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 FRONTSWAP 29 select CRYPTO 30 select ZPOOL 31 help 32 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 33 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 34 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 35 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 36 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 37 reads, can also improve workload performance. 38 39config ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 40 bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 41 depends on ZSWAP 42 help 43 If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 44 at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 45 46 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 47 command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 48 49choice 50 prompt "Default compressor" 51 depends on ZSWAP 52 default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 53 help 54 Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 55 for swap pages. 56 57 For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 58 a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 59 available at the following LWN page: 60 https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 61 62 If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 63 64 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 65 command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 66 67config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 68 bool "Deflate" 69 select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 70 help 71 Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 72 73config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 74 bool "LZO" 75 select CRYPTO_LZO 76 help 77 Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 78 79config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 80 bool "842" 81 select CRYPTO_842 82 help 83 Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 84 85config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 86 bool "LZ4" 87 select CRYPTO_LZ4 88 help 89 Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 90 91config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 92 bool "LZ4HC" 93 select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 94 help 95 Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 96 97config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 98 bool "zstd" 99 select CRYPTO_ZSTD 100 help 101 Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 102endchoice 103 104config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 105 string 106 depends on ZSWAP 107 default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 108 default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 109 default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 110 default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 111 default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 112 default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 113 default "" 114 115choice 116 prompt "Default allocator" 117 depends on ZSWAP 118 default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 119 help 120 Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 121 swap pages. 122 The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 123 read the description of each of the allocators below before 124 making a right choice. 125 126 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 127 command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 128 129config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 130 bool "zbud" 131 select ZBUD 132 help 133 Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 134 135config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 136 bool "z3fold" 137 select Z3FOLD 138 help 139 Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 140 141config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 142 bool "zsmalloc" 143 select ZSMALLOC 144 help 145 Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 146endchoice 147 148config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 149 string 150 depends on ZSWAP 151 default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 152 default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 153 default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 154 default "" 155 156config ZBUD 157 tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 158 depends on ZSWAP 159 help 160 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 161 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 162 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 163 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 164 density approach when reclaim will be used. 165 166config Z3FOLD 167 tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 168 depends on ZSWAP 169 help 170 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 171 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 172 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 173 still there. 174 175config ZSMALLOC 176 tristate 177 prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 178 depends on MMU 179 help 180 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 181 pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 182 the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 183 184config ZSMALLOC_STAT 185 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 186 depends on ZSMALLOC 187 select DEBUG_FS 188 help 189 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 190 statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 191 information to userspace via debugfs. 192 If unsure, say N. 193 194config ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 195 int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 196 default 8 197 range 4 16 198 depends on ZSMALLOC 199 help 200 This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 201 that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 202 chain size is calculated for each size class during the 203 initialization of the pool. 204 205 Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 206 such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 207 per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 208 the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 209 characteristics. 210 211 For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 212 213menu "SLAB allocator options" 214 215choice 216 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 217 default SLUB 218 help 219 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 220 221config SLAB 222 bool "SLAB" 223 depends on !PREEMPT_RT 224 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 225 help 226 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 227 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 228 per cpu and per node queues. 229 230config SLUB 231 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 232 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 233 help 234 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 235 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 236 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 237 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 238 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 239 a slab allocator. 240 241config SLOB_DEPRECATED 242 depends on EXPERT 243 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator - DEPRECATED)" 244 depends on !PREEMPT_RT 245 help 246 Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. SLUB 247 recommended as replacement. CONFIG_SLUB_TINY can be considered 248 on systems with 16MB or less RAM. 249 250 If you need SLOB to stay, please contact linux-mm@kvack.org and 251 people listed in the SLAB ALLOCATOR section of MAINTAINERS file, 252 with your use case. 253 254 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 255 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 256 does not perform as well on large systems. 257 258endchoice 259 260config SLOB 261 bool 262 default y 263 depends on SLOB_DEPRECATED 264 265config SLUB_TINY 266 bool "Configure SLUB for minimal memory footprint" 267 depends on SLUB && EXPERT 268 select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 269 help 270 Configures the SLUB allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 271 footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 272 This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 273 SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 274 16MB RAM. 275 276 If unsure, say N. 277 278config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 279 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 280 default y 281 depends on SLAB || SLUB 282 help 283 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 284 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 285 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 286 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 287 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 288 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 289 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 290 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 291 command line. 292 293config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 294 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 295 depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 296 help 297 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 298 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 299 allocator against heap overflows. 300 301config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 302 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 303 depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 304 help 305 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 306 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 307 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 308 freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 309 sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 310 CONFIG_SLUB. 311 312config SLUB_STATS 313 default n 314 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 315 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 316 help 317 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 318 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 319 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 320 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 321 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 322 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 323 Try running: slabinfo -DA 324 325config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 326 default y 327 depends on SLUB && SMP && !SLUB_TINY 328 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 329 help 330 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 331 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 332 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 333 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 334 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 335 336endmenu # SLAB allocator options 337 338config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 339 bool "Page allocator randomization" 340 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 341 help 342 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 343 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 344 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 345 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 346 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 347 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 348 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 349 default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_ORDER i.e, 10th 350 order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 351 on x86. 