| 1 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only |
| 2 | |
| 3 | menu "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 | # |
| 9 | config ARCH_NO_SWAP |
| 10 | bool |
| 11 | |
| 12 | menuconfig SWAP |
| 13 | bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" |
| 14 | depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP |
| 15 | default y |
| 16 | help |
| 17 | This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support |
| 18 | for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are |
| 19 | used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present |
| 20 | in your computer. If unsure say Y. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | config ZSWAP |
| 23 | bool "Compressed cache for swap pages" |
| 24 | depends on SWAP |
| 25 | select CRYPTO |
| 26 | select ZSMALLOC |
| 27 | help |
| 28 | A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes |
| 29 | pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to |
| 30 | compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. |
| 31 | This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, |
| 32 | in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than swap device |
| 33 | reads, can also improve workload performance. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | config ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON |
| 36 | bool "Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default" |
| 37 | depends on ZSWAP |
| 38 | help |
| 39 | If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled |
| 40 | at boot, otherwise it will be disabled. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel |
| 43 | command line 'zswap.enabled=' option. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | config ZSWAP_SHRINKER_DEFAULT_ON |
| 46 | bool "Shrink the zswap pool on memory pressure" |
| 47 | depends on ZSWAP |
| 48 | default n |
| 49 | help |
| 50 | If selected, the zswap shrinker will be enabled, and the pages |
| 51 | stored in the zswap pool will become available for reclaim (i.e |
| 52 | written back to the backing swap device) on memory pressure. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | This means that zswap writeback could happen even if the pool is |
| 55 | not yet full, or the cgroup zswap limit has not been reached, |
| 56 | reducing the chance that cold pages will reside in the zswap pool |
| 57 | and consume memory indefinitely. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | choice |
| 60 | prompt "Default compressor" |
| 61 | depends on ZSWAP |
| 62 | default ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO |
| 63 | help |
| 64 | Selects the default compression algorithm for the compressed cache |
| 65 | for swap pages. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | For an overview what kind of performance can be expected from |
| 68 | a particular compression algorithm please refer to the benchmarks |
| 69 | available at the following LWN page: |
| 70 | https://lwn.net/Articles/751795/ |
| 71 | |
| 72 | If in doubt, select 'LZO'. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel |
| 75 | command line 'zswap.compressor=' option. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE |
| 78 | bool "Deflate" |
| 79 | select CRYPTO_DEFLATE |
| 80 | help |
| 81 | Use the Deflate algorithm as the default compression algorithm. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO |
| 84 | bool "LZO" |
| 85 | select CRYPTO_LZO |
| 86 | help |
| 87 | Use the LZO algorithm as the default compression algorithm. |
| 88 | |
| 89 | config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 |
| 90 | bool "842" |
| 91 | select CRYPTO_842 |
| 92 | help |
| 93 | Use the 842 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 |
| 96 | bool "LZ4" |
| 97 | select CRYPTO_LZ4 |
| 98 | help |
| 99 | Use the LZ4 algorithm as the default compression algorithm. |
| 100 | |
| 101 | config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC |
| 102 | bool "LZ4HC" |
| 103 | select CRYPTO_LZ4HC |
| 104 | help |
| 105 | Use the LZ4HC algorithm as the default compression algorithm. |
| 106 | |
| 107 | config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD |
| 108 | bool "zstd" |
| 109 | select CRYPTO_ZSTD |
| 110 | help |
| 111 | Use the zstd algorithm as the default compression algorithm. |
| 112 | endchoice |
| 113 | |
| 114 | config ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT |
| 115 | string |
| 116 | depends on ZSWAP |
| 117 | default "deflate" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_DEFLATE |
| 118 | default "lzo" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZO |
| 119 | default "842" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_842 |
| 120 | default "lz4" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4 |
| 121 | default "lz4hc" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_LZ4HC |
| 122 | default "zstd" if ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT_ZSTD |
| 123 | default "" |
| 124 | |
| 125 | config ZSMALLOC |
| 126 | tristate |
| 127 | |
| 128 | menu "Zsmalloc allocator options" |
| 129 | depends on ZSMALLOC |
| 130 | |
| 131 | comment "Zsmalloc is a common backend allocator for zswap & zram" |
| 132 | |
| 133 | config ZSMALLOC_STAT |
| 134 | bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" |
| 135 | select DEBUG_FS |
| 136 | help |
| 137 | This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various |
| 138 | statistics about what's happening in zsmalloc and exports that |
| 139 | information to userspace via debugfs. |
| 140 | If unsure, say N. |
| 141 | |
| 142 | config ZSMALLOC_CHAIN_SIZE |
| 143 | int "Maximum number of physical pages per-zspage" |
| 144 | default 8 |
| 145 | range 4 16 |
| 146 | help |
| 147 | This option sets the upper limit on the number of physical pages |
| 148 | that a zmalloc page (zspage) can consist of. The optimal zspage |
| 149 | chain size is calculated for each size class during the |
| 150 | initialization of the pool. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | Changing this option can alter the characteristics of size classes, |
| 153 | such as the number of pages per zspage and the number of objects |
| 154 | per zspage. This can also result in different configurations of |
| 155 | the pool, as zsmalloc merges size classes with similar |
| 156 | characteristics. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | For more information, see zsmalloc documentation. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | endmenu |
| 161 | |
| 162 | menu "Slab allocator options" |
| 163 | |
| 164 | config SLUB |
| 165 | def_bool y |
| 166 | select IRQ_WORK |
| 167 | |
| 168 | config KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED |
| 169 | def_bool y |
| 170 | depends on !SLUB_TINY && !TINY_RCU |
| 171 | depends on !RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD |
| 172 | |
| 173 | config SLUB_TINY |
| 174 | bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" |
| 175 | depends on EXPERT && !COMPILE_TEST |
| 176 | select SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT |
| 177 | help |
| 178 | Configures the slab allocator in a way to achieve minimal memory |
| 179 | footprint, sacrificing scalability, debugging and other features. |
| 180 | This is intended only for the smallest system that had used the |
| 181 | SLOB allocator and is not recommended for systems with more than |
| 182 | 16MB RAM. |
| 183 | |
| 184 | If unsure, say N. |
| 185 | |
| 186 | config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT |
| 187 | bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" |
| 188 | default y |
| 189 | help |
| 190 | For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be |
| 191 | merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. |
| 192 | This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to |
| 193 | overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control |
| 194 | cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit |
| 195 | by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits |
| 196 | can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable |
| 197 | merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel |
| 198 | command line. |
| 199 | |
| 200 | config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM |
| 201 | bool "Randomize slab freelist" |
| 202 | depends on !SLUB_TINY |
| 203 | help |
| 204 | Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This |
| 205 | security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab |
| 206 | allocator against heap overflows. |
| 207 | |
| 208 | config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED |
| 209 | bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" |
| 210 | depends on !SLUB_TINY |
| 211 | help |
| 212 | Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and |
| 213 | other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance |
| 214 | sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common |
| 215 | freelist exploit methods. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | config SLAB_BUCKETS |
| 218 | bool "Support allocation from separate kmalloc buckets" |
| 219 | depends on !SLUB_TINY |
| 220 | default SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED |
| 221 | help |
| 222 | Kernel heap attacks frequently depend on being able to create |
| 223 | specifically-sized allocations with user-controlled contents |
| 224 | that will be allocated into the same kmalloc bucket as a |
| 225 | target object. To avoid sharing these allocation buckets, |
| 226 | provide an explicitly separated set of buckets to be used for |
| 227 | user-controlled allocations. This may very slightly increase |
| 228 | memory fragmentation, though in practice it's only a handful |
| 229 | of extra pages since the bulk of user-controlled allocations |
| 230 | are relatively long-lived. |
| 231 | |
| 232 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 233 | |
| 234 | config SLUB_STATS |
| 235 | default n |
| 236 | bool "Enable performance statistics" |
| 237 | depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY |
| 238 | help |
| 239 | The statistics are useful to debug slab allocation behavior in |
| 240 | order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be |
| 241 | enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down |
| 242 | the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command |
| 243 | supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure |
| 244 | out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. |
| 245 | Try running: slabinfo -DA |
| 246 | |
| 247 | config KMALLOC_PARTITION_CACHES |
| 248 | depends on !SLUB_TINY |
| 249 | bool "Partitioned slab caches for normal kmalloc" |
| 250 | default RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES |
| 251 | help |
| 252 | A hardening feature that creates multiple isolated copies of slab |
| 253 | caches for normal kmalloc allocations. This makes it more difficult |
| 254 | to exploit memory-safety vulnerabilities by attacking vulnerable |
| 255 | co-located memory objects. Several modes are provided. |
| 256 | |
| 257 | Currently the number of copies is set to 16, a reasonably large value |
| 258 | that effectively diverges the memory objects allocated for different |
| 259 | subsystems or modules into different caches, at the expense of a |
| 260 | limited degree of memory and CPU overhead that relates to hardware |
| 261 | and system workload. |
| 262 | |
| 263 | choice |
| 264 | prompt "Partitioned slab cache mode" |
| 265 | depends on KMALLOC_PARTITION_CACHES |
| 266 | default KMALLOC_PARTITION_TYPED if CC_HAS_ALLOC_TOKEN |
| 267 | default KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM |
| 268 | help |
| 269 | Selects the slab cache partitioning mode. |
| 270 | |
| 271 | config KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM |
| 272 | bool "Randomize slab caches for normal kmalloc" |
| 273 | help |
| 274 | Randomly pick a slab cache based on code address and a per-boot |
| 275 | random seed. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | This makes it harder for attackers to predict object co-location. |
| 278 | The placement is random: while attackers don't know which kmalloc |
| 279 | cache an object will be allocated from, they might circumvent |
| 280 | the randomization by retrying attacks across multiple machines until |
| 281 | the target objects are co-located. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | config KMALLOC_PARTITION_TYPED |
| 284 | bool "Type based slab cache selection for normal kmalloc" |
| 285 | depends on CC_HAS_ALLOC_TOKEN |
| 286 | help |
| 287 | Rely on Clang's allocation tokens to choose a slab cache, where token |
| 288 | IDs are derived from the allocated type. |
| 289 | |
| 290 | Unlike KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM, cache assignment is deterministic based |
| 291 | on type, which guarantees that objects of certain types are not |
| 292 | placed in the same cache. This effectively mitigates certain classes |
| 293 | of exploits that probabilistic defenses like KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM |
| 294 | only make harder but not impossible. However, this also means the |
| 295 | cache assignment is predictable. |
| 296 | |
| 297 | Clang's default token ID calculation returns a bounded hash with |
| 298 | disjoint ranges for pointer-containing and pointerless objects: when |
| 299 | used as the slab cache index, this prevents buffer overflows on |
| 300 | primitive buffers from directly corrupting pointer-containing |
| 301 | objects. |
| 302 | |
| 303 | The current effectiveness of Clang's type inference can be judged by |
| 304 | -Rpass=alloc-token, which provides diagnostics where (after dead-code |
| 305 | elimination) type inference failed. |
| 306 | |
| 307 | Requires Clang 22 or later. |
| 308 | |
| 309 | endchoice |
| 310 | |
| 311 | config RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES |
| 312 | bool |
| 313 | transitional |
| 314 | help |
| 315 | Transitional config for migration to KMALLOC_PARTITION_CACHES. |
| 316 | |
| 317 | endmenu # Slab allocator options |
| 318 | |
| 319 | config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR |
| 320 | bool "Page allocator randomization" |
| 321 | default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA |
| 322 | help |
| 323 | Randomization of the page allocator improves the average |
| 324 | utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section |
| 325 | 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI |
| 326 | 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises |
| 327 | the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental |
| 328 | security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page |
| 329 | allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the |
| 330 | default granularity of shuffling on the MAX_PAGE_ORDER i.e, 10th |
| 331 | order of pages is selected based on cache utilization benefits |
| 332 | on x86. |
| 333 | |
| 334 | While the randomization improves cache utilization it may |
| 335 | negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For |
| 336 | this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even |
| 337 | if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled |
| 338 | with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. |
| 339 | |
| 340 | Say Y if unsure. |
| 341 | |
| 342 | config COMPAT_BRK |
| 343 | bool "Disable heap randomization" |
| 344 | default y |
| 345 | help |
| 346 | Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it |
| 347 | also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). |
| 348 | This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization |
| 349 | disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting |
| 350 | /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. |
| 351 | |
| 352 | On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. |
| 353 | |
| 354 | config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED |
| 355 | bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" |
| 356 | depends on EXPERT && !MMU |
| 357 | default n |
| 358 | help |
| 359 | Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained |
| 360 | from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to |
| 361 | userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that |
| 362 | mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus |
| 363 | providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, |
| 364 | then the flag will be ignored. |
| 365 | |
| 366 | This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by |
