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 MMU 132 help 133 Selects the default allocator for the compressed cache for 134 swap pages. 135 The default is 'zbud' for compatibility, however please do 136 read the description of each of the allocators below before 137 making a right choice. 138 139 The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel 140 command line 'zswap.zpool=' option. 141 142config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 143 bool "zsmalloc" 144 select ZSMALLOC 145 help 146 Use the zsmalloc allocator as the default allocator. 147endchoice 148 149config ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT 150 string 151 depends on ZSWAP 152 default "zsmalloc" if ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZSMALLOC 153 default "" 154 155config ZSMALLOC 156 tristate 157 prompt "N:1 compression allocator (zsmalloc)" if (ZSWAP || ZRAM) 158 depends on MMU 159 help 160 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store 161 pages of various compression levels efficiently. It achieves 162 the highest storage density with the least amount of fragmentation. 163 164config ZSMALLOC_STAT 165 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" 166 depends on ZSMALLOC 167 select DEBUG_FS 168 help 169 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various 170 statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that 171 information to userspace via debugfs. 172 If unsure, say N. 173 174config ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE 175 int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" 176 default 8 177 range 4 16 178 depends on ZSMALLOC 179 help 180 This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages 181 that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage 182 chain size is calculated for each size class during the 183 initialization of the pool. 184 185 Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, 186 such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects 187 per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of 188 the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar 189 characteristics. 190 191 For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. 192 193menu "Slab allocator options" 194 195config SLUB 196 def_bool y 197 198config SLUB_TINY 199 bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" 200 depends on EXPERT 201 select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 202 help 203 Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory 204 footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. 205 This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the 206 SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than 207 16MB RAM. 208 209 If unsure, say N. 210 211config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 212 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 213 default y 214 help 215 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 216 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 217 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 218 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 219 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 220 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 221 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 222 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 223 command line. 224 225config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 226 bool "Randomize slab freelist" 227 depends on !SLUB_TINY 228 help 229 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 230 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 231 allocator against heap overflows. 232 233config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 234 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 235 depends on !SLUB_TINY 236 help 237 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 238 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 239 sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 240 freelist exploit methods. 241 242config SLAB_BUCKETS 243 bool "Support allocation from separate kmalloc buckets" 244 depends on !SLUB_TINY 245 default SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 246 help 247 Kernel heap attacks frequently depend on being able to create 248 specifically-sized allocations with user-controlled contents 249 that will be allocated into the same kmalloc bucket as a 250 target object. To avoid sharing these allocation buckets, 251 provide an explicitly separated set of buckets to be used for 252 user-controlled allocations. This may very slightly increase 253 memory fragmentation, though in practice it's only a handful 254 of extra pages since the bulk of user-controlled allocations 255 are relatively long-lived. 256 257 If unsure, say Y. 258 259config SLUB_STATS 260 default n 261 bool "Enable performance statistics" 262 depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY 263 help 264 The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in 265 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 266 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 267 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 268 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 269 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 270 Try running: slabinfo -DA 271 272config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 273 default y 274 depends on SMP && !SLUB_TINY 275 bool "Enable per cpu partial caches" 276 help 277 Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 278 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 279 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 280 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 281 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 282 283config RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES 284 default n 285 depends on !SLUB_TINY 286 bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" 287 help 288 A hardening feature that creates multiple copies of slab caches for 289 normal kmalloc allocation and makes kmalloc randomly pick one based 290 on code address, which makes the attackers more difficult to spray 291 vulnerable memory objects on the heap for the purpose of exploiting 292 memory vulnerabilities. 293 294 Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value 295 that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different 296 subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a 297 limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware and 298 system workload. 299 300endmenu # Slab allocator options 301 302config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 303 bool "Page allocator randomization" 304 default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 305 help 306 Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 307 utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 308 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 309 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 310 the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 311 security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 312 allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 313 default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th 314 order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits 315 on x86. 316 317 While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 318 negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 319 this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even 320 if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled 321 with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 322 323 Say Y if unsure. 324 325config COMPAT_BRK 326 bool "Disable heap randomization" 327 default y 328 help 329 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 330 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 331 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 332 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 333 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 334 335 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 336 337config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 338 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 339 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 340 default n 341 help 342 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 343 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 344 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 345 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 346 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 347 then the flag will be ignored. 