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Christoph Hellwig59e0b522018-07-31 13:39:35 +02001
2menu "Memory Management options"
3
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07004config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
5 def_bool y
Kees Cooka8826ee2013-01-16 18:54:17 -08006 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -07007
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -07008choice
9 prompt "Memory model"
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070010 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
11 default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070012 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070013 default FLATMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070014
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070015config FLATMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070016 bool "Flat Memory"
Anton Blanchardc898ec12006-01-06 00:12:07 -080017 depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070018 help
19 This option allows you to change some of the ways that
20 Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
21 only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal
22 and a correct option.
23
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070024 Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
25 memory hotplug may have different options here.
Geert Uytterhoeven18f65332013-09-15 12:01:33 +020026 DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system,
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070027 but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
28 decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
29 "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
30 "Discontiguous Memory".
31
32 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070033
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070034config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
Dave Hansenf3519f92005-09-16 19:27:54 -070035 bool "Discontiguous Memory"
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070036 depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
37 help
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070038 This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
39 memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
40 in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
41 more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
42 majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
Philipp Marekad3d0a32007-10-20 02:46:58 +020043 can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
Dave Hansen785dcd42005-06-23 00:07:50 -070044 this option imposes.
45
46 Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
47
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070048 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
49
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070050config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
51 bool "Sparse Memory"
52 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
53 help
54 This will be the only option for some systems, including
55 memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
56
57 For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
Dave Hansenf3519f92005-09-16 19:27:54 -070058 "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070059 performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
60 but it is newer, and more experimental.
61
62 If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
63 over this option.
64
Dave Hansen3a9da762005-06-23 00:07:42 -070065endchoice
66
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070067config DISCONTIGMEM
68 def_bool y
69 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
70
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070071config SPARSEMEM
72 def_bool y
Russell King1a83e172009-10-26 16:50:12 -070073 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070074
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070075config FLATMEM
76 def_bool y
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070077 depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
78
79config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
80 def_bool y
81 depends on !SPARSEMEM
Dave Hansene1785e82005-06-23 00:07:49 -070082
Dave Hansen93b75042005-06-23 00:07:47 -070083#
84# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
85# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
86# those dependencies to exist individually.
87#
88config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
89 def_bool y
90 depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
Andy Whitcroftaf705362005-06-23 00:07:53 -070091
92config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
93 def_bool y
Andy Whitcroftd41dee32005-06-23 00:07:54 -070094 depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
Bob Picco802f1922005-09-03 15:54:26 -070095
96#
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -070097# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +020098# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -070099# be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
100# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
101# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
102#
103# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
104# with gcc 3.4 and later.
105#
106config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700107 bool
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700108
109#
Matt LaPlante44c09202006-10-03 22:34:14 +0200110# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
Bob Picco802f1922005-09-03 15:54:26 -0700111# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
112# an extremely sparse physical address space.
113#
Bob Picco3e347262005-09-03 15:54:28 -0700114config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
115 def_bool y
116 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700117
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700118config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700119 bool
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700120
121config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Geoff Levanda5ee6da2007-12-17 16:19:53 -0800122 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
123 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
124 default y
125 help
126 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
127 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
128 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
Andy Whitcroft29c71112007-10-16 01:24:14 -0700129
Tejun Heo7c0caeb2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200130config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500131 bool
Tejun Heo7c0caeb2011-07-14 11:43:42 +0200132
Philipp Hachtmann70210ed2014-01-29 18:16:01 +0100133config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500134 bool
Philipp Hachtmann70210ed2014-01-29 18:16:01 +0100135
Kirill A. Shutemove5855132017-06-06 14:31:20 +0300136config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500137 bool
Steve Capper2667f502014-10-09 15:29:14 -0700138
Tejun Heoc378ddd2011-07-14 11:46:03 +0200139config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500140 bool
Tejun Heoc378ddd2011-07-14 11:46:03 +0200141
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700142config MEMORY_ISOLATION
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500143 bool
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700144
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800145#
146# Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
147# feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
148#
149config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
150 def_bool n
151
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700152# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
153config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
154 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700155 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
Stephen Rothwell40b31362013-05-21 13:49:35 +1000156 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Dave Hansen3947be12005-10-29 18:16:54 -0700157
Keith Manntheyec69acb2006-09-30 23:27:05 -0700158config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
159 def_bool y
160 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
161
Vitaly Kuznetsov8604d9e2016-05-19 17:13:03 -0700162config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE
163 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default"
164 default n
165 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
166 help
167 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug
168 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which
169 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting
170 can always be changed at runtime.