| 367 | ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. |
| 368 | |
| 369 | Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be |
| 370 | enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in |
| 371 | userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, |
| 372 | it is normally safe to say Y here. |
| 373 | |
| 374 | See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. |
| 375 | |
| 376 | config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL |
| 377 | def_bool y |
| 378 | depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL |
| 379 | |
| 380 | choice |
| 381 | prompt "Memory model" |
| 382 | depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL |
| 383 | default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT |
| 384 | default FLATMEM_MANUAL |
| 385 | help |
| 386 | This option allows you to change some of the ways that |
| 387 | Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will |
| 388 | only have one option here selected by the architecture |
| 389 | configuration. This is normal. |
| 390 | |
| 391 | config FLATMEM_MANUAL |
| 392 | bool "Flat Memory" |
| 393 | depends on !NUMA |
| 394 | depends on !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE |
| 395 | help |
| 396 | This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with |
| 397 | flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient |
| 398 | system in terms of performance and resource consumption |
| 399 | and it is the best option for smaller systems. |
| 400 | |
| 401 | For systems that have holes in their physical address |
| 402 | spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug, |
| 403 | choose "Sparse Memory". |
| 404 | |
| 405 | If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other. |
| 406 | |
| 407 | config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL |
| 408 | bool "Sparse Memory" |
| 409 | depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE |
| 410 | help |
| 411 | This will be the only option for some systems, including |
| 412 | memory hot-plug systems. This is normal. |
| 413 | |
| 414 | This option provides efficient support for systems with |
| 415 | holes is their physical address space and allows memory |
| 416 | hot-plug and hot-remove. |
| 417 | |
| 418 | If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. |
| 419 | |
| 420 | endchoice |
| 421 | |
| 422 | config SPARSEMEM |
| 423 | def_bool y |
| 424 | depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL |
| 425 | |
| 426 | config FLATMEM |
| 427 | def_bool y |
| 428 | depends on !NUMA |
| 429 | depends on !SPARSEMEM || FLATMEM_MANUAL |
| 430 | |
| 431 | # |
| 432 | # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem |
| 433 | # allocations when sparse_init() is called. If this cannot |
| 434 | # be done on your architecture, select this option. However, |
| 435 | # statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially |
| 436 | # consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful. |
| 437 | # |
| 438 | # This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code |
| 439 | # with gcc 3.4 and later. |
| 440 | # |
| 441 | config SPARSEMEM_STATIC |
| 442 | bool |
| 443 | |
| 444 | # |
| 445 | # Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM |
| 446 | # must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with |
| 447 | # an extremely sparse physical address space. |
| 448 | # |
| 449 | config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME |
| 450 | def_bool y |
| 451 | depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC |
| 452 | |
| 453 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE |
| 454 | bool |
| 455 | |
| 456 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
| 457 | def_bool y |
| 458 | depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE |
| 459 | help |
| 460 | SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise |
| 461 | pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most |
| 462 | efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available. |
| 463 | |
| 464 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT |
| 465 | bool |
| 466 | # |
| 467 | # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred |
| 468 | # to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization. |
| 469 | # |
| 470 | config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP |
| 471 | bool |
| 472 | |
| 473 | config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP |
| 474 | bool |
| 475 | |
| 476 | config ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_PREINIT |
| 477 | bool |
| 478 | |
| 479 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP |
| 480 | bool |
| 481 | |
| 482 | config HAVE_GUP_FAST |
| 483 | depends on MMU |
| 484 | bool |
| 485 | |
| 486 | # Enable memblock support for scratch memory which is needed for kexec handover |
| 487 | config MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH |
| 488 | bool |
| 489 | |
| 490 | # Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks |
| 491 | # after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory. |
| 492 | # Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug. |
| 493 | config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK |
| 494 | bool |
| 495 | |
| 496 | # Keep arch NUMA mapping infrastructure post-init. |
| 497 | config NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO |
| 498 | bool |
| 499 | |
| 500 | config MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| 501 | bool |
| 502 | |
| 503 | # IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM regions in the kernel resource tree that are marked |
| 504 | # IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE cannot be mapped to user space, for example, via |
| 505 | # /dev/mem. |
| 506 | config EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM |
| 507 | def_bool y |
| 508 | depends on !DEVMEM || STRICT_DEVMEM |
| 509 | |
| 510 | config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 511 | bool |
| 512 | |
| 513 | # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' |
| 514 | menuconfig MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 515 | bool "Memory hotplug" |
| 516 | select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| 517 | depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
| 518 | depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 519 | depends on 64BIT |
| 520 | select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA |
| 521 | |
| 522 | if MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 523 | |
| 524 | choice |
| 525 | prompt "Memory Hotplug Default Online Type" |
| 526 | default MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE |
| 527 | help |
| 528 | Default memory type for hotplugged memory. |
| 529 | |
| 530 | This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug |
| 531 | onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which |
| 532 | determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting |
| 533 | can always be changed at runtime. |
| 534 | |
| 535 | The default is 'offline'. |
| 536 | |
| 537 | Select offline to defer onlining to drivers and user policy. |
| 538 | Select auto to let the kernel choose what zones to utilize. |
| 539 | Select online_kernel to generally allow kernel usage of this memory. |
| 540 | Select online_movable to generally disallow kernel usage of this memory. |
| 541 | |
| 542 | Example kernel usage would be page structs and page tables. |
| 543 | |
| 544 | See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. |
| 545 | |
| 546 | config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE |
| 547 | bool "offline" |
| 548 | help |
| 549 | Hotplugged memory will not be onlined by default. |
| 550 | Choose this for systems with drivers and user policy that |
| 551 | handle onlining of hotplug memory policy. |
| 552 | |
| 553 | config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_AUTO |
| 554 | bool "auto" |
| 555 | help |
| 556 | Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online |
| 557 | hotplugged memory into the zone it thinks is reasonable. |
| 558 | This memory may be utilized for kernel data. |
| 559 | |
| 560 | config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_KERNEL |
| 561 | bool "kernel" |
| 562 | help |
| 563 | Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online |
