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_SHRINKER_DEFAULT_ON 49 bool "Shrink the zswap pool on memory pressure" 50 depends on ZSWAP 51 default n 52 help 53 If selected, the zswap shrinker will be enabled, and the pages 54 stored in the zswap pool will become available for reclaim (i.e 55 written back to the backing swap device) on memory pressure. 56 57 This means that zswap writeback could happen even if the pool is 58 not yet full, or the cgroup zswap limit has not been reached, 59 reducing the chance that cold pages will reside in the zswap pool 60 and consume memory indefinitely. 61 62choice 63 prompt "Default compressor" 64 depends on ZSWAP 65 default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 66 help 67 Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache 68 for swap pages. 69 70 For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from 71 a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks 72 available at the following LWN page: 73 https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ 74 75 If in doubt, select 'LZO'. 76 77 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 78 command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. 79 80config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 81 bool "Deflate" 82 select CRYPTO_DEFLATE 83 help 84 Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 85 86config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 87 bool "LZO" 88 select CRYPTO_LZO 89 help 90 Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 91 92config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 93 bool "842" 94 select CRYPTO_842 95 help 96 Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 97 98config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 99 bool "LZ4" 100 select CRYPTO_LZ4 101 help 102 Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 103 104config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 105 bool "LZ4HC" 106 select CRYPTO_LZ4HC 107 help 108 Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 109 110config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 111 bool "zstd" 112 select CRYPTO_ZSTD 113 help 114 Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. 115endchoice 116 117config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT 118 string 119 depends on ZSWAP 120 default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE 121 default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO 122 default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 123 default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 124 default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC 125 default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD 126 default "" 127 128choice 129 prompt "Default allocator" 130 depends on ZSWAP 131 default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC if HAVE_ZSMALLOC 132 default ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 133 help 134 Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 135 swap pages. 136 The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 137 read the description of each of the allocators below before 138 making a right choice. 139 140 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 141 command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 142 143config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD 144 bool "zbud" 145 select ZBUD 146 help 147 Use the zbud allocator as the default allocator. 148 149config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD 150 bool "z3fold" 151 select Z3FOLD 152 help 153 Use the z3fold allocator as the default allocator. 154 155config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 156 bool "zsmalloc" 157 depends on HAVE_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 HAVE_ZSMALLOC 191 def_bool y 192 depends on MMU 193 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # we want <= 64 KiB 194 195config ZSMALLOC 196 tristate 197 prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if ZSWAP 198 depends on HAVE_ZSMALLOC 199 help 200 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 201 pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 202 the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 203 204config ZSMALLOC_STAT 205 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 206 depends on ZSMALLOC 207 select DEBUG_FS 208 help 209 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 210 statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 211 information to userspace via debugfs. 212 If unsure, say N. 213 214config ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 215 int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 216 default 8 217 range 4 16 218 depends on ZSMALLOC 219 help 220 This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 221 that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 222 chain size is calculated for each size class during the 223 initialization of the pool. 224 225 Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 226 such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 227 per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 228 the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 229 characteristics. 230 231 For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 232 233menu "Slab allocator options" 234 235config SLUB 236 def_bool y 237 238config SLUB_TINY 239 bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 240 depends on EXPERT 241 select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 242 help 243 Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 244 footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 245 This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 246 SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 247 16MB RAM. 248 249 If unsure, say N. 250 251config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 252 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 253 default y 254 help 255 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 256 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 257 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 258 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 259 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 260 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 261 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 262 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 263 command line. 264 265config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 266 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 267 depends on !SLUB_TINY 268 help 269 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 270 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 271 allocator against heap overflows. 272 273config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 274 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 275 depends on !SLUB_TINY 276 help 277 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 278 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 279 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 280 freelist exploit methods. 281 282config SLUB_STATS 283 default n 284 bool "Enable performance statistics" 285 depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 286 help 287 The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 288 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 289 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 290 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 291 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 292 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 293 Try running: slabinfo -DA 294 295config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 296 default y 297 depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 298 bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 299 help 300 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 301 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 302 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 303 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 304 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 305 306config RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 307 default n 308 depends on !SLUB_TINY 309 bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 310 help 311 A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 312 normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 313 on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 314 vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 315 memory vulnerabilities. 316 317 Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 318 that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 319 subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 320 limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 321 system workload. 322 323endmenu # Slab allocator options 324 325config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 326 bool "Page allocator randomization" 327 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 328 help 329 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 330 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 331 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 332 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 333 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 334 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 335 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 336 default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 337 order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 338 on x86. 339 340 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 341 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 342 this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even 343 if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled 344 with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 345 346 Say Y if unsure. 347 348config COMPAT_BRK 349 bool "Disable heap randomization" 350 default y 351 help 352 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 353 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 354 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 355 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 356 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 357 358 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 359 360config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 361 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 362 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 363 default n 364 help 365 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 366 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 367 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 368 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 369 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 370 then the flag will be ignored. 