348 349 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 350 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 351 352 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 353 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 354 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 355 it is normally safe to say Y here. 356 357 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 358 359config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 360 def_bool y 361 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 362 363choice 364 prompt "Memory model" 365 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 366 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 367 default FLATMEM_MANUAL 368 help 369 This option allows you to change some of the ways that 370 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will 371 only have one option here selected by the architecture 372 configuration. This is normal. 373 374config FLATMEM_MANUAL 375 bool "Flat Memory" 376 depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 377 help 378 This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with 379 flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient 380 system in terms of performance and resource consumption 381 and it is the best option for smaller systems. 382 383 For systems that have holes in their physical address 384 spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, 385 choose "Sparse Memory". 386 387 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. 388 389config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 390 bool "Sparse Memory" 391 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 392 help 393 This will be the only option for some systems, including 394 memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. 395 396 This option provides efficient support for systems with 397 holes is their physical address space and allows memory 398 hot-plug and hot-remove. 399 400 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. 401 402endchoice 403 404config SPARSEMEM 405 def_bool y 406 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL 407 408config FLATMEM 409 def_bool y 410 depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL 411 412# 413# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 414# allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot 415# be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 416# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 417# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. 418# 419# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code 420# with gcc 3.4 and later. 421# 422config SPARSEMEM_STATIC 423 bool 424 425# 426# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM 427# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with 428# an extremely sparse physical address space. 429# 430config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME 431 def_bool y 432 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC 433 434config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 435 bool 436 437config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 438 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" 439 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE 440 default y 441 help 442 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise 443 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most 444 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. 445 446config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT 447 bool 448# 449# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred 450# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. 451# 452config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP 453 bool 454 455config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP 456 bool 457 458config ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_PREINIT 459 bool 460 461config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP 462 bool 463 464config HAVE_GUP_FAST 465 depends on MMU 466 bool 467 468# Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks 469# after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. 470# Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. 471config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 472 bool 473 474# Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. 475config NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO 476 bool 477 478config MEMORY_ISOLATION 479 bool 480 481# IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked 482# IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via 483# /dev/mem. 484config EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 485 def_bool y 486 depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM 487 488# 489# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug 490# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. 491# 492config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE 493 def_bool n 494 495config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 496 bool 497 498config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 499 bool 500 501# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' 502menuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG 503 bool "Memory hotplug" 504 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 505 depends on SPARSEMEM 506 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 507 depends on 64BIT 508 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 509 510if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 511 512choice 513 prompt "Memory Hotplug Default Online Type" 514 default MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE 515 help 516 Default memory type for hotplugged memory. 517 518 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug 519 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which 520 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting 521 can always be changed at runtime. 522 523 The default is 'offline'. 524 525 Select offline to defer onlining to drivers and user policy. 526 Select auto to let the kernel choose what zones to utilize. 527 Select online_kernel to generally allow kernel usage of this memory. 528 Select online_movable to generally disallow kernel usage of this memory. 529 530 Example kernel usage would be page structs and page tables. 531 532 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 533 534config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE 535 bool "offline" 536 help 537 Hotplugged memory will not be onlined by default. 538 Choose this for systems with drivers and user policy that 539 handle onlining of hotplug memory policy. 540 541config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_AUTO 542 bool "auto" 543 help 544 Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 545 hotplugged memory into the zone it thinks is reasonable. 546 This memory may be utilized for kernel data. 547 548config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_KERNEL 549 bool "kernel" 550 help 551 Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 552 hotplugged memory into a zone capable of being used for kernel 553 data. This typically means ZONE_NORMAL. 554 555config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_MOVABLE 556 bool "movable" 557 help 558 Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online 559 hotplug memory into ZONE_MOVABLE. This memory will generally 560 not be utilized for kernel data. 561 562 This should only be used when the admin knows sufficient 563 ZONE_NORMAL memory is available to describe hotplug memory, 564 otherwise hotplug memory may fail to online. For example, 565 sufficient kernel-capable memory (ZONE_NORMAL) must be 566 available to allocate page structs to describe ZONE_MOVABLE. 567 568endchoice 569 570config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 571 bool "Allow for memory hot remove" 572 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) 573 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 574 depends on MIGRATION 575 576config MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY 577 def_bool y 578 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 579 depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 580 581endif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG 582 583config ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 584 bool 585 586# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide 587# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address 588# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. 589# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. 590# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. 591# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. 592# SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore 593# a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked 594# at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). 595# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. 596# 597config SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS 598 def_bool y 599 depends on MMU 600 depends on SMP 601 depends on NR_CPUS >= 4 602 depends on !ARM || CPU_CACHE_VIPT 603 depends on !PARISC || PA20 604 depends on !SPARC32 605 606config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 607 bool 608 609config SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS 610 def_bool y 611 depends on SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 612 613# 614# support for memory balloon 615config MEMORY_BALLOON 616 bool 617 618# 619# support for memory balloon compaction 620config BALLOON_COMPACTION 621 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" 622 default y 623 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON 624 help 625 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce 626 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be 627 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated 628 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used 629 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory 630 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the 631 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. 632 633# 634# support for memory compaction 635config COMPACTION 636 bool "Allow for memory compaction" 637 default y 638 select MIGRATION 639 depends on MMU 640 help 641 Compaction is the only memory management component to form 642 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks 643 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and 644 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer 645 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't 646 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for 647 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at 648 [email protected]. 649 650config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT 651 int 652 depends on COMPACTION 653 default 0 if PREEMPT_RT 654 default 1 655 656# 657# support for free page reporting 658config PAGE_REPORTING 659 bool "Free page reporting" 660 help 661 Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of 662 free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting 663 those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the 664 memory can be freed within the host for other uses. 665 666# 667# support for page migration 668# 669config MIGRATION 670 bool "Page migration" 671 default y 672 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU 673 help 674 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes 675 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in 676 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer 677 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge 678 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page 679 allocation instead of reclaiming. 680 681config DEVICE_MIGRATION 682 def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE 683 684config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 685 bool 686 687config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 688 bool 689 690config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE 691 def_bool n 692 help 693 Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard 694 HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available 695 on a platform. 696 697 Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be 698 clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 699 700config CONTIG_ALLOC 701 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA 702 703config PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX 704 int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" 705 default 5 706 range 0 6 707 help 708 In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in 709 batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page 710 allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt 711 latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit 712 the maximum latency. 713 714config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 715 def_bool 64BIT 716 717config BOUNCE 718 bool "Enable bounce buffers" 719 default y 720 depends on BLOCK && MMU && HIGHMEM 721 help 722 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access the full range of 723 memory available to the CPU. Enabled by default when HIGHMEM is 724 selected, but you may say n to override this. 725 726config MMU_NOTIFIER 727 bool 728 select INTERVAL_TREE 729 730config KSM 731 bool "Enable KSM for page merging" 732 depends on MMU 733 select XXHASH 734 help 735 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas 736 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be 737 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces 738 the many instances by a single page with that content, so 739 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. 740 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. 741 See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive 742 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and 743 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). 744 745config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 746 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" 747 depends on MMU 748 default 4096 749 help 750 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 751 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 752 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 753 754 For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 755 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 756 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 757 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 758 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this 759 protection by setting the value to 0. 760 761 This value can be changed after boot using the 762 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. 763 764config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 765 bool 766 767config MEMORY_FAILURE 768 depends on MMU 769 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 770 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" 771 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 772 select RAS 773 help 774 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems 775 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running 776 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires 777 special hardware support and typically ECC memory. 778 779config HWPOISON_INJECT 780 tristate "HWPoison pages injector" 781 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 782 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 783 784config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS 785 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" 786 depends on !MMU 787 default 1 788 help 789 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks 790 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system 791 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently 792 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off 793 the excess and return it to the allocator. 794 795 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the 796 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly 797 if there are a lot of transient processes. 798 799 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for 800 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. 801 802 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option 803 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of 804 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if 805 no trimming is to occur. 806 807 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default 808 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. 809 810 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 811 812config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 813 bool 814 815config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP 816 def_bool n 817 818config MM_ID 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 select MM_ID 827 help 828 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and 829 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. 830 This feature can improve computing performance to certain 831 applications by speeding up page faults during memory 832 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding 833 up the pagetable walking. 834 835 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. 