180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 30c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 31c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 32c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 33c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 34c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 35c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 36c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 37c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 38c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 39ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 51dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 52dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 5534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 5984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 6084336466SRoland McGrath help 6184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 6284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 6384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 6484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 6584336466SRoland McGrath 664bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 674bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 68bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 694bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 704bb16672SJiri Slaby help 714bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 724bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 734bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 744bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 754bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 764bb16672SJiri Slaby 774bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 784bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 794bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 804bb16672SJiri Slaby 811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 91aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 94ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 95aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 104aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1213ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1223ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1233ebe1243SLasse Collin 1247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 127e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 128e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 129e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1332d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1730a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1773ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1803ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1813ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin 1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1947dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1960a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 197681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 203e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 204e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 205e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 206e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 207e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 208e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 209e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 215bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 216bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 217bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 218bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 219bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 220bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 221bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 222bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2259361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 248a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 249a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 250a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 251a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 252a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 253a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 25619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 262b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 270bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 271bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 272bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 273bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 274bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 275bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 276226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 277226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 278226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 279226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 280226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 281226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 282226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 283a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 284226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 285226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 286990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 287f76be617SAndi Kleen bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 288990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 289f76be617SAndi Kleen default y 290990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 291990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 292990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 29969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 30069369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 301b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 30269369a70SJosh Triplett help 30369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 30469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 30569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 30669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 30769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 30869369a70SJosh Triplett 3091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 311804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 315cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 316cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3187a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3197a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3207a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 322cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3237a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 325939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 326939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 327939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 328939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 33074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 33174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 33328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 33474c3cbe3SAl Viro 335d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 336764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 337d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 34602fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 351c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 356fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 361c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 374ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 375554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 382abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 383abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 389abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 390b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 391b58c3584SRik van Riel 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 394b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4052813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 43019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4322813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 44419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 446f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 45619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 46519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 475*0af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 476c903ff83SMike Travis 477de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 478de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 479de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 480de5b56baSVivek Goyal 4811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 482f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 483de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 501794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 502794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 503fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 504f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 505361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 506794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 50723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 50823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 50923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 51023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 51123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 512f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 513f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 514f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 515f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 516f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 517794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 518794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 519794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 52023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 52123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 5222240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 52323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 52423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 52523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 526361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 52723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 52823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 52923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 53023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 53123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 53223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 53323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 53423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 53523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 53623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 53723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 53823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 53923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 54023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 54123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 54223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 54323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 54423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 5455e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 5465e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 54723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 54823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 54923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 55023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 55123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 55223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 55323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 55423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 55523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 556f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 557f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 558427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 559427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 560f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 561427934b8SPetr Mladek help 562f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 563f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 564f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 565f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 566f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 567427934b8SPetr Mladek 568f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 569427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 570427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 571427934b8SPetr Mladek 572427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 573427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 574427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 575427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 576427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 577427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 578427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 579427934b8SPetr Mladek 5805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 58638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 58738ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 58838ff87f7SStephen Boyd 589be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 590be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 591be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 592be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 593be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 594be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 595be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 596be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 59772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 59872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 59972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 60072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 60172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 60272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 60372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 60472b252aeSMel Gorman bool 60572b252aeSMel Gorman 60672b252aeSMel Gorman# 607be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 608be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 609be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 610be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 611be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 612be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 613be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 614be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 615be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 616be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 617be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 618be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 619be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 620be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 621be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 622be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 623be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 624be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 625be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 6266d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 627be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 628be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 629be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 6306f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 6316f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 6326f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 6336f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 6346f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 6356f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 6366f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 6376f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 63823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 6396341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 6402bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 641ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 64223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 6479991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 64845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 649ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 650ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 651ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 65223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 65323964d2dSLi Zefan 6543e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 6553e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 6563e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 657c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 658a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 6593e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 66079bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 66100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 662a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 66300f0b825SBalbir Singh 664c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 665a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 666c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 667c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 668a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 669a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 670c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 671a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 672c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 673a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 674a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 675a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 676a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 67743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 67807555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 679a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 680a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 681a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 68200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 683c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 6856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 6866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 6872bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 6886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 6896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 6906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 6916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 6922bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 6936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 6946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 6956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 6966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 