371 372 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 373 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 374 375 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 376 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 377 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 378 it is normally safe to say Y here. 379 380 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 381 382config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 383 def_bool y 384 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 385 386choice 387 prompt "Memory model" 388 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 389 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 390 default FLATMEM_MANUAL 391 help 392 This option allows you to change some of the ways that 393 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 394 only have one option here selected by the architecture 395 configuration. This is normal. 396 397config FLATMEM_MANUAL 398 bool "Flat Memory" 399 depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 400 help 401 This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 402 flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 403 system in terms of performance and resource consumption 404 and it is the best option for smaller systems. 405 406 For systems that have holes in their physical address 407 spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 408 choose "Sparse Memory". 409 410 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 411 412config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 413 bool "Sparse Memory" 414 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 415 help 416 This will be the only option for some systems, including 417 memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 418 419 This option provides efficient support for systems with 420 holes is their physical address space and allows memory 421 hot-plug and hot-remove. 422 423 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 424 425endchoice 426 427config SPARSEMEM 428 def_bool y 429 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 430 431config FLATMEM 432 def_bool y 433 depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 434 435# 436# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 437# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 438# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 439# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 440# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 441# 442# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 443# with gcc 3.4 and later. 444# 445config SPARSEMEM_STATIC 446 bool 447 448# 449# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 450# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 451# an extremely sparse physical address space. 452# 453config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 454 def_bool y 455 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 456 457config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 458 bool 459 460config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 461 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 462 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 463 default y 464 help 465 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 466 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 467 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 468# 469# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 470# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 471# 472config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 473 bool 474 475config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 476 bool 477 478config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 479 bool 480 481config HAVE_GUP_FAST 482 depends on MMU 483 bool 484 485# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 486# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 487# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 488config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 489 bool 490 491# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 492config NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 493 bool 494 495config MEMORY_ISOLATION 496 bool 497 498# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 499# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 500# /dev/mem. 501config EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 502 def_bool y 503 depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 504 505# 506# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 507# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 508# 509config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 510 def_bool n 511 512config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 513 bool 514 515config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 516 bool 517 518# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 519menuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 520 bool "Memory hotplug" 521 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 522 depends on SPARSEMEM 523 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 524 depends on 64BIT 525 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 526 527if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 528 529config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE 530 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" 531 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 532 help 533 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 534 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 535 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 536 can always be changed at runtime. 537 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 538 539 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in 540 'online' state by default. 541 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged 542 memory blocks in 'offline' state. 543 544config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 545 bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 546 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 547 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 548 depends on MIGRATION 549 550config MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 551 def_bool y 552 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 553 depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 554 555endif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 556 557config ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 558 bool 559 560# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 561# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 562# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 563# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 564# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 565# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 566# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 567# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 568# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 569# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 570# 571config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS 572 int 573 default "999999" if !MMU 574 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT 575 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 576 default "999999" if SPARC32 577 default "4" 578 579config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 580 bool 581 582# 583# support for memory balloon 584config MEMORY_BALLOON 585 bool 586 587# 588# support for memory balloon compaction 589config BALLOON_COMPACTION 590 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 591 default y 592 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 593 help 594 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 595 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 596 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 597 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 598 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 599 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 600 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 601 602# 603# support for memory compaction 604config COMPACTION 605 bool "Allow for memory compaction" 606 default y 607 select MIGRATION 608 depends on MMU 609 help 610 Compaction is the only memory management component to form 611 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 612 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 613 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 614 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 615 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 616 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 617 [email protected]. 618 619config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 620 int 621 depends on COMPACTION 622 default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 623 default 1 624 625# 626# support for free page reporting 627config PAGE_REPORTING 628 bool "Free page reporting" 629 help 630 Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 631 free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 632 those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 633 memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 634 635# 636# support for page migration 637# 638config MIGRATION 639 bool "Page migration" 640 default y 641 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 642 help 643 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 644 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 645 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 646 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 647 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 648 allocation instead of reclaiming. 649 650config DEVICE_MIGRATION 651 def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 652 653config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 654 bool 655 656config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 657 bool 658 659config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 660 def_bool n 661 help 662 Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 663 HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 664 on a platform. 