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