1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2 3menu "Memory Management options" 4 5# 6# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 7# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 8# 9config ARCH_NO_SWAP 10 bool 11 12config ZPOOL 13 bool 14 15menuconfig SWAP 16 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 17 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 18 default y 19 help 20 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 21 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 22 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 23 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 24 25config ZSWAP 26 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" 27 depends on SWAP 28 select CRYPTO 29 select ZPOOL 30 help 31 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes 32 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to 33 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. 34 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, 35 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device 36 reads, can also improve workload performance. 37 38config ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON 39 bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" 40 depends on ZSWAP 41 help 42 If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled 43 at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. 44 45 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 46 command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. 47 48config ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS_DEFAULT_ON 49 bool "Invalidate zswap entries when pages are loaded" 50 depends on ZSWAP 51 help 52 If selected, exclusive loads for zswap will be enabled at boot, 53 otherwise it will be disabled. 54 55 If exclusive loads are enabled, when a page is loaded from zswap, 56 the zswap entry is invalidated at once, as opposed to leaving it 57 in zswap until the swap entry is freed. 58 59 This avoids having two copies of the same page in memory 60 (compressed and uncompressed) after faulting in a page from zswap. 61 The cost is that if the page was never dirtied and needs to be 62 swapped out again, it will be re-compressed. 63 64choice 65 prompt "Default compressor" 66 depends on ZSWAP 67 default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 68 help 69 Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 70 for swap pages. 71 72 For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 73 a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 74 available at the following LWN page: 75 https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 76 77 If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 78 79 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 80 command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 81 82config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 83 bool "Deflate" 84 select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 85 help 86 Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 87 88config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 89 bool "LZO" 90 select CRYPTO_LZO 91 help 92 Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 93 94config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 95 bool "842" 96 select CRYPTO_842 97 help 98 Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 99 100config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 101 bool "LZ4" 102 select CRYPTO_LZ4 103 help 104 Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 105 106config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 107 bool "LZ4HC" 108 select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 109 help 110 Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 111 112config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 113 bool "zstd" 114 select CRYPTO_ZSTD 115 help 116 Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 117endchoice 118 119config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 120 string 121 depends on ZSWAP 122 default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 123 default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 124 default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 125 default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 126 default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 127 default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 128 default "" 129 130choice 131 prompt "Default allocator" 132 depends on ZSWAP 133 default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 134 help 135 Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 136 swap pages. 137 The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 138 read the description of each of the allocators below before 139 making a right choice. 140 141 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 142 command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 143 144config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 145 bool "zbud" 146 select ZBUD 147 help 148 Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 149 150config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 151 bool "z3fold" 152 select Z3FOLD 153 help 154 Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 155 156config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 157 bool "zsmalloc" 158 select ZSMALLOC 159 help 160 Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 161endchoice 162 163config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 164 string 165 depends on ZSWAP 166 default "zbud" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 167 default "z3fold" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 168 default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 169 default "" 170 171config ZBUD 172 tristate "2:1 compression allocator (zbud)" 173 depends on ZSWAP 174 help 175 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 176 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical 177 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and 178 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher 179 density approach when reclaim will be used. 180 181config Z3FOLD 182 tristate "3:1 compression allocator (z3fold)" 183 depends on ZSWAP 184 help 185 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. 186 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical 187 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are 188 still there. 189 190config ZSMALLOC 191 tristate 192 prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 193 depends on MMU 194 help 195 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 196 pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 197 the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 198 199config ZSMALLOC_STAT 200 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 201 depends on ZSMALLOC 202 select DEBUG_FS 203 help 204 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 205 statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 206 information to userspace via debugfs. 207 If unsure, say N. 208 209config ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 210 int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 211 default 8 212 range 4 16 213 depends on ZSMALLOC 214 help 215 This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 216 that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 217 chain size is calculated for each size class during the 218 initialization of the pool. 219 220 Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 221 such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 222 per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 223 the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 224 characteristics. 225 226 For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 227 228menu "SLAB allocator options" 229 230choice 231 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 232 default SLUB 233 help 234 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 235 236config SLAB_DEPRECATED 237 bool "SLAB (DEPRECATED)" 238 depends on !PREEMPT_RT 239 help 240 Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. Replaced by 241 SLUB. 242 243 If you cannot migrate to SLUB, please contact linux-mm@kvack.org 244 and the people listed in the SLAB ALLOCATOR section of MAINTAINERS 245 file, explaining why. 246 247 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 248 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 249 per cpu and per node queues. 250 251config SLUB 252 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 253 help 254 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 255 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 256 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 257 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 258 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 259 a slab allocator. 