171 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information.
172
173 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in
174 'online' state by default.
175 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged
176 memory blocks in 'offline' state.
177
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700178config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
179 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
Yasuaki Ishimatsu46723bf2013-02-22 16:33:00 -0800180 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Nathan Fontenotf7e33342013-09-27 10:18:09 -0500181 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki0c0e6192007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700182 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
183 depends on MIGRATION
184
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700185# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
186# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
187# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
188# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
189# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
Hugh Dickins7b6ac9d2005-11-23 13:37:37 -0800190# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800191# DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700192#
193config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
194 int
Kirill A. Shutemov91645502014-04-07 15:37:14 -0700195 default "999999" if !MMU
Hugh Dickinsa70caa82009-12-14 17:59:02 -0800196 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
197 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
Hugh Dickins4c21e2f2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700198 default "4"
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800199
Kirill A. Shutemove009bb32013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800200config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500201 bool
Kirill A. Shutemove009bb32013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800202
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800203#
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700204# support for memory balloon
205config MEMORY_BALLOON
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500206 bool
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700207
208#
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800209# support for memory balloon compaction
210config BALLOON_COMPACTION
211 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
212 def_bool y
Konstantin Khlebnikov09316c02014-10-09 15:29:32 -0700213 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
Rafael Aquini18468d92012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800214 help
215 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
216 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
217 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
218 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
219 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
220 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
221 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
222
223#
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700224# support for memory compaction
225config COMPACTION
226 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
Rik van Riel05106e62012-10-08 16:33:03 -0700227 def_bool y
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700228 select MIGRATION
Andrea Arcangeli33a93872011-01-25 15:07:25 -0800229 depends on MMU
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700230 help
Michal Hockob32eaf72016-08-25 15:17:05 -0700231 Compaction is the only memory management component to form
232 high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks
233 reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and
234 the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer
235 invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't
236 disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for
237 it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at
238 linux-mm@kvack.org.
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700239
240#
Christoph Lameter7cbe34c2006-01-08 01:00:49 -0800241# support for page migration
242#
243config MIGRATION
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800244 bool "Page migration"
Christoph Lameter6c5240a2006-06-23 02:03:37 -0700245 def_bool y
Chen Gangde32a812013-09-12 15:14:08 -0700246 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
Christoph Lameterb20a3502006-03-22 00:09:12 -0800247 help
248 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
Mel Gormane9e96b32010-05-24 14:32:21 -0700249 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
250 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
251 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
252 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
253 allocation instead of reclaiming.
Greg Kroah-Hartman6550e072006-06-12 17:11:31 -0700254
Naoya Horiguchic177c812014-06-04 16:05:35 -0700255config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500256 bool
Naoya Horiguchic177c812014-06-04 16:05:35 -0700257
Naoya Horiguchi9c670ea2017-09-08 16:10:53 -0700258config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
259 bool
260
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700261config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
Christoph Hellwigd4a451d2018-04-03 16:24:20 +0200262 def_bool 64BIT
Jeremy Fitzhardinge600715d2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700263
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700264config BOUNCE
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700265 bool "Enable bounce buffers"
266 default y
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700267 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
Vinayak Menon9ca24e22013-04-29 15:08:55 -0700268 help
269 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
270 the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
271 by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
272 may say n to override this.
