1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 631a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 649371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 65f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 66f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 671a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 68b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 69b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 70f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 71f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 72c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 73e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 74e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 75e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 76587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 77587f1701SNick Desaulniers depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 78587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 79587f1701SNick Desaulniers 805cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 812d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 825cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 83eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 84eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 85eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 8651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 8751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 8851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 89613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 90613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 91613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 92613fe169SNathan Chancellor 93b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 94b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 95b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 96e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 97e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 98e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 9910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1001dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1011dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 102c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 103c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 104c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 105c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 106c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 107c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 108c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 109c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 110c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 111c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 112ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 124dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 125dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 12834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1304bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1314bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 132ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1334bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1344bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1354bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1364bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1374bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1384bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1394bb16672SJiri Slaby 1404bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1414bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1424bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1434bb16672SJiri Slaby 1443fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1453fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 146b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1473fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1483fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1493fe617ccSLinus Torvalds enables the '-Werror' flag to enforce that rule by default. 1503fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1513fe617ccSLinus Torvalds However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and 1523fe617ccSLinus Torvalds unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1533fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1543fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1553fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1563fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1573fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 158d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 159d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 160fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 161d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 162d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 163d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 164d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 165d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 166d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 167d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 178aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 179aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 180aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 181ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 182aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 183aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1846e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 186aaebf433SRyan Anderson 187aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 189aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 191aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 198aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1999afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2009afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2019afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2029afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2039afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2049afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2059afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2069afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2079afb719eSLaura Abbott 2082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2173ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2183ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2193ebe1243SLasse Collin 2207dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 223e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 224e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 225e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 22648f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 22748f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 22848f7ddf7SNick Terrell 229f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 230f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 231f16466afSVasily Gorbik 23230d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 23548f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 24030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 24530d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 24730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24830d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 25030d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 25530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 25730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 26430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2660a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 27430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2760a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2770a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 27830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2793ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2803ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2813ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2823ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2833ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2843ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2853ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2863ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2873ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2883ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2893ebe1243SLasse Collin 2903ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2913ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2923ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2933ebe1243SLasse Collin 2947dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2980a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 299681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3017dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 302e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 303e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 304e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 305e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 306e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 307e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 308e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 309e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 310e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 311e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 312e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 313e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 31448f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 31548f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 31648f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 31748f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 31848f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 31948f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 32048f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 32148f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 32248f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 32348f7ddf7SNick Terrell 324f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 325f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 326f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 327f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 328f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 329f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 330f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 331f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 332f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 333f16466afSVasily Gorbik 33430d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 33530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 336ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 337ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 338ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 339ada4ab7aSChris Down help 340ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 341ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 342ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 343ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 344ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 345ada4ab7aSChris Down 346bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 347bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 348bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 349bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 350bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 351bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 352bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 353bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 354bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 35517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 35617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 35717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 35817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 35917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 36017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 36117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 36417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 374a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 387a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 388a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 389a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 390a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 391a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 392a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 393*0cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 394*0cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 395*0cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 396*0cbed0eeSGuo Ren 3971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 39919c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 400a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 405b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 413bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 414bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 415bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 416bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 417bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 418bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 419c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 420c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 421c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 422c73be61cSDavid Howells help 423c73be61cSDavid Howells 424c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 425c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 426c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 427c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 428c73be61cSDavid Howells 429c73be61cSDavid Howells See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 430c73be61cSDavid Howells 431226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 432226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 433226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 434226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 435226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 436226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 437226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 438a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 439226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 440226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 44169369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 44269369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 443b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 44469369a70SJosh Triplett help 44569369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 44669369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 44769369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 44869369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 44969369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 45069369a70SJosh Triplett 4511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 453804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 457cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 458cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4607a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4617a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4627a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 464cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4657a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 46628a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 46774c3cbe3SAl Viro 468d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 469764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 470b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 47187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 472d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 475abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 476abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 477abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 478fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 479fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 480fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 48102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 482fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 483fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 484fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 485fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 486c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 487fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 488fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 489fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 490fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 491fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 492fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 493fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 496c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 497abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 507abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 508abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 509ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 510554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 511041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 515abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 516abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 517abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 518abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 519abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 520abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 521abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 522abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 523abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 524abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 525abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 526b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 527b58c3584SRik van Riel 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 530b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 531fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 532fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 533fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 534fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 535fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 536fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 537fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 538fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 53911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 54011d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 54111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 54211d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 54311d4afd4SVincent Guittot 54476504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 54598eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 546fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 547fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 54876504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 54998eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 55098eb401dSValentin Schneider help 55198eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 55298eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 55398eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 55498eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 55598eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 55698eb401dSValentin Schneider 55798eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 55898eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 55998eb401dSValentin Schneider 56098eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5617e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 56276504793SThara Gopinath 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5652813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5843903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 59019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5922813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 60419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 606f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 61619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 62519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 633eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 634eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 635eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 636eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 637eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 638eb414681SJohannes Weiner 639eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 640eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 641eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 642eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 643eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6442ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6452ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6462ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6472ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 648c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 649eb414681SJohannes Weiner 650eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 651eb414681SJohannes Weiner 652e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 653e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 654e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 655e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 656e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 657e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 658428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 659428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 660e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6677b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 672391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 673391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6745c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6755c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 676414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6772c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6785c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6795c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6805c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6812c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6822c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6832c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6842c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6855c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6860af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 687c903ff83SMike Travis 688de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 689de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 690de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 691de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 693f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 694a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 707a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 712f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 713f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 71443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 715f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 716f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 717f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 718f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 71943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 720794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 721794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 722550c10d2SJohn Ogness range 12 25 if !H8300 723550c10d2SJohn Ogness range 12 19 if H8300 724f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 725361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 726794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 732f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 733f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 734f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 735f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 736f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 737794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 738794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 739794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7422240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 746361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7590f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7655e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7665e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 77023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 77323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 77423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 776f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 777f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 778427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 779427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 780f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 781427934b8SPetr Mladek help 782f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 783f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 784f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 785f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 786f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 787427934b8SPetr Mladek 788f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 789427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 790427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 791427934b8SPetr Mladek 792427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 793427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 794427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 795427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 796427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 797427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 798427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 799427934b8SPetr Mladek 80033701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 80133701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 80233701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 80333701557SChris Down help 80433701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 80533701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 80633701557SChris Down 80733701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 80833701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 80933701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 81033701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 81133701557SChris Down 81233701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 81333701557SChris Down 8145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8155cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8165cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8175cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8185cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 82138ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 82238ff87f7SStephen Boyd 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 878be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 879be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 880be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 881be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 882be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 883be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 88472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 88572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 88672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 88772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 88872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 88972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 89072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 89172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 89272b252aeSMel Gorman 893c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8943a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 895c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 896dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 897dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 898158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 899dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 900dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 90172b252aeSMel Gorman# 902be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 903be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 904be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 905be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 906be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 917554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9216d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9286f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9296f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9306f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9316f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9326f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 93323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9346341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9352bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 936ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 93723964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 941d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 942da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 94345ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 944ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 945ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 946ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 94723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 94823964d2dSLi Zefan 9493e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9503e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9513e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 952c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 953a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9543e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 95579bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 95600f0b825SBalbir Singh help 957a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 95800f0b825SBalbir Singh 959c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 9602d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 961c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 962a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 963c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 96484c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 96584c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 96684c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 96784c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 96884c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9722bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 973a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9772bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 982e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9867baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 989da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 995e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9967c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 997a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9987c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9997c941438SDhaval Giani help 10007c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10017c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10027c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10037c941438SDhaval Giani 10047c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10057c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10067c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10077c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10087c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10097c941438SDhaval Giani 1010ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1011ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1012ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1013ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1014ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1015ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1016ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1017ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1018ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1019d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1020ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10217c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10227c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10237c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10247c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10257c941438SDhaval