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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT
128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	string
138b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)"
148b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	help
158b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  This is used in unclear ways:
168b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
178b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated
188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    The 'default' property references the environment variable,
198b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd.
208b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked.
218b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
228b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  - Ensure full rebuild when the compier is updated
238b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    include/linux/kconfig.h contains this option in the comment line so
248b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the auto-generated
258b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig will touch it
268b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    and then every file will be rebuilt.
278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
29aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC)
30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC
34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
36469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
37aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang)
38469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
39469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
40469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
41aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG
42aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default 0
43469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
44*02aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD
45*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD)
46*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada
47*02aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION
48*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada	int
49*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD
50*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
51*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada
52*02aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD
53*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD)
54*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada
55d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION
56d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	int
57*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD
58*02aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor
601a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
619371f86eSMasahiro Yamada	bool
62b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
63b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag))
641a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
65b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
66b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	bool
67b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
68b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static)
69c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
70e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
71e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
72e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
73587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
74587f1701SNick Desaulniers	depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
75587f1701SNick 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)
76587f1701SNick Desaulniers
775cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
782d122942SWill Deacon	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
795cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
80eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
81eb111869SRasmus Villemoes	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
82eb111869SRasmus Villemoes
83b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
84b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
85b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
86e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
87e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
88e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
8910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
901dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
911dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
92c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
93c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
95c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
96c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
97c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
98c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
99c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
100c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
101c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
102ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
114dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
115dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
11834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1204bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
1214bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
122334ef6edSHeiko Carstens	depends on !UML && !S390
1234bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
1244bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
1254bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
1264bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
1274bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
1284bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
1294bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1304bb16672SJiri Slaby
1314bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1324bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1334bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1344bb16672SJiri Slaby
135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
136d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
137fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
138d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
139d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
140d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
141d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
142d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
143d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
144d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
155aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
156aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
157aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
158ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
159aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
160aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1626e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
163aaebf433SRyan Anderson
164aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1656e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
166aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1676e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
168aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1696e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1706e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1736e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1746e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
175aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1769afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1779afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1789afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1799afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1809afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1819afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1829afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1839afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1849afb719eSLaura Abbott
1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1943ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1953ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1963ebe1243SLasse Collin
1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20348f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
20448f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool
20548f7ddf7SNick Terrell
206f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
207f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
208f16466afSVasily Gorbik
20930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
21248f7ddf7SNick 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
21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2430a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
24730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
24830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2530a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2540a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
25530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2563ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2573ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2583ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2593ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2603ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2613ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2623ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2633ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2643ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2653ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2663ebe1243SLasse Collin
2673ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2683ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2703ebe1243SLasse Collin
2717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
276681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
280e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
281e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
282e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
283e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
285e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
286e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
287e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
288e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
289e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
290e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
29148f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD
29248f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool "ZSTD"
29348f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
29448f7ddf7SNick Terrell	help
29548f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression
29648f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and
29748f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You
29848f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command
29948f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  line tool is required for compression.
30048f7ddf7SNick Terrell
301f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
302f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
303f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
304f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
305f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
306f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
307f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
308f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
309f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
310f16466afSVasily Gorbik
31130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
313ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT
314ada4ab7aSChris Down	string "Default init path"
315ada4ab7aSChris Down	default ""
316ada4ab7aSChris Down	help
317ada4ab7aSChris Down	  This option determines the default init for the system if no init=
318ada4ab7aSChris Down	  option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is
319ada4ab7aSChris Down	  not present, we will still then move on to attempting further
320ada4ab7aSChris Down	  locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use
321ada4ab7aSChris Down	  the fallback list when init= is not passed.