352 353 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 354 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 355 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 356 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 357 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 358 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 359 360 Say Y if unsure. 361 362config COMPAT_BRK 363 bool "Disable heap randomization" 364 default y 365 help 366 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 367 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 368 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 369 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 370 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 371 372 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 373 374config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 375 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 376 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 377 default n 378 help 379 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 380 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 381 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 382 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 383 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 384 then the flag will be ignored. 385 386 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 387 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 388 389 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 390 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 391 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 392 it is normally safe to say Y here. 393 394 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 395 396config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 397 def_bool y 398 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 399 400choice 401 prompt "Memory model" 402 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 403 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 404 default FLATMEM_MANUAL 405 help 406 This option allows you to change some of the ways that 407 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 408 only have one option here selected by the architecture 409 configuration. This is normal. 410 411config FLATMEM_MANUAL 412 bool "Flat Memory" 413 depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 414 help 415 This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 416 flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 417 system in terms of performance and resource consumption 418 and it is the best option for smaller systems. 419 420 For systems that have holes in their physical address 421 spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 422 choose "Sparse Memory". 423 424 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 425 426config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 427 bool "Sparse Memory" 428 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 429 help 430 This will be the only option for some systems, including 431 memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 432 433 This option provides efficient support for systems with 434 holes is their physical address space and allows memory 435 hot-plug and hot-remove. 436 437 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 438 439endchoice 440 441config SPARSEMEM 442 def_bool y 443 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 444 445config FLATMEM 446 def_bool y 447 depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 448 449# 450# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 451# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 452# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 453# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 454# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 455# 456# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 457# with gcc 3.4 and later. 458# 459config SPARSEMEM_STATIC 460 bool 461 462# 463# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 464# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 465# an extremely sparse physical address space. 466# 467config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 468 def_bool y 469 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 470 471config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 472 bool 473 474config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 475 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 476 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 477 default y 478 help 479 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 480 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 481 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 482# 483# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 484# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 485# 486config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 487 bool 488 489config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 490 bool 491 492config HAVE_FAST_GUP 493 depends on MMU 494 bool 495 496# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 497# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 498# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 499config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 500 bool 501 502# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 503config NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 504 bool 505 506config MEMORY_ISOLATION 507 bool 508 509# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 510# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 511# /dev/mem. 512config EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 513 def_bool y 514 depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 515 516# 517# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 518# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 519# 520config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 521 def_bool n 522 523config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 524 bool 525 526config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 527 bool 528 529# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 530menuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 531 bool "Memory hotplug" 532 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 533 depends on SPARSEMEM 534 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 535 depends on 64BIT 536 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 537 538if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 539 540config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 541 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 542 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 543 help 544 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 545 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 546 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 547 can always be changed at runtime. 548 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 549 550 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 551 'online' state by default. 552 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 553 memory blocks in 'offline' state. 554 555config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 556 bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 557 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 558 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 559 depends on MIGRATION 560 561config MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 562 def_bool y 563 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 564 depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 565 566endif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 567 568# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 569# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 570# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 571# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 572# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 573# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 574# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 575# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 576# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 577# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 578# 579config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 580 int 581 default "999999" if !MMU 582 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 583 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 584 default "999999" if SPARC32 585 default "4" 586 587config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 588 bool 589 590# 591# support for memory balloon 592config MEMORY_BALLOON 593 bool 594 595# 596# support for memory balloon compaction 597config BALLOON_COMPACTION 598 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 599 def_bool y 600 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 601 help 602 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 603 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 604 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 605 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 606 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 607 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 608 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 609 610# 611# support for memory compaction 612config COMPACTION 613 bool "Allow for memory compaction" 614 def_bool y 615 select MIGRATION 616 depends on MMU 617 help 618 Compaction is the only memory management component to form 619 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 620 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 621 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 622 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 623 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 624 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 625 linux-mm@kvack.org. 626 627config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 628 int 629 depends on COMPACTION 630 default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 631 default 1 632 633# 634# support for free page reporting 635config PAGE_REPORTING 636 bool "Free page reporting" 637 def_bool n 638 help 639 Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 640 free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 641 those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 642 memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 643 644# 645# support for page migration 646# 647config MIGRATION 648 bool "Page migration" 649 def_bool y 650 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 651 help 652 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 653 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 654 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 655 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 656 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 657 allocation instead of reclaiming. 