1 config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
3 depends on ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
7 depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
8 default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
9 default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
10 default FLATMEM_MANUAL
14 depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
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: FLATMEM. This is normal
21 Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
22 memory hotplug may have different options here.
23 DISCONTIGMEM is a more mature, better tested system,
24 but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
25 decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
26 "Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
27 "Discontiguous Memory".
29 If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
31 config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
32 bool "Discontiguous Memory"
33 depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
35 This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
36 memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
37 in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
38 more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
39 majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
40 can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
43 Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
45 If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
47 config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
49 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
51 This will be the only option for some systems, including
52 memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
54 For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
55 "Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
56 performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
57 but it is newer, and more experimental.
59 If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
66 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
70 depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
74 depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
76 config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
81 # Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
82 # to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
83 # those dependencies to exist individually.
85 config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
87 depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
89 config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
91 depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
94 # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
95 # allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
96 # be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
97 # statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
98 # consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
100 # This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
101 # with gcc 3.4 and later.
103 config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
107 # Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
108 # must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
109 # an extremely sparse physical address space.
111 config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
113 depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
115 config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
118 config SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
120 depends on SPARSEMEM && X86_64
122 config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
123 bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
124 depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
127 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
128 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
129 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
134 config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
137 config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
140 config HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP
143 config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
149 config MEMORY_ISOLATION
153 bool "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory"
154 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
155 depends on NO_BOOTMEM
160 Allow a node to have only movable memory. Pages used by the kernel,
161 such as direct mapping pages cannot be migrated. So the corresponding
162 memory device cannot be hotplugged. This option allows the following
164 - When the system is booting, node full of hotpluggable memory can
165 be arranged to have only movable memory so that the whole node can
166 be hot-removed. (need movable_node boot option specified).
167 - After the system is up, the option allows users to online all the
168 memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole node can be
171 Users who don't use the memory hotplug feature are fine with this
172 option on since they don't specify movable_node boot option or they
173 don't online memory as movable.
175 Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
176 Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.
179 # Only be set on architectures that have completely implemented memory hotplug
180 # feature. If you are not sure, don't touch it.
182 config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
185 # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
186 config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
187 bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
188 depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
189 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
192 config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
194 depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
196 config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE
197 bool "Online the newly added memory blocks by default"
199 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
201 This option sets the default policy setting for memory hotplug
202 onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks) which
203 determines what happens to newly added memory regions. Policy setting
204 can always be changed at runtime.
205 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information.
207 Say Y here if you want all hot-plugged memory blocks to appear in
208 'online' state by default.
209 Say N here if you want the default policy to keep all hot-plugged
210 memory blocks in 'offline' state.
212 config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
213 bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
214 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
215 select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
216 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
219 # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
220 # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
221 # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
222 # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
223 # ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
224 # PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
225 # DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC spinlock_t also enlarge struct page.
227 config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
229 default "999999" if !MMU
230 default "999999" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
231 default "999999" if PARISC && !PA20
234 config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
238 # support for memory balloon
239 config MEMORY_BALLOON
243 # support for memory balloon compaction
244 config BALLOON_COMPACTION
245 bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
247 depends on COMPACTION && MEMORY_BALLOON
249 Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
250 significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
251 used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
252 with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
253 by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
254 pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
255 scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
258 # support for memory compaction
260 bool "Allow for memory compaction"
265 Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
268 # support for page migration
271 bool "Page migration"
273 depends on (NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION || CMA) && MMU
275 Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
276 while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
277 two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
278 to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
279 pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
280 allocation instead of reclaiming.
282 config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
285 config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
286 def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
289 bool "Enable bounce buffers"
291 depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
293 Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
294 the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
295 by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
296 may say n to override this.
298 # On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
299 # have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present
300 # a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
301 config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
303 default y if TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD
314 An architecture should select this if it implements the
315 deprecated interface virt_to_bus(). All new architectures
316 should probably not select this.
324 bool "Enable KSM for page merging"
327 Enable Kernel Samepage Merging: KSM periodically scans those areas
328 of an application's address space that an app has advised may be
329 mergeable. When it finds pages of identical content, it replaces
330 the many instances by a single page with that content, so
331 saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
332 Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
333 See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
334 until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
335 root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
337 config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
338 int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
342 This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
343 from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
344 can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
346 For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
347 a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
348 On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
349 Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
350 this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
351 protection by setting the value to 0.
353 This value can be changed after boot using the
354 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
356 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
359 config MEMORY_FAILURE
361 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
362 bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
363 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
366 Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
367 with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
368 even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
369 special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
371 config HWPOISON_INJECT
372 tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
373 depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
374 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
376 config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
377 int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
381 The NOMMU mmap() frequently needs to allocate large contiguous chunks
382 of memory on which to store mappings, but it can only ask the system
383 allocator for chunks in 2^N*PAGE_SIZE amounts - which is frequently
384 more than it requires. To deal with this, mmap() is able to trim off
385 the excess and return it to the allocator.
387 If trimming is enabled, the excess is trimmed off and returned to the
388 system allocator, which can cause extra fragmentation, particularly
389 if there are a lot of transient processes.