Christoph Lameter2a7326b2007-07-17 04:03:37 -0700273
Christoph Lameter6225e932007-05-06 14:49:50 -0700274config NR_QUICK
275 int
276 depends on QUICKLIST
277 default "1"
Stephen Rothwellf057eac2007-07-15 23:40:05 -0700278
279config VIRT_TO_BUS
Stephen Rothwell4febd952013-03-07 15:48:16 +1100280 bool
281 help
282 An architecture should select this if it implements the
283 deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
284 should probably not select this.
285
Andrea Arcangelicddb8a52008-07-28 15:46:29 -0700286
287config MMU_NOTIFIER
288 bool
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -0500289 select SRCU
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700290
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700291config KSM
292 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
293 depends on MMU
294 help
295 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
296 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
297 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
Hugh Dickinsd0f209f2009-12-14 17:59:34 -0800298 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700299 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
300 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
Mike Rapoportad56b732018-03-21 21:22:47 +0200301 See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive
Hugh Dickinsc73602a2009-10-07 16:32:22 -0700302 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
303 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
Hugh Dickinsf8af4da2009-09-21 17:01:57 -0700304
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400305config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
306 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
David Howells6e141542009-12-15 19:27:45 +0000307 depends on MMU
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400308 default 4096
309 help
310 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
311 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
312 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
313
314 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
315 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
316 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
Eric Paris788084a2009-07-31 12:54:11 -0400317 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
318 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
319 protection by setting the value to 0.
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400320
321 This value can be changed after boot using the
322 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
323
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700324config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
325 bool
Christoph Lametere0a94c22009-06-03 16:04:31 -0400326
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200327config MEMORY_FAILURE
328 depends on MMU
Linus Torvaldsd949f362009-09-26 09:35:07 -0700329 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200330 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
Minchan Kimee6f5092012-07-31 16:43:50 -0700331 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
Xie XiuQi97f0b132015-06-24 16:57:36 -0700332 select RAS
Andi Kleen6a460792009-09-16 11:50:15 +0200333 help
334 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
335 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
336 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
337 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
338
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200339config HWPOISON_INJECT
Andi Kleen413f9ef2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100340 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
Andi Kleen27df5062009-12-21 19:56:42 +0100341 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Wu Fengguang478c5ff2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100342 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Andi Kleencae681f2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200343
David Howellsfc4d5c22009-05-06 16:03:05 -0700344config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
345 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
346 depends on !MMU
347 default 1
348 help
349 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
350 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
351 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
352 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
353 the excess and return it to the allocator.
354
355 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
356 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
357 if there are a lot of transient processes.
358
359 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
360 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
361
362 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
363 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
364 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
365 no trimming is to occur.
366
367 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
368 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
369
370 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200371
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800372config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800373 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700374 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Andrea Arcangeli5d689242011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800375 select COMPACTION
Matthew Wilcox3a08cd52018-09-22 16:14:30 -0400376 select XARRAY_MULTI
Andrea Arcangeli4c76d9d2011-01-13 15:46:39 -0800377 help
378 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
379 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
380 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
381 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
382 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
383 up the pagetable walking.
384
385 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
386
Andrea Arcangeli13ece882011-01-13 15:47:07 -0800387choice
388 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
389 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
390 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
391 help
392 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
393
394 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
395 bool "always"
396 help
397 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
398 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
399 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
400
401 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
402 bool "madvise"
403 help
404 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
405 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
406 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
407 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
408 benefit.
409endchoice
410
Huang Ying38d8b4e2017-07-06 15:37:18 -0700411config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
412 def_bool n
413
414config THP_SWAP
415 def_bool y
Huang Ying14fef282018-08-17 15:49:41 -0700416 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP
Huang Ying38d8b4e2017-07-06 15:37:18 -0700417 help
418 Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting.
Huang Ying14fef282018-08-17 15:49:41 -0700419 XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page
420 will be split after swapout.