665 666 Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 667 clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 668 669config CONTIG_ALLOC 670 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 671 672config PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 673 int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 674 default 5 675 range 0 6 676 help 677 In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 678 batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 679 allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 680 latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 681 the maximum latency. 682 683config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 684 def_bool 64BIT 685 686config BOUNCE 687 bool "Enable bounce buffers" 688 default y 689 depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 690 help 691 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 692 memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 693 selected, but you may say n to override this. 694 695config MMU_NOTIFIER 696 bool 697 select INTERVAL_TREE 698 699config KSM 700 bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 701 depends on MMU 702 select XXHASH 703 help 704 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 705 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 706 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 707 the many instances by a single page with that content, so 708 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 709 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 710 See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 711 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 712 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 713 714config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 715 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 716 depends on MMU 717 default 4096 718 help 719 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 720 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 721 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 722 723 For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 724 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 725 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 726 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 727 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 728 protection by setting the value to 0. 729 730 This value can be changed after boot using the 731 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 732 733config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 734 bool 735 736config MEMORY_FAILURE 737 depends on MMU 738 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 739 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 740 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 741 select RAS 742 help 743 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 744 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 745 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 746 special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 747 748config HWPOISON_INJECT 749 tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 750 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 751 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 752 753config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 754 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 755 depends on !MMU 756 default 1 757 help 758 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 759 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 760 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 761 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 762 the excess and return it to the allocator. 763 764 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 765 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 766 if there are a lot of transient processes. 767 768 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 769 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 770 771 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 772 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 773 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 774 no trimming is to occur. 775 776 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 777 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 778 779 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 780 781config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 782 bool 783 784config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 785 def_bool n 786 787menuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 788 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" 789 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT 790 select COMPACTION 791 select XARRAY_MULTI 792 help 793 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 794 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 795 This feature can improve computing performance to certain 796 applications by speeding up page faults during memory 797 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 798 up the pagetable walking. 799 800 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 801 802if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 803 804choice 805 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 806 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 807 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 808 help 809 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 810 811 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 812 bool "always" 813 help 814 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 815 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 816 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 817 818 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 819 bool "madvise" 820 help 821 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 822 performance improvement benefit to the applications using 823 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 824 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 825 benefit. 826 827 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 828 bool "never" 829 help 830 Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 831 enabled at runtime via sysfs. 832endchoice 833 834config THP_SWAP 835 def_bool y 836 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 837 help 838 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 839 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 840 will be split after swapout. 841 842 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 843 844config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 845 bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 846 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 847 848 help 849 Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 850 851 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 852 support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 853 cycles. 854 855endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 856 857# 858# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 859# 860config PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 861 def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 862 863# 864# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 865# 866config NEED_PER_CPU_KM 867 depends on !SMP || !MMU 868 bool 869 default y 870 871config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 872 bool 873 874config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 875 bool 876 877config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 878 bool 879 880config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 881 bool 882 883config CMA 884 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 885 depends on MMU 886 select MIGRATION 887 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 888 help 889 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 890 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 891 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 892 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 893 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 894 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 895 896 If unsure, say "n". 897 898config CMA_DEBUGFS 899 bool "CMA debugfs interface" 900 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 901 help 902 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 903 904config CMA_SYSFS 905 bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 906 depends on CMA && SYSFS 907 help 908 This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 909 from CMA. 910 911config CMA_AREAS 912 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 913 depends on CMA 914 default 20 if NUMA 915 default 8 916 help 917 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 918 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 919 number of CMA area in the system. 920 921 If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 922 923config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 924 bool "Track memory changes" 925 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 926 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 927 help 928 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 929 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 930 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 931 it can be cleared by hands. 932 933 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 934 935config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 936 bool 937 938config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 939 int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 940 default 100 941 range 8 2048 942 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 943 help 944 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 945 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 946 arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 947 948 A sane initial value is 100 MB. 949 950config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 951 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 952 depends on SPARSEMEM 953 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 954 depends on 64BIT 955 depends on !KMSAN 956 select PADATA 957 help 958 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 959 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 960 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 961 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 962 This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 963 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 964 initialisation. 