| 564 | hotplugged memory into a zone capable of being used for kernel |
| 565 | data. This typically means ZONE_NORMAL. |
| 566 | |
| 567 | config MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_MOVABLE |
| 568 | bool "movable" |
| 569 | help |
| 570 | Select this if you want the kernel to automatically online |
| 571 | hotplug memory into ZONE_MOVABLE. This memory will generally |
| 572 | not be utilized for kernel data. |
| 573 | |
| 574 | This should only be used when the admin knows sufficient |
| 575 | ZONE_NORMAL memory is available to describe hotplug memory, |
| 576 | otherwise hotplug memory may fail to online. For example, |
| 577 | sufficient kernel-capable memory (ZONE_NORMAL) must be |
| 578 | available to allocate page structs to describe ZONE_MOVABLE. |
| 579 | |
| 580 | endchoice |
| 581 | |
| 582 | config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| 583 | bool "Allow for memory hot remove" |
| 584 | select MIGRATION |
| 585 | |
| 586 | config MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY |
| 587 | def_bool y |
| 588 | depends on ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE |
| 589 | |
| 590 | endif # MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 591 | |
| 592 | config ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE |
| 593 | bool |
| 594 | |
| 595 | # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide |
| 596 | # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address |
| 597 | # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. |
| 598 | # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. |
| 599 | # ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. |
| 600 | # PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. |
| 601 | # SPARC32 allocates multiple pte tables within a single page, and therefore |
| 602 | # a per-page lock leads to problems when multiple tables need to be locked |
| 603 | # at the same time (e.g. copy_page_range()). |
| 604 | # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. |
| 605 | # |
| 606 | config SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS |
| 607 | def_bool y |
| 608 | depends on MMU |
| 609 | depends on SMP |
| 610 | depends on NR_CPUS >= 4 |
| 611 | depends on !ARM || CPU_CACHE_VIPT |
| 612 | depends on !PARISC || PA20 |
| 613 | depends on !SPARC32 |
| 614 | depends on !UML |
| 615 | |
| 616 | config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK |
| 617 | bool |
| 618 | |
| 619 | config SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS |
| 620 | def_bool y |
| 621 | depends on SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK |
| 622 | |
| 623 | # |
| 624 | # support for memory balloon |
| 625 | config BALLOON |
| 626 | bool |
| 627 | |
| 628 | # |
| 629 | # support for memory balloon page migration |
| 630 | config BALLOON_MIGRATION |
| 631 | bool "Allow for balloon memory migration" |
| 632 | default y |
| 633 | depends on MIGRATION && BALLOON |
| 634 | help |
| 635 | Allow for migration of pages inflated in a memory balloon such that |
| 636 | they can be allocated from memory areas only available for movable |
| 637 | allocations (e.g., ZONE_MOVABLE, CMA) and such that they can be |
| 638 | migrated for memory defragmentation purposes by memory compaction. |
| 639 | |
| 640 | # |
| 641 | # support for memory compaction |
| 642 | config COMPACTION |
| 643 | bool "Allow for memory compaction" |
| 644 | default y |
| 645 | select MIGRATION |
| 646 | depends on MMU |
| 647 | help |
| 648 | Compaction is the only memory management component to form |
| 649 | high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks |
| 650 | reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and |
| 651 | the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer |
| 652 | invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't |
| 653 | disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for |
| 654 | it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at |
| 655 | [email protected]. |
| 656 | |
| 657 | config COMPACT_UNEVICTABLE_DEFAULT |
| 658 | int |
| 659 | depends on COMPACTION |
| 660 | default 0 if PREEMPT_RT |
| 661 | default 1 |
| 662 | |
| 663 | # |
| 664 | # support for free page reporting |
| 665 | config PAGE_REPORTING |
| 666 | bool "Free page reporting" |
| 667 | help |
| 668 | Free page reporting allows for the incremental acquisition of |
| 669 | free pages from the buddy allocator for the purpose of reporting |
| 670 | those pages to another entity, such as a hypervisor, so that the |
| 671 | memory can be freed within the host for other uses. |
| 672 | |
| 673 | config NUMA_MIGRATION |
| 674 | bool "NUMA page migration" |
| 675 | default y |
| 676 | depends on NUMA && MMU |
| 677 | select MIGRATION |
| 678 | help |
| 679 | Support the migration of pages to other NUMA nodes, available to |
| 680 | user space through interfaces like migrate_pages(), move_pages(), |
| 681 | and mbind(). Selecting this option also enables support for page |
| 682 | demotion for memory tiering. |
| 683 | |
| 684 | config MIGRATION |
| 685 | bool |
| 686 | depends on MMU |
| 687 | |
| 688 | config DEVICE_MIGRATION |
| 689 | def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE |
| 690 | |
| 691 | config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION |
| 692 | bool |
| 693 | |
| 694 | config ARCH_HAS_PMD_SOFTLEAVES |
| 695 | bool |
| 696 | |
| 697 | config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE |
| 698 | def_bool n |
| 699 | help |
| 700 | Allows the pageblock_order value to be dynamic instead of just standard |
| 701 | HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER when there are multiple HugeTLB page sizes available |
| 702 | on a platform. |
| 703 | |
| 704 | Note that the pageblock_order cannot exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and will be |
| 705 | clamped down to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. |
| 706 | |
| 707 | config CONTIG_ALLOC |
| 708 | def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA |
| 709 | |
| 710 | config PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX |
| 711 | int "Maximum scale factor of PCP (Per-CPU pageset) batch allocate/free" |
| 712 | default 5 |
| 713 | range 0 6 |
| 714 | help |
| 715 | In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU pageset) is refilled and drained in |
| 716 | batches. The batch number is scaled automatically to improve page |
| 717 | allocation/free throughput. But too large scale factor may hurt |
| 718 | latency. This option sets the upper limit of scale factor to limit |
| 719 | the maximum latency. |
| 720 | |
| 721 | config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT |
| 722 | def_bool 64BIT |
| 723 | |
| 724 | config MMU_NOTIFIER |
| 725 | bool |
| 726 | select INTERVAL_TREE |
| 727 | |
| 728 | config KSM |
| 729 | bool "Enable KSM for page merging" |
| 730 | depends on MMU |
| 731 | select XXHASH |
| 732 | help |
| 733 | Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas |
| 734 | of an application's address space that an app has advised may be |
| 735 | mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces |
| 736 | the many instances by a single page with that content, so |
| 737 | saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. |
| 738 | Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. |
| 739 | See Documentation/mm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive |
| 740 | until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and |
| 741 | root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). |
| 742 | |
| 743 | config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR |
| 744 | int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" |
| 745 | depends on MMU |
| 746 | default 4096 |
| 747 | help |
| 748 | This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected |
| 749 | from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages |
| 750 | can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. |
| 751 | |
| 752 | For most arm64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space |
| 753 | a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. |
| 754 | On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. |
| 755 | Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map |