Huang Ying38d8b4e2017-07-06 15:37:18 -0700421
422 For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes.
423
Kirill A. Shutemove496cf32016-07-26 15:26:35 -0700424config TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE
425 def_bool y
Aneesh Kumar K.V953c66c2016-12-12 16:44:32 -0800426 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Kirill A. Shutemove496cf32016-07-26 15:26:35 -0700427
428#
Tejun Heobbddff02010-09-03 18:22:48 +0200429# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
430#
431config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
432 depends on !SMP
433 bool
434 default y
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600435
436config CLEANCACHE
437 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
438 default n
439 help
440 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
441 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
442 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
443 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
Michael Witten140a1ef2011-06-10 03:57:26 +0000444 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
Dan Magenheimer077b1f82011-05-26 10:01:36 -0600445 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
446 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
447 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
448 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
449 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
450 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
451 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
452 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
453 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
454 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
455 in a negligible performance hit.
456
457 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
Dan Magenheimer27c6aec2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600458
459config FRONTSWAP
460 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
461 depends on SWAP
462 default n
463 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 default n
535 help
536 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
537 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
538 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
539 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
540 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
541 reads, can also improve workload performance.
542
543 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
544 v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
545 interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
546 they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
547 configurations and workloads that exist.
548
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700549config ZPOOL
550 tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
551 default n
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700552 help
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700553 Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or
554 zsmalloc.
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700555
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700556config ZBUD
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700557 tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages"
Dan Streetmanaf8d4172014-08-06 16:08:36 -0700558 default n
559 help
560 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
561 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
562 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
563 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
564 density approach when reclaim will be used.
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800565
Vitaly Wool9a001fc2016-05-20 16:58:30 -0700566config Z3FOLD
567 tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages"
568 depends on ZPOOL
569 default n
570 help
571 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
572 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical
573 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are
574 still there.
575
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800576config ZSMALLOC
Minchan Kimd867f202014-06-04 16:11:10 -0700577 tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
Minchan Kimbcf16472014-01-30 15:45:50 -0800578 depends on MMU
579 default n
580 help
581 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
582 compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
583 in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a
584 non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
585 returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to
586 access the allocated space.
587
588config PGTABLE_MAPPING
589 bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
590 depends on ZSMALLOC
591 help
592 By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
593 access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
594 architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
595 then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
596 mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
597
Ben Hutchings2216ee82014-03-10 15:49:46 -0700598 You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark:
599 https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700600
Ganesh Mahendran0f050d92015-02-12 15:00:54 -0800601config ZSMALLOC_STAT
602 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics"
603 depends on ZSMALLOC
604 select DEBUG_FS
605 help
606 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
607 statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that
608 information to userspace via debugfs.
609 If unsure, say N.
610
Mark Salter9e5c33d2014-04-07 15:39:48 -0700611config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
612 bool
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200613
614config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
615 int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
616 default 80
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200617 range 8 2048
618 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
619 help
620 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
621 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
James Hogan5f171572017-10-24 16:52:32 +0100622 arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory address minus
623 the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is changed to a
624 smaller value in which case that is used.
Helge Deller042d27a2014-04-30 23:26:02 +0200625
626 A sane initial value is 80 MB.
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700627
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700628config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
Vlastimil Babka1ce22102016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800629 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700630 default n
Mike Rapoportd39f8fb2018-08-17 15:47:07 -0700631 depends on SPARSEMEM
Pavel Tatashinab1e8d82018-05-18 16:09:13 -0700632 depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM
Pasha Tatashin889c6952018-09-20 12:22:30 -0700633 depends on 64BIT
Mel Gorman3a80a7f2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700634 help
635 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
636 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
637 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
638 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel
Vlastimil Babka1ce22102016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800639 by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This
640 has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the
641 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
642 initialisation.
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400643
Vladimir Davydov33c3fc72015-09-09 15:35:45 -0700644config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
645 bool "Enable idle page tracking"
646 depends on SYSFS && MMU
647 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
648 help
649 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have
650 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can
651 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
652 within a compute cluster.
653
Mike Rapoport1ad13352018-04-18 11:07:49 +0300654 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for
655 more details.
