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Thomas Gleixnerec8f24b2019-05-19 13:07:45 +01001# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
Christoph Hellwig59e0b522018-07-31 13:39:35 +02002
3menu "Memory Management options"
4
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07005config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
6 def_bool y
Kees Cooka8826ee2013-01-16 18:54:17 -08007 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07008
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -07009choice
10 prompt "Memory model"
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070011 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
12 default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070013 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070014 default FLATMEM_MANUAL
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070015 help
16 This option allows you to change some of the ways that
17 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
18 only have one option here selected by the architecture
19 configuration. This is normal.
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070020
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070021config FLATMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070022 bool "Flat Memory"
Anton Blanchardc898ec12006-01-06 00:12:07 -080023 depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070024 help
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070025 This option is best suited for non-NUMA systems with
26 flat address space. The FLATMEM is the most efficient
27 system in terms of performance and resource consumption
28 and it is the best option for smaller systems.
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070029
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070030 For systems that have holes in their physical address
31 spaces and for features like NUMA and memory hotplug,
32 choose "Sparse Memory"
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070033
34 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070035
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070036config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansenf3519f92005-09-16 19:27:54 -070037 bool "Discontiguous Memory"
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070038 depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
39 help
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070040 This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
41 memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
42 in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070043 more efficient handling of these holes.
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070044
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070045 Although "Discontiguous Memory" is still used by several
46 architectures, it is considered deprecated in favor of
47 "Sparse Memory".
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070048
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070049 If unsure, choose "Sparse Memory" over this option.
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070050
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070051config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
52 bool "Sparse Memory"
53 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
54 help
55 This will be the only option for some systems, including
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070056 memory hot-plug systems. This is normal.
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070057
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070058 This option provides efficient support for systems with
59 holes is their physical address space and allows memory
60 hot-plug and hot-remove.
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070061
Mike Rapoportd66d1092019-05-13 17:23:05 -070062 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070063
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070064endchoice
65
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070066config DISCONTIGMEM
67 def_bool y
68 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
69
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070070config SPARSEMEM
71 def_bool y
Russell King1a83e172009-10-26 16:50:12 -070072 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070073
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070074config FLATMEM
75 def_bool y
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070076 depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
77
78config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
79 def_bool y
80 depends on !SPARSEMEM
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070081
Dave Hansen93b75042005-06-23 00:07:47 -070082#
83# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
84# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
85# those dependencies to exist individually.
86#
87config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
88 def_bool y
89 depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
Andy Whitcroftaf705362005-06-23 00:07:53 -070090
91config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
92 def_bool y
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070093 depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
Bob Picco802f1922005-09-03 15:54:26 -070094
95#
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -070096# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +020097# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -070098# be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
99# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
100# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
101#
102# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
103# with gcc 3.4 and later.
104#
105config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700106 bool
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700107
108#
Matt LaPlante44c09202006-10-03 22:34:14 +0200109# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
Bob Picco802f1922005-09-03 15:54:26 -0700110# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
111# an extremely sparse physical address space.
112#
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700113config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
114 def_bool y
115 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700116
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700117config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700118 bool
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700119
120config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Geoff Levanda5ee6da2007-12-17 16:19:53 -0800121 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
122 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
123 default y
124 help
125 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
126 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
127 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700128
Tejun Heo7c0caeb2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200129config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500130 bool
Tejun Heo7c0caeb2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200131
Philipp Hachtmann70210ed2014-01-29 18:16:01 +0100132config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500133 bool
Philipp Hachtmann70210ed2014-01-29 18:16:01 +0100134
Kirill A. Shutemove5855132017-06-06 14:31:20 +0300135config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500136 bool
Steve Capper2667f502014-10-09 15:29:14 -0700137
Mike Rapoport350e88b2019-05-13 17:22:59 -0700138config ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500139 bool
Tejun Heoc378ddd2011-07-14 11:46:03 +0200140
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700141config MEMORY_ISOLATION
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500142 bool
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700143
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800144#
145# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
146# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
147#
148config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
149 def_bool n
150
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700151# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
152config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
153 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700154 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
Stephen Rothwell40b31362013-05-21 13:49:35 +1000155 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700156
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700157config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
158 def_bool y
159 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
160
Vitaly Kuznetsov8604d9e2016-05-19 17:13:03 -0700161config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE
162 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default"
Vitaly Kuznetsov8604d9e2016-05-19 17:13:03 -0700163 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
164 help
165 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug
166 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which
167 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting
168 can always be changed at runtime.