965 966config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 967 bool 968 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 969 help 970 This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 971 bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 972 Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 973 974config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 975 bool "Enable idle page tracking" 976 depends on SYSFS && MMU 977 select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 978 help 979 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 980 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 981 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 982 within a compute cluster. 983 984 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 985 more details. 986 987# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 988# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 989# aliasing) need to select this. 990config ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 991 bool 992 993config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 994 bool 995 996config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 997 bool 998 help 999 In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 1000 checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 1001 is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 1002 register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 1003 selected. 1004 1005config ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1006 bool 1007 1008config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1009 bool 1010 1011config ZONE_DMA 1012 bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1013 default y if ARM64 || X86 1014 1015config ZONE_DMA32 1016 bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1017 depends on !X86_32 1018 default y if ARM64 1019 1020config ZONE_DEVICE 1021 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1022 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1023 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1024 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1025 depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1026 select XARRAY_MULTI 1027 1028 help 1029 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1030 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1031 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1032 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1033 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1034 1035 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 1036 1037# 1038# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 1039# tables. 1040# 1041config HMM_MIRROR 1042 bool 1043 depends on MMU 1044 1045config GET_FREE_REGION 1046 depends on SPARSEMEM 1047 bool 1048 1049config DEVICE_PRIVATE 1050 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 1051 depends on ZONE_DEVICE 1052 select GET_FREE_REGION 1053 1054 help 1055 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 1056 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 1057 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 1058 1059config VMAP_PFN 1060 bool 1061 1062config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1063 bool 1064config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1065 bool 1066 1067config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X 1068 bool 1069 help 1070 Enable the definition of PG_arch_x page flags with x > 1. Only 1071 suitable for 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_FLATMEM or 1072 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled, otherwise there may not be 1073 enough room for additional bits in page->flags. 1074 1075config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1076 default y 1077 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1078 help 1079 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1080 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1081 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1082 if VM event counters are disabled. 1083 1084config PERCPU_STATS 1085 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 1086 help 1087 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 1088 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 1089 be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 1090 1091config GUP_TEST 1092 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1093 depends on DEBUG_FS 1094 help 1095 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 1096 to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 1097 the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 1098 1099 These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 1100 get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 1101 the non-_fast variants. 1102 1103 There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1104 of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1105 range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1106 pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1107 by other command line arguments. 1108 1109 See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 1110 1111comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1112 depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 1113 1114config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 1115 bool 1116 1117config DMAPOOL_TEST 1118 tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1119 depends on HAS_DMA 1120 help 1121 Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1122 various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1123 provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1124 dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1125 1126config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 1127 bool 1128 1129# 1130# Some architectures require a special hugepage directory format that is 1131# required to support multiple hugepage sizes. For example a4fe3ce76 1132# "powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables" 1133# introduced it on powerpc. This allows for a more flexible hugepage 1134# pagetable layouts. 1135# 1136config ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD 1137 bool 1138 1139config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1140 bool 1141 1142config KMAP_LOCAL 1143 bool 1144 1145config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1146 bool 1147 1148# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 1149config IO_MAPPING 1150 bool 1151 1152config MEMFD_CREATE 1153 bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1154 1155config SECRETMEM 1156 default y 1157 bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 1158 depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 1159 help 1160 Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 1161 memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 1162 not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 1163 1164config ANON_VMA_NAME 1165 bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 1166 depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 1167 1168 help 1169 Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 1170 1171 This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 1172 names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 1173 and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 1174 Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 1175 area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 1176 difference in their name. 1177 1178config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1179 bool 1180 help 1181 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1182 1183config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1184 bool 1185 help 1186 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1187 1188menuconfig USERFAULTFD 1189 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1190 depends on MMU 1191 help 1192 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1193 handle page faults in userland. 1194 1195if USERFAULTFD 1196config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 1197 bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 1198 default y 1199 depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1200 1201 help 1202 Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 1203 purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 1204 file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 1205endif # USERFAULTFD 1206 1207# multi-gen LRU { 1208config LRU_GEN 1209 bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1210 depends on MMU 1211 # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1212 depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1213 help 1214 A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 1215 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1216 1217config LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1218 bool "Enable by default" 1219 depends on LRU_GEN 1220 help 1221 This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1222 1223config LRU_GEN_STATS 1224 bool "Full stats for debugging" 1225 depends on LRU_GEN 1226 help 1227 Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1228 from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1229 1230 This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1231 1232config LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 1233 def_bool y 1234 depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1235# } 1236 1237config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 1238 def_bool n 1239 1240config PER_VMA_LOCK 1241 def_bool y 1242 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 1243 help 1244 Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 1245 1246 This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 1247 handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 1248 1249config LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1250 bool 1251 depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1252 1253config IOMMU_MM_DATA 1254 bool 1255 1256config EXECMEM 1257 bool 1258 1259source "mm/damon/Kconfig" 1260 1261endmenu 1262