260 261endchoice 262 263config SLAB 264 bool 265 default y 266 depends on SLAB_DEPRECATED 267 268config SLUB_TINY 269 bool "Configure SLUB for minimal memory footprint" 270 depends on SLUB && EXPERT 271 select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 272 help 273 Configures the SLUB allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 274 footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 275 This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 276 SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 277 16MB RAM. 278 279 If unsure, say N. 280 281config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 282 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 283 default y 284 depends on SLAB || SLUB 285 help 286 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 287 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 288 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 289 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 290 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 291 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 292 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 293 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 294 command line. 295 296config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 297 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 298 depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 299 help 300 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 301 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 302 allocator against heap overflows. 303 304config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 305 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 306 depends on SLAB || (SLUB && !SLUB_TINY) 307 help 308 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 309 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 310 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 311 freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 312 sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 313 CONFIG_SLUB. 314 315config SLUB_STATS 316 default n 317 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 318 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 319 help 320 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 321 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 322 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 323 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 324 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 325 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 326 Try running: slabinfo -DA 327 328config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 329 default y 330 depends on SLUB && SMP && !SLUB_TINY 331 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 332 help 333 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 334 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 335 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 336 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 337 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 338 339config RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 340 default n 341 depends on SLUB && !SLUB_TINY 342 bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 343 help 344 A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 345 normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 346 on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 347 vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 348 memory vulnerabilities. 349 350 Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 351 that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 352 subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 353 limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 354 system workload. 355 356endmenu # SLAB allocator options 357 358config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 359 bool "Page allocator randomization" 360 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 361 help 362 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 363 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 364 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 365 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 366 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 367 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 368 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 369 default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_ORDER i.e, 10th 370 order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 371 on x86. 372 373 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 374 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 375 this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 376 after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 377 Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 378 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 379 380 Say Y if unsure. 381 382config COMPAT_BRK 383 bool "Disable heap randomization" 384 default y 385 help 386 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 387 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 388 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 389 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 390 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 391 392 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 393 394config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 395 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 396 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 397 default n 398 help 399 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 400 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 401 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 402 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 403 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 404 then the flag will be ignored. 405 406 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 407 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 408 409 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 410 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 411 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 412 it is normally safe to say Y here. 413 414 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 415 416config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 417 def_bool y 418 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 419 420choice 421 prompt "Memory model" 422 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 423 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 424 default FLATMEM_MANUAL 425 help 426 This option allows you to change some of the ways that 427 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 428 only have one option here selected by the architecture 429 configuration. This is normal. 430 431config FLATMEM_MANUAL 432 bool "Flat Memory" 433 depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 434 help 435 This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 436 flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 437 system in terms of performance and resource consumption 438 and it is the best option for smaller systems. 439 440 For systems that have holes in their physical address 441 spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 442 choose "Sparse Memory". 443 444 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 445 446config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 447 bool "Sparse Memory" 448 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 449 help 450 This will be the only option for some systems, including 451 memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 452 453 This option provides efficient support for systems with 454 holes is their physical address space and allows memory 455 hot-plug and hot-remove. 456 457 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 458 459endchoice 460 461config SPARSEMEM 462 def_bool y 463 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 464 465config FLATMEM 466 def_bool y 467 depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 468 469# 470# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 471# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 472# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 473# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 474# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 475# 476# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 477# with gcc 3.4 and later. 478# 479config SPARSEMEM_STATIC 480 bool 481 482# 483# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 484# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 485# an extremely sparse physical address space. 