697e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 6986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 6996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 7006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 7016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 7026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 7036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7049991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 7056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7066bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 7076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 7086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 7096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 7106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 7126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 7136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 7156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 7166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 7176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 718e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7197c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 720a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 7217c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7227c941438SDhaval Giani help 7237c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7247c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7257c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7267c941438SDhaval Giani 7277c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7287c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7297c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7307c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7317c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7327c941438SDhaval Giani 733ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 734ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 735ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 736ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 737ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 738ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 739ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 740ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 741ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 742ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 743ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7447c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7457c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7467c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7477c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7487c941438SDhaval Giani help 7497c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 75032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7517c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7527c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7537c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7547c941438SDhaval Giani 7557c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7567c941438SDhaval Giani 7576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 7586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 7596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 7616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 7626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 7636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 7646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 7656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 7666cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 7676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 7696cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 7706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 7716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 7726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 77339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 77439d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 77539d3e758SParav Pandit help 77639d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 77739d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 77839d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 77939d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 78039d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 78139d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 78239d3e758SParav Pandit 7836bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 7846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 7876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 7886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 789489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 790489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 791489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 792489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 793489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 7946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 798afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 7996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 8016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 8026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 8066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 8086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 809afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 817afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 819afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 8216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 8226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 82389e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 82489e9b9e0STejun Heo 8256bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 8266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8376bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 8426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 8446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 8466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 84730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 84830070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 849483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 850483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 85130070984SDaniel Mack help 85230070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 85330070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 85430070984SDaniel Mack 85530070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 85630070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 85730070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 85830070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 85930070984SDaniel Mack 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Example controller" 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner debugging information about the cgroups framework. 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 86973b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 87073b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 87173b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 87273b35147SArnd Bergmann 87323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 874c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 875067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 876067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 8772e13ba54SIago López Galeiras select PROC_CHILDREN 878067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 879067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 880067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 881067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 882067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 883067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 884067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 885067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 886067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 8878dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 8886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 8892813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 8906a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 891c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 892c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 893c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 894c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 895c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 896c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 8978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 8988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 89958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 90058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 90117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 90258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 90358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 90458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 90558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 906ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 907ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 9088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 90917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 910ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 911ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 912614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 913ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 914aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 91519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 9165673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 917aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 918aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 919aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 920e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 921e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 922d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 923d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 924d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 925e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 926aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 927aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 92874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 9299bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 93017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 93174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 93212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 933692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 93474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 93574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 936d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 937d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 9388dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 93917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 940d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 941d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 942d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 943d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 9448dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 9458dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 9465091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 9475091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 9485091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 9495091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 9505091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9515091faa4SMike Galbraith help 9525091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 9535091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 9545091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 9555091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 9565091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 9575091faa4SMike Galbraith 9587af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9595d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 9607af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9617af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9627af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9637af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 9647af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 9657af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 9667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9677af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 9687af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 9697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9707af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 9717af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 9727af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 9737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9747af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 9757af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 9767af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 9777af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9787af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9797af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 9807af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9817af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 9825d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 9837af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9847af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9857af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9867af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9877af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 9887af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9897af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 9907af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 9917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9927af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9937af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 9947af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 9957af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9967af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 9977af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 99826b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 9997af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10007af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 10017af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 10027af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 10037af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 10047af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 10057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10067af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 10077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1008f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1009f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1010f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1011f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1012f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1013f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1014f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1015f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 10168c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1017f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1018f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1019f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1020f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1021f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1022f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1023f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1024c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1025c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1026dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1027dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1028c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1029c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1030877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1031877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1032877417e6SArnd Bergmann default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1033877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1034877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1035877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1036877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1037877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1038877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1039877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1040877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1041c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 104296fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1043c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 104431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 104531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1046c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 10473a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1048c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1049877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1050877417e6SArnd Bergmann 10510847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 10520847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 10530847062aSRandy Dunlap 1054b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1055b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1056b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1057657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1058657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1059657a5209SMike Frysinger 1060657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1061657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1062657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1063657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1064657a5209SMike Frysinger 1065657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1066657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1067657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1068657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1069657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1070657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1071657a5209SMike Frysinger 1072657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1073657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1074657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1075657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1076657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1077657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1078657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1079657a5209SMike Frysinger 1080657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1081657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1082657a5209SMike Frysinger 1083f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1084f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1085f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1086f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 