836 837if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 838 839choice 840 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" 841 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 842 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 843 help 844 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. 845 846 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS 847 bool "always" 848 help 849 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the 850 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 851 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. 852 853 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE 854 bool "madvise" 855 help 856 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a 857 performance improvement benefit to the applications using 858 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the 859 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed 860 benefit. 861 862 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER 863 bool "never" 864 help 865 Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be 866 enabled at runtime via sysfs. 867endchoice 868 869config THP_SWAP 870 def_bool y 871 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT 872 help 873 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. 874 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page 875 will be split after swapout. 876 877 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. 878 879config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS 880 bool "Read-only THP for filesystems (EXPERIMENTAL)" 881 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && SHMEM 882 883 help 884 Allow khugepaged to put read-only file-backed pages in THP. 885 886 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature. Write 887 support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release 888 cycles. 889 890config NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 891 bool "No per-page mapcount (EXPERIMENTAL)" 892 help 893 Do not maintain per-page mapcounts for pages part of larger 894 allocations, such as transparent huge pages. 895 896 When this config option is enabled, some interfaces that relied on 897 this information will rely on less-precise per-allocation information 898 instead: for example, using the average per-page mapcount in such 899 a large allocation instead of the per-page mapcount. 900 901 EXPERIMENTAL because the impact of some changes is still unclear. 902 903endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 904 905# simple helper to make the code a bit easier to read 906config PAGE_MAPCOUNT 907 def_bool !NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 908 909# 910# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE 911# 912config PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES 913 def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE 914 915# TODO: Allow to be enabled without THP 916config ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP 917 def_bool n 918 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 919 920config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_PFNMAP 921 def_bool y 922 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 923 924config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PUD_PFNMAP 925 def_bool y 926 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 927 928# 929# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator 930# 931config NEED_PER_CPU_KM 932 depends on !SMP || !MMU 933 bool 934 default y 935 936config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 937 bool 938 939config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 940 bool 941 942config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 943 bool 944 945config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 946 bool 947 948config CMA 949 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" 950 depends on MMU 951 select MIGRATION 952 select MEMORY_ISOLATION 953 help 954 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other 955 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. 956 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to 957 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for 958 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the 959 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. 960 961 If unsure, say "n". 962 963config CMA_DEBUGFS 964 bool "CMA debugfs interface" 965 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS 966 help 967 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. 968 969config CMA_SYSFS 970 bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" 971 depends on CMA && SYSFS 972 help 973 This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information 974 from CMA. 975 976config CMA_AREAS 977 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" 978 depends on CMA 979 default 20 if NUMA 980 default 8 981 help 982 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, 983 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum 984 number of CMA area in the system. 985 986 If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. 987 988config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 989 bool "Track memory changes" 990 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS 991 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 992 help 993 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a 994 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes 995 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter 996 it can be cleared by hands. 997 998 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. 999 1000config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 1001 bool 1002 1003config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB 1004 int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" 1005 default 100 1006 range 8 2048 1007 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) 1008 help 1009 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit 1010 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc 1011 arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. 1012 1013 A sane initial value is 100 MB. 1014 1015config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 1016 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" 1017 depends on SPARSEMEM 1018 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM 1019 depends on 64BIT 1020 depends on !KMSAN 1021 select PADATA 1022 help 1023 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a 1024 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable 1025 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up 1026 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. 1027 This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the 1028 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the 1029 initialisation. 1030 1031config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 1032 bool 1033 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT 1034 help 1035 This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed 1036 bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE 1037 Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. 1038 1039config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING 1040 bool "Enable idle page tracking" 1041 depends on SYSFS && MMU 1042 select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG 1043 help 1044 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have 1045 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can 1046 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement 1047 within a compute cluster. 1048 1049 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for 1050 more details. 1051 1052# Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query 1053# whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache 1054# aliasing) need to select this. 1055config ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING 1056 bool 1057 1058config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1059 bool 1060 1061config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 1062 bool 1063 help 1064 In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime 1065 checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer 1066 is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global 1067 register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be 1068 selected. 