486# 487config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 488 def_bool y 489 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 490 491config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 492 bool 493 494config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 495 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 496 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 497 default y 498 help 499 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 500 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 501 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 502# 503# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 504# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 505# 506config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 507 bool 508 509config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 510 bool 511 512config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 513 bool 514 515config HAVE_FAST_GUP 516 depends on MMU 517 bool 518 519# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 520# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 521# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 522config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 523 bool 524 525# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 526config NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 527 bool 528 529config MEMORY_ISOLATION 530 bool 531 532# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 533# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 534# /dev/mem. 535config EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 536 def_bool y 537 depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 538 539# 540# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 541# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 542# 543config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 544 def_bool n 545 546config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 547 bool 548 549config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 550 bool 551 552# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 553menuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 554 bool "Memory hotplug" 555 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 556 depends on SPARSEMEM 557 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 558 depends on 64BIT 559 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 560 561if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 562 563config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 564 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 565 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 566 help 567 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 568 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 569 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 570 can always be changed at runtime. 571 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 572 573 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 574 'online' state by default. 575 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 576 memory blocks in 'offline' state. 577 578config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 579 bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 580 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 581 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 582 depends on MIGRATION 583 584config MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 585 def_bool y 586 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 587 depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 588 589endif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 590 591config ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 592 bool 593 594# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 595# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 596# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 597# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 598# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 599# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 600# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 601# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 602# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 603# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 604# 605config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 606 int 607 default "999999" if !MMU 608 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 609 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 610 default "999999" if SPARC32 611 default "4" 612 613config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 614 bool 615 616# 617# support for memory balloon 618config MEMORY_BALLOON 619 bool 620 621# 622# support for memory relinquish 623config MEMORY_RELINQUISH 624 def_bool y 625 depends on ARCH_HAS_MEM_RELINQUISH 626 depends on MEMORY_BALLOON || PAGE_REPORTING 627 628# 629# support for memory balloon compaction 630config BALLOON_COMPACTION 631 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 632 def_bool y 633 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 634 help 635 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 636 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 637 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 638 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 639 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 640 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 641 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 642 643# 644# support for memory compaction 645config COMPACTION 646 bool "Allow for memory compaction" 647 def_bool y 648 select MIGRATION 649 depends on MMU 650 help 651 Compaction is the only memory management component to form 652 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 653 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 654 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 655 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 656 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 657 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 658 linux-mm@kvack.org. 659 660config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 661 int 662 depends on COMPACTION 663 default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 664 default 1 665 666# 667# support for free page reporting 668config PAGE_REPORTING 669 bool "Free page reporting" 670 def_bool n 671 help 672 Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 673 free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 674 those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 675 memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 676 677# 678# support for page migration 679# 680config MIGRATION 681 bool "Page migration" 682 def_bool y 683 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 684 help 685 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 686 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 687 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 688 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 689 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 690 allocation instead of reclaiming. 691 692config DEVICE_MIGRATION 693 def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 694 695config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 696 bool 697 698config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 699 bool 700 701config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 702 def_bool n 703 help 704 Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 705 HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 706 on a platform. 707 708 Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_ORDER and will be 709 clamped down to MAX_ORDER. 710 711config CONTIG_ALLOC 712 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 713 714config PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 715 int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 716 default 5 717 range 0 6 718 help 719 In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 720 batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 721 allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 722 latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 723 the maximum latency. 724 725config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 726 def_bool 64BIT 727 728config BOUNCE 729 bool "Enable bounce buffers" 730 default y 731 depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 732 help 733 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 734 memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 735 selected, but you may say n to override this. 736 737config MMU_NOTIFIER 738 bool 739 select INTERVAL_TREE 740 741config KSM 742 bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 743 depends on MMU 744 select XXHASH 745 help 746 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 747 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 748 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 749 the many instances by a single page with that content, so 750 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 751 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 752 See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 753 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 754 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 755 756config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 757 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 758 depends on MMU 759 default 4096 760 help 761 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 762 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 763 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 764 765 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 766 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 767 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 768 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 769 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 770 protection by setting the value to 0. 