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