Mauro Carvalho Chehabcb1aaeb2019-06-07 15:54:32 -0300169 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information.
Vitaly Kuznetsov8604d9e2016-05-19 17:13:03 -0700170
171 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in
172 'online' state by default.
173 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged
174 memory blocks in 'offline' state.
175
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700176config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
177 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800178 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Nathan Fontenotf7e33342013-09-27 10:18:09 -0500179 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700180 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
181 depends on MIGRATION
182
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700183# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
184# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
185# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
186# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
187# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
Hugh Dickins7b6ac9d2005-11-23 13:37:37 -0800188# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800189# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700190#
191config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
192 int
Kirill A. Shutemov91645502014-04-07 15:37:14 -0700193 default "999999" if !MMU
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800194 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
195 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700196 default "4"
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800197
Kirill A. Shutemove009bb32013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800198config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500199 bool
Kirill A. Shutemove009bb32013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800200
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800201#
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700202# support for memory balloon
203config MEMORY_BALLOON
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500204 bool
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700205
206#
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800207# support for memory balloon compaction
208config BALLOON_COMPACTION
209 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
210 def_bool y
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700211 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800212 help
213 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
214 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
215 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
216 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
217 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
218 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
219 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
220
221#
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700222# support for memory compaction
223config COMPACTION
224 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
Rik van Riel05106e62012-10-08 16:33:03 -0700225 def_bool y
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700226 select MIGRATION
Andrea Arcangeli33a93872011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800227 depends on MMU
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700228 help
Michal Hockob32eaf72016-08-25 15:17:05 -0700229 Compaction is the only memory management component to form
230 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks
231 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and
232 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer
233 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't
234 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for
235 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at
236 linux-mm@kvack.org.
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700237
238#
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800239# support for page migration
240#
241config MIGRATION
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800242 bool "Page migration"
Christoph Lameter6c5240a2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700243 def_bool y
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700244 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800245 help
246 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700247 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
248 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
249 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
250 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
251 allocation instead of reclaiming.
Greg Kroah-Hartman6550e072006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700252
Naoya Horiguchic177c812014-06-04 16:05:35 -0700253config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500254 bool
Naoya Horiguchic177c812014-06-04 16:05:35 -0700255
Naoya Horiguchi9c670ea2017-09-08 16:10:53 -0700256config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
257 bool
258
Alexandre Ghiti8df995f2019-05-13 17:19:00 -0700259config CONTIG_ALLOC
260 def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA
261
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700262config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
Christoph Hellwigd4a451d2018-04-03 16:24:20 +0200263 def_bool 64BIT
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700264
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700265config BOUNCE
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700266 bool "Enable bounce buffers"
267 default y
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700268 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700269 help
270 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
271 the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
272 by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
273 may say n to override this.
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700274
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700275config NR_QUICK
276 int
277 depends on QUICKLIST
278 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700279
280config VIRT_TO_BUS
Stephen Rothwell4febd952013-03-07 15:48:16 +1100281 bool
282 help
283 An architecture should select this if it implements the
284 deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
285 should probably not select this.
286
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700287
288config MMU_NOTIFIER
289 bool
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -0500290 select SRCU
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700291
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700292config KSM
293 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
294 depends on MMU
Timofey Titovets59e1a2f42018-12-28 00:34:05 -0800295 select XXHASH
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700296 help
297 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
298 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
299 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800300 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700301 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
302 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Mike Rapoportad56b732018-03-21 21:22:47 +0200303 See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700304 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
305 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700306
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400307config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
308 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000309 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400310 default 4096
311 help
312 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
313 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
314 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
315
316 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
317 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
318 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400319 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
320 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
321 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400322
323 This value can be changed after boot using the
324 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
325
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700326config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
327 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400328
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200329config MEMORY_FAILURE
330 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700331 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200332 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700333 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Xie XiuQi97f0b132015-06-24 16:57:36 -0700334 select RAS
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200335 help
336 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
337 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
338 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
339 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
340
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200341config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100342 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100343 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100344 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200345
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700346config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
347 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
348 depends on !MMU
349 default 1
350 help
351 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
352 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
353 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
354 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
355 the excess and return it to the allocator.
356
357 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
358 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
359 if there are a lot of transient processes.
360
361 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
362 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
363
364 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
365 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
366 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
367 no trimming is to occur.
368
369 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
370 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
371
372 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200373
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800374config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800375 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700376 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800377 select COMPACTION
Matthew Wilcox3a08cd52018-09-22 16:14:30 -0400378 select XARRAY_MULTI
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800379 help
380 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
381 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
382 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
383 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
384 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
385 up the pagetable walking.
386
387 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
388
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800389choice
390 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
391 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
392 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
393 help
394 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
395
396 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
397 bool "always"
398 help
399 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
400 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
401 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
402
403 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
404 bool "madvise"
405 help
406 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
407 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
408 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
409 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
410 benefit.
411endchoice
412
Huang Ying38d8b4e2017-07-06 15:37:18 -0700413config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
414 def_bool n
415
416config THP_SWAP
417 def_bool y
Huang Ying14fef282018-08-17 15:49:41 -0700418 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP
Huang Ying38d8b4e2017-07-06 15:37:18 -0700419 help
420 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting.
Huang Ying14fef282018-08-17 15:49:41 -0700421 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page
422 will be split after swapout.
Huang Ying38d8b4e2017-07-06 15:37:18 -0700423
424 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes.
425
Kirill A. Shutemove496cf32016-07-26 15:26:35 -0700426config TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE
427 def_bool y
Aneesh Kumar K.V953c66c2016-12-12 16:44:32 -0800428 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Kirill A. Shutemove496cf32016-07-26 15:26:35 -0700429
430#
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200431# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
432#
433config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
434 depends on !SMP
435 bool
436 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600437
438config CLEANCACHE
439 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600440 help
441 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
442 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
443 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
444 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000445 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600446 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
447 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
448 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
449 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
450 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
451 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
452 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
453 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
454 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
455 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
456 in a negligible performance hit.
457
458 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600459
460config FRONTSWAP
461 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
462 depends on SWAP
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600463 help
464 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
465 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
466 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
467 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
468 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
469 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
470 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
471 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
472 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
473
474 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530475
476config CMA
477 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
Mike Rapoportaca52c32018-10-30 15:07:44 -0700478 depends on MMU
Aneesh Kumar K.Vf825c732013-07-02 11:15:15 +0530479 select MIGRATION
480 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
481 help
482 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
483 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
484 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
485 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
486 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
487 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
488
489 If unsure, say "n".
490
491config CMA_DEBUG
492 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
493 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
494 help
495 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG
496 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
497 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
498 This option does not affect warning and error messages.
Alexander Grafbf550fc2013-08-29 00:41:59 +0200499
Sasha Levin28b24c12015-04-14 15:44:57 -0700500config CMA_DEBUGFS
501 bool "CMA debugfs interface"
502 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS
503 help
504 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA.
505
Joonsoo Kima2541292014-08-06 16:05:25 -0700506config CMA_AREAS
507 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas"
508 depends on CMA
509 default 7
510 help
511 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly,
512 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum
513 number of CMA area in the system.
514
515 If unsure, leave the default value "7".
516
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700517config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
518 bool "Track memory changes"
519 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
520 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700521 help
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700522 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
523 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
524 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
525 it can be cleared by hands.
526
Mike Rapoport1ad13352018-04-18 11:07:49 +0300527 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details.
Seth Jennings4e2e2772013-07-10 16:04:55 -0700528
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700529config ZSWAP
530 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
531 depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
532 select CRYPTO_LZO
Dan Streetman12d79d62014-08-06 16:08:40 -0700533 select ZPOOL
Seth Jennings2b281112013-07-10 16:05:03 -0700534 help
535 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
536 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
537 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
538 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
539 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
540 reads, can also improve workload performance.
541
542 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
543 v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
544 interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
545 they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
546 configurations and workloads that exist.
547
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700548config ZPOOL
549 tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700550 help
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700551 Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or
552 zsmalloc.
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700553
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700554config ZBUD
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700555 tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages"
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700556 help
557 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
558 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
559 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
560 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
561 density approach when reclaim will be used.
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800562
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700563config Z3FOLD
564 tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages"
565 depends on ZPOOL
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700566 help
567 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
568 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical
569 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are
570 still there.
571
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800572config ZSMALLOC
Minchan Kimd867f202014-06-04 16:11:10 -0700573 tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800574 depends on MMU
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800575 help
576 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
577 compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
578 in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a
579 non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
580 returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to
581 access the allocated space.
582
583config PGTABLE_MAPPING
584 bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
585 depends on ZSMALLOC
586 help
587 By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
588 access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
589 architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
590 then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
591 mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
592
Ben Hutchings2216ee82014-03-10 15:49:46 -0700593 You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark:
594 https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700595
Ganesh Mahendran0f050d92015-02-12 15:00:54 -0800596config ZSMALLOC_STAT
597 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics"
598 depends on ZSMALLOC
599 select DEBUG_FS
600 help
601 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
602 statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that
603 information to userspace via debugfs.
604 If unsure, say N.
605
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700606config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
607 bool
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200608
609config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
610 int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
611 default 80
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200612 range 8 2048
613 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
614 help
615 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
616 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
James Hogan5f171572017-10-24 16:52:32 +0100617 arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory address minus
618 the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is changed to a
619 smaller value in which case that is used.
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200620
621 A sane initial value is 80 MB.
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700622
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700623config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
Vlastimil Babka1ce22102016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800624 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
Mike Rapoportd39f8fb2018-08-17 15:47:07 -0700625 depends on SPARSEMEM
Pavel Tatashinab1e8d82018-05-18 16:09:13 -0700626 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM
Pasha Tatashin889c6952018-09-20 12:22:30 -0700627 depends on 64BIT
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700628 help
629 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
630 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
631 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
632 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel
Vlastimil Babka1ce22102016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800633 by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This
634 has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the
635 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
636 initialisation.
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400637
Vladimir Davydov33c3fc72015-09-09 15:35:45 -0700638config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
639 bool "Enable idle page tracking"
640 depends on SYSFS && MMU
641 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
642 help
643 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have
644 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can
645 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
646 within a compute cluster.
647
Mike Rapoport1ad13352018-04-18 11:07:49 +0300648 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for
649 more details.
Vladimir Davydov33c3fc72015-09-09 15:35:45 -0700650
Oliver O'Halloran65f7d042017-06-28 11:32:31 +1000651# arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
652config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
653 bool
654
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400655config ZONE_DEVICE
Jérôme Glisse5042db42017-09-08 16:11:43 -0700656 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support"
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400657 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
658 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
Dan Williams99490f12016-03-17 14:19:58 -0700659 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Oliver O'Halloran65f7d042017-06-28 11:32:31 +1000660 depends on ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
Matthew Wilcox3a08cd52018-09-22 16:14:30 -0400661 select XARRAY_MULTI
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400662
663 help
664 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
665 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
666 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
667 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
668 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
669
670 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
Linus Torvalds06a660a2015-09-11 16:42:39 -0700671
Jérôme Glisse2c8fc3d2019-05-13 17:22:37 -0700672config ARCH_HAS_HMM_MIRROR
673 bool
674 default y
675 depends on (X86_64 || PPC64)
676 depends on MMU && 64BIT
677
678config ARCH_HAS_HMM_DEVICE
679 bool
680 default y
681 depends on (X86_64 || PPC64)
682 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
683 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
684 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
685 depends on ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
686 select XARRAY_MULTI
687
Jérôme Glisse133ff0e2017-09-08 16:11:23 -0700688config ARCH_HAS_HMM
689 bool
690 default y
691 depends on (X86_64 || PPC64)
692 depends on ZONE_DEVICE
693 depends on MMU && 64BIT
694 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
695 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
696 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
697
Jérôme Glisse6b368cd2017-09-08 16:12:32 -0700698config MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER
699 bool
700
Dan Williamse76384882018-05-16 11:46:08 -0700701config DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
702 bool
703
Jérôme Glisse133ff0e2017-09-08 16:11:23 -0700704config HMM
705 bool
Jérôme Glisse734fb892019-05-13 17:19:45 -0700706 select MMU_NOTIFIER
Jérôme Glisse6b368cd2017-09-08 16:12:32 -0700707 select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER
Jérôme Glisse133ff0e2017-09-08 16:11:23 -0700708
Jérôme Glissec0b12402017-09-08 16:11:27 -0700709config HMM_MIRROR
710 bool "HMM mirror CPU page table into a device page table"
711 depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM
Jérôme Glissec0b12402017-09-08 16:11:27 -0700712 select HMM
713 help
714 Select HMM_MIRROR if you want to mirror range of the CPU page table of a
715 process into a device page table. Here, mirror means "keep synchronized".
716 Prerequisites: the device must provide the ability to write-protect its
717 page tables (at PAGE_SIZE granularity), and must be able to recover from
718 the resulting potential page faults.
719
Jérôme Glisse5042db42017-09-08 16:11:43 -0700720config DEVICE_PRIVATE
721 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)"
722 depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM
Jérôme Glissedf6ad692017-09-08 16:12:24 -0700723 select HMM
Dan Williamse76384882018-05-16 11:46:08 -0700724 select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
Jérôme Glisse5042db42017-09-08 16:11:43 -0700725
726 help
727 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device
728 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or
729 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR.
730
Jérôme Glissedf6ad692017-09-08 16:12:24 -0700731config DEVICE_PUBLIC
732 bool "Addressable device memory (like GPU memory)"
733 depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM
734 select HMM
Dan Williamse76384882018-05-16 11:46:08 -0700735 select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
Jérôme Glissedf6ad692017-09-08 16:12:24 -0700736
737 help
738 Allows creation of struct pages to represent addressable device
739 memory; i.e., memory that is accessible from both the device and
740 the CPU
741
Jan Kara8025e5d2015-07-13 11:55:44 -0300742config FRAME_VECTOR
743 bool
Dave Hansen63c17fb2016-02-12 13:02:08 -0800744
745config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
746 bool
Dave Hansen66d37572016-02-12 13:02:32 -0800747config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
748 bool
Dennis Zhou30a5b532017-06-19 19:28:31 -0400749
750config PERCPU_STATS
751 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics"
Dennis Zhou30a5b532017-06-19 19:28:31 -0400752 help
753 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The
754 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can
755 be used to help understand percpu memory usage.
Kirill A. Shutemov64c349f2017-11-17 15:31:22 -0800756
757config GUP_BENCHMARK
758 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking"
Kirill A. Shutemov64c349f2017-11-17 15:31:22 -0800759 help
760 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_benchmark that helps with testing
761 performance of get_user_pages_fast().
762
763 See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c
Laurent Dufour3010a5e2018-06-07 17:06:08 -0700764
Christoph Hellwig39656e82019-07-11 20:56:49 -0700765config GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH
766 bool
767
Laurent Dufour3010a5e2018-06-07 17:06:08 -0700768config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
769 bool
Christoph Hellwig59e0b522018-07-31 13:39:35 +0200770
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