322ada4ab7aSChris Down
323bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
324bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
325bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
326bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
327bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
328bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
329bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
330bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
331bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
33217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
33317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
33417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
33517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
33617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
33717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
33817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
34117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
351a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
364a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
365a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
366a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
367a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
368a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
369a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
37219c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
373a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
378b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
386bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
387bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
388bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
389bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
390bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
391bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
392c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE
393c73be61cSDavid Howells	bool "General notification queue"
394c73be61cSDavid Howells	default n
395c73be61cSDavid Howells	help
396c73be61cSDavid Howells
397c73be61cSDavid Howells	  This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
398c73be61cSDavid Howells	  userspace by splicing them into pipes.  It can be used in conjunction
399c73be61cSDavid Howells	  with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
400c73be61cSDavid Howells	  notifications.
401c73be61cSDavid Howells
402c73be61cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
403c73be61cSDavid Howells
404226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
405226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
406226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
407226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
408226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
409226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
410226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
411a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
412226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
413226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
41469369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
41569369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
416b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
41769369a70SJosh Triplett	help
41869369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
41969369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
42069369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
42169369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
42269369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
42369369a70SJosh Triplett
4241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
426804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
430cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
431cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4337a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
4347a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
4357a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
4361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
437cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
4387a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
43928a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
44074c3cbe3SAl Viro
441d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
442764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
44387a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
444d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
448abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
45302fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
458c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
466abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
468c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
469abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
479abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
480abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
481ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
482554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
483041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
487abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
488abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
490abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
493abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
495abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
497abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
498b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
499b58c3584SRik van Riel
500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
501fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
502b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
504fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
506fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
507fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
508fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
509fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
510fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
51111d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
51211d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
51311d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
51411d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
51511d4afd4SVincent Guittot
51676504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
51798eb401dSValentin Schneider	bool
518fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
519fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM64
52076504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
52198eb401dSValentin Schneider	depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL
52298eb401dSValentin Schneider	help
52398eb401dSValentin Schneider	  Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the
52498eb401dSValentin Schneider	  scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler
52598eb401dSValentin Schneider	  that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from
52698eb401dSValentin Schneider	  thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of
52798eb401dSValentin Schneider	  a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures.
52898eb401dSValentin Schneider
52998eb401dSValentin Schneider	  If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly,
53098eb401dSValentin Schneider	  i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones.
53198eb401dSValentin Schneider
53298eb401dSValentin Schneider	  This requires the architecture to implement
53398eb401dSValentin Schneider	  arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_get_thermal_pressure().
53476504793SThara Gopinath
535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
5372813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
5563903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
56219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
5642813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
57619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
578f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
58819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
59719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
605eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
606eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
607eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
608eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
609eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
610eb414681SJohannes Weiner
611eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
612eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
613eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
614eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
615eb414681SJohannes Weiner
6162ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
6172ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
6182ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
6192ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
620c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
621eb414681SJohannes Weiner
622eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
623eb414681SJohannes Weiner
624e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
625e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
626e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
627e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
628e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
629e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
630428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
631428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
632e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
6337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
6347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
6357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
6367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
6377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
6387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
6407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
6417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
6437b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
6465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
6475c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
648414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
6492c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
6505c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
6525c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
6532c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
6542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
6552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
6562c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
6575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
6580af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
659c903ff83SMike Travis
660de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
661de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
662de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
663de5b56baSVivek Goyal
6641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
665f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
666a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
679a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
683f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
684f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
685f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
68643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
687f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
688f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
689f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
690f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
69143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
692794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
693794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
694550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 25 if !H8300
695550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 19 if H8300
696f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
697361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
698794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
69923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
70023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
70123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
70223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
70323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
704f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
705f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
706f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
707f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
708f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
709794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
710794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
711794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
71223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
71323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
7142240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
71523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
71623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
718361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
72523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
7310f7636e1SPaul Menzel	  so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
7375e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
7385e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
748f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
749f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
750427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
751427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
752f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
753427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
754f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
755f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
756f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
757f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
758f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
759427934b8SPetr Mladek
760f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
761427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
762427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
763427934b8SPetr Mladek
764427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
765427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
766427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
767427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
768427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
769427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
770427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
771427934b8SPetr Mladek
7725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
77838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
77938ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
78038ff87f7SStephen Boyd
78169842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
78269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
78369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
78469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
78569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
837be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
838be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
841be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
84272b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
84372b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
84472b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
84572b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
84672b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
84772b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
84872b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
84972b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
85072b252aeSMel Gorman
851c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
8523a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
853c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
85472b252aeSMel Gorman#
855be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
856be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
857be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
858be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
859be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8746d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8786f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8796f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8806f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8816f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8826f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8836f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8846f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8856f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
88623964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8876341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8882bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
889ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
89023964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
894d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
895da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
89645ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
897ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
898ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
899ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
90023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
90123964d2dSLi Zefan
9023e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9033e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
9043e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
905c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
906a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9073e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
90879bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
90900f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
910a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
91100f0b825SBalbir Singh
912c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
9132d1c4980SJohannes Weiner	bool
914c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
915a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
916c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
91784c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
91884c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
91984c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
92084c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
92184c07d11SKirill Tkhai
9226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
9252bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
926a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
9302bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
935e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
9397baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
942da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
948e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9497c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
950a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
9517c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9527c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9537c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9547c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9557c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9567c941438SDhaval Giani
9577c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9587c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9597c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9607c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9617c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9627c941438SDhaval Giani
963ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
964ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
965ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
966ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
967ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
968ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
969ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
970ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
971ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
972d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
973ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9747c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9757c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9767c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9777c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9787c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9797c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
98032bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9817c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9827c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
983d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9847c941438SDhaval Giani
9857c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9867c941438SDhaval Giani
9872480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9882480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
9892480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9902480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
9912480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
9922480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
9932480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
9942480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
9952480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9962480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
9972480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
9982480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
10002480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
10012480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10022480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
10032480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
10042480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
10052480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
10062480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10072480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
10082480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10186cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
102198076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
102539d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
102639d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
102739d3e758SParav Pandit	help
102839d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
102939d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
103039d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
103139d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
103239d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
103339d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
103439d3e758SParav Pandit
10356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1041489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1042489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1043489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1044489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1045489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1050afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1064e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1070afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1072afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
107689e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
107789e9b9e0STejun Heo
10786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
10966546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
10976546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
110130070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
110230070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1103483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1104483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
110530070984SDaniel Mack	help
110630070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
110730070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
110830070984SDaniel Mack
110930070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
111030070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
111130070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
111230070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
111330070984SDaniel Mack
11146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
111523b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
111723b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
112023b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
112123b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
112223b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
112673b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
112773b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
112873b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
112973b35147SArnd Bergmann
113023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1131c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
11328dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11336a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11342813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11356a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1136c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1137c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1138c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1139c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1140c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1141c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11428dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11438dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
114458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
114558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
114617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
114758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
114858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
114958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
115058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1151769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1152769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1153660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1154769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1155769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1156769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1157769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1158769071acSAndrei Vagin
1159ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1160ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11618dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
116217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1163ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1164ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1165614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1166ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1167aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
116819c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11695673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1170aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1171aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1172aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1173e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1174e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1175d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1176d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1177d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1178e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1179aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1180aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
118174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11829bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
118317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
118474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
118512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1186692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
118774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
118874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1189d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1190d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
119217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1193d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1194d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1195d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1196d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
11995cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
12005cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
12015cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
12025cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
12035cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
12045cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
12055cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
12065cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
12075cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
12085cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12095cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
12105cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12115091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12125091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12135091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12145091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12155091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12165091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12175091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12185091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12195091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12205091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12215091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12225091faa4SMike Galbraith
12237af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12245d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12475d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
126326b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1273f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1274f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1275f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1276f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1277f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1278f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1279f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
12808c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1281f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1282f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1283f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1284f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1285f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1286f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1288c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1289c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1290dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1291dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1292c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1293c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
129476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
129576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
12962910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
129776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
129876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
129976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
13000947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
130185c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
13020947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
130376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
130476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
130576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1306877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1307877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
13082cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1309877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1310877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
131115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1312877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1313877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1314877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1315877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1316877417e6SArnd Bergmann
131715f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
131815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
131915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1320c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
132115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
132215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1323c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13245d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
132515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
1326c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1327ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1328ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1329c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1330877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1331877417e6SArnd Bergmann
13325d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
13345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
13365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
13375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
13385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
13395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
13405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
13415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13425d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
13445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
1346e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1347e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
13485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13498b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
13508b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
13518b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
13525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
13545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
13555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
13565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
13575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
13585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
13595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
136059612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN
136159612b24SNathan Chancellor	def_bool y
136259612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1363d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000
136459612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
136559612b24SNathan Chancellor
13660847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13670847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13680847062aSRandy Dunlap
1369657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1370657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1371657a5209SMike Frysinger
1372657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1373657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1374657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1375657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1376657a5209SMike Frysinger
1377657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1378657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1379657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1380657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1381657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1382657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1383657a5209SMike Frysinger
1384657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1385657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1386657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1387657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1388657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1389657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1390657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1391657a5209SMike Frysinger
1392657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1393657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1394657a5209SMike Frysinger
1395f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1396f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1397f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1398f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13996a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
14006a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1401f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1402f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1409ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
14106a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
14112813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1412ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1413ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1414ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1415ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14162813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
14172813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
14182813893fSIulia Manda	default y
14192813893fSIulia Manda	help
14202813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
14212813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
14222813893fSIulia Manda
14232813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
14242813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
14252813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
14262813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
14272813893fSIulia Manda
14282813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
14292813893fSIulia Manda
1430f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1431f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1432a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1433a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
1434f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1435f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1436f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1437f6187769SFabian Frederick
1438f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1439f6187769SFabian Frederick
14406af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
14416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
14426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
1443a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
14446af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14456af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14466af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14476af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14486af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14496af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1453d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1458d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1459d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1460d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1461d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1462d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1463baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1464baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1465baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1466baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1467baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1468baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1469baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1470baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1471baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1472baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1473baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1474baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1475baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1476baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1477baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1478baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1479baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1480d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1481d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
148374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1484d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1485d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1486d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1487d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1488d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1489d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1490d59745ceSMatt Mackall
149142a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
149242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
149342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
149442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
149542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1496c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14976a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1498c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1499c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1500c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1501c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1502c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1503c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1504c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1505c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1506708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1507046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1508708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
15096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1510708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1511708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1512708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15138761f1abSRalf Baechle
1514e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15156a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15168761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
151715f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1518e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1519e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1520e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1521e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1522e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15326a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1534bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1540bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1541bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1542bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1543bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1544bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
154503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
154603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
154762b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
154803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
154903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
155003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
155103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
155203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15546a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1560fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15616a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1562fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1563fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1564fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1565fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1566fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1567fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1568fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1569b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15706a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1571b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1572b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1573b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1574b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1575b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1576b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1577b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1578e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1580e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1581e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1582e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1583e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1584e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1585e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1586e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
15871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15886a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1598ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15996a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1600ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1601ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1602ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1603ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1604ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1605ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
16062b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
16072b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1608561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
16092b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
16102b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
16112b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
16122b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
16132b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
16142b188cc1SJens Axboe
1615d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1616d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1617d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1618d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1619d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1620d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1621d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1622d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1623d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1624d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
16255a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
16265a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
16275a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
16285a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
16295a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
16305b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16315b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16325b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16335b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1642d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1643d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1644d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1645d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1658d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1659d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1660d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1662d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1675a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1689d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1690d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1693fc611f47SKP Singh
1694fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM
1695fc611f47SKP Singh	bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
16964edf16b7SKP Singh	depends on BPF_EVENTS
1697fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1698fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on SECURITY
1699fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_JIT
1700fc611f47SKP Singh	help
1701fc611f47SKP Singh	  Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1702fc611f47SKP Singh	  implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1703fc611f47SKP Singh
1704fc611f47SKP Singh	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1705fc611f47SKP Singh
1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1709bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
17101e6c62a8SAlexei Starovoitov	select TASKS_TRACE_RCU
1711d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1715d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
171681c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
171781c22041SDaniel Borkmann	bool
171881c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1719290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1720290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1721290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1722290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1723290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1724290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1725290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
172681c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
172781c22041SDaniel Borkmann	def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
172881c22041SDaniel Borkmann	depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
172981c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1730d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitovsource "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig"
1731d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitov
1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1734d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1736d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
17393ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
17403ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
17413ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
174270216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
174370216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
174470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1745d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1746d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1747d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1748d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1749d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1750d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1751d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1752d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1753d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1754d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1755d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1756d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1757d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1758d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1759d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1760d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1761d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1762d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1763d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1764d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1765d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1766d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1767d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
17686befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
17696befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
17705d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
17716befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
17726befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
17736befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
17746befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
