1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 632f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 662f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 69eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 741a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 759371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 76f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 77f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 781a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 79b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 80b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 81f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 82f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 83c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 84587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 86587f1701SNick Desaulniers 871aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 881aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 891aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 90534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 911aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 92f328d96dSLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_WORKAROUND 93f328d96dSLinus Torvalds bool 94f328d96dSLinus Torvalds depends on CC_IS_GCC && CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 95f328d96dSLinus Torvalds # Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96f328d96dSLinus Torvalds # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97f328d96dSLinus Torvalds default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 98f328d96dSLinus Torvalds default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 99f328d96dSLinus Torvalds default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 100f328d96dSLinus Torvalds 1015cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1022d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1035cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 104eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 105eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 106eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 10751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 10851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 10951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 1105540869aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 1115540869aSJan Hendrik Farr # TODO: when gcc 15 is released remove the build test and add 1125540869aSJan Hendrik Farr # a gcc version check 1135540869aSJan Hendrik Farr def_bool $(success,echo 'struct flex { int count; int array[] __attribute__((__counted_by__(count))); };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 1145540869aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 1155540869aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 1165540869aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 1175540869aSJan Hendrik Farr depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103) 1185540869aSJan Hendrik Farr 119613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 120613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 121613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 122613fe169SNathan Chancellor 123b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 124b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 125b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 126e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 127e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 128e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 12910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1301dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1311dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 132c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 133c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 134c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 135c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 136c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 137c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 138c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 139c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 140c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 141c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 142ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 154dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 155dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 15834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1604bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1614bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 162ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1634bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1644bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1654bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1664bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1674bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1684bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1694bb16672SJiri Slaby 1704bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1714bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1724bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1734bb16672SJiri Slaby 1743fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1753fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 176b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1773fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1783fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 180e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 181e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 182e1789d7cSXin Li well. 1833fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 184e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 185e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1863fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1873fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1883fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1893fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1903fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 191d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 192d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 193fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 194d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 195d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 196d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 197d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 198d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 199d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 200d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 212aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 213aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 214ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 215aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 216aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 219aaebf433SRyan Anderson 220aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 222aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2236e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 224aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2250f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2266e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2286e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2296e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2306e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 231aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2329afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2339afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2349afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2359afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2369afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2379afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2389afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2399afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2409afb719eSLaura Abbott 2412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2503ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2513ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2523ebe1243SLasse Collin 2537dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 256e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 257e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 258e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 25948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 26048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 26148f7ddf7SNick Terrell 262f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 263f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 264f16466afSVasily Gorbik 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 26848f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 26930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 27330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 27430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 27830d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 28030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28130d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 28230d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 28330d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 28430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 28830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 29430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2990a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3080a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3090a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3100a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3123ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3133ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3143ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3153ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3163ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3173ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3183ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3193ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3203ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 3213ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 3223ebe1243SLasse Collin 3233ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3243ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3253ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3263ebe1243SLasse Collin 3277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3297dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3310a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 332681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 335e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 336e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 337e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 338e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 339e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 340e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 341e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 342e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 343e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 344e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 345e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 346e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 34748f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 34848f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 34948f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 35048f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 35148f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 35248f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 35348f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 35448f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 35548f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 35648f7ddf7SNick Terrell 357f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 358f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 359f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 360f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 361f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 362f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 363f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 364f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 365f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 366f16466afSVasily Gorbik 36730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 36830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 369ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 370ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 371ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 372ada4ab7aSChris Down help 373ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 374ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 375ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 376ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 377ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 378ada4ab7aSChris Down 379bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 380bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 381bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 382bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 383bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 384bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 385bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 386bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 387bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 390a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 403a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 404a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 405a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 406a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 407a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 408a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4090cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4100cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4110cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4120cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 41519c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 416a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 421b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 429bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 430bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 431bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 432bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 433bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 434bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 435c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 436c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 437c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 438c73be61cSDavid Howells help 439c73be61cSDavid Howells 440c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 441c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 442c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 443c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 444c73be61cSDavid Howells 445c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 446c73be61cSDavid Howells 447226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 448226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 449226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 450226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 451226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 452226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 453226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 454a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 455226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 456226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 45769369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4587374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4597374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 46069369a70SJosh Triplett help 46169369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 46269369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 46369369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 46469369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 46569369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 46669369a70SJosh Triplett 4671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 469804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 473cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 474cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4767a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4777a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4787a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 480cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4817a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 48228a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 48374c3cbe3SAl Viro 484d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 485764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 486b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 48787a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 488d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 493abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 494fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 495fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 49602382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 497fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 498fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 499fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 501c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 502fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 504fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 506fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 507fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 508fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 511c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 522abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 523abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 52424a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 525554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 526041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 527abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 52824a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 529abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 530abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 531abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 532abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 533abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 534abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 535abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 536abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 537abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 538abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 539abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 540abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 541b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 542b58c3584SRik van Riel 543fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 544fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 545b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 546fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 547fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 548fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 549fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 550fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 551fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 552fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 553fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 55411d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 55511d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 55611d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 55711d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 55811d4afd4SVincent Guittot 55976504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 56098eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 561fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 562fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 56376504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 56498eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 56598eb401dSValentin Schneider help 56698eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 56798eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 56898eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 56998eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 57098eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 57198eb401dSValentin Schneider 57298eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 57398eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 57498eb401dSValentin Schneider 57598eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5767e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 57776504793SThara Gopinath 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5802813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5993903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 60519c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6072813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 61919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 621f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 63119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 64019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 648eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 649eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 65098dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 651eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 652eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 653eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 654eb414681SJohannes Weiner 655eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 656eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 657eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 658eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 659eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6602ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6612ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6622ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6632ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 664c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 665eb414681SJohannes Weiner 666eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 667eb414681SJohannes Weiner 668e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 669e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 670e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 671e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 672e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 673e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 674428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 675428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 676e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6777b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6787b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6797b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6807b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6817b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6827b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6837b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6847b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6857b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6867b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6877b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 688391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 689391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6905c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6915c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 692*b205d027SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 6932c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6945c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6955c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6965c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6972c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6982c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6992c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7002c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7015c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7020af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 703c903ff83SMike Travis 7041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 705f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 706a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 719a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 723f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 724f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 725f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 72643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 727f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 728f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 729f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 730f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 73143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 732794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 733794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7341c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 735f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 736361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 737794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 743f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 744f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 745f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 746f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 747f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 748794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 749794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 750794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7532240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 757361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7700f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7765e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7775e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 77823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78733701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 78833701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 78933701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 79033701557SChris Down help 79133701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 79233701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 79333701557SChris Down 79433701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 79533701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 79633701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 79733701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 79833701557SChris Down 79933701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 80033701557SChris Down 8015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 80738ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 80838ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 80938ff87f7SStephen Boyd 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 870be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 87172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 87272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 87372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 87472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 87572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 87672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 87772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 87872b252aeSMel Gorman bool 87972b252aeSMel Gorman 880c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8813a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 882c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 883dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 884dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 885158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 886dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 887dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 888a5b60c8bSKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 8890da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 890a5b60c8bSKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 8915a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 8925a41237aSLinus Torvalds 893f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 894f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 895a5b60c8bSKees Cook default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 100000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 896f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 89772b252aeSMel Gorman# 898be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 899be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 900be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 901be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 902be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 913554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9176d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9286f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 92923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9306341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9312bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 932ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 93323964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 937d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 938da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 93945ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 940ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 941ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 942ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 94323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 94423964d2dSLi Zefan 9453e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9463e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9473e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9486a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9496a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9506a010a49STejun Heo help 9516a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9526a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9536a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9546a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9556a010a49STejun Heo 9566a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9576a010a49STejun Heo 958c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 959a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9603e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 96179bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 96200f0b825SBalbir Singh help 963a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 96400f0b825SBalbir Singh 96584c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 96684c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 967c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 96884c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 96984c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9732bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 974a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9782bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 983e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9877baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 990da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 996e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9977c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 998a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9997c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10007c941438SDhaval Giani help 10017c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10027c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10037c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10047c941438SDhaval Giani 10057c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10067c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10077c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10087c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10097c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10107c941438SDhaval Giani 1011ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1012ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1013ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1014ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1015ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1016ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1017ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1018ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1019ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1020d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1021ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10227c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10237c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10247c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10257c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10267c941438SDhaval Giani help 10277c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 102832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10297c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10307c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1031d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10327c941438SDhaval Giani 10337c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10347c941438SDhaval Giani 1035af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1036af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1037af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1038af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10392480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10402480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10412480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10422480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10432480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10442480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10452480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10462480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10472480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10482480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10492480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10502480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10512480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10522480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10532480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10542480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10552480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10562480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10572480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10582480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10592480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10602480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10616bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10706cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 107398076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 107739d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 107839d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 107939d3e758SParav Pandit help 108039d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 108139d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 108239d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 108339d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 108439d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 108539d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 108639d3e758SParav Pandit 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1093489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1094489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1095489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1096489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1097489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1102afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1113afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1116e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1122afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1124afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 112889e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 112989e9b9e0STejun Heo 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11486546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11496546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 115330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 115430070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1155483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1156483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 115730070984SDaniel Mack help 115830070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 115930070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 116030070984SDaniel Mack 116130070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 116230070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 116330070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 116430070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 116530070984SDaniel Mack 1166a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1167a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1168a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1169a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1170a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1171a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1172a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1173a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1174a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1175a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1176a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1177a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1178a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1179a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 118123b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 118323b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 118623b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 118723b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 118823b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 119273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 119373b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 119473b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 119573b35147SArnd Bergmann 119623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1197c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12002813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12016a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1202c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1203c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1204c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1205c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1206c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1207c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12098dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 121058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 121158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 121217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 121358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 121458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 121558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 121658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1217769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1218769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1219660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1220769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1221769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1222769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1223769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1224769071acSAndrei Vagin 1225ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1226ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 122817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1229ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1230ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1231614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1232ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1233aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 123419c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12355673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1236aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1237aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1238aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1239e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1240e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1241d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1242d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1243d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1244e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1245aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1246aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 124774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12489bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 124917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 125074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 125112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1252692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 125374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 125474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1255d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1256d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 125817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1259d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1260d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1261d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1262d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12638dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12655cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12665cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 126730341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 12685cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1269bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12705cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12715cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12725cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12735cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12745cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12755cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12765cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12775cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12785cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12795091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12805091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12815091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12825091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12835091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12845091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12855091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12865091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12875091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12885091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12895091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12905091faa4SMike Galbraith 12917af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 129326b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1303f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1304f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1305f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1306f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1307f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1308f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1309f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13108c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1311f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1312f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1313f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1314f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1315f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1316f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1317f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1318c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1319c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1320dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1321dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1322c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1323c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 132476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 132576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1326a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 132776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 132876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 132976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13300947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 133185c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13320947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 133376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 133476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 133576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1336b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1337b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1338b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 13396ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1340b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1341b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1342b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1343b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1344b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1345b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1346b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1347b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1348b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1349a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1350a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1351a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1352a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1353a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1354a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1355a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1356a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1357a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1358a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1359a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1360a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1361a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1362a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1363a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1364a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1365a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1366a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1367a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 13681274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 13691274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 13701274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 13711274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 13721274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 13731274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 13741274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 13751274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 13761274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 13771274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1378877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1379877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13802cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1381877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1382877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 138315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1384877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1385877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1386877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1387877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1388877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1389c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 139015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1391c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1392ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1393ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1394c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1395877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1396877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13975d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 13995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14075d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14095d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1411e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1412e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14148b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14158b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14168b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14235d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14245d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 142559612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 142659612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 142759612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 142859612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1429e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1430e1789d7cSXin Li 1431e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1432e1789d7cSXin Li string 1433e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1434e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1435e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 143659612b24SNathan Chancellor 14370847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14380847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14390847062aSRandy Dunlap 1440657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1441657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1442657a5209SMike Frysinger 1443657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1444657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1445657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1446657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1447657a5209SMike Frysinger 1448657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1449657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1450657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1451657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1452657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1453657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1454657a5209SMike Frysinger 1455657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1456657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1457657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1458657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1459657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1460657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1461657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1462657a5209SMike Frysinger 1463657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1464657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1465657a5209SMike Frysinger 1466f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1467f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1468f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1469ec8f7f48SEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1470f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14716a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1473f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1474f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1481ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14832813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1484ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1485ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1486ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1487ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14882813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14892813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14902813893fSIulia Manda default y 14912813893fSIulia Manda help 14922813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14932813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14942813893fSIulia Manda 14952813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14962813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14972813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14982813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14992813893fSIulia Manda 15002813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15012813893fSIulia Manda 1502f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1503f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1504a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1505a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1506f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1507f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1508f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1509f6187769SFabian Frederick 1510f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1511f6187769SFabian Frederick 15126af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15136af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15146af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1515a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15166af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15176af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15186af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15196af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15206af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15216af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1529d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1530d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1531d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1532d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1533d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1534d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1535baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1536baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1537baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1538baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1539baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1540baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1541baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1542baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1543baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1544baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1545baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1546baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1547baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1548baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1549baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1550baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1551baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1552d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1553d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 155574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1556d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1557d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1558d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1559d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1560d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1561d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1562d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1563c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1565c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1566c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1567c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1568c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1569c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1570c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1571c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1572c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1573708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1574046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1575708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1577708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1578708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1579708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15808761f1abSRalf Baechle 1581e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15838761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 158415f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1585e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1586e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1587e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1588e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1589e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16003f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1602bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1608bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1609bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1610bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1611bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1612bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1620fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16216a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1622fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1623fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1624fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1625fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1626fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1627fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1628fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1629b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1631b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1632b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1633b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1634b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1635b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1636b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1637b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1638e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1640e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1641e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1642e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1643e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1644e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1645e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1646e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1658ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1660ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1661ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1662ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1663ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1664ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1665ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16662b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16672b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1668561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16692b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16702b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16712b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16722b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16732b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16742b188cc1SJens Axboe 1675d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1676d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1677d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1678d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1679d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1680d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1681d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1682d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1683d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1684d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1697d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1698d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 170530f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 170630f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 170730f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 170830f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 170930f3bb09SZhen Lei help 171030f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 171130f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 171230f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 171330f3bb09SZhen Lei 171430f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 171530f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 171630f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 171730f3bb09SZhen Lei 1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1720d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1721d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1722d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1724bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1725bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1726bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1727bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1729d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1734bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1736d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1740d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1742d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1743d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1744a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1745d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1746d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1747d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1748d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1749d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1750d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1751d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1752d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1753d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1754d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1755d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1756d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1757d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1758d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1759d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1760d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1761d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1762fc611f47SKP Singh 17633ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17643ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17653ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 176670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 176770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 176870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1769bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP 1770bfe3911aSChris Wilson bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1771bfe3911aSChris Wilson help 1772bfe3911aSChris Wilson Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1773bfe3911aSChris Wilson user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1774bfe3911aSChris Wilson share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1775bfe3911aSChris Wilson memory space. 1776bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1777bfe3911aSChris Wilson If unsure, say N. 1778bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1779d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1780d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1781d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1782d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1783d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1785d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1786d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1790d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1791d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1792d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1793cf264e13SNhat Phamconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1794cf264e13SNhat Pham bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1795cf264e13SNhat Pham default y 1796cf264e13SNhat Pham help 1797cf264e13SNhat Pham Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1798cf264e13SNhat Pham statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1799cf264e13SNhat Pham pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1800cf264e13SNhat Pham 1801cf264e13SNhat Pham If unsure say Y here. 1802cf264e13SNhat Pham 1803d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1804d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1805d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1806d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1807d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1808d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1809d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1810d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1811d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1812cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18130793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1814018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1815018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18160793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18172aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18182aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18192aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18202aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1821906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1822906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1823906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1824906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1825906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1826ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1827424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1828ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1829ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1830ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1831ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1832ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 183357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1835cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 183657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1837392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1838cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1839e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 18400793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 184157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 184257c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18430793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1844dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 184557c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 184657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 184757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 184857c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18490793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18510793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18520793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18530793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 185557c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1856dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 185757c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18580793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18590793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18600793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18610793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1863906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1866cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1867906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1868906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1869906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1870906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1871906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1872906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1873906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1874906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1875906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18760793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18770793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1878091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1879091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1880091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1881091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1882091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1883d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1884091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1885091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1886091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1887091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1888091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1889091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 189082c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1891091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1892091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1893091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1894091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 189582c04ff8SPeter Foley 1896125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1897b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1898125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1899125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1900f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1901125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19022f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 19032f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 19042f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19052f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 19063a933745SConor Dooley depends on !CFI_CLANG 19072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 19082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 19092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 19105e5a29bdSAlice Ryhl depends on !SHADOW_CALL_STACK 1911b78467d3SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 19122f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19132f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19182f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19192f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19212f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19242f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19252f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19262f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19272f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 1928881eb2faSMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(RUSTC) --version 2>/dev/null)" 19292f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19302f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19312f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19322f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 193334e13359SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 193434e13359SMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678). It can be removed when 193534e13359SMiguel Ojeda # the minimum version is upgraded past that (0.69.1 already fixed the issue). 1936881eb2faSMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 19372f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19385f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19395f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19405f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19415f87f112SIngo Molnar# 194297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19435f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 194497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 194589cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 194689cde455SEric DeVolder 19471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19491572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19501572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1951ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19526341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19531c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1954ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1960c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1961c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1962c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1963c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 196473b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 19656c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 196698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 196798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 196898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19695f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19705f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 197198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 197298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1973692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 197498a79d6aSRusty Russell 19753a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1976e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1977e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1978e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1979e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 198016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 198116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 198216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 198316295becSSteffen Klassert 19844520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19854520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19864520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19874520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19884520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19894520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19904520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19914520c6a4SDavid Howells 19926beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1993e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 19940ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 19950ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 19960ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 1997e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1998e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19991bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20001bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20017303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20027303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20037303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20047303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20057303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20067303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20071bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20081bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2009