658 659config DEVICE_MIGRATION 660 def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 661 662config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 663 bool 664 665config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 666 bool 667 668config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 669 def_bool n 670 help 671 Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 672 HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 673 on a platform. 674 675 Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER and will be 676 clamped down to MAX_ORDER. 677 678config CONTIG_ALLOC 679 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 680 681config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 682 def_bool 64BIT 683 684config BOUNCE 685 bool "Enable bounce buffers" 686 default y 687 depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 688 help 689 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 690 memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 691 selected, but you may say n to override this. 692 693config MMU_NOTIFIER 694 bool 695 select SRCU 696 select INTERVAL_TREE 697 698config KSM 699 bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 700 depends on MMU 701 select XXHASH 702 help 703 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 704 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 705 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 706 the many instances by a single page with that content, so 707 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 708 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 709 See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 710 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 711 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 712 713config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 714 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 715 depends on MMU 716 default 4096 717 help 718 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 719 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 720 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 721 722 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 723 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 724 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 725 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 726 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 727 protection by setting the value to 0. 728 729 This value can be changed after boot using the 730 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 731 732config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 733 bool 734 735config MEMORY_FAILURE 736 depends on MMU 737 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 738 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 739 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 740 select RAS 741 help 742 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 743 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 744 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 745 special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 746 747config HWPOISON_INJECT 748 tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 749 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 750 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 751 752config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 753 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 754 depends on !MMU 755 default 1 756 help 757 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 758 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 759 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 760 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 761 the excess and return it to the allocator. 762 763 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 764 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 765 if there are a lot of transient processes. 766 767 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 768 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 769 770 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 771 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 772 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 773 no trimming is to occur. 774 775 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 776 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 777 778 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 779 780config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 781 bool 782 783config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 784 def_bool n 785 786menuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 787 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 788 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 789 select COMPACTION 790 select XARRAY_MULTI 791 help 792 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 793 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 794 This feature can improve computing performance to certain 795 applications by speeding up page faults during memory 796 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 797 up the pagetable walking. 798 799 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 800 801if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 802 803choice 804 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 805 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 806 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 807 help 808 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 809 810 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 811 bool "always" 812 help 813 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 814 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 815 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 816 817 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 818 bool "madvise" 819 help 820 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 821 performance improvement benefit to the applications using 822 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 823 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 824 benefit. 825endchoice 826 827config THP_SWAP 828 def_bool y 829 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 830 help 831 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 832 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 833 will be split after swapout. 834 835 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 836 837config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 838 bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 839 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 840 841 help 842 Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 843 844 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 845 support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 846 cycles. 847 848endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 849 850# 851# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 852# 853config NEED_PER_CPU_KM 854 depends on !SMP || !MMU 855 bool 856 default y 857 858config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 859 bool 860 861config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 862 bool 863 864config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 865 bool 866 867config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 868 bool 869 870config FRONTSWAP 871 bool 872 873config CMA 874 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 875 depends on MMU 876 select MIGRATION 877 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 878 help 879 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 880 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 881 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 882 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 883 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 884 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 885 886 If unsure, say "n". 887 888config CMA_DEBUG 889 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 890 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 891 help 892 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 893 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 894 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 895 This option does not affect warning and error messages. 896 897config CMA_DEBUGFS 898 bool "CMA debugfs interface" 899 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 900 help 901 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 902 903config CMA_SYSFS 904 bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 905 depends on CMA && SYSFS 906 help 907 This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 908 from CMA. 909 910config CMA_AREAS 911 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 912 depends on CMA 913 default 19 if NUMA 914 default 7 915 help 916 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 917 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 918 number of CMA area in the system. 