391 If trimming is disabled, the excess is kept, but not used, which for
392 long-term mappings means that the space is wasted.
394 Trimming can be dynamically controlled through a sysctl option
395 (/proc/sys/vm/nr_trim_pages) which specifies the minimum number of
396 excess pages there must be before trimming should occur, or zero if
397 no trimming is to occur.
399 This option specifies the initial value of this option. The default
400 of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
402 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
404 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
405 bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
406 depends on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
408 select RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER
410 Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
411 huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
412 This feature can improve computing performance to certain
413 applications by speeding up page faults during memory
414 allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding
415 up the pagetable walking.
417 If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N.
420 prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
421 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
422 default TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
424 Selects the sysfs defaults for Transparent Hugepage Support.
426 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS
429 Enabling Transparent Hugepage always, can increase the
430 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
431 benefit but it will work automatically for all applications.
433 config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE
436 Enabling Transparent Hugepage madvise, will only provide a
437 performance improvement benefit to the applications using
438 madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) but it won't risk to increase the
439 memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
444 # We don't deposit page tables on file THP mapping,
445 # but Power makes use of them to address MMU quirk.
447 config TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE
449 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && !PPC
452 # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
454 config NEED_PER_CPU_KM
460 bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
463 Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
464 for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
465 (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
466 memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to use
467 cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into
468 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
469 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
470 time-varying size. And when a cleancache-enabled
471 filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
472 checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
473 the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
474 When a transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or
475 Xen transcendent memory), a significant I/O reduction
476 may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
477 are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
478 in a negligible performance hit.
480 If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
483 bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
487 Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite
488 of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into
489 "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or
490 addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly
491 time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available,
492 a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is
493 available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer-
494 compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit
495 and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
497 If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
500 bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
501 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK && MMU
503 select MEMORY_ISOLATION
505 This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows other
506 subsystems to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory.
507 CMA reserves a region of memory and allows only movable pages to
508 be allocated from it. This way, the kernel can use the memory for
509 pagecache and when a subsystem requests for contiguous area, the
510 allocated pages are migrated away to serve the contiguous request.
515 bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
516 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && CMA
518 Turns on debug messages in CMA. This produces KERN_DEBUG
519 messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
520 processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
521 This option does not affect warning and error messages.
524 bool "CMA debugfs interface"
525 depends on CMA && DEBUG_FS
527 Turns on the DebugFS interface for CMA.
530 int "Maximum count of the CMA areas"
534 CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly,
535 used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum
536 number of CMA area in the system.
538 If unsure, leave the default value "7".
540 config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
541 bool "Track memory changes"
542 depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
543 select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
545 This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a
546 soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes
547 into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
548 it can be cleared by hands.
550 See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.
553 bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
554 depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y
559 A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes
560 pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to
561 compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool.
562 This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and,
563 in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device
564 reads, can also improve workload performance.
566 This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of
567 v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these
568 interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups,
569 they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential
570 configurations and workloads that exist.
573 tristate "Common API for compressed memory storage"
576 Compressed memory storage API. This allows using either zbud or
580 tristate "Low (Up to 2x) density storage for compressed pages"
583 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
584 It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
585 page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
586 deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
587 density approach when reclaim will be used.
590 tristate "Up to 3x density storage for compressed pages"
594 A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
595 It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical
596 page. It is a ZBUD derivative so the simplicity and determinism are
600 tristate "Memory allocator for compressed pages"
604 zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store
605 compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping
606 in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a
607 non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is
608 returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to
609 access the allocated space.
611 config PGTABLE_MAPPING
612 bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc"
615 By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to
616 access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular
617 architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying,
618 then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table
619 mapping rather than copying for object mapping.
621 You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark:
622 https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmapbench
625 bool "Export zsmalloc statistics"
629 This option enables code in the zsmalloc to collect various
630 statistics about whats happening in zsmalloc and exports that
631 information to userspace via debugfs.
634 config GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
637 config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
638 int "Maximum user stack size for 32-bit processes (MB)"
642 depends on STACK_GROWSUP && (!64BIT || COMPAT)
644 This is the maximum stack size in Megabytes in the VM layout of 32-bit
645 user processes when the stack grows upwards (currently only on parisc
646 and metag arch). The stack will be located at the highest memory
647 address minus the given value, unless the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is
648 changed to a smaller value in which case that is used.
650 A sane initial value is 80 MB.
652 # For architectures that support deferred memory initialisation
653 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
656 config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
657 bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
659 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
660 depends on NO_BOOTMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
663 Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
664 single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
665 amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
666 a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel
667 by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This
668 has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the
669 lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
672 config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
673 bool "Enable idle page tracking"
674 depends on SYSFS && MMU
675 select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
677 This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have
678 not been touched during a given period of time. This information can
679 be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
680 within a compute cluster.
682 See Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt for more details.
685 bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support"
686 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
687 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
688 depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
689 depends on X86_64 #arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
692 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
693 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
694 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
695 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
696 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
698 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
703 config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
705 config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS