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| 2 | menu "Memory Management options" |
| 3 | |
| 4 | config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL |
| 5 | def_bool y |
| 6 | depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL |
| 7 | |
| 8 | choice |
| 9 | prompt "Memory model" |
| 10 | depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL |
| 11 | default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT |
| 12 | default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT |
| 13 | default FLATMEM_MANUAL |
| 14 | |
| 15 | config FLATMEM_MANUAL |
| 16 | bool "Flat Memory" |
| 17 | depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE |
| 18 | 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 | |
| 24 | Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and |
| 25 | memory hotplug may have different options here. |
| 26 | DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system, |
| 27 | 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. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL |
| 35 | bool "Discontiguous Memory" |
| 36 | depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE |
| 37 | help |
| 38 | 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 |
| 43 | can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that |
| 44 | this option imposes. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | config 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 |
| 58 | "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential |
| 59 | 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 | |
| 65 | endchoice |
| 66 | |
| 67 | config DISCONTIGMEM |
| 68 | def_bool y |
| 69 | depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL |
| 70 | |
| 71 | config SPARSEMEM |
| 72 | def_bool y |
| 73 | depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL |
| 74 | |
| 75 | config FLATMEM |
| 76 | def_bool y |
| 77 | depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL |
| 78 | |
| 79 | config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP |
| 80 | def_bool y |
| 81 | depends on !SPARSEMEM |
| 82 | |
| 83 | # |
| 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 | # |
| 88 | config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES |
| 89 | def_bool y |
| 90 | depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA |
| 91 | |
| 92 | config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT |
| 93 | def_bool y |
| 94 | depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM |
| 95 | |
| 96 | # |
| 97 | # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem |
| 98 | # allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot |
| 99 | # 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 | # |
| 106 | config SPARSEMEM_STATIC |
| 107 | bool |
| 108 | |
| 109 | # |
| 110 | # Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM |
| 111 | # must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with |
| 112 | # an extremely sparse physical address space. |
| 113 | # |
| 114 | config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME |
| 115 | def_bool y |
| 116 | depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC |
| 117 | |
| 118 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE |
| 119 | bool |
| 120 | |
| 121 | config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
| 122 | 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. |
| 129 | |
| 130 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK |
| 131 | bool |
| 132 | |
| 133 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP |
| 134 | bool |
| 135 | |
| 136 | config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP |
| 137 | bool |
| 138 | |
| 139 | config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP |
| 140 | bool |
| 141 | |
| 142 | config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK |
| 143 | bool |
| 144 | |
| 145 | config NO_BOOTMEM |
| 146 | bool |
| 147 | |
| 148 | config MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| 149 | bool |
| 150 | |
| 151 | # |
| 152 | # Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug |
| 153 | # feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it. |
| 154 | # |
| 155 | config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE |
| 156 | def_bool n |
| 157 | |
| 158 | # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' |
| 159 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 160 | bool "Allow for memory hot-add" |
| 161 | depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA |
| 162 | depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 163 | |
| 164 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE |
| 165 | def_bool y |
| 166 | depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 167 | |
| 168 | config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE |
| 169 | bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default" |
| 170 | default n |
| 171 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 172 | help |
| 173 | This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug |
| 174 | onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which |
| 175 | determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting |
| 176 | can always be changed at runtime. |
| 177 | See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. |
| 178 | |
| 179 | Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in |
| 180 | 'online' state by default. |
| 181 | Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged |
| 182 | memory blocks in 'offline' state. |
| 183 | |
| 184 | config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| 185 | bool "Allow for memory hot remove" |
| 186 | select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| 187 | select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64) |
| 188 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| 189 | depends on MIGRATION |
| 190 | |
| 191 | # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide |
| 192 | # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address |
| 193 | # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS. |
| 194 | # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate. |
| 195 | # ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock. |
| 196 | # PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes. |
| 197 | # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page. |
| 198 | # |
| 199 | config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS |
| 200 | int |
| 201 | default "999999" if !MMU |
| 202 | default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT |
| 203 | default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20 |
| 204 | default "4" |
| 205 | |
| 206 | config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK |
| 207 | bool |
| 208 | |
| 209 | # |
| 210 | # support for memory balloon |
| 211 | config MEMORY_BALLOON |
| 212 | bool |
| 213 | |
| 214 | # |
| 215 | # support for memory balloon compaction |
| 216 | config BALLOON_COMPACTION |
| 217 | bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" |
| 218 | def_bool y |
| 219 | depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON |
| 220 | help |
| 221 | Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce |
| 222 | significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be |
| 223 | used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated |
| 224 | with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used |
| 225 | by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory |
| 226 | pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the |
| 227 | scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. |
| 228 | |
| 229 | # |
| 230 | # support for memory compaction |
| 231 | config COMPACTION |
| 232 | bool "Allow for memory compaction" |
| 233 | def_bool y |
| 234 | select MIGRATION |
| 235 | depends on MMU |
| 236 | help |
| 237 | Compaction is the only memory management component to form |
| 238 | high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks |
| 239 | reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and |
| 240 | the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer |
| 241 | invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't |
| 242 | disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for |
| 243 | it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at |
| 244 | linux-mm@kvack.org. |
| 245 | |
| 246 | # |
| 247 | # support for page migration |
| 248 | # |
| 249 | config MIGRATION |
| 250 | bool "Page migration" |
| 251 | def_bool y |
| 252 | depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU |
| 253 | help |
| 254 | Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes |
| 255 | while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in |
| 256 | two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer |
| 257 | to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge |
| 258 | pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page |
| 259 | allocation instead of reclaiming. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION |
| 262 | bool |
| 263 | |
| 264 | config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION |
| 265 | bool |
| 266 | |
| 267 | config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT |
| 268 | def_bool 64BIT |
| 269 | |
| 270 | config BOUNCE |
| 271 | bool "Enable bounce buffers" |
| 272 | default y |
| 273 | depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM) |
| 274 | help |
| 275 | Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access |
| 276 | the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled |
| 277 | by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you |
| 278 | may say n to override this. |
| 279 | |
| 280 | config NR_QUICK |
| 281 | int |
| 282 | depends on QUICKLIST |
| 283 | default "1" |
| 284 | |
| 285 | config VIRT_TO_BUS |
| 286 | bool |
| 287 | help |
| 288 | An architecture should select this if it implements the |
| 289 | deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures |
| 290 | should probably not select this. |
| 291 | |
| 292 | |
| 293 | config MMU_NOTIFIER |
| 294 | bool |
| 295 | select SRCU |
| 296 | |
| 297 | config KSM |
| 298 | bool "Enable KSM for page merging" |
| 299 | depends on MMU |
| 300 | help |
| 301 | Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas |
| 302 | of an application's address space that an app has advised may be |
| 303 | mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces |
| 304 | the many instances by a single page with that content, so |
| 305 | saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content. |
| 306 | Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications. |
| 307 | See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive |
| 308 | until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and |
| 309 | root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). |
| 310 | |
| 311 | config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR |
| 312 | int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" |
| 313 | depends on MMU |
| 314 | default 4096 |
| 315 | help |
| 316 | This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected |
| 317 | from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages |
| 318 | can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. |
| 319 | |
| 320 | For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space |
| 321 | a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. |
| 322 | On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. |
| 323 | Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map |
| 324 | this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this |
| 325 | protection by setting the value to 0. |
| 326 | |
| 327 | This value can be changed after boot using the |
| 328 | /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. |
| 329 | |
| 330 | config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE |
| 331 | bool |
| 332 | |
| 333 | config MEMORY_FAILURE |
| 334 | depends on MMU |
| 335 | depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE |
| 336 | bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors" |
| 337 | select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| 338 | select RAS |
| 339 | help |
| 340 | Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems |
| 341 | with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running |
| 342 | even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires |
| 343 | special hardware support and typically ECC memory. |
| 344 | |
| 345 | config HWPOISON_INJECT |
| 346 | tristate "HWPoison pages injector" |
| 347 | depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS |
| 348 | select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR |
| 349 | |
| 350 | config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS |
| 351 | int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting" |
| 352 | depends on !MMU |
| 353 | default 1 |
| 354 | help |
| 355 | The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks |
| 356 | of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system |
| 357 | allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently |
| 358 | more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off |
| 359 | the excess and return it to the allocator. |
| 360 | |
| 361 | If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the |
| 362 | system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly |
| 363 | if there are a lot of transient processes. |
| 364 | |
| 365 | If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for |
| 366 | long-term mappings means that the space is wasted. |
| 367 | |
| 368 | Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option |
| 369 | (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of |
| 370 | excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if |
| 371 | no trimming is to occur. |
| 372 | |
| 373 | This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default |
| 374 | of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed. |
| 375 | |
| 376 | See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. |
| 377 | |
| 378 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 379 | bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" |
| 380 | depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 381 | select COMPACTION |
| 382 | select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER |
| 383 | help |
| 384 | Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and |
| 385 | huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. |
| 386 | This feature can improve computing performance to certain |
| 387 | applications by speeding up page faults during memory |
| 388 | allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding |
| 389 | up the pagetable walking. |
| 390 | |
| 391 | If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. |
| 392 | |
| 393 | choice |
| 394 | prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults" |
| 395 | depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 396 | default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS |
| 397 | help |
| 398 | Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support. |
| 399 | |
| 400 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS |
| 401 | bool "always" |
| 402 | help |
| 403 | Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the |
| 404 | memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed |
| 405 | benefit but it will work automatically for all applications. |
| 406 | |
| 407 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE |
| 408 | bool "madvise" |
| 409 | help |
| 410 | Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a |
| 411 | performance improvement benefit to the applications using |
| 412 | madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the |
| 413 | memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed |
| 414 | benefit. |
| 415 | endchoice |
| 416 | |
| 417 | config ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP |
| 418 | def_bool n |
| 419 | |
| 420 | config THP_SWAP |
| 421 | def_bool y |
| 422 | depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP && SWAP |
| 423 | help |
| 424 | Swap transparent huge pages in one piece, without splitting. |
| 425 | XXX: For now, swap cluster backing transparent huge page |
| 426 | will be split after swapout. |
| 427 | |
| 428 | For selection by architectures with reasonable THP sizes. |
| 429 | |
| 430 | config TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE |
| 431 | def_bool y |
| 432 | depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
| 433 | |
| 434 | # |
| 435 | # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator |
| 436 | # |
| 437 | config NEED_PER_CPU_KM |
| 438 | depends on !SMP |
| 439 | bool |
| 440 | default y |
| 441 | |
| 442 | config CLEANCACHE |
| 443 | bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" |
| 444 | default n |
| 445 | help |
| 446 | Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache |
| 447 | for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm |
| 448 | (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough |
| 449 | memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use |
| 450 | cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into |
| 451 | "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or |
| 452 | addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly |
| 453 | time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled |
| 454 | filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first |
| 455 | checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does, |
| 456 | the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided. |
| 457 | When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or |
| 458 | Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction |
| 459 | may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls |
| 460 | are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting |
| 461 | in a negligible performance hit. |
| 462 | |
| 463 | If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache |
| 464 | |
| 465 | config FRONTSWAP |
| 466 | bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" |
| 467 | depends on SWAP |
| 468 | default n |
| 469 | help |
| 470 | Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite |
| 471 | of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into |
| 472 | "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or |
| 473 | addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly |
| 474 | time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, |
| 475 | a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is |
| 476 | available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- |
| 477 | compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit |
| 478 | and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. |
| 479 | |
| 480 | If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. |
| 481 | |
| 482 | config CMA |
| 483 | bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator" |
| 484 | depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU |
| 485 | select MIGRATION |
| 486 | select MEMORY_ISOLATION |
| 487 | help |
