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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
65b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
66b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag))
671a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
68b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
69b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	bool
70b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
71b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(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
86b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
87b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
88b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
89e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
90e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
91e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
9210916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
931dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
941dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
95c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
96c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
97c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
98c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
99c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
100c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
101c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
102c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
103c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
104c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
105ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
117dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
118dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
12134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1234bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
1244bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
125ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada	depends on HAS_IOMEM
1264bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
1274bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
1284bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
1294bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
1304bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
1314bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1324bb16672SJiri Slaby
1334bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1344bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1354bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1364bb16672SJiri Slaby
137d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
138d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
139fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
140d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
141d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
142d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
143d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
144d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
145d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
146d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
157aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
158aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
159aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
160ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
161aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
162aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1636e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
165aaebf433SRyan Anderson
166aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1676e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
168aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1696e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
170aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1736e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1746e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1756e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1766e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
177aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1789afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1799afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1809afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1819afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1829afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1839afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1849afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1859afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1869afb719eSLaura Abbott
1872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1963ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1973ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1983ebe1243SLasse Collin
1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
2017dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
203e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
204e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20548f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
20648f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool
20748f7ddf7SNick Terrell
208f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
209f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
210f16466afSVasily Gorbik
21130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
21448f7ddf7SNick 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
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2352e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2377dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2387dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
24030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
24330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2450a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
25030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2540a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2550a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2560a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
25730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2583ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2593ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2603ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2613ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2623ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2633ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2643ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2653ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2663ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2673ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2683ebe1243SLasse Collin
2693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2703ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2723ebe1243SLasse Collin
2737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2757dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2767dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2770a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
278681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
281e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
282e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
283e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
285e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
286e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
287e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
288e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
289e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
290e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
291e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
292e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
29348f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD
29448f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool "ZSTD"
29548f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
29648f7ddf7SNick Terrell	help
29748f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression
29848f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and
29948f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You
30048f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command
30148f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  line tool is required for compression.
30248f7ddf7SNick Terrell
303f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
304f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
305f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
306f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
307f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
308f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
309f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
310f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
311f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
312f16466afSVasily Gorbik
31330d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
31430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
315ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT
316ada4ab7aSChris Down	string "Default init path"
317ada4ab7aSChris Down	default ""
318ada4ab7aSChris Down	help
319ada4ab7aSChris Down	  This option determines the default init for the system if no init=
320ada4ab7aSChris Down	  option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is
321ada4ab7aSChris Down	  not present, we will still then move on to attempting further
322ada4ab7aSChris Down	  locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use
323ada4ab7aSChris Down	  the fallback list when init= is not passed.
324ada4ab7aSChris Down
325bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
326bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
327bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
328bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
329bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
330bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
331bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
332bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
333bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
33417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
33517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
33617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
33717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
33817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
33917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
34017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
34317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
353a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
366a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
367a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
368a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
369a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
370a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
371a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
37419c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
375a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
380b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
388bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
389bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
390bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
391bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
392bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
393bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
394c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE
395c73be61cSDavid Howells	bool "General notification queue"
396c73be61cSDavid Howells	default n
397c73be61cSDavid Howells	help
398c73be61cSDavid Howells
399c73be61cSDavid Howells	  This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
400c73be61cSDavid Howells	  userspace by splicing them into pipes.  It can be used in conjunction
401c73be61cSDavid Howells	  with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
402c73be61cSDavid Howells	  notifications.