10876a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 10886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1089f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1090f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1097ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 10986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 10992813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1100ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1101ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1102ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1103ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11042813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 11052813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 11062813893fSIulia Manda default y 11072813893fSIulia Manda help 11082813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 11092813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 11102813893fSIulia Manda 11112813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 11122813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 11132813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 11142813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 11152813893fSIulia Manda 11162813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 11172813893fSIulia Manda 1118f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1119f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1120f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1121f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1122f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1123f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1124f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1125f6187769SFabian Frederick 1126f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1127f6187769SFabian Frederick 11286af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 11296af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 11306af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 11316af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 11326af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 11336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 11346af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 11356af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 11366af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 11376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1138b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 11396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 114026a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1141c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1142b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1143b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 114413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 114513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 114613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 114713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1148b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 114913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 115013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 115113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1152b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1153c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1154ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1155baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1156baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1157baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1158baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1159baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1160baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1161baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1162baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1163baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1164baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1165baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1166baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1167baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1168baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1169baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1170baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1171baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 11721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 11736a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 118471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 118571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 118671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 118771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 118871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 119071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 119171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 119271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 119371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 119571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1196d59745ceSMatt Mackall 11974d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 11984d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel bool 1199076501ffSRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 12004d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel default X86_64 && SMP 12014d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel 12022213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 12032213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel bool 12042213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel depends on KALLSYMS 12052213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 12062213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel help 12072213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 12082213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 12092213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 12102213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 12112213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 12122213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 12132213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel address encountered in the image. 12142213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 12152213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 12162213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 12172213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 12182213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 12192213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 1220d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1221d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 12226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 122374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1224d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1225d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1226d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1227d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1228d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1229d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1230d59745ceSMatt Mackall 123142a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 123242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 123342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 123442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 123542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1236c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1238c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1239c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1240c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1241c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1242c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1243c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1244c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1245c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1246708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1247046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1248708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 12496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1250708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1251708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1252708e9a79SMatt Mackall 12538761f1abSRalf Baechle 1254e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 12556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 12568761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 125715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1258e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1259e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1260e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1261e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1262e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 12631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 12726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 127423f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 128003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 128103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 128262b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 128303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 128403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 128503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 128603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 128703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 12881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 12896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1291448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1296fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 12976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1298448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1299fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1300fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1301fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1302fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1303fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1304fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1305fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1306b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 13076a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1308448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1309b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1310b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1311b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1312b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1313b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1314b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1315b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1316e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1318448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1319e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1320e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1321e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1322e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1323e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1324e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1325e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1326f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1327f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1328e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1329f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1330f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1331f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1332f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1333f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1334f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1335f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1347ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1349ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1350ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1351ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1352ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1353ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1354ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1355d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1356d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1357d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1358d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1359d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1360d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1361d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1362d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1363d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1364d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1365a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD 1366a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1367a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli select ANON_INODES 1368a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 1369a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli help 1370a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1371a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli handle page faults in userland. 1372a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli 1373657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1374657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1375657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1376657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1377657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1378657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1379657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1380657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1381657a5209SMike Frysinger 13825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 13835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 13845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 13855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 13865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 13875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 13885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 13895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 13905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 13915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 13925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 13935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 13946befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 13956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 13965d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 13976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 13986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 13996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14016befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14026befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1403cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14040793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1405018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1406018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14070793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1408906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1409906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1410906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1411906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1412906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1413ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1414ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" 1415ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1416ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1417ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1418ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1419ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 142057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14210793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1422cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 142357c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1424392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1425cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14264c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1427e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 142883fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 14290793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 143057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 143157c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 14320793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1433dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 143457c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 143557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 143657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 143757c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 14380793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 14390793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 14400793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 14410793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 14420793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 14430793a61dSThomas Gleixner 144457c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1445dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 144657c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 14470793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 14480793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 14490793a61dSThomas Gleixner 14500793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 14510793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1452906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1453906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1454906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1455cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1456906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1457906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1458906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1459906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1460906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1461906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1462906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1463906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1464906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 14650793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 14660793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1467f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1468f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 14696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1470f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 14712aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 14722aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 14736a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 