| 756 | this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this |
| 757 | protection by setting the value to 0. |
| 758 | |
| 759 | This value can be changed after boot using the |
| 760 | /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. |
| 761 | |
| 762 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE |
| 763 | bool |
| 764 | |
| 765 | config MEMORY_FAILURE |
| 766 | depends on MMU |
| 767 | depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE |
| 768 | bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" |
| 769 | select INTERVAL_TREE |
| 770 | select MIGRATION |
| 771 | help |
| 772 | Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems |
| 773 | with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running |
| 774 | even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires |
| 775 | special hardware support and typically ECC memory. |
| 776 | |
| 777 | config HWPOISON_INJECT |
| 778 | tristate "HWPoison pages injector" |
| 779 | depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS |
| 780 | select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR |
| 781 | |
| 782 | config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS |
| 783 | int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" |
| 784 | depends on !MMU |
| 785 | default 1 |
| 786 | help |
| 787 | The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks |
| 788 | of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system |
| 789 | allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently |
| 790 | more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off |
| 791 | the excess and return it to the allocator. |
| 792 | |
| 793 | If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the |
| 794 | system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly |
| 795 | if there are a lot of transient processes. |
| 796 | |
| 797 | If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for |
| 798 | long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. |
| 799 | |
| 800 | Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option |
| 801 | (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of |
| 802 | excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if |
| 803 | no trimming is to occur. |
| 804 | |
| 805 | This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default |
| 806 | of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. |
| 807 | |
| 808 | See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. |
| 809 | |
| 810 | config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB |
| 811 | bool |
| 812 | |
| 813 | config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP |
| 814 | def_bool n |
| 815 | |
| 816 | config PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO |
| 817 | bool "Allocate a PMD sized folio for zeroing" |
| 818 | depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 819 | help |
| 820 | Enable this option to reduce the runtime refcounting overhead |
| 821 | of the huge zero folio and expand the places in the kernel |
| 822 | that can use huge zero folios. For instance, block I/O benefits |
| 823 | from access to large folios for zeroing memory. |
| 824 | |
| 825 | With this option enabled, the huge zero folio is allocated |
| 826 | once and never freed. One full huge page's worth of memory shall |
| 827 | be used. |
| 828 | |
| 829 | Say Y if your system has lots of memory. Say N if you are |
| 830 | memory constrained. |
| 831 | |
| 832 | config MM_ID |
| 833 | def_bool n |
| 834 | |
| 835 | menuconfig TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 836 | bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" |
| 837 | depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PREEMPT_RT |
| 838 | select COMPACTION |
| 839 | select XARRAY_MULTI |
| 840 | select MM_ID |
| 841 | help |
| 842 | Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and |
| 843 | huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. |
| 844 | This feature can improve computing performance to certain |
| 845 | applications by speeding up page faults during memory |
| 846 | allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding |
| 847 | up the pagetable walking. |
| 848 | |
| 849 | If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. |
| 850 | |
| 851 | if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 852 | |
| 853 | choice |
| 854 | prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" |
| 855 | default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS |
| 856 | help |
| 857 | Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. |
| 858 | |
| 859 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS |
| 860 | bool "always" |
| 861 | help |
| 862 | Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the |
| 863 | memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed |
| 864 | benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. |
| 865 | |
| 866 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE |
| 867 | bool "madvise" |
| 868 | help |
| 869 | Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a |
| 870 | performance improvement benefit to the applications using |
| 871 | madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the |
| 872 | memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed |
| 873 | benefit. |
| 874 | |
| 875 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER |
| 876 | bool "never" |
| 877 | help |
| 878 | Disable Transparent Hugepage by default. It can still be |
| 879 | enabled at runtime via sysfs. |
| 880 | endchoice |
| 881 | |
| 882 | choice |
| 883 | prompt "Shmem hugepage allocation defaults" |
| 884 | default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_SHMEM_HUGE_NEVER |
| 885 | help |
| 886 | Selects the hugepage allocation policy defaults for |
| 887 | the internal shmem mount. |
| 888 | |
| 889 | The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel |
| 890 | command line 'transparent_hugepage_shmem=' option. |
| 891 | |
| 892 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_SHMEM_HUGE_NEVER |
| 893 | bool "never" |
| 894 | help |
| 895 | Disable hugepage allocation for shmem mount by default. It can |
| 896 | still be enabled with the kernel command line |
| 897 | 'transparent_hugepage_shmem=' option or at runtime via sysfs |
| 898 | knob. Note that madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) can still cause |
| 899 | transparent huge pages to be obtained even if this mode is |
| 900 | specified. |
| 901 | |
| 902 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_SHMEM_HUGE_ALWAYS |
| 903 | bool "always" |
| 904 | help |
| 905 | Always attempt to allocate hugepage for shmem mount, can |
| 906 | increase the memory footprint of applications without a |
| 907 | guaranteed benefit but it will work automatically for all |
| 908 | applications. |
| 909 | |
| 910 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_SHMEM_HUGE_WITHIN_SIZE |
| 911 | bool "within_size" |
| 912 | help |
| 913 | Enable hugepage allocation for shmem mount if the allocation |
| 914 | will be fully within the i_size. This configuration also takes |
| 915 | into account any madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) hints that may be |
| 916 | provided by the applications. |
| 917 | |
| 918 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_SHMEM_HUGE_ADVISE |
| 919 | bool "advise" |
| 920 | help |
| 921 | Enable hugepage allocation for the shmem mount exclusively when |
| 922 | applications supply the madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) hint. |
| 923 | This ensures that hugepages are used only in response to explicit |
| 924 | requests from applications. |
| 925 | endchoice |
| 926 | |
| 927 | choice |
| 928 | prompt "Tmpfs hugepage allocation defaults" |
| 929 | default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_TMPFS_HUGE_NEVER |
| 930 | help |
| 931 | Selects the hugepage allocation policy defaults for |
| 932 | the tmpfs mount. |
| 933 | |
| 934 | The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel |
| 935 | command line 'transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=' option. |
| 936 | |
| 937 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_TMPFS_HUGE_NEVER |
| 938 | bool "never" |
| 939 | help |
| 940 | Disable hugepage allocation for tmpfs mount by default. It can |
