kernel: add Kconfig options for ARM64_BRBE and THP enhancements on 6.18

Introduce new kernel configuration options for memory management
and hardware-profiling features:

- KERNEL_ARM64_BRBE: Enables support for the Branch Record Buffer
  Extension (FEAT_BRBE) on ARM64 architectures when perf events are active.
- KERNEL_PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO: Allows allocating a PMD-sized
  folio for zeroing, optimizing Transparent Hugepage (THP) allocation
  performance.
- KERNEL_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT: Adds experimental support for bypassing
  per-page mapcount tracking to reduce memory accounting overhead under THP.

These options map directly to their respective kernel options and are
applicable on 6.18 and later.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Covington <joshuacov@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/23703
Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>

diff --git a/config/Config-kernel.in b/config/Config-kernel.in
index c7e7682d1f721d8c16a4174639787fbf19ba519f..7cfd5d0e1043c13289deeacfa5b1f1d96b630de2 100644 (file)
--- a/config/Config-kernel.in
+++ b/config/Config-kernel.in
@@ -107,6 +107,17 @@ config KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS
        select KERNEL_ARM_PMUV3 if (arm_v7 || aarch64)
        select KERNEL_RISCV_PMU if riscv64
 
+config KERNEL_ARM64_BRBE
+       bool "Enable support for branch stack sampling using FEAT_BRBE"
+       default y
+       depends on KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS && aarch64
+       help
+         Enable perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE) which
+         records all branches taken in an execution path. This supports some
+         branch types and privilege based filtering. It captures additional
+         relevant information such as cycle count, misprediction and branch
+         type, branch privilege level etc.
+
 config KERNEL_PROFILING
        bool "Compile the kernel with profiling enabled"
        select KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS
@@ -697,9 +708,46 @@ config KERNEL_FANOTIFY
 config KERNEL_BLK_DEV_BSG
        bool "Compile the kernel with SCSI generic v4 support for any block device"
 
+config KERNEL_HUGETLB_PAGE
+       bool "Compile the kernel with HugeTLB support"
+       select KERNEL_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+       select KERNEL_HUGETLBFS
+
 config KERNEL_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
        bool
 
+config KERNEL_PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO
+       bool "Allocate a PMD sized folio for zeroing"
+       depends on KERNEL_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+       default n
+       help
+         Enable this option to reduce the runtime refcounting overhead
+         of the huge zero folio and expand the places in the kernel
+         that can use huge zero folios. For instance, block I/O benefits
+         from access to large folios for zeroing memory.
+
+         With this option enabled, the huge zero folio is allocated
+         once and never freed. One full huge page's worth of memory shall
+         be used.
+
+         Say Y if your system has lots of memory. Say N if you are
+         memory constrained.
+
+config KERNEL_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT
+       bool "No per-page mapcount (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+       depends on KERNEL_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+       default n
+       help
+         Do not maintain per-page mapcounts for pages part of larger
+         allocations, such as transparent huge pages.
+
+         When this config option is enabled, some interfaces that relied on
+         this information will rely on less-precise per-allocation information
+         instead: for example, using the average per-page mapcount in such
+         a large allocation instead of the per-page mapcount.
+
+         EXPERIMENTAL because the impact of some changes is still unclear.
+
 choice
        prompt "Transparent Hugepage Support sysfs defaults"
        depends on KERNEL_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
@@ -724,11 +772,6 @@ config KERNEL_ARM64_CONTPTE
 config KERNEL_HUGETLBFS
        bool
 
-config KERNEL_HUGETLB_PAGE
-       bool "Compile the kernel with HugeTLB support"
-       select KERNEL_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
-       select KERNEL_HUGETLBFS
-
 config KERNEL_MAGIC_SYSRQ
        bool "Compile the kernel with SysRq support"
        default y