| 488 | This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other |
| 489 | subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory. |
| 490 | CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to |
| 491 | be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for |
| 492 | pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the |
| 493 | allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request. |
| 494 | |
| 495 | If unsure, say "n". |
| 496 | |
| 497 | config CMA_DEBUG |
| 498 | bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)" |
| 499 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA |
| 500 | help |
| 501 | Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG |
| 502 | messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while |
| 503 | processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). |
| 504 | This option does not affect warning and error messages. |
| 505 | |
| 506 | config CMA_DEBUGFS |
| 507 | bool "CMA debugfs interface" |
| 508 | depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS |
| 509 | help |
| 510 | Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA. |
| 511 | |
| 512 | config CMA_AREAS |
| 513 | int "Maximum count of the CMA areas" |
| 514 | depends on CMA |
| 515 | default 7 |
| 516 | help |
| 517 | CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly, |
| 518 | used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum |
| 519 | number of CMA area in the system. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | If unsure, leave the default value "7". |
| 522 | |
| 523 | config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY |
| 524 | bool "Track memory changes" |
| 525 | depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS |
| 526 | select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR |
| 527 | help |
| 528 | This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a |
| 529 | soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes |
| 530 | into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter |
| 531 | it can be cleared by hands. |
| 532 | |
| 533 | See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details. |
| 534 | |
| 535 | config ZSWAP |
| 536 | bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 537 | depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y |
| 538 | select CRYPTO_LZO |
| 539 | select ZPOOL |
| 540 | default n |
| 541 | help |
| 542 | A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes |
| 543 | pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to |
| 544 | compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. |
| 545 | This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, |
| 546 | in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device |
| 547 | reads, can also improve workload performance. |
| 548 | |
| 549 | This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of |
| 550 | v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these |
| 551 | interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, |
| 552 | they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential |
| 553 | configurations and workloads that exist. |
| 554 | |
| 555 | config ZPOOL |
| 556 | tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage" |
| 557 | default n |
| 558 | help |
| 559 | Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or |
| 560 | zsmalloc. |
| 561 | |
| 562 | config ZBUD |
| 563 | tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages" |
| 564 | default n |
| 565 | help |
| 566 | A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. |
| 567 | It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical |
| 568 | page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and |
| 569 | deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher |
| 570 | density approach when reclaim will be used. |
| 571 | |
| 572 | config Z3FOLD |
| 573 | tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages" |
| 574 | depends on ZPOOL |
| 575 | default n |
| 576 | help |
| 577 | A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. |
| 578 | It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical |
| 579 | page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are |
| 580 | still there. |
| 581 | |
| 582 | config ZSMALLOC |
| 583 | tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages" |
| 584 | depends on MMU |
| 585 | default n |
| 586 | help |
| 587 | zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store |
| 588 | compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping |
| 589 | in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a |
| 590 | non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is |
| 591 | returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to |
| 592 | access the allocated space. |
| 593 | |
| 594 | config PGTABLE_MAPPING |
| 595 | bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc" |
| 596 | depends on ZSMALLOC |
| 597 | help |
| 598 | By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to |
| 599 | access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular |
| 600 | architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying, |
| 601 | then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table |
| 602 | mapping rather than copying for object mapping. |
| 603 | |
| 604 | You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark: |
| 605 | https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench |
| 606 | |
| 607 | config ZSMALLOC_STAT |
| 608 | bool "Export zsmalloc statistics" |
| 609 | depends on ZSMALLOC |
| 610 | select DEBUG_FS |
| 611 | help |
| 612 | This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various |
| 613 | statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that |
| 614 | information to userspace via debugfs. |
| 615 | If unsure, say N. |
| 616 | |
| 617 | config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP |
| 618 | bool |
| 619 | |
| 620 | config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB |
| 621 | int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)" |
| 622 | default 80 |
| 623 | range 8 2048 |
| 624 | depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT) |
| 625 | help |
| 626 | This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit |
| 627 | user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc |
| 628 | arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory address minus |
| 629 | the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is changed to a |
| 630 | smaller value in which case that is used. |
| 631 | |
| 632 | A sane initial value is 80 MB. |
| 633 | |
| 634 | config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT |
| 635 | bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" |
| 636 | default n |
| 637 | depends on NO_BOOTMEM |
| 638 | depends on SPARSEMEM |
| 639 | depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM |
| 640 | depends on 64BIT |
| 641 | help |
| 642 | Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a |
| 643 | single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable |
| 644 | amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up |
| 645 | a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel |
| 646 | by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This |
| 647 | has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the |
| 648 | lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the |
| 649 | initialisation. |
| 650 | |
| 651 | config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING |
| 652 | bool "Enable idle page tracking" |
| 653 | depends on SYSFS && MMU |
| 654 | select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT |
| 655 | help |
| 656 | This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have |
| 657 | not been touched during a given period of time. This information can |
| 658 | be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement |
| 659 | within a compute cluster. |
| 660 | |
| 661 | See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for |
| 662 | more details. |
| 663 | |
| 664 | # arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory |
| 665 | config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE |
| 666 | bool |
| 667 | |
| 668 | config ZONE_DEVICE |
| 669 | bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support" |
| 670 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 671 | depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| 672 | depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
| 673 | depends on ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE |
| 674 | select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER |
| 675 | |
| 676 | help |
| 677 | Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem, |
| 678 | or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the |
| 679 | memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise |
| 680 | "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX |
| 681 | mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things. |
| 682 | |
| 683 | If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y. |
| 684 | |
| 685 | config ARCH_HAS_HMM |
| 686 | bool |
| 687 | default y |
| 688 | depends on (X86_64 || PPC64) |
| 689 | depends on ZONE_DEVICE |
| 690 | depends on MMU && 64BIT |
| 691 | depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG |
| 692 | depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE |
| 693 | depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP |
| 694 | |
| 695 | config MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER |
| 696 | bool |
| 697 | |
| 698 | config DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS |
| 699 | bool |
| 700 | |
| 701 | config HMM |
| 702 | bool |
| 703 | select MMU_NOTIFIER |
| 704 | select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER |
| 705 | |
| 706 | config HMM_MIRROR |
| 707 | bool "HMM mirror CPU page table into a device page table" |
| 708 | depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM |
| 709 | select HMM |
| 710 | help |
| 711 | Select HMM_MIRROR if you want to mirror range of the CPU page table of a |
| 712 | process into a device page table. Here, mirror means "keep synchronized". |
| 713 | Prerequisites: the device must provide the ability to write-protect its |
| 714 | page tables (at PAGE_SIZE granularity), and must be able to recover from |
| 715 | the resulting potential page faults. |
| 716 | |
| 717 | config DEVICE_PRIVATE |
| 718 | bool "Unaddressable device memory (GPU memory, ...)" |
| 719 | depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM |
| 720 | select HMM |
| 721 | select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS |
| 722 | |
| 723 | help |
| 724 | Allows creation of struct pages to represent unaddressable device |
| 725 | memory; i.e., memory that is only accessible from the device (or |
| 726 | group of devices). You likely also want to select HMM_MIRROR. |
| 727 | |
| 728 | config DEVICE_PUBLIC |
| 729 | bool "Addressable device memory (like GPU memory)" |
| 730 | depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM |
| 731 | select HMM |
| 732 | select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS |
| 733 | |
| 734 | help |
| 735 | Allows creation of struct pages to represent addressable device |
| 736 | memory; i.e., memory that is accessible from both the device and |
| 737 | the CPU |
| 738 | |
| 739 | config FRAME_VECTOR |
| 740 | bool |
| 741 | |
| 742 | config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS |
| 743 | bool |
| 744 | config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS |
| 745 | bool |
| 746 | |
| 747 | config PERCPU_STATS |
| 748 | bool "Collect percpu memory statistics" |
| 749 | default n |
| 750 | help |
| 751 | This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The |
| 752 | information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can |
| 753 | be used to help understand percpu memory usage. |
| 754 | |
| 755 | config GUP_BENCHMARK |
| 756 | bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking" |
| 757 | default n |
| 758 | help |
| 759 | Provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_benchmark that helps with testing |
| 760 | performance of get_user_pages_fast(). |
| 761 | |
| 762 | See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c |
| 763 | |
| 764 | config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL |
| 765 | bool |
| 766 | |
| 767 | config MTK_MM_DEBUG |
| 768 | bool "For MTK MM subsystem debugging" |
| 769 | help |
| 770 | This config is used for MTK MM subsystem debugging, |
| 771 | sometimes we need to use BUG() to catch specific |
| 772 | type of errors. Wrap the debug code with this config, |
| 773 | so we can remove the debug code by disabling it. |
| 774 | |
| 775 | endmenu |