Picco# an extremely sparse physical address space. 499802f192eSBob Picco# 5003e347261SBob Piccoconfig SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 5013e347261SBob Picco def_bool y 5023e347261SBob Picco depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 5034c21e2f2SHugh Dickins 50429c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 5059ba16087SJan Beulich bool 50629c71111SAndy Whitcroft 50729c71111SAndy Whitcroftconfig SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 508a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 509a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 510a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand default y 511a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand help 512a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 513a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 514a5ee6daaSGeoff Levand efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 5150b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 5160b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 5170b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 5180b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V# 5190b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 5200b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 5210b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V 5220b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 5230b376f1eSAneesh Kumar K.V bool 52429c71111SAndy Whitcroft 52570210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmannconfig HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 5266341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 52770210ed9SPhilipp Hachtmann 52867a929e0SChristoph Hellwigconfig HAVE_FAST_GUP 529050a9adcSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 5306341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 5312667f50eSSteve Capper 53252219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 53352219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 53452219aeaSDavid Hildenbrand# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 535350e88baSMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 5366341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 537c378ddd5STejun Heo 5381e5d8e1eSDan Williams# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 5391e5d8e1eSDan Williamsconfig NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 5401e5d8e1eSDan Williams bool 5411e5d8e1eSDan Williams 542ee6f509cSMinchan Kimconfig MEMORY_ISOLATION 5436341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 544ee6f509cSMinchan Kim 545a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 546a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 547a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand# /dev/mem. 548a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrandconfig EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 549a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand def_bool y 550a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 551a9e7b8d4SDavid Hildenbrand 55246723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 55346723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 55446723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 55546723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu# 55646723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsuconfig HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 55746723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu def_bool n 55846723bfaSYasuaki Ishimatsu 55991024b3cSAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 56091024b3cSAnshuman Khandual bool 56191024b3cSAnshuman Khandual 562519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 563519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 564519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5653947be19SDave Hansen# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 566519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 567519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory hotplug" 568b30c5927SDavid Hildenbrand select MEMORY_ISOLATION 56971b6f2ddSDavid Hildenbrand depends on SPARSEMEM 57040b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5717ec58a2bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on 64BIT 5721e5d8e1eSDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 5733947be19SDave Hansen 574519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif MEMORY_HOTPLUG 575519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 5768604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 5778604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 5788604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 5798604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov help 5808604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 5818604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 5828604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 5838604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov can always be changed at runtime. 584cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 5858604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5868604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 5878604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 'online' state by default. 5888604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 5898604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov memory blocks in 'offline' state. 5908604d9e5SVitaly Kuznetsov 5910c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5920c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 593f7e3334aSNathan Fontenot select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 5940c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 5950c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on MIGRATION 5960c0e6195SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 597a08a2ae3SOscar Salvadorconfig MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 598a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador def_bool y 599a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 600a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 601a08a2ae3SOscar Salvador 602519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 603519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 60404d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 60504d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V bool 60604d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V 6074c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 6084c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 