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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 105 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index a5af0edd3eb8..9f066785bb71 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ config CFI_CLANG depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi) help - This option enables Clang’s forward-edge Control Flow Integrity + This option enables Clang's forward-edge Control Flow Integrity (CFI) checking, where the compiler injects a runtime check to each indirect function call to ensure the target is a valid function with the correct static type. This restricts possible call targets and @@ -1078,17 +1078,107 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. +config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB + bool + +config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB + bool + +config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB + bool + +config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB + bool + +config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB + bool + +config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB + bool + +choice + prompt "MMU page size" + +config PAGE_SIZE_4KB + bool "4KiB pages" + depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB + help + This option select the standard 4KiB Linux page size and the only + available option on many architectures. Using 4KiB page size will + minimize memory consumption and is therefore recommended for low + memory systems. + Some software that is written for x86 systems makes incorrect + assumptions about the page size and only runs on 4KiB pages. + +config PAGE_SIZE_8KB + bool "8KiB pages" + depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB + help + This option is the only supported page size on a few older + processors, and can be slightly faster than 4KiB pages. + +config PAGE_SIZE_16KB + bool "16KiB pages" + depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB + help + This option is usually a good compromise between memory + consumption and performance for typical desktop and server + workloads, often saving a level of page table lookups compared + to 4KB pages as well as reducing TLB pressure and overhead of + per-page operations in the kernel at the expense of a larger + page cache. + +config PAGE_SIZE_32KB + bool "32KiB pages" + depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB + help + Using 32KiB page size will result in slightly higher performance + kernel at the price of higher memory consumption compared to + 16KiB pages. This option is available only on cnMIPS cores. + Note that you will need a suitable Linux distribution to + support this. + +config PAGE_SIZE_64KB + bool "64KiB pages" + depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB + help + Using 64KiB page size will result in slightly higher performance + kernel at the price of much higher memory consumption compared to + 4KiB or 16KiB pages. + This is not suitable for general-purpose workloads but the + better performance may be worth the cost for certain types of + supercomputing or database applications that work mostly with + large in-memory data rather than small files. + +config PAGE_SIZE_256KB + bool "256KiB pages" + depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB + help + 256KiB pages have little practical value due to their extreme + memory usage. The kernel will only be able to run applications + that have been compiled with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256KiB + (the default is 64KiB or 4KiB on most architectures). + +endchoice + config PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB def_bool y - depends on !ARM64_64K_PAGES depends on !PAGE_SIZE_64KB - depends on !PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB config PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB def_bool y depends on !PAGE_SIZE_256KB +config PAGE_SHIFT + int + default 12 if PAGE_SIZE_4KB + default 13 if PAGE_SIZE_8KB + default 14 if PAGE_SIZE_16KB + default 15 if PAGE_SIZE_32KB + default 16 if PAGE_SIZE_64KB + default 18 if PAGE_SIZE_256KB + # This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base # address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or @@ -1507,4 +1597,16 @@ config FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT default 4 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B default 0 +config CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT + # Detect availability of the GCC option -fmin-function-alignment which + # guarantees minimal alignment for all functions, unlike + # -falign-functions which the compiler ignores for cold functions. + def_bool $(cc-option, -fmin-function-alignment=8) + +config CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT + # Set if the guaranteed alignment with -fmin-function-alignment is + # available or extra care is required in the kernel. Clang provides + # strict alignment always, even with -falign-functions. + def_bool CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT || CC_IS_CLANG + endmenu |