Vladimir Davydov33c3fc72015-09-09 15:35:45 -0700656
Oliver O'Halloran65f7d042017-06-28 11:32:31 +1000657# arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
658config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
659 bool
660
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400661config ZONE_DEVICE
Jérôme Glisse5042db42017-09-08 16:11:43 -0700662 bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support"
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400663 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
664 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
Dan Williams99490f12016-03-17 14:19:58 -0700665 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Oliver O'Halloran65f7d042017-06-28 11:32:31 +1000666 depends on ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
Matthew Wilcox3a08cd52018-09-22 16:14:30 -0400667 select XARRAY_MULTI
Dan Williams033fbae2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400668
669 help
670 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
671 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
672 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
673 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
674 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
675
676 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
Linus Torvalds06a660a2015-09-11 16:42:39 -0700677
Jérôme Glisse133ff0e2017-09-08 16:11:23 -0700678config ARCH_HAS_HMM
679 bool
680 default y
681 depends on (X86_64 || PPC64)
682 depends on ZONE_DEVICE
683 depends on MMU && 64BIT
684 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
685 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
686 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
687
Jérôme Glisse6b368cd2017-09-08 16:12:32 -0700688config MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER
689 bool
690
Dan Williamse76384882018-05-16 11:46:08 -0700691config DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
692 bool
693
Jérôme Glisse133ff0e2017-09-08 16:11:23 -0700694config HMM
695 bool
Jérôme Glisse6b368cd2017-09-08 16:12:32 -0700696 select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER
Jérôme Glisse133ff0e2017-09-08 16:11:23 -0700697
Jérôme Glissec0b12402017-09-08 16:11:27 -0700698config HMM_MIRROR
699 bool "HMM mirror CPU page table into a device page table"
700 depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM
701 select MMU_NOTIFIER
702 select HMM
703 help
704 Select HMM_MIRROR if you want to mirror range of the CPU page table of a
705 process into a device page table. Here, mirror means "keep synchronized".
706 Prerequisites: the device must provide the ability to write-protect its
707 page tables (at PAGE_SIZE granularity), and must be able to recover from
708 the resulting potential page faults.
709
Jérôme Glisse5042db42017-09-08 16:11:43 -0700710config DEVICE_PRIVATE
711 bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)"
712 depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM
Jérôme Glissedf6ad692017-09-08 16:12:24 -0700713 select HMM
Dan Williamse76384882018-05-16 11:46:08 -0700714 select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
Jérôme Glisse5042db42017-09-08 16:11:43 -0700715
716 help
717 Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device
718 memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or
719 group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR.
720
Jérôme Glissedf6ad692017-09-08 16:12:24 -0700721config DEVICE_PUBLIC
722 bool "Addressable device memory (like GPU memory)"
723 depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM
724 select HMM
Dan Williamse76384882018-05-16 11:46:08 -0700725 select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
Jérôme Glissedf6ad692017-09-08 16:12:24 -0700726
727 help
728 Allows creation of struct pages to represent addressable device
729 memory; i.e., memory that is accessible from both the device and
730 the CPU
731
Jan Kara8025e5d2015-07-13 11:55:44 -0300732config FRAME_VECTOR
733 bool
Dave Hansen63c17fb2016-02-12 13:02:08 -0800734
735config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
736 bool
Dave Hansen66d37572016-02-12 13:02:32 -0800737config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
738 bool
Dennis Zhou30a5b532017-06-19 19:28:31 -0400739
740config PERCPU_STATS
741 bool "Collect percpu memory statistics"
742 default n
743 help
744 This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The
745 information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can
746 be used to help understand percpu memory usage.
Kirill A. Shutemov64c349f2017-11-17 15:31:22 -0800747
748config GUP_BENCHMARK
749 bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking"
750 default n
751 help
752 Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_benchmark that helps with testing
753 performance of get_user_pages_fast().
754
755 See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c
Laurent Dufour3010a5e2018-06-07 17:06:08 -0700756
757config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
758 bool
Christoph Hellwig59e0b522018-07-31 13:39:35 +0200759
760endmenu