| 941 | still be enabled with the kernel command line |
| 942 | 'transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=' option. Note that |
| 943 | madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) can still cause transparent huge pages |
| 944 | to be obtained even if this mode is specified. |
| 945 | |
| 946 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_TMPFS_HUGE_ALWAYS |
| 947 | bool "always" |
| 948 | help |
| 949 | Always attempt to allocate hugepage for tmpfs mount, can |
| 950 | increase the memory footprint of applications without a |
| 951 | guaranteed benefit but it will work automatically for all |
| 952 | applications. |
| 953 | |
| 954 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_TMPFS_HUGE_WITHIN_SIZE |
| 955 | bool "within_size" |
| 956 | help |
| 957 | Enable hugepage allocation for tmpfs mount if the allocation |
| 958 | will be fully within the i_size. This configuration also takes |
| 959 | into account any madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) hints that may be |
| 960 | provided by the applications. |
| 961 | |
| 962 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_TMPFS_HUGE_ADVISE |
| 963 | bool "advise" |
| 964 | help |
| 965 | Enable hugepage allocation for the tmpfs mount exclusively when |
| 966 | applications supply the madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) hint. |
| 967 | This ensures that hugepages are used only in response to explicit |
| 968 | requests from applications. |
| 969 | endchoice |
| 970 | |
| 971 | config THP_SWAP |
| 972 | def_bool y |
| 973 | depends on ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP && 64BIT |
| 974 | help |
| 975 | Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. |
| 976 | XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page |
| 977 | will be split after swapout. |
| 978 | |
| 979 | For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. |
| 980 | |
| 981 | config NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT |
| 982 | bool "No per-page mapcount (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 983 | help |
| 984 | Do not maintain per-page mapcounts for pages part of larger |
| 985 | allocations, such as transparent huge pages. |
| 986 | |
| 987 | When this config option is enabled, some interfaces that relied on |
| 988 | this information will rely on less-precise per-allocation information |
| 989 | instead: for example, using the average per-page mapcount in such |
| 990 | a large allocation instead of the per-page mapcount. |
| 991 | |
| 992 | EXPERIMENTAL because the impact of some changes is still unclear. |
| 993 | |
| 994 | endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 995 | |
| 996 | # simple helper to make the code a bit easier to read |
| 997 | config PAGE_MAPCOUNT |
| 998 | def_bool !NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT |
| 999 | |
| 1000 | # |
| 1001 | # The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE |
| 1002 | # |
| 1003 | config PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES |
| 1004 | def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || HUGETLB_PAGE |
| 1005 | |
| 1006 | # |
| 1007 | # We can end up creating gigantic folio. |
| 1008 | # |
| 1009 | config HAVE_GIGANTIC_FOLIOS |
| 1010 | def_bool (HUGETLB_PAGE && ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE) || \ |
| 1011 | (ZONE_DEVICE && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD) |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 | config ASYNC_KERNEL_PGTABLE_FREE |
| 1014 | def_bool n |
| 1015 | |
| 1016 | # TODO: Allow to be enabled without THP |
| 1017 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP |
| 1018 | def_bool n |
| 1019 | depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 1020 | |
| 1021 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_PFNMAP |
| 1022 | def_bool y |
| 1023 | depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 1024 | |
| 1025 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PUD_PFNMAP |
| 1026 | def_bool y |
| 1027 | depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD |
| 1028 | |
| 1029 | # |
| 1030 | # Architectures that always use weak definitions for percpu |
| 1031 | # variables in modules should set this. |
| 1032 | # |
| 1033 | config ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU |
| 1034 | bool |
| 1035 | |
| 1036 | # |
| 1037 | # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator |
| 1038 | # |
| 1039 | config NEED_PER_CPU_KM |
| 1040 | depends on !SMP || !MMU |
| 1041 | bool |
| 1042 | default y |
| 1043 | |
| 1044 | config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK |
| 1045 | bool |
| 1046 | |
| 1047 | config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK |
| 1048 | bool |
| 1049 | |
| 1050 | config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID |
| 1051 | bool |
| 1052 | |
| 1053 | config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA |
| 1054 | bool |
| 1055 | |
| 1056 | config CMA |
| 1057 | bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" |
| 1058 | depends on MMU |
| 1059 | select MIGRATION |
| 1060 | select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| 1061 | help |
| 1062 | This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other |
| 1063 | subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. |
| 1064 | CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to |
| 1065 | be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for |
| 1066 | pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the |
| 1067 | allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. |
| 1068 | |
| 1069 | If unsure, say "n". |
| 1070 | |
| 1071 | config CMA_DEBUGFS |
| 1072 | bool "CMA debugfs interface" |
| 1073 | depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS |
| 1074 | help |
| 1075 | Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. |
| 1076 | |
| 1077 | config CMA_SYSFS |
| 1078 | bool "CMA information through sysfs interface" |
| 1079 | depends on CMA && SYSFS |
| 1080 | help |
| 1081 | This option exposes some sysfs attributes to get information |
| 1082 | from CMA. |
| 1083 | |
| 1084 | config CMA_AREAS |
| 1085 | int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" |
| 1086 | depends on CMA |
| 1087 | default 20 if NUMA |
| 1088 | default 8 |
| 1089 | help |
| 1090 | CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, |
| 1091 | used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum |
| 1092 | number of CMA area in the system. |
| 1093 | |
| 1094 | If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA. |
| 1095 | |
| 1096 | # |
| 1097 | # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if available, to set |
| 1098 | # the max page order for physically contiguous allocations. |
| 1099 | # |
| 1100 | config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER |
| 1101 | int |
| 1102 | |
| 1103 | # |
| 1104 | # When ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER is not defined, |
| 1105 | # the default page block order is MAX_PAGE_ORDER (10) as per |
| 1106 | # include/linux/mmzone.h. |
| 1107 | # |
| 1108 | config PAGE_BLOCK_MAX_ORDER |
| 1109 | int "Page Block Order Upper Limit" |
| 1110 | range 1 10 if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER = 0 |
| 1111 | default 10 if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER = 0 |
| 1112 | range 1 ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER != 0 |
| 1113 | default ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER != 0 |
| 1114 | help |
| 1115 | The page block order refers to the power of two number of pages that |
| 1116 | are physically contiguous and can have a migrate type associated to |
| 1117 | them. The maximum size of the page block order is at least limited by |
| 1118 | ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER/MAX_PAGE_ORDER. |
| 1119 | |
| 1120 | This config adds a new upper limit of default page block |
| 1121 | order when the page block order is required to be smaller than |
| 1122 | ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER/MAX_PAGE_ORDER or other limits |
| 1123 | (see include/linux/pageblock-flags.h for details). |
| 1124 | |
| 1125 | Reducing pageblock order can negatively impact THP generation |
| 1126 | success rate. If your workloads use THP heavily, please use this |