919 920 If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 921 922config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 923 bool "Track memory changes" 924 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 925 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 926 help 927 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 928 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 929 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 930 it can be cleared by hands. 931 932 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 933 934config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 935 bool 936 937config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 938 int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 939 default 100 940 range 8 2048 941 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 942 help 943 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 944 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 945 arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 946 947 A sane initial value is 100 MB. 948 949config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 950 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 951 depends on SPARSEMEM 952 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 953 depends on 64BIT 954 select PADATA 955 help 956 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 957 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 958 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 959 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 960 This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 961 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 962 initialisation. 963 964config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 965 bool 966 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 967 help 968 This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 969 bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 970 Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 971 972config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 973 bool "Enable idle page tracking" 974 depends on SYSFS && MMU 975 select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 976 help 977 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 978 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 979 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 980 within a compute cluster. 981 982 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 983 more details. 984 985config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 986 bool 987 988config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 989 bool 990 help 991 In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 992 checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 993 is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 994 register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 995 selected. 996 997config ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 998 bool 999 1000config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1001 bool 1002 1003config ZONE_DMA 1004 bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1005 default y if ARM64 || X86 1006 1007config ZONE_DMA32 1008 bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1009 depends on !X86_32 1010 default y if ARM64 1011 1012config ZONE_DEVICE 1013 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1014 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1015 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1016 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1017 depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1018 select XARRAY_MULTI 1019 1020 help 1021 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1022 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1023 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1024 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1025 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1026 1027 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 1028 1029# 1030# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 1031# tables. 1032# 1033config HMM_MIRROR 1034 bool 1035 depends on MMU 1036 1037config GET_FREE_REGION 1038 depends on SPARSEMEM 1039 bool 1040 1041config DEVICE_PRIVATE 1042 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 1043 depends on ZONE_DEVICE 1044 select GET_FREE_REGION 1045 1046 help 1047 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 1048 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 1049 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 1050 1051config VMAP_PFN 1052 bool 1053 1054config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1055 bool 1056config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1057 bool 1058 1059config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1060 bool 1061 help 1062 Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1063 suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1064 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1065 enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1066 1067config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1068 default y 1069 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1070 help 1071 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1072 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1073 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1074 if VM event counters are disabled. 1075 1076config PERCPU_STATS 1077 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 1078 help 1079 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 1080 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 1081 be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 1082 1083config GUP_TEST 1084 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1085 depends on DEBUG_FS 1086 help 1087 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 1088 to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 1089 the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 1090 1091 These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 1092 get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 1093 the non-_fast variants. 1094 1095 There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1096 of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1097 range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1098 pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1099 by other command line arguments. 1100 1101 See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 1102 1103comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1104 depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 1105 1106config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 1107 bool 1108 1109config DMAPOOL_TEST 1110 tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1111 depends on HAS_DMA 1112 help 1113 Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1114 various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1115 provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1116 dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1117 1118config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 1119 bool 1120 1121# 1122# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1123# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1124# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1125# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1126# pagetable layouts. 1127# 1128config ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1129 bool 1130 1131config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1132 bool 1133 1134config KMAP_LOCAL 1135 bool 1136 1137config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1138 bool 1139 1140# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 1141config IO_MAPPING 1142 bool 1143 1144config SECRETMEM 1145 default y 1146 bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 1147 depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 1148 help 1149 Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 1150 memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 1151 not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 1152 1153config ANON_VMA_NAME 1154 bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 1155 depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 1156 1157 help 1158 Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 1159 1160 This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 1161 names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 1162 and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 1163 Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 1164 area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 1165 difference in their name. 1166 1167config USERFAULTFD 1168 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1169 depends on MMU 1170 help 1171 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1172 handle page faults in userland. 1173 1174config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1175 bool 1176 help 1177 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1178 1179config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1180 bool 1181 help 1182 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1183 1184config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 1185 bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 1186 default y 1187 depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1188 1189 help 1190 Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 1191 purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 1192 file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 1193 1194# multi-gen LRU { 1195config LRU_GEN 1196 bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1197 depends on MMU 1198 # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1199 depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1200 help 1201 A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 1202 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1203 1204config LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1205 bool "Enable by default" 1206 depends on LRU_GEN 1207 help 1208 This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1209 1210config LRU_GEN_STATS 1211 bool "Full stats for debugging" 1212 depends on LRU_GEN 1213 help 1214 Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1215 from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1216 1217 This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1218# } 1219 1220config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 1221 def_bool n 1222 1223config PER_VMA_LOCK 1224 def_bool y 1225 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 1226 help 1227 Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 1228 1229 This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 1230 handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 1231 1232source "mm/damon/Kconfig" 1233 1234endmenu 1235