771 772 This value can be changed after boot using the 773 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 774 775config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 776 bool 777 778config MEMORY_FAILURE 779 depends on MMU 780 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 781 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 782 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 783 select RAS 784 help 785 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 786 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 787 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 788 special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 789 790config HWPOISON_INJECT 791 tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 792 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 793 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 794 795config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 796 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 797 depends on !MMU 798 default 1 799 help 800 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 801 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 802 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 803 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 804 the excess and return it to the allocator. 805 806 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 807 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 808 if there are a lot of transient processes. 809 810 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 811 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 812 813 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 814 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 815 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 816 no trimming is to occur. 817 818 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 819 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 820 821 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 822 823config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 824 bool 825 826config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 827 def_bool n 828 829menuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 830 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 831 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 832 select COMPACTION 833 select XARRAY_MULTI 834 help 835 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 836 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 837 This feature can improve computing performance to certain 838 applications by speeding up page faults during memory 839 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 840 up the pagetable walking. 841 842 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 843 844if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 845 846choice 847 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 848 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 849 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 850 help 851 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 852 853 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 854 bool "always" 855 help 856 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 857 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 858 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 859 860 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 861 bool "madvise" 862 help 863 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 864 performance improvement benefit to the applications using 865 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 866 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 867 benefit. 868endchoice 869 870config THP_SWAP 871 def_bool y 872 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 873 help 874 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 875 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 876 will be split after swapout. 877 878 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 879 880config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 881 bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 882 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 883 884 help 885 Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 886 887 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 888 support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 889 cycles. 890 891endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 892 893# 894# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 895# 896config NEED_PER_CPU_KM 897 depends on !SMP || !MMU 898 bool 899 default y 900 901config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 902 bool 903 904config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 905 bool 906 907config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 908 bool 909 910config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 911 bool 912 913config CLEANCACHE 914 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" 915 help 916 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache 917 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm 918 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough 919 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use 920 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into 921 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or 922 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly 923 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled 924 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first 925 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, 926 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. 927 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or 928 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction 929 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls 930 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting 931 in a negligible performance hit. 932 933 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache 934 935config CMA 936 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 937 depends on MMU 938 select MIGRATION 939 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 940 help 941 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 942 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 943 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 944 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 945 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 946 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 947 948 If unsure, say "n". 949 950config CMA_DEBUG 951 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" 952 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA 953 help 954 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG 955 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while 956 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). 957 This option does not affect warning and error messages. 958 959config CMA_DEBUGFS 960 bool "CMA debugfs interface" 961 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 962 help 963 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 964 965config CMA_SYSFS 966 bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 967 depends on CMA && SYSFS 968 help 969 This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 970 from CMA. 971 972config CMA_AREAS 973 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 974 depends on CMA 975 default 19 if NUMA 976 default 7 977 help 978 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 979 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 980 number of CMA area in the system. 981 982 If unsure, leave the default value "7" in UMA and "19" in NUMA. 983 984config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 985 bool "Track memory changes" 986 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 987 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 988 help 989 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 990 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 991 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 992 it can be cleared by hands. 993 994 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 995 996config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 997 bool 998 999config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 1000 int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 1001 default 100 1002 range 8 2048 1003 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 1004 help 1005 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 1006 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 1007 arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 1008 1009 A sane initial value is 100 MB. 1010 1011config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 1012 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 1013 depends on SPARSEMEM 1014 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 1015 depends on 64BIT 1016 select PADATA 1017 help 1018 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 1019 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 1020 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 1021 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 1022 This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 1023 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 1024 initialisation. 