| 1127 | option with caution. |
| 1128 | |
| 1129 | Don't change if unsure. |
| 1130 | |
| 1131 | config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY |
| 1132 | bool "Track memory changes" |
| 1133 | depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS |
| 1134 | select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR |
| 1135 | help |
| 1136 | This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a |
| 1137 | soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes |
| 1138 | into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter |
| 1139 | it can be cleared by hands. |
| 1140 | |
| 1141 | See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. |
| 1142 | |
| 1143 | config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP |
| 1144 | bool |
| 1145 | |
| 1146 | config STACK_MAX_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB |
| 1147 | int "Default maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" |
| 1148 | default 100 |
| 1149 | range 8 2048 |
| 1150 | depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) |
| 1151 | help |
| 1152 | This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit |
| 1153 | user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc |
| 1154 | arch) when the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is unlimited. |
| 1155 | |
| 1156 | A sane initial value is 100 MB. |
| 1157 | |
| 1158 | config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT |
| 1159 | bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" |
| 1160 | depends on SPARSEMEM |
| 1161 | depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM |
| 1162 | depends on 64BIT |
| 1163 | depends on !KMSAN |
| 1164 | select PADATA |
| 1165 | help |
| 1166 | Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a |
| 1167 | single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable |
| 1168 | amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up |
| 1169 | a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. |
| 1170 | This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the |
| 1171 | lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the |
| 1172 | initialisation. |
| 1173 | |
| 1174 | config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG |
| 1175 | bool |
| 1176 | select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT |
| 1177 | help |
| 1178 | This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'. PTE Accessed |
| 1179 | bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE |
| 1180 | Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance. |
| 1181 | |
| 1182 | config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING |
| 1183 | bool "Enable idle page tracking" |
| 1184 | depends on SYSFS && MMU |
| 1185 | select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG |
| 1186 | help |
| 1187 | This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have |
| 1188 | not been touched during a given period of time. This information can |
| 1189 | be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement |
| 1190 | within a compute cluster. |
| 1191 | |
| 1192 | See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for |
| 1193 | more details. |
| 1194 | |
| 1195 | # Architectures which implement cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to query |
| 1196 | # whether the data caches are aliased (VIVT or VIPT with dcache |
| 1197 | # aliasing) need to select this. |
| 1198 | config ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING |
| 1199 | bool |
| 1200 | |
| 1201 | config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE |
| 1202 | bool |
| 1203 | |
| 1204 | config ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER |
| 1205 | bool |
| 1206 | help |
| 1207 | In support of HARDENED_USERCOPY performing stack variable lifetime |
| 1208 | checking, an architecture-agnostic way to find the stack pointer |
| 1209 | is needed. Once an architecture defines an unsigned long global |
| 1210 | register alias named "current_stack_pointer", this config can be |
| 1211 | selected. |
| 1212 | |
| 1213 | config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET |
| 1214 | bool |
| 1215 | |
| 1216 | config ZONE_DMA |
| 1217 | bool "Support DMA zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET |
| 1218 | default y if ARM64 || X86 |
| 1219 | |
| 1220 | config ZONE_DMA32 |
| 1221 | bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET |
| 1222 | depends on !X86_32 |
| 1223 | default y if ARM64 |
| 1224 | |
| 1225 | config ZONE_DEVICE |
| 1226 | bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" |
| 1227 | depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| 1228 | select XARRAY_MULTI |
| 1229 | |
| 1230 | help |
| 1231 | Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, |
| 1232 | or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the |
| 1233 | memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise |
| 1234 | "device-physical" addresses which is needed for DAX, PCI_P2PDMA, and |
| 1235 | DEVICE_PRIVATE features among others. |
| 1236 | |
| 1237 | Enabling this option will reduce the entropy of x86 KASLR memory |
| 1238 | regions. For example - on a 46 bit system, the entropy goes down |
| 1239 | from 16 bits to 15 bits. The actual reduction in entropy depends |
| 1240 | on the physical address bits, on processor features, kernel config |
| 1241 | (5 level page table) and physical memory present on the system. |
| 1242 | |
| 1243 | # |
| 1244 | # Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page |
| 1245 | # tables. |
| 1246 | # |
| 1247 | config HMM_MIRROR |
| 1248 | bool |
| 1249 | depends on MMU |
| 1250 | select MMU_NOTIFIER |
| 1251 | |
| 1252 | config GET_FREE_REGION |
| 1253 | bool |
| 1254 | |
| 1255 | config DEVICE_PRIVATE |
| 1256 | bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" |
| 1257 | depends on ZONE_DEVICE |
| 1258 | select GET_FREE_REGION |
| 1259 | |
| 1260 | help |
| 1261 | Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device |
| 1262 | memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or |
| 1263 | group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. |
| 1264 | |
| 1265 | config VMAP_PFN |
| 1266 | bool |
| 1267 | |
| 1268 | config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS |
| 1269 | bool |
| 1270 | config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS |
| 1271 | bool |
| 1272 | |
| 1273 | config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 |
| 1274 | bool |
| 1275 | config ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_3 |
| 1276 | bool |
| 1277 | |
| 1278 | config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS |
| 1279 | default y |
| 1280 | bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT |
| 1281 | help |
| 1282 | VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. |
| 1283 | This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters |
| 1284 | on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts |
| 1285 | if VM event counters are disabled. |
| 1286 | |
| 1287 | config PERCPU_STATS |
| 1288 | bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" |
| 1289 | help |
| 1290 | This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The |
| 1291 | information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can |
| 1292 | be used to help understand percpu memory usage. |
| 1293 | |
| 1294 | config GUP_TEST |
| 1295 | bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages()-related unit tests" |
| 1296 | depends on DEBUG_FS |
| 1297 | help |
| 1298 | Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test, which in turn provides a way |
| 1299 | to make ioctl calls that can launch kernel-based unit tests for |
| 1300 | the get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*() family of API calls. |
| 1301 | |
| 1302 | These tests include benchmark testing of the _fast variants of |
| 1303 | get_user_pages*() and pin_user_pages*(), as well as smoke tests of |
| 1304 | the non-_fast variants. |
| 1305 | |
| 1306 | There is also a sub-test that allows running dump_page() on any |
| 1307 | of up to eight pages (selected by command line args) within the |
| 1308 | range of user-space addresses. These pages are either pinned via |
| 1309 | pin_user_pages*(), or pinned via get_user_pages*(), as specified |
| 1310 | by other command line arguments. |
| 1311 | |
| 1312 | See tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c |
| 1313 | |
| 1314 | comment "GUP_TEST needs to have DEBUG_FS enabled" |
| 1315 | depends on !GUP_TEST && !DEBUG_FS |
| 1316 | |
| 1317 | config GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH |
| 1318 | bool |
| 1319 | |
| 1320 | config DMAPOOL_TEST |
| 1321 | tristate "Enable a module to run time tests on dma_pool" |
| 1322 | depends on HAS_DMA |
| 1323 | help |
| 1324 | Provides a test module that will allocate and free many blocks of |
| 1325 | various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to |
| 1326 | provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the |
| 1327 | dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect performance. |
| 1328 | |
| 1329 | config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL |
| 1330 | bool |
| 1331 | |
| 1332 | config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS |
| 1333 | bool |
| 1334 | |
| 1335 | config KMAP_LOCAL |
| 1336 | bool |
| 1337 | |
| 1338 | config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY |
| 1339 | bool |
| 1340 | |
| 1341 | config MEMFD_CREATE |
| 1342 | bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT |
| 1343 | |
| 1344 | config SECRETMEM |
| 1345 | default y |
| 1346 | bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT |
| 1347 | depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP |
| 1348 | help |
| 1349 | Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create |
| 1350 | memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and |
| 1351 | not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables. |
| 1352 | |
| 1353 | config ANON_VMA_NAME |
| 1354 | bool "Anonymous VMA name support" |
| 1355 | depends on PROC_FS && ADVISE_SYSCALLS && MMU |
| 1356 | |
| 1357 | help |
| 1358 | Allow naming anonymous virtual memory areas. |
| 1359 | |
| 1360 | This feature allows assigning names to virtual memory areas. Assigned |
| 1361 | names can be later retrieved from /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps |
| 1362 | and help identifying individual anonymous memory areas. |
| 1363 | Assigning a name to anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that |
| 1364 | area from being merged with adjacent virtual memory areas due to the |
| 1365 | difference in their name. |
| 1366 | |
| 1367 | config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP |
| 1368 | bool |
| 1369 | help |
| 1370 | Arch has userfaultfd write protection support |
| 1371 | |
| 1372 | config HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR |
| 1373 | bool |
| 1374 | help |
| 1375 | Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support |
| 1376 | |
| 1377 | config USERFAULTFD_RWP |
| 1378 | def_bool y |
| 1379 | depends on 64BIT && ARCH_HAS_PTE_PROTNONE && HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP |
| 1380 | help |
| 1381 | Userfaultfd read-write protection (UFFDIO_RWPROTECT) delivers a |
| 1382 | userfaultfd notification on every access -- read or write -- to a |
| 1383 | protected range, letting userspace observe the working set of a |
| 1384 | process. |
| 1385 | |
| 1386 | menuconfig USERFAULTFD |
| 1387 | bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" |
| 1388 | depends on MMU |
| 1389 | help |
| 1390 | Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and |
| 1391 | handle page faults in userland. |
| 1392 | |
| 1393 | config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP |
| 1394 | bool "Userfaultfd write protection support for shmem/hugetlbfs" |
| 1395 | default y |
| 1396 | depends on USERFAULTFD && HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP |
| 1397 | |
| 1398 | help |
| 1399 | Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection |
| 1400 | purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on |
| 1401 | file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs. |
| 1402 | |
| 1403 | # multi-gen LRU { |
| 1404 | config LRU_GEN |
| 1405 | bool "Multi-Gen LRU" |
| 1406 | depends on MMU |
| 1407 | # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits |
| 1408 | depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
| 1409 | help |
| 1410 | A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See |
| 1411 | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. |
| 1412 | |
| 1413 | config LRU_GEN_ENABLED |
| 1414 | bool "Enable by default" |
| 1415 | depends on LRU_GEN |
| 1416 | help |
| 1417 | This option enables the multi-gen LRU by default. |
| 1418 | |
| 1419 | config LRU_GEN_STATS |
| 1420 | bool "Full stats for debugging" |
| 1421 | depends on LRU_GEN |
| 1422 | help |
| 1423 | Do not enable this option unless you plan to look at historical stats |
| 1424 | from evicted generations for debugging purpose. |
| 1425 | |
| 1426 | This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead. |
| 1427 | |
| 1428 | config LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU |
| 1429 | def_bool y |
| 1430 | depends on LRU_GEN && ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG |
| 1431 | # } |
| 1432 | |
| 1433 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK |
| 1434 | def_bool n |
| 1435 | |
| 1436 | config PER_VMA_LOCK |
| 1437 | def_bool y |
| 1438 | depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP |
| 1439 | help |
| 1440 | Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling. |
| 1441 | |
| 1442 | This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when |
| 1443 | handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock. |
| 1444 | |
| 1445 | config LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA |
| 1446 | bool |
| 1447 | depends on !STACK_GROWSUP |
| 1448 | |
| 1449 | config IOMMU_MM_DATA |
| 1450 | bool |
| 1451 | |
| 1452 | config EXECMEM |
| 1453 | bool |
| 1454 | |
| 1455 | config NUMA_MEMBLKS |
| 1456 | bool |
| 1457 | |
| 1458 | config NUMA_EMU |
| 1459 | bool "NUMA emulation" |
| 1460 | depends on NUMA_MEMBLKS |
| 1461 | depends on X86 || GENERIC_ARCH_NUMA |
| 1462 | help |
| 1463 | Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split |
| 1464 | into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the |
| 1465 | number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. |
| 1466 | |
| 1467 | config GENERIC_ARCH_NUMA |
| 1468 | bool |
| 1469 | select NUMA_MEMBLKS |
| 1470 | help |
| 1471 | Enable support for generic NUMA implementation. Currently, RISC-V |
| 1472 | and ARM64 use it. |
| 1473 | |
| 1474 | config ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK |
| 1475 | bool |
| 1476 | help |
| 1477 | The architecture has hardware support for userspace shadow call |
| 1478 | stacks (eg, x86 CET, arm64 GCS or RISC-V Zicfiss). |
| 1479 | |
| 1480 | config HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE |
| 1481 | def_bool n |
| 1482 | |
| 1483 | config PT_RECLAIM |
| 1484 | def_bool y |
| 1485 | depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE && !HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE |
| 1486 | help |
| 1487 | Try to reclaim empty user page table pages in paths other than munmap |
| 1488 | and exit_mmap path. |
| 1489 | |
| 1490 | Note: now only empty user PTE page table pages will be reclaimed. |
| 1491 | |
| 1492 | config FIND_NORMAL_PAGE |
| 1493 | def_bool n |
| 1494 | |
| 1495 | config ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE |
| 1496 | bool |
| 1497 | help |
| 1498 | The architecture uses the lazy MMU mode. This allows changes to |
| 1499 | MMU-related architectural state to be deferred until the mode is |
| 1500 | exited. See <linux/pgtable.h> for details. |
| 1501 | |
| 1502 | config LAZY_MMU_MODE_KUNIT_TEST |
| 1503 | tristate "KUnit tests for the lazy MMU mode" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS |
| 1504 | depends on ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE |
| 1505 | depends on KUNIT |
| 1506 | default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS |
| 1507 | help |
| 1508 | Enable this option to check that the lazy MMU mode interface behaves |
| 1509 | as expected. Only tests for the generic interface are included (not |
| 1510 | architecture-specific behaviours). |
| 1511 | |
| 1512 | If unsure, say N. |
| 1513 | |
| 1514 | source "mm/damon/Kconfig" |
| 1515 | |
| 1516 | endmenu |