1069 1070config ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1071 bool 1072 1073config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1074 bool 1075 1076config ZONE_DMA 1077 bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1078 default y if ARM64 || X86 1079 1080config ZONE_DMA32 1081 bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET 1082 depends on !X86_32 1083 default y if ARM64 1084 1085config ZONE_DEVICE 1086 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" 1087 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1088 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 1089 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1090 depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP 1091 select XARRAY_MULTI 1092 1093 help 1094 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, 1095 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the 1096 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise 1097 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX 1098 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. 1099 1100 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. 1101 1102# 1103# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page 1104# tables. 1105# 1106config HMM_MIRROR 1107 bool 1108 depends on MMU 1109 1110config GET_FREE_REGION 1111 bool 1112 1113config DEVICE_PRIVATE 1114 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" 1115 depends on ZONE_DEVICE 1116 select GET_FREE_REGION 1117 1118 help 1119 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device 1120 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or 1121 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. 1122 1123config VMAP_PFN 1124 bool 1125 1126config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1127 bool 1128config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1129 bool 1130 1131config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 1132 bool 1133config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_3 1134 bool 1135 1136config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1137 default y 1138 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1139 help 1140 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1141 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1142 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1143 if VM event counters are disabled. 1144 1145config PERCPU_STATS 1146 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" 1147 help 1148 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The 1149 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can 1150 be used to help understand percpu memory usage. 1151 1152config GUP_TEST 1153 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" 1154 depends on DEBUG_FS 1155 help 1156 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way 1157 to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for 1158 the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. 1159 1160 These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of 1161 get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of 1162 the non-_fast variants. 1163 1164 There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any 1165 of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the 1166 range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via 1167 pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified 1168 by other command line arguments. 1169 1170 See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c 1171 1172comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" 1173 depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS 1174 1175config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH 1176 bool 1177 1178config DMAPOOL_TEST 1179 tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" 1180 depends on HAS_DMA 1181 help 1182 Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of 1183 various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to 1184 provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the 1185 dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. 1186 1187config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 1188 bool 1189 1190config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS 1191 bool 1192 1193config KMAP_LOCAL 1194 bool 1195 1196config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY 1197 bool 1198 1199# struct io_mapping based helper. Selected by drivers that need them 1200config IO_MAPPING 1201 bool 1202 1203config MEMFD_CREATE 1204 bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT 1205 1206config SECRETMEM 1207 default y 1208 bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT 1209 depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 1210 help 1211 Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create 1212 memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and 1213 not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. 1214 1215config ANON_VMA_NAME 1216 bool "Anonymous VMA name support" 1217 depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU 1218 1219 help 1220 Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. 1221 1222 This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned 1223 names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps 1224 and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. 1225 Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that 1226 area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the 1227 difference in their name. 1228 1229config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1230 bool 1231 help 1232 Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 1233 1234config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 1235 bool 1236 help 1237 Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 1238 1239menuconfig USERFAULTFD 1240 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1241 depends on MMU 1242 help 1243 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1244 handle page faults in userland. 1245 1246if USERFAULTFD 1247config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP 1248 bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" 1249 default y 1250 depends on HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 1251 1252 help 1253 Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection 1254 purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on 1255 file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. 1256endif # USERFAULTFD 1257 1258# multi-gen LRU { 1259config LRU_GEN 1260 bool "Multi-Gen LRU" 1261 depends on MMU 1262 # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits 1263 depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1264 help 1265 A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See 1266 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. 1267 1268config LRU_GEN_ENABLED 1269 bool "Enable by default" 1270 depends on LRU_GEN 1271 help 1272 This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. 1273 1274config LRU_GEN_STATS 1275 bool "Full stats for debugging" 1276 depends on LRU_GEN 1277 help 1278 Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats 1279 from evicted generations for debugging purpose. 1280 1281 This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. 1282 1283config LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU 1284 def_bool y 1285 depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 1286# } 1287 1288config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 1289 def_bool n 1290 1291config PER_VMA_LOCK 1292 def_bool y 1293 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP 1294 help 1295 Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. 1296 1297 This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when 1298 handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. 1299 1300config LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 1301 bool 1302 depends on !STACK_GROWSUP 1303 1304config IOMMU_MM_DATA 1305 bool 1306 1307config EXECMEM 1308 bool 1309 1310config NUMA_MEMBLKS 1311 bool 1312 1313config NUMA_EMU 1314 bool "NUMA emulation" 1315 depends on NUMA_MEMBLKS 1316 help 1317 Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1318 into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1319 number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1320 1321config ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK 1322 bool 1323 help 1324 The architecture has hardware support for userspace shadow call 1325 stacks (eg, x86 CET, arm64 GCS or RISC-V Zicfiss). 1326 1327config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM 1328 def_bool n 1329 1330config PT_RECLAIM 1331 bool "reclaim empty user page table pages" 1332 default y 1333 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM && MMU && SMP 1334 select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 1335 help 1336 Try to reclaim empty user page table pages in paths other than munmap 1337 and exit_mmap path. 1338 1339 Note: now only empty user PTE page table pages will be reclaimed. 1340 1341 1342source "mm/damon/Kconfig" 1343 1344endmenu 1345