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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"
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