1025 1026config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 1027 bool 1028 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 1029 help 1030 This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 1031 bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 1032 Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 1033 1034config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 1035 bool "Enable idle page tracking" 1036 depends on SYSFS && MMU 1037 select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 1038 help 1039 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 1040 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 1041 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 1042 within a compute cluster. 1043 1044 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 1045 more details. 1046 1047config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1048 bool 1049 1050config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 1051 bool 1052 help 1053 In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 1054 checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 1055 is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 1056 register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 1057 selected. 1058 1059config ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1060 bool 1061 1062config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1063 bool 1064 1065config ZONE_DMA 1066 bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1067 default y if ARM64 || X86 1068 1069config ZONE_DMA32 1070 bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1071 depends on !X86_32 1072 default y if ARM64 1073 1074config ZONE_DEVICE 1075 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1076 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1077 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1078 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1079 depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1080 select XARRAY_MULTI 1081 1082 help 1083 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1084 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1085 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1086 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1087 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1088 1089 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 1090 1091# 1092# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 1093# tables. 1094# 1095config HMM_MIRROR 1096 bool 1097 depends on MMU 1098 1099config GET_FREE_REGION 1100 depends on SPARSEMEM 1101 bool 1102 1103config DEVICE_PRIVATE 1104 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 1105 depends on ZONE_DEVICE 1106 select GET_FREE_REGION 1107 1108 help 1109 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 1110 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 1111 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 1112 1113config VMAP_PFN 1114 bool 1115 1116config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1117 bool 1118config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1119 bool 1120 1121config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1122 bool 1123 help 1124 Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1125 suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1126 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1127 enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1128 1129config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1130 default y 1131 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1132 help 1133 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1134 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1135 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1136 if VM event counters are disabled. 1137 1138config PERCPU_STATS 1139 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 1140 help 1141 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 1142 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 1143 be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 1144 1145config GUP_TEST 1146 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1147 depends on DEBUG_FS 1148 help 1149 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 1150 to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 1151 the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 1152 1153 These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 1154 get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 1155 the non-_fast variants. 1156 1157 There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1158 of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1159 range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1160 pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1161 by other command line arguments. 1162 1163 See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 1164 1165comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1166 depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 1167 1168config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 1169 bool 1170 1171config DMAPOOL_TEST 1172 tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1173 depends on HAS_DMA 1174 help 1175 Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1176 various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1177 provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1178 dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1179 1180config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 1181 bool 1182 1183# 1184# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1185# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1186# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1187# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1188# pagetable layouts. 1189# 1190config ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1191 bool 1192 1193config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1194 bool 1195 1196config KMAP_LOCAL 1197 bool 1198 1199config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1200 bool 1201 1202# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 1203config IO_MAPPING 1204 bool 1205 1206config MEMFD_CREATE 1207 bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1208 1209# Some architectures want callbacks for all IO mappings in order to 1210# track the physical addresses that get used as devices. 1211config ARCH_HAS_IOREMAP_PHYS_HOOKS 1212 bool 1213 1214config SECRETMEM 1215 default y 1216 bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 1217 depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 1218 help 1219 Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 1220 memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 1221 not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 1222 1223config ANON_VMA_NAME 1224 bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 1225 depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 1226 1227 help 1228 Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 1229 1230 This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 1231 names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 1232 and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 1233 Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 1234 area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 1235 difference in their name. 1236 1237config USERFAULTFD 1238 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1239 depends on MMU 1240 help 1241 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1242 handle page faults in userland. 1243 1244config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1245 bool 1246 help 1247 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1248 1249config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1250 bool 1251 help 1252 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1253 1254config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 1255 bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 1256 default y 1257 depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1258 1259 help 1260 Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 1261 purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 1262 file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 1263 1264# multi-gen LRU { 1265config LRU_GEN 1266 bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1267 depends on MMU 1268 # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1269 depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1270 help 1271 A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 1272 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1273 1274config LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1275 bool "Enable by default" 1276 depends on LRU_GEN 1277 help 1278 This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1279 1280config LRU_GEN_STATS 1281 bool "Full stats for debugging" 1282 depends on LRU_GEN 1283 help 1284 Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1285 from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1286 1287 This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1288# } 1289 1290config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 1291 def_bool n 1292 1293config PER_VMA_LOCK 1294 def_bool y 1295 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 1296 help 1297 Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 1298 1299 This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 1300 handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 1301 1302config LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1303 bool 1304 depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1305 1306source "mm/damon/Kconfig" 1307 1308endmenu 1309