Giani help 10267c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 102732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10287c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10297c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1030d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10317c941438SDhaval Giani 10327c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10337c941438SDhaval Giani 10342480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10352480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10362480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10372480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10382480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10392480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10402480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10412480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10422480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10432480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10442480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10452480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10462480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10472480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10482480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10492480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10502480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10512480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10522480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10532480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10542480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10552480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10656cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 106898076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 107239d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 107339d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 107439d3e758SParav Pandit help 107539d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 107639d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 107739d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 107839d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 107939d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 108039d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 108139d3e758SParav Pandit 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1088489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1089489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1090489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1091489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1092489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1097afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1108afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1111e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1117afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1119afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 112389e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 112489e9b9e0STejun Heo 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11436546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11446546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 114830070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 114930070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1150483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1151483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 115230070984SDaniel Mack help 115330070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 115430070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 115530070984SDaniel Mack 115630070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 115730070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 115830070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 115930070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 116030070984SDaniel Mack 1161a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1162a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1163a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1164a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1165a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1166a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1167a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1168a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1169a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1170a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1171a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1172a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1173a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1174a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11756bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 117623b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 117823b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 118123b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 118223b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 118323b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 118773b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 118873b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 118973b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 119073b35147SArnd Bergmann 119123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1192c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11938dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11952813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11966a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1197c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1198c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1199c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1200c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1201c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1202c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12038dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12048dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 120558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 120658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 120717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 120858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 120958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 121058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 121158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1212769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1213769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1214660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1215769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1216769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1217769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1218769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1219769071acSAndrei Vagin 1220ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1221ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12228dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 122317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1224ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1225ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1226614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1227ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1228aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 122919c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12305673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1231aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1232aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1233aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1234e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1235e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1236d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1237d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1238d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1239e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1240aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1241aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 124274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12439bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 124417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 124574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 124612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1247692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 124874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 124974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1250d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1251d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12528dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 125317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1254d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1255d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1256d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1257d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12605cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12615cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 12625cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1263bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12645cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12655cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12665cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12675cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12685cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12695cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12705cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12715cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12725cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12735091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12745091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12755091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12765091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12775091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12785091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12795091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12805091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12815091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12825091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12835091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12845091faa4SMike Galbraith 12857af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12865d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 13047af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13057af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13067af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 13077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13087af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 13095d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 13107af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 13117af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 13127af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 13137af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13147af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 13157af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13167af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 13177af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 13187af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13197af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13207af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 13217af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 13227af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13237af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13247af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 132526b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13267af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13277af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13287af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13297af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13307af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13317af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13327af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13337af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13347af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1335f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1336f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1337f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1338f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1339f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1340f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1341f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13428c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1343f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1344f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1345f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1346f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1347f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1348f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1349f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1350c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1351c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1352dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1353dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1354c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1355c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 135676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 135776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 13582910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 135976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 136076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 136176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13620947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 136385c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13640947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 136576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 136676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 136776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1368877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1369877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13702cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1371877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1372877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 137315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1374877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1375877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1376877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1377877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1378877417e6SArnd Bergmann 137915f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 138015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 138115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1382c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 138315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 138415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1385c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13865d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 138715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1388c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1389ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1390ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1391c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1392877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1393877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13945d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 13965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 13985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 13995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14045d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1408e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1409e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14118b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14128b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14138b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 142259612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 142359612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 142459612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 142559612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 142659612b24SNathan Chancellor 14270847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14280847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14290847062aSRandy Dunlap 1430657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1431657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1432657a5209SMike Frysinger 1433657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1434657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1435657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1436657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1437657a5209SMike Frysinger 1438657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1439657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1440657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1441657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1442657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1443657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1444657a5209SMike Frysinger 1445657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1446657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1447657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1448657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1449657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1450657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1451657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1452657a5209SMike Frysinger 1453657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1454657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1455657a5209SMike Frysinger 1456f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1457f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1458f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1459f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14606a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1462f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1463f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1470ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14722813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1473ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1474ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1475ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1476ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14772813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14782813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14792813893fSIulia Manda default y 14802813893fSIulia Manda help 14812813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14822813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14832813893fSIulia Manda 14842813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14852813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14862813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14872813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14882813893fSIulia Manda 14892813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14902813893fSIulia Manda 1491f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1492f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1493a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1494a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1495f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1496f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1497f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1498f6187769SFabian Frederick 1499f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1500f6187769SFabian Frederick 15016af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15026af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15036af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1504a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15056af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15066af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15076af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15086af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15096af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15106af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1524baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1525baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1526baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1527baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1528baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1529baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1530baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1531baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1532baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1533baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1534baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1535baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1536baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1537baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1538baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1539baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1540baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1541d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1542d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 154474876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1545d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1546d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1547d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1548d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1549d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1550d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1551d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1552c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1554c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1555c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1556c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1557c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1558c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1559c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1560c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1561c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1562708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1563046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1564708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1566708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1567708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1568708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15698761f1abSRalf Baechle 1570e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15728761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 157315f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1574e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1575e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1576e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1577e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1578e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15893f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1591bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1597bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1598bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1599bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1600bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1601bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1609fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1611fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1612fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1613fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1614fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1615fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1616fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1617fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1618b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1620b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1621b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1622b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1623b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1624b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1625b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1626b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1627e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1629e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1630e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1631e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1632e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1633e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1634e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1635e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1647ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1649ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1650ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1651ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1652ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1653ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1654ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16552b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16562b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1657561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16582b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16592b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16602b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16612b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16622b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16632b188cc1SJens Axboe 1664d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1665d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1666d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1667d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1668d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1669d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1670d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1671d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1672d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1673d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16745a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 16755a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 16765a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 16775a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 16785a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 16797677f7fdSAxel Rasmussenconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 16807677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen bool 16817677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen help 16827677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 16837677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen 16845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1696d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1697d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1698d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1705d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1711d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1715d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1716d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1717d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1720d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1721d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1722d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1724d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1725d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1726d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1727d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1729a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1734d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1736d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1740d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1742d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1743d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1744d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1745d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1746d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1747fc611f47SKP Singh 1748d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1749d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1750d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1751d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1752d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1753d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1754d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 17553ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17563ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17573ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 175870216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 175970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 176070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1761bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP 1762bfe3911aSChris Wilson bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1763bfe3911aSChris Wilson help 1764bfe3911aSChris Wilson Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1765bfe3911aSChris Wilson user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1766bfe3911aSChris Wilson share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1767bfe3911aSChris Wilson memory space. 1768bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1769bfe3911aSChris Wilson If unsure, say N. 1770bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1771d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1772d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1773d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1774d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1775d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1776d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1777d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1778d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1779d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1780d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1781d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1782d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1783d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1785d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1786d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1790d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1791d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1792d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1793d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 17946befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17966befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 18006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 18016befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1802cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18030793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1804018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1805018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18060793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18072aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18082aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18092aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18102aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1811906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1812906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1813906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1814906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1815906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1816ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1817424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1818ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1819ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1820ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1821ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1822ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 182357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1825cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 182657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1827392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1828cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1829e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 183083fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 18310793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 183257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 183357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1835dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 183657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 183757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 183857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 183957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18400793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18410793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18420793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18430793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 184657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1847dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 184857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18490793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18510793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18520793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18530793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1854906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1855906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1856906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1857cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1858906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1859906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1860906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1861906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1862906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1863906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1866906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18670793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18680793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1869f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1870f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 18716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1872f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 18732aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 18742aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 18756a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 18762aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1877f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 187841ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 187941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 18806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1881f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 188241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 188341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 188441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 188541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 188641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 188741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1888b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1889b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1890b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1891b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1892b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1893b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1894b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1895692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1896b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1897b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1898b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1899b943c460SRandy Dunlap 190081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 190181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1902a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 190381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 190481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 190581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 190681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 190781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 1908252220daSIngo Molnar depends on !PREEMPT_RT 190904385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 191081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 191181819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 191234013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 191302f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 191481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 191581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 191681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1917ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 191881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 191981819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 192081819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 192181819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 192281819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 192302f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 192402f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 192581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 192681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 19276a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 192881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1929252220daSIngo Molnar depends on !PREEMPT_RT 193081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 193137291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 193237291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 193337291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 193481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 193581819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 193681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 19377660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 19387660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 19397660a6fdSKees Cook default y 1940eb52c0fcSHyeonggon Yoo depends on SLAB || SLUB 19417660a6fdSKees Cook help 19427660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 19437660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 19447660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 19457660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 19467660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 19477660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 19487660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 19497660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 19507660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 19517660a6fdSKees Cook 1952c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 19533404be67SKees Cook bool "Randomize slab freelist" 1954210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1955c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1956210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1957c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1958c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1959c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 19602482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 19612482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 19623404be67SKees Cook depends on SLAB || SLUB 19632482ddecSKees Cook help 19642482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 19652482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 196692bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 19673404be67SKees Cook freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 19683404be67SKees Cook sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 19693404be67SKees Cook CONFIG_SLUB. 19702482ddecSKees Cook 1971e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1972e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1973e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1974e900a918SDan Williams help 1975e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1976e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1977e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1978e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1979e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1980e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1981e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1982e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1983e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1984e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1985e900a918SDan Williams 1986e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1987e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1988e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1989e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1990e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1991e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1992e900a918SDan Williams 1993e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1994e900a918SDan Williams 1995345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1996345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1997b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1998345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1999345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 200092bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 2001345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 2002345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 2003345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 2004345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 2005345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 2006ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 2007ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 20086a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 2009ea637639SJie Zhang default n 2010ea637639SJie Zhang help 2011ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 20123903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 2013ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 2014ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 2015ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 2016ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 2017ea637639SJie Zhang 2018ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 2019ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 2020ea637639SJie Zhang 2021ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 2022ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 2023ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 2024ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 2025ea637639SJie Zhang 2026dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 2027ea637639SJie Zhang 2028091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2029091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2030091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2031091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2032091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2033d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2034091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2035091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2036091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2037091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2038091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2039091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 204082c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2041091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2042091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2043091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2044091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 204582c04ff8SPeter Foley 2046125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2047b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2048125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2049125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2050f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2051125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20525f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20535f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20545f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20555f87f112SIngo Molnar# 205697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20575f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 205897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 20591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20611572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20621572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2063ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20646341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20651c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2066ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 20671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2072c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2073c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2074c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2075c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 207666da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 20786dd85ff1SMasahiro Yamada modules 20791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 20811da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 20831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 20881da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 20911da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 20921da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 20931da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 20961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20970b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 20980b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 2099826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2100826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 2101826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2102826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 210391e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 210491e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 210591e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2106826e4506SLinus Torvalds 21071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2112f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2113f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 21141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 21161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 211719c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 21181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 21201da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 21211da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 21221da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 21231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 21241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 21260d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 21271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 21291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 21301da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 21311da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 21321da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 21331da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 21341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21352ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 21362ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 21372ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 21382ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 21392ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 21402ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 21412ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 21422ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 214356067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 214456067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 214556067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 214656067812SArd Biesheuvel 21471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 21481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 21491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 21511da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 21521da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 21531da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 21541da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 21551da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 21561da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 21571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2158106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2159106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2160c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2161106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2162106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2163106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2164cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2165106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2166228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2167228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2168228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2169228c37ffSDavid Howells 217049fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 217149fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 217249fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 217349fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 217449fcf732SDavid Howells 2175ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2176ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2177ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2178ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2179ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2180106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2181106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2182106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2183106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2184106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2185106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2186ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2187d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2188d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2189d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 21900165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 2191d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2192d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2193d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2194d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2195d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2196d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2197d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2198ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2199ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 22000165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 2201ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2202ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2203ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2204ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2205ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2206ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2207ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2208ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2209ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2210ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2211ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2212ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2213ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2214ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2215ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2216ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2217ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2218ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2219ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2220ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2221ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2222ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2223ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2224ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2225ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2226ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2227ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2228ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2229ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 223022753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 223122753674SMichal Marek string 22320165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 223322753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 223422753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 223522753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 223622753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 223722753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 223822753674SMichal Marek 2239beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2240d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada prompt "Module compression mode" 2241beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2242d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada This option allows you to choose the algorithm which will be used to 2243d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada compress modules when 'make modules_install' is run. (or, you can 2244d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada choose to not compress modules at all.) 2245beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2246d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada External modules will also be compressed in the same way during the 2247d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada installation. 2248d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2249d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada For modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient to 2250d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2251d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2252d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2253d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2254d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Please note that the tool used to load modules needs to support the 2255d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada corresponding algorithm. module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod 2256c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski MAY support gzip, xz and zstd. 2257d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2258d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Your build system needs to provide the appropriate compression tool 2259d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada to compress the modules. 2260d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2261d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada If in doubt, select 'None'. 2262d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2263d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamadaconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE 2264d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada bool "None" 2265d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2266d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Do not compress modules. The installed modules are suffixed 2267d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko. 2268beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2269beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2270beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2271d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2272d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Compress modules with GZIP. The installed modules are suffixed 2273d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko.gz. 2274beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2275beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2276beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2277d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2278d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Compress modules with XZ. The installed modules are suffixed 2279d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko.xz. 2280beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2281c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorskiconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD 2282c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski bool "ZSTD" 2283c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski help 2284c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski Compress modules with ZSTD. The installed modules are suffixed 2285c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski with .ko.zst. 2286beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2287beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2288beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2289b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhovconfig MODULE_DECOMPRESS 2290b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov bool "Support in-kernel module decompression" 2291b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov depends on MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP || MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2292b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov select ZLIB_INFLATE if MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2293b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov select XZ_DEC if MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2294b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov help 2295b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 2296b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov Support for decompressing kernel modules by the kernel itself 2297b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov instead of relying on userspace to perform this task. Useful when 2298b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov load pinning security policy is enabled. 2299b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 2300b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov If unsure, say N. 2301b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 23023d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 23033d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 23043d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 23053d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 23063d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 23073d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 23083d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 23093d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 23103d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 23113d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 23123d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 23133d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 23143d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 231517652f42SRasmus Villemoesconfig MODPROBE_PATH 231617652f42SRasmus Villemoes string "Path to modprobe binary" 231717652f42SRasmus Villemoes default "/sbin/modprobe" 231817652f42SRasmus Villemoes help 231917652f42SRasmus Villemoes When kernel code requests a module, it does so by calling 232017652f42SRasmus Villemoes the "modprobe" userspace utility. This option allows you to 232117652f42SRasmus Villemoes set the path where that binary is found. This can be changed 232217652f42SRasmus Villemoes at runtime via the sysctl file 232317652f42SRasmus Villemoes /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. Setting this to the empty string 232417652f42SRasmus Villemoes removes the kernel's ability to request modules (but 232517652f42SRasmus Villemoes userspace can still load modules explicitly). 232617652f42SRasmus Villemoes 2327dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2328a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT 2329a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds depends on !COMPILE_TEST 2330dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2331dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2332dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2333dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2334dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2335dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2336dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2337dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2338dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2339dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2340dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2341f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2342dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 23431518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 23441518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 23451518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 23461518c633SQuentin Perret help 23471518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 23481518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 23491518c633SQuentin Perret 23501518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 23511518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 23521518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 23531518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 23541518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 23551518c633SQuentin Perret 23560b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 23570b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 23586c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 23596c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 2360cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG 23616c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 236298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 236398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 236498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 23655f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 23665f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 236798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 236898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2369692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 237098a79d6aSRusty Russell 23713a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2372e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2373e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2374e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2375e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 237616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 237716295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 237816295becSSteffen Klassert bool 237916295becSSteffen Klassert 23804520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 23814520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 23824520c6a4SDavid Howells help 23834520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 23844520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 23854520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 23864520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 23874520c6a4SDavid Howells 23886beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2389e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 23900ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 23910ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 23920ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2393e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2394e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 23951bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 23961bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 23977303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 23987303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 23997303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 24007303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 24017303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 24027303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 24031bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 24041bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2405