17756befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
17766befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1777cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
17780793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1779018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1780018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
17810793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1782906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1783906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1784906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1785906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1786906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1787ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1788424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1789ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1790ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1791ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1792ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1793ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
179457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
17950793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1796cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
179757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1798392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1799cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1800e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
180183fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
18020793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
180357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
180457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
18050793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1806dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
180757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
180857c0c15bSIngo Molnar
180957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
181057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
18110793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
18120793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
18130793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
18140793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
18150793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
18160793a61dSThomas Gleixner
181757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1818dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
181957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
18200793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
18210793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
18220793a61dSThomas Gleixner
18230793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
18240793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1825906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1826906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1827906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1828cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1829906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1830906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1831906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1832906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1833906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1834906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1835906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1836906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1837906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
18380793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
18390793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1840f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1841f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
18426a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1843f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
18442aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
18452aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
18466a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
18472aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1848f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
184941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
185041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
18516a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1852f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
185341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
185441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
185541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
185641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
185741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
185841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
18591663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
18601663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
18611663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
18621663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
18631663f26dSTejun Heo	help
18641663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
18651663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
18661663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
18671663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
18681663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
18691663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
18701663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
18711663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
18721663f26dSTejun Heo
1873b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1874b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1875b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1876b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1877b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1878b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1879b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1880692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1881b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1882b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1883b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1884b943c460SRandy Dunlap
188581819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
188681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1887a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
188881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
188981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
189081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
189181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
189281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
189304385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
189481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
189581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
189634013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
189702f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
189881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
189981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
190081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1901ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
190281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
190381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
190481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
190581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
190681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
190702f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
190802f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
190981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
191081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
19116a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
191281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
191381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
191437291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
191537291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
191637291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
191781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
191881819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
191981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
19207660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
19217660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
19227660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
19237660a6fdSKees Cook	help
19247660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
19257660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
19267660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
19277660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
19287660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
19297660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
19307660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
19317660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
19327660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
19337660a6fdSKees Cook
1934c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
19353404be67SKees Cook	bool "Randomize slab freelist"
1936210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1937c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1938210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1939c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1940c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1941c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
19422482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
19432482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
19443404be67SKees Cook	depends on SLAB || SLUB
19452482ddecSKees Cook	help
19462482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
19472482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
194892bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
19493404be67SKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
19503404be67SKees Cook	  sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
19513404be67SKees Cook	  CONFIG_SLUB.
19522482ddecSKees Cook
1953e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1954e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1955e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1956e900a918SDan Williams	help
1957e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1958e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1959e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1960e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1961e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1962e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1963e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1964e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1965e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1966e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1967e900a918SDan Williams
1968e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1969e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1970e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1971e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1972e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1973e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1974e900a918SDan Williams
1975e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1976e900a918SDan Williams
1977345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1978345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1979b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1980345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1981345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
198292bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
1983345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1984345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1985345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1986345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1987345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1988ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1989ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
19906a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1991ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1992ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1993ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
19943903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1995ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1996ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1997ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1998ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1999ea637639SJie Zhang
2000ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
2001ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
2002ea637639SJie Zhang
2003ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
2004ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
2005ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
2006ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
2007ea637639SJie Zhang
2008dd19d293SStephen Kitt	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
2009ea637639SJie Zhang
2010091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2011091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
2012091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
2013091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
2014091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
2015d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
2016091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
2017091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
2018091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
2019091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
2020091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
2021091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
202282c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
2023091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
2024091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
2025091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
2026091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
202782c04ff8SPeter Foley
2028125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
2029b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
2030125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
2031125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
2032125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
2033125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
20345f87f112SIngo Molnar#
20355f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
20365f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
20375f87f112SIngo Molnar#
203897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
20395f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
204097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
20411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20431572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
20441572497cSChristoph Hellwig
2045ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
20466341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
2047ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
20481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2053c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2054c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	def_bool n
2055c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2056c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann
205766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
205911097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
20751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20780b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
20790b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
2080826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2081826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
2082826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
2083826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
208491e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
208591e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
208691e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
2087826e4506SLinus Torvalds
20881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
20921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
2093f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2094f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
20951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
209819c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
21011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
21021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
21031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
21041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
21051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
21070d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
21121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
21131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
21141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
21151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21162ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS
21172ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	bool
21182ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
21192ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	help
21202ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
21212ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
21222ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  supports it.
21232ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada
212456067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
212556067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
212656067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
212756067812SArd Biesheuvel
21281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
21291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
21301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
21321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
21331da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
21341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
21351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
21361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
21371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
21381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2139106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2140106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2141c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2142106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2143106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2144106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2145cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2146106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2147228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2148228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2149228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2150228c37ffSDavid Howells
215149fcf732SDavid Howells	  You should enable this option if you wish to use either
215249fcf732SDavid Howells	  CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
215349fcf732SDavid Howells	  another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
215449fcf732SDavid Howells	  of the lockdown policy.
215549fcf732SDavid Howells
2156ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2157ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2158ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2159ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2160ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2161106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2162106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2163106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2164106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2165106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2166106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2167ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2168d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2169d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2170d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2171d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2172d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2173d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2174d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2175d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2176d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2177d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2178d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2179ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2180ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2181ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2182ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2183ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2184ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2185ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2186ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2187ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2188ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2189ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2190ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2191ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2192ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2193ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2194ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2195ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2196ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2197ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2198ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2199ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2200ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2201ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2202ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2203ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2204ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2205ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2206ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2207ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2208ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2209ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2210ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
221122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
221222753674SMichal Marek	string
221322753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
221422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
221522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
221622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
221722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
221822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
221922753674SMichal Marek
2220beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2221beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2222beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2223beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2224b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2225b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2226beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2227b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2228beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2229b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2230b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2231beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2232b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2233b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2234beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2235b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2236b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2237b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2238beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2239beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2240beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2241beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2242beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2243beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2244beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2245beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2246beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2247beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2248beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2249beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2250beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2251beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2252beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2253beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2254beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2255beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2256beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
22573d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
22583d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
22593d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
22603d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
22613d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
22623d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
22633d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
22643d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
22653d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
22663d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
22673d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
22683d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
22693d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
2270efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2271efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2272efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	default y if X86
2273efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	help
2274efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For
2275efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This
2276efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2277efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2278efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2279efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2280efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2281efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a
2282efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2283efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2284efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  your module is.
2285efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada
2286dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2287dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2288d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada	depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2289dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2290dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2291dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2292dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2293dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2294dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2295dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2296dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2297dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2298dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2299dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2300f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2301dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
23021518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
23031518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
23041518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
23051518c633SQuentin Perret	help
23061518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
23071518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
23081518c633SQuentin Perret
23091518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
23101518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
23111518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
23121518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
23131518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
23141518c633SQuentin Perret
23150b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
23160b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
23176c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
23186c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
23196c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
23206c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
232198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
232298a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
232398a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
23245f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
23255f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
232698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
232798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2328692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
232998a79d6aSRusty Russell
23303a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2331e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2332e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2333e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2334e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
233516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
233616295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
233716295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
233816295becSSteffen Klassert
23394520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
23404520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
23414520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
23424520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
23434520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
23444520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
23454520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
23464520c6a4SDavid Howells
23476beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2348e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
23490ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
23500ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann	bool
23510ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann
2352e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2353e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
23541bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
23551bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
23567303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
23577303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
23587303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
23597303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
23607303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
23617303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
23621bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
23631bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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