6094c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 6104c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 6114c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 6127b6ac9dfSHugh Dickins# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 61360bccaa6SWill Deacon# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 61460bccaa6SWill Deacon# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 61560bccaa6SWill Deacon# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 616a70caa8bSHugh Dickins# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 6174c21e2f2SHugh Dickins# 6184c21e2f2SHugh Dickinsconfig SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 6194c21e2f2SHugh Dickins int 6209164550eSKirill A. Shutemov default "999999" if !MMU 621a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 622a70caa8bSHugh Dickins default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 62360bccaa6SWill Deacon default "999999" if SPARC32 6244c21e2f2SHugh Dickins default "4" 6257cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter 626e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 6276341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 628e009bb30SKirill A. Shutemov 6297cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 63009316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# support for memory balloon 63109316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig MEMORY_BALLOON 6326341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 63309316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov 63409316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov# 63518468d93SRafael Aquini# support for memory balloon compaction 63618468d93SRafael Aquiniconfig BALLOON_COMPACTION 63718468d93SRafael Aquini bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 63818468d93SRafael Aquini def_bool y 63909316c09SKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 64018468d93SRafael Aquini help 64118468d93SRafael Aquini Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 64218468d93SRafael Aquini significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 64318468d93SRafael Aquini used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 64418468d93SRafael Aquini with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 64518468d93SRafael Aquini by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 64618468d93SRafael Aquini pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 64718468d93SRafael Aquini scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 64818468d93SRafael Aquini 64918468d93SRafael Aquini# 650e9e96b39SMel Gorman# support for memory compaction 651e9e96b39SMel Gormanconfig COMPACTION 652e9e96b39SMel Gorman bool "Allow for memory compaction" 65305106e6aSRik van Riel def_bool y 654e9e96b39SMel Gorman select MIGRATION 65533a93877SAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 656e9e96b39SMel Gorman help 657b32eaf71SMichal Hocko Compaction is the only memory management component to form 658b32eaf71SMichal Hocko high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 659b32eaf71SMichal Hocko reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 660b32eaf71SMichal Hocko the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 661b32eaf71SMichal Hocko invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 662b32eaf71SMichal Hocko disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 663b32eaf71SMichal Hocko it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 664b32eaf71SMichal Hocko linux-mm@kvack.org. 665e9e96b39SMel Gorman 666c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixnerconfig COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 667c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner int 668c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner depends on COMPACTION 669c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 670c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner default 1 671c7e0b3d0SThomas Gleixner 672e9e96b39SMel Gorman# 67336e66c55SAlexander Duyck# support for free page reporting 67436e66c55SAlexander Duyckconfig PAGE_REPORTING 67536e66c55SAlexander Duyck bool "Free page reporting" 67636e66c55SAlexander Duyck def_bool n 67736e66c55SAlexander Duyck help 67836e66c55SAlexander Duyck Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 67936e66c55SAlexander Duyck free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 68036e66c55SAlexander Duyck those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 68136e66c55SAlexander Duyck memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 68236e66c55SAlexander Duyck 68336e66c55SAlexander Duyck# 6847cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# support for page migration 6857cbe34cfSChristoph Lameter# 6867cbe34cfSChristoph Lameterconfig MIGRATION 687b20a3503SChristoph Lameter bool "Page migration" 6886c5240aeSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 689de32a817SChen Gang depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 690b20a3503SChristoph Lameter help 691b20a3503SChristoph Lameter Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 692e9e96b39SMel Gorman while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 693e9e96b39SMel Gorman two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 694e9e96b39SMel Gorman to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 695e9e96b39SMel Gorman pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 696e9e96b39SMel Gorman allocation instead of reclaiming. 6976550e07fSGreg Kroah-Hartman 69876cbbeadSChristoph Hellwigconfig DEVICE_MIGRATION 699d90a25f8SChristoph Hellwig def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 70076cbbeadSChristoph Hellwig 701c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 7026341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 703c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 7049c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 7059c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi bool 7069c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 7074bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandualconfig HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 7084bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual def_bool n 7094bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual help 7104bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 7114bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 7124bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual on a platform. 7134bfb68a0SAnshuman Khandual 71423baf831SKirill A. Shutemov Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER and will be 71523baf831SKirill A. Shutemov clamped down to MAX_ORDER. 716b3d40a2bSDavid Hildenbrand 7178df995f6SAlexandre Ghiticonfig CONTIG_ALLOC 7188df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 7198df995f6SAlexandre Ghiti 720dde5e534SHuang Yingconfig PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 721dde5e534SHuang Ying int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 722dde5e534SHuang Ying default 5 723dde5e534SHuang Ying range 0 6 724dde5e534SHuang Ying help 725dde5e534SHuang Ying In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 726dde5e534SHuang Ying batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 727dde5e534SHuang Ying allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 728dde5e534SHuang Ying latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 729dde5e534SHuang Ying the maximum latency. 730dde5e534SHuang Ying 731600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 732d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig def_bool 64BIT 733600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 7342a7326b5SChristoph Lameterconfig BOUNCE 7359ca24e2eSVinayak Menon bool "Enable bounce buffers" 7369ca24e2eSVinayak Menon default y 737ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 7389ca24e2eSVinayak Menon help 739ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 740ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 741ce288e05SChristoph Hellwig selected, but you may say n to override this. 7422a7326b5SChristoph Lameter 743cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeliconfig MMU_NOTIFIER 744cddb8a5cSAndrea Arcangeli bool 74599cb252fSJason Gunthorpe select INTERVAL_TREE 746fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 747f8af4da3SHugh Dickinsconfig KSM 748f8af4da3SHugh Dickins bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 749f8af4da3SHugh Dickins depends on MMU 75059e1a2f4STimofey Titovets select XXHASH 751f8af4da3SHugh Dickins help 752f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 753f8af4da3SHugh Dickins of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 754f8af4da3SHugh Dickins mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 755d0f209f6SHugh Dickins the many instances by a single page with that content, so 756f8af4da3SHugh Dickins saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 757f8af4da3SHugh Dickins Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 758ee65728eSMike Rapoport See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 759c73602adSHugh Dickins until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 760c73602adSHugh Dickins root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 761f8af4da3SHugh Dickins 762e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameterconfig DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 763e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 7646e141546SDavid Howells depends on MMU 765e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter default 4096 766e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter help 767e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 768e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 769e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 770e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 771e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 772e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 773e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 774788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 775788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 776788084abSEric Paris protection by setting the value to 0. 777e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 778e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter This value can be changed after boot using the 779e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 780e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 781d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 782d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 783e0a94c2aSChristoph Lameter 7846a46079cSAndi Kleenconfig MEMORY_FAILURE 7856a46079cSAndi Kleen depends on MMU 786d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7876a46079cSAndi Kleen bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 788ee6f509cSMinchan Kim select MEMORY_ISOLATION 78997f0b134SXie XiuQi select RAS 7906a46079cSAndi Kleen help 7916a46079cSAndi Kleen Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 7926a46079cSAndi Kleen with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 7936a46079cSAndi Kleen even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 7946a46079cSAndi Kleen special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 7956a46079cSAndi Kleen 796cae681fcSAndi Kleenconfig HWPOISON_INJECT 797413f9efbSAndi Kleen tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 79827df5068SAndi Kleen depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 799478c5ffcSWu Fengguang select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 800cae681fcSAndi Kleen 801fc4d5c29SDavid Howellsconfig NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 802fc4d5c29SDavid Howells int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 803fc4d5c29SDavid Howells depends on !MMU 804fc4d5c29SDavid Howells default 1 805fc4d5c29SDavid Howells help 806fc4d5c29SDavid Howells The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 807fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 808fc4d5c29SDavid Howells allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 809fc4d5c29SDavid Howells more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 810fc4d5c29SDavid Howells the excess and return it to the allocator. 811fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 812fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 813fc4d5c29SDavid Howells system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 814fc4d5c29SDavid Howells if there are a lot of transient processes. 815fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 816fc4d5c29SDavid Howells If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 817fc4d5c29SDavid Howells long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 818fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 819fc4d5c29SDavid Howells Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 820fc4d5c29SDavid Howells (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 821fc4d5c29SDavid Howells excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 822fc4d5c29SDavid Howells no trimming is to occur. 823fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 824fc4d5c29SDavid Howells This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 825fc4d5c29SDavid Howells of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 826fc4d5c29SDavid Howells 827dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 828bbddff05STejun Heo 829519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 830519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool 831519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 832519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 833519bcb79SJohannes Weiner def_bool n 834519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 835519bcb79SJohannes Weinermenuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 83613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 837554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 8385d689240SAndrea Arcangeli select COMPACTION 8393a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 8404c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli help 8414c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 8424c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 8434c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli This feature can improve computing performance to certain 8444c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli applications by speeding up page faults during memory 8454c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 8464c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli up the pagetable walking. 8474c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 8484c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 8494c76d9d1SAndrea Arcangeli 850519bcb79SJohannes Weinerif TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 851519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 85213ece886SAndrea Arcangelichoice 85313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 85413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 85513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 85613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 85713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 85813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 85913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 86013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "always" 86113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 86213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 86313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 86413ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 86513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 86613ece886SAndrea Arcangeli config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 86713ece886SAndrea Arcangeli bool "madvise" 86813ece886SAndrea Arcangeli help 86913ece886SAndrea Arcangeli Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 87013ece886SAndrea Arcangeli performance improvement benefit to the applications using 87113ece886SAndrea Arcangeli madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 87213ece886SAndrea Arcangeli memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 87313ece886SAndrea Arcangeli benefit. 87413ece886SAndrea Arcangeliendchoice 87513ece886SAndrea Arcangeli 87638d8b4e6SHuang Yingconfig THP_SWAP 87738d8b4e6SHuang Ying def_bool y 878dad6a5ebSHugh Dickins depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 87938d8b4e6SHuang Ying help 88038d8b4e6SHuang Ying Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 88114fef284SHuang Ying XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 88214fef284SHuang Ying will be split after swapout. 88338d8b4e6SHuang Ying 88438d8b4e6SHuang Ying For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 88538d8b4e6SHuang Ying 886519bcb79SJohannes Weinerconfig READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 887519bcb79SJohannes Weiner bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 888519bcb79SJohannes Weiner depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 889519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 890519bcb79SJohannes Weiner help 891519bcb79SJohannes Weiner Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 892519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 893519bcb79SJohannes Weiner This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 894519bcb79SJohannes Weiner support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 895519bcb79SJohannes Weiner cycles. 896519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 897519bcb79SJohannes Weinerendif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 898519bcb79SJohannes Weiner 899e496cf3dSKirill A. Shutemov# 900bbddff05STejun Heo# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 901bbddff05STejun Heo# 902bbddff05STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_KM 9033583521aSVladimir Murzin depends on !SMP || !MMU 904bbddff05STejun Heo bool 905bbddff05STejun Heo default y 906077b1f83SDan Magenheimer 9077ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 9087ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9097ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9107ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 9117ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9127ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9137ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 9147ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9157ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 9167ecd19cfSKefeng Wangconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 9177ecd19cfSKefeng Wang bool 9187ecd19cfSKefeng Wang 919f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA 920f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 921aca52c39SMike Rapoport depends on MMU 922f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MIGRATION 923f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V select MEMORY_ISOLATION 924f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 925f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 926f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 927f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 928f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 929f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 930f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 931f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 932f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V If unsure, say "n". 933f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V 934f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig CMA_DEBUG 935f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 936f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 937f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V help 938f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 939f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 940f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 941f825c736SAneesh Kumar K.V This option does not affect warning and error messages. 942bf550fc9SAlexander Graf 94328b24c1fSSasha Levinconfig CMA_DEBUGFS 94428b24c1fSSasha Levin bool "CMA debugfs interface" 94528b24c1fSSasha Levin depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 94628b24c1fSSasha Levin help 94728b24c1fSSasha Levin Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 94828b24c1fSSasha Levin 94943ca106fSMinchan Kimconfig CMA_SYSFS 95043ca106fSMinchan Kim bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 95143ca106fSMinchan Kim depends on CMA && SYSFS 95243ca106fSMinchan Kim help 95343ca106fSMinchan Kim This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 95443ca106fSMinchan Kim from CMA. 95543ca106fSMinchan Kim 956a254129eSJoonsoo Kimconfig CMA_AREAS 957a254129eSJoonsoo Kim int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 958a254129eSJoonsoo Kim depends on CMA 959b7176c26SBarry Song default 19 if NUMA 960a254129eSJoonsoo Kim default 7 961a254129eSJoonsoo Kim help 962a254129eSJoonsoo Kim CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 963a254129eSJoonsoo Kim used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 964a254129eSJoonsoo Kim number of CMA area in the system. 965a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 966b7176c26SBarry Song If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 967a254129eSJoonsoo Kim 968af8d417aSDan Streetmanconfig MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 969af8d417aSDan Streetman bool "Track memory changes" 970af8d417aSDan Streetman depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 971af8d417aSDan Streetman select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 9724e2e2770SSeth Jennings help 973af8d417aSDan Streetman This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 974af8d417aSDan Streetman soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 975af8d417aSDan Streetman into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 976af8d417aSDan Streetman it can be cleared by hands. 977af8d417aSDan Streetman 9781ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 9794e2e2770SSeth Jennings 9809e5c33d7SMark Salterconfig GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 9819e5c33d7SMark Salter bool 982042d27acSHelge Deller 98322ee3ea5SHelge Dellerconfig STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 98422ee3ea5SHelge Deller int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 98522ee3ea5SHelge Deller default 100 986042d27acSHelge Deller range 8 2048 987042d27acSHelge Deller depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 988042d27acSHelge Deller help 989042d27acSHelge Deller This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 990042d27acSHelge Deller user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 99122ee3ea5SHelge Deller arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 992042d27acSHelge Deller 99322ee3ea5SHelge Deller A sane initial value is 100 MB. 9943a80a7faSMel Gorman 9953a80a7faSMel Gormanconfig DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 9961ce22103SVlastimil Babka bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 997d39f8fb4SMike Rapoport depends on SPARSEMEM 998ab1e8d89SPavel Tatashin depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 999889c695dSPasha Tatashin depends on 64BIT 1000e4443149SDaniel Jordan select PADATA 10013a80a7faSMel Gorman help 10023a80a7faSMel Gorman Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 10033a80a7faSMel Gorman single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 10043a80a7faSMel Gorman amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 1005e4443149SDaniel Jordan a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 1006e4443149SDaniel Jordan This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 10071ce22103SVlastimil Babka lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 10081ce22103SVlastimil Babka initialisation. 1009033fbae9SDan Williams 10101c676e0dSSeongJae Parkconfig PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 10111c676e0dSSeongJae Park bool 10121c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 10131c676e0dSSeongJae Park help 10141c676e0dSSeongJae Park This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 10151c676e0dSSeongJae Park bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 10161c676e0dSSeongJae Park Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 10171c676e0dSSeongJae Park 101833c3fc71SVladimir Davydovconfig IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 101933c3fc71SVladimir Davydov bool "Enable idle page tracking" 102033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov depends on SYSFS && MMU 10211c676e0dSSeongJae Park select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 102233c3fc71SVladimir Davydov help 102333c3fc71SVladimir Davydov This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 102433c3fc71SVladimir Davydov not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 102533c3fc71SVladimir Davydov be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 102633c3fc71SVladimir Davydov within a compute cluster. 102733c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 10281ad1335dSMike Rapoport See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 10291ad1335dSMike Rapoport more details. 103033c3fc71SVladimir Davydov 1031c2280be8SAnshuman Khandualconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1032c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual bool 1033c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual 10342792d84eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 10352792d84eSKees Cook bool 10362792d84eSKees Cook help 10372792d84eSKees Cook In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 10382792d84eSKees Cook checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 10392792d84eSKees Cook is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 10402792d84eSKees Cook register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 10412792d84eSKees Cook selected. 10422792d84eSKees Cook 104317596731SRobin Murphyconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 104465f7d049SOliver O'Halloran bool 104565f7d049SOliver O'Halloran 104663703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 104763703f37SKefeng Wang bool 104863703f37SKefeng Wang 104963703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA 105063703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 105163703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 || X86 105263703f37SKefeng Wang 105363703f37SKefeng Wangconfig ZONE_DMA32 105463703f37SKefeng Wang bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 105563703f37SKefeng Wang depends on !X86_32 105663703f37SKefeng Wang default y if ARM64 105763703f37SKefeng Wang 1058033fbae9SDan Williamsconfig ZONE_DEVICE 10595042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1060033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1061033fbae9SDan Williams depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 106299490f16SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 106317596731SRobin Murphy depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 10643a08cd52SMatthew Wilcox select XARRAY_MULTI 1065033fbae9SDan Williams 1066033fbae9SDan Williams help 1067033fbae9SDan Williams Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1068033fbae9SDan Williams or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1069033fbae9SDan Williams memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1070033fbae9SDan Williams "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1071033fbae9SDan Williams mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1072033fbae9SDan Williams 1073033fbae9SDan Williams If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 107406a660adSLinus Torvalds 10759c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 10769c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 10779c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# tables. 10789c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig# 1079c0b12405SJérôme Glisseconfig HMM_MIRROR 10809c240a7bSChristoph Hellwig bool 1081f442c283SChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU 1082c0b12405SJérôme Glisse 108314b80582SDan Williamsconfig GET_FREE_REGION 108414b80582SDan Williams depends on SPARSEMEM 108514b80582SDan Williams bool 108614b80582SDan Williams 10875042db43SJérôme Glisseconfig DEVICE_PRIVATE 10885042db43SJérôme Glisse bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 10897328d9ccSChristoph Hellwig depends on ZONE_DEVICE 109014b80582SDan Williams select GET_FREE_REGION 10915042db43SJérôme Glisse 10925042db43SJérôme Glisse help 10935042db43SJérôme Glisse Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 10945042db43SJérôme Glisse memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 10955042db43SJérôme Glisse group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 10965042db43SJérôme Glisse 10973e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwigconfig VMAP_PFN 10983e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig bool 10993e9a9e25SChristoph Hellwig 110063c17fb8SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 110163c17fb8SDave Hansen bool 110266d37570SDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 110366d37570SDave Hansen bool 110430a5b536SDennis Zhou 1105b0284cd2SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1106b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas bool 1107b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas help 1108b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1109b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1110b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1111b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1112b0284cd2SCatalin Marinas 11130710d012SVlastimil Babkaconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 11140710d012SVlastimil Babka default y 11150710d012SVlastimil Babka bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 11160710d012SVlastimil Babka help 11170710d012SVlastimil Babka VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 11180710d012SVlastimil Babka This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 11190710d012SVlastimil Babka on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 11200710d012SVlastimil Babka if VM event counters are disabled. 11210710d012SVlastimil Babka 112230a5b536SDennis Zhouconfig PERCPU_STATS 112330a5b536SDennis Zhou bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 112430a5b536SDennis Zhou help 112530a5b536SDennis Zhou This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 112630a5b536SDennis Zhou information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 112730a5b536SDennis Zhou be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 112864c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11299c84f229SJohn Hubbardconfig GUP_TEST 11309c84f229SJohn Hubbard bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1131d0de8241SBarry Song depends on DEBUG_FS 113264c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov help 11339c84f229SJohn Hubbard Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 11349c84f229SJohn Hubbard to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 11359c84f229SJohn Hubbard the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 113664c349f4SKirill A. Shutemov 11379c84f229SJohn Hubbard These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 11389c84f229SJohn Hubbard get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 11399c84f229SJohn Hubbard the non-_fast variants. 11409c84f229SJohn Hubbard 1141f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1142f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1143f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1144f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1145f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard by other command line arguments. 1146f4f9bda4SJohn Hubbard 1147baa489faSSeongJae Park See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 11483010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 1149d0de8241SBarry Songcomment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1150d0de8241SBarry Song depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 11513010a5eaSLaurent Dufour 11526ca297d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 115339656e83SChristoph Hellwig bool 115439656e83SChristoph Hellwig 1155def85743SKeith Buschconfig DMAPOOL_TEST 1156def85743SKeith Busch tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1157def85743SKeith Busch depends on HAS_DMA 1158def85743SKeith Busch help 1159def85743SKeith Busch Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1160def85743SKeith Busch various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1161def85743SKeith Busch provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1162def85743SKeith Busch dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1163def85743SKeith Busch 11643010a5eaSLaurent Dufourconfig ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 11653010a5eaSLaurent Dufour bool 116659e0b520SChristoph Hellwig 1167cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1168cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1169cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1170cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1171cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1172cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# pagetable layouts. 1173cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig# 1174cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1175cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig bool 1176cbd34da7SChristoph Hellwig 1177c5acad84SThomas Hellstromconfig MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1178c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom bool 1179c5acad84SThomas Hellstrom 1180298fa1adSThomas Gleixnerconfig KMAP_LOCAL 1181298fa1adSThomas Gleixner bool 1182298fa1adSThomas Gleixner 1183825c43f5SArd Biesheuvelconfig KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1184825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel bool 1185825c43f5SArd Biesheuvel 11861fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 11871fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwigconfig IO_MAPPING 11881fbaf8fcSChristoph Hellwig bool 11891507f512SMike Rapoport 1190626e98cbSThomas Weißschuhconfig MEMFD_CREATE 1191626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1192626e98cbSThomas Weißschuh 11931507f512SMike Rapoportconfig SECRETMEM 119474947724SLukas Bulwahn default y 119574947724SLukas Bulwahn bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 119674947724SLukas Bulwahn depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 119774947724SLukas Bulwahn help 119874947724SLukas Bulwahn Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 119974947724SLukas Bulwahn memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 120074947724SLukas Bulwahn not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 12011507f512SMike Rapoport 12029a10064fSColin Crossconfig ANON_VMA_NAME 12039a10064fSColin Cross bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 12049a10064fSColin Cross depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 12059a10064fSColin Cross 12069a10064fSColin Cross help 12079a10064fSColin Cross Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 12089a10064fSColin Cross 12099a10064fSColin Cross This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 12109a10064fSColin Cross names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 12119a10064fSColin Cross and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 12129a10064fSColin Cross Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 12139a10064fSColin Cross area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 12149a10064fSColin Cross difference in their name. 12159a10064fSColin Cross 1216430529b5SPeter Xuconfig USERFAULTFD 1217430529b5SPeter Xu bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1218430529b5SPeter Xu depends on MMU 1219430529b5SPeter Xu help 1220430529b5SPeter Xu Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1221430529b5SPeter Xu handle page faults in userland. 1222430529b5SPeter Xu 1223430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1224430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1225430529b5SPeter Xu help 1226430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1227430529b5SPeter Xu 1228430529b5SPeter Xuconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1229430529b5SPeter Xu bool 1230430529b5SPeter Xu help 1231430529b5SPeter Xu Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1232430529b5SPeter Xu 12331db9dbc2SPeter Xuconfig PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 123481e0f15fSPeter Xu bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 123581e0f15fSPeter Xu default y 123681e0f15fSPeter Xu depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 12371db9dbc2SPeter Xu 12381db9dbc2SPeter Xu help 12391db9dbc2SPeter Xu Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 12401db9dbc2SPeter Xu purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 12411db9dbc2SPeter Xu file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 12421db9dbc2SPeter Xu 1243ac35a490SYu Zhao# multi-gen LRU { 1244ec1c86b2SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN 1245ec1c86b2SYu Zhao bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1246ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on MMU 1247ec1c86b2SYu Zhao # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1248ec1c86b2SYu Zhao depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1249ec1c86b2SYu Zhao help 125007017acbSYu Zhao A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 125107017acbSYu Zhao Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1252ec1c86b2SYu Zhao 1253354ed597SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1254354ed597SYu Zhao bool "Enable by default" 1255354ed597SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1256354ed597SYu Zhao help 1257354ed597SYu Zhao This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1258354ed597SYu Zhao 1259ac35a490SYu Zhaoconfig LRU_GEN_STATS 1260ac35a490SYu Zhao bool "Full stats for debugging" 1261ac35a490SYu Zhao depends on LRU_GEN 1262ac35a490SYu Zhao help 1263ac35a490SYu Zhao Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1264ac35a490SYu Zhao from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1265ac35a490SYu Zhao 1266ac35a490SYu Zhao This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1267ac35a490SYu Zhao# } 1268ac35a490SYu Zhao 12690b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 12700b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool n 12710b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12720b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryanconfig PER_VMA_LOCK 12730b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan def_bool y 12740b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 12750b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan help 12760b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 12770b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 12780b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 12790b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 12800b6cc04fSSuren Baghdasaryan 1281c2508ec5SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1282c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds bool 1283c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1284c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds 12852224d848SSeongJae Parksource "mm/damon/Kconfig" 12862224d848SSeongJae Park 128759e0b520SChristoph Hellwigendmenu 1288