14742aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1475f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 147641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 147741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1479f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 148041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 148141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 148241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 148341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 148441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 148541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 14861663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 14871663f26dSTejun Heo default n 14881663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 14891663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 14901663f26dSTejun Heo help 14911663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 14921663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 14931663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 14941663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 14951663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 14961663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 14971663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 14981663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 14991663f26dSTejun Heo 1500b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1501b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1502b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1503b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1504b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1505b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1506b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1507692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1508b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1509b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1510b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1511b943c460SRandy Dunlap 151281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 151381819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1514a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 151581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 151681819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 151781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 151881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 151981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 152004385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 152181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 152281819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 152334013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 152402f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 152581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 152681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 152781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1528ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 152981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 153081819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 153181819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 153281819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 153381819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 153402f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 153502f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 153681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 153781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15386a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 153981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 154081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 154137291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 154237291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 154337291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 154481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 154581819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 154681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1547c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1548c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1549210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1550c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1551c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1552210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1553c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1554c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1555c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 1556345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1557345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1558b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1559345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1560345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1561345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1562345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1563345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1564345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1565345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1566345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1567ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1568ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 15696a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1570ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1571ea637639SJie Zhang help 1572ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1573ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1574ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1575ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1576ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1577ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1578ea637639SJie Zhang 1579ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1580ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1581ea637639SJie Zhang 1582ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1583ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1584ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1585ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1586ea637639SJie Zhang 1587ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1588ea637639SJie Zhang 1589091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1590091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1591091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1592091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1593091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1594d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1595091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1596091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1597091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1598091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1599091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1600091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 160182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1602091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1603091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1604091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1605091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 160682c04ff8SPeter Foley 1607125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1608b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1609125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1610125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1611125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1612125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16135f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16145f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16155f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16165f87f112SIngo Molnar# 161797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16185f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 161997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1620fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1621fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1624ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1625ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1626ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1627ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1628158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1629158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1630158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 16310f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1632158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1633158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1634ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 16356341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1636ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 164266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 164411097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16630b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 16640b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1665826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1666826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1667826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1668826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 166991e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 167091e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 167191e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1672826e4506SLinus Torvalds 16731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1678f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1679f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 168319c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 16920d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 170156067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 170256067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 170356067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 170456067812SArd Biesheuvel 17051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1716106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1717106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1718106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1719091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1720106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1721106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1722106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1723106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1724106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1725228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1726228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1727228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1728228c37ffSDavid Howells 1729ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1730ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1731ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1732ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1733ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1734106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1735106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1736106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1737106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1738106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1739106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1740ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1741d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1742d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1743d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1744d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1745d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1746d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1747d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1748d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1749d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1750d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1751d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1752ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1753ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1754ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1755ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1757ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1758ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1759ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1760ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1761ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1762ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1763ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1764ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1765ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1766ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1767ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1768ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1769ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1770ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1771ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1772ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1773ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1774ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1775ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1776ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1777ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1778ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1779ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1780ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1781ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1782ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1783ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 178422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 178522753674SMichal Marek string 178622753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 178722753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 178822753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 178922753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 179022753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 179122753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 179222753674SMichal Marek 1793beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1794beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1795beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1796beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1797beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1798b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1799b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1800beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1801b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1802beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1803b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1804b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1805beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1806b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1807b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1808beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1809b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1810b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1811b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1812beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1813beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1814beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1815beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1816beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1817beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1818beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1819beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1820beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1821beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1822beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1823beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1824beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1825beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1826beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1827beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1828beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1829beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1830beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1831dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1832dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1833dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1834dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 1835dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1836dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1837dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1838dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1839dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1840dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1841dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1842dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1843dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1844dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1845f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1846dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 18470b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 18480b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 18496c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 18506c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 18516c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 18526c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 185398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 185498a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 185598a79d6aSRusty Russell help 18565f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 18575f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 185898a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 185998a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1860692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 186198a79d6aSRusty Russell 18623a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1863e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1864e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1865e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1866e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 186716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 186816295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 186916295becSSteffen Klassert bool 187016295becSSteffen Klassert 18714520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 18724520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 18734520c6a4SDavid Howells help 18744520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 18754520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 18764520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 18774520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 18784520c6a4SDavid Howells 18796beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1880