403c73be61cSDavid Howells
404c73be61cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
405c73be61cSDavid Howells
406226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
407226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
408226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
409226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
410226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
411226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
412226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
413a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
414226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
415226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
41669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
41769369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
418b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
41969369a70SJosh Triplett	help
42069369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
42169369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
42269369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
42369369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
42469369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
42569369a70SJosh Triplett
4261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
428804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
432cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
433cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4357a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
4367a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
4377a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
4381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
439cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
4407a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
44128a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
44274c3cbe3SAl Viro
443d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
444764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
44587a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
446d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
450abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
451abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
453fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
45502fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
460c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
466fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
467fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
468abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
470c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
471abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
481abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
482abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
483ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
484554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
485041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
487abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
488abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
490abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
493abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
495abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
497abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
498abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
499abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
500b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
501b58c3584SRik van Riel
502fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
504b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
506fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
507fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
508fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
509fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
510fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
511fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
512fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
51311d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
51411d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
51511d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
51611d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
51711d4afd4SVincent Guittot
51876504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
51998eb401dSValentin Schneider	bool
520fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
521fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM64
52276504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
52398eb401dSValentin Schneider	depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL
52498eb401dSValentin Schneider	help
52598eb401dSValentin Schneider	  Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the
52698eb401dSValentin Schneider	  scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler
52798eb401dSValentin Schneider	  that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from
52898eb401dSValentin Schneider	  thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of
52998eb401dSValentin Schneider	  a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures.
53098eb401dSValentin Schneider
53198eb401dSValentin Schneider	  If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly,
53298eb401dSValentin Schneider	  i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones.
53398eb401dSValentin Schneider
53498eb401dSValentin Schneider	  This requires the architecture to implement
535432900f8SYue Hu	  arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure().
53676504793SThara Gopinath
537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
5392813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
5583903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
56419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
5662813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
57819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
580f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
59019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
59919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
607eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
608eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
609eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
610eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
611eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
612eb414681SJohannes Weiner
613eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
614eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
615eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
616eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
617eb414681SJohannes Weiner
6182ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
6192ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
6202ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
6212ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
622c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
623eb414681SJohannes Weiner
624eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
625eb414681SJohannes Weiner
626e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
627e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
628e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
629e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
630e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
631e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
632428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
633428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
634e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
6357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
6367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
6377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
6387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
6397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
6407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
6427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
6437b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6447b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
6457b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
6485c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
6495c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
650414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
6512c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
6525c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6535c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
6545c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
6552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
6562c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
6572c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
6582c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
6595c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
6600af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
661c903ff83SMike Travis
662de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
663de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
664de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
665de5b56baSVivek Goyal
6661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
667f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
668a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
681a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
685f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
686f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
687f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
68843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
689f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
690f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
691f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
692f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
69343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
694794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
695794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
696550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 25 if !H8300
697550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 19 if H8300
698f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
699361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
700794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
70123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
70223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
70323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
70423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
70523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
706f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
707f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
708f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
709f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
710f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
711794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
712794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
713794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
71423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
71523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
7162240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
71823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
720361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
72523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
7330f7636e1SPaul Menzel	  so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
7395e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
7405e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
750f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
751f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
752427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
753427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
754f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
755427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
756f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
757f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
758f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
759f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
760f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
761427934b8SPetr Mladek
762f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
763427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
764427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
765427934b8SPetr Mladek
766427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
767427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
768427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
769427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
770427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
771427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
772427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
773427934b8SPetr Mladek
7745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
78038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
78138ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
78238ff87f7SStephen Boyd
78369842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
78469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
78569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
837be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
838be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
841be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
842be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
843be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
84472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
84572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
84672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
84772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
84872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
84972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
85072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
85172b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
85272b252aeSMel Gorman
853c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
8543a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
855c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
85672b252aeSMel Gorman#
857be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
858be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
859be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
860be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
861be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
874be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8766d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
878be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
879be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8806f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8816f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8826f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8836f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8846f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8856f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8866f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8876f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
88823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8896341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8902bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
891ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
89223964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
896d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
897da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
89845ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
899ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
900ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
901ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
90223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
90323964d2dSLi Zefan
9043e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9053e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
9063e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
907c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
908a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9093e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
91079bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
91100f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
912a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
91300f0b825SBalbir Singh
914c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
9152d1c4980SJohannes Weiner	bool
916c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
917a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
918c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
91984c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
92084c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
92184c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
92284c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
92384c07d11SKirill Tkhai
9246bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
9272bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
928a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
9322bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
937e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
9417baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
944da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
950e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9517c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
952a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
9537c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9547c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9557c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9567c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9577c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9587c941438SDhaval Giani
9597c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9607c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9617c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9627c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9637c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9647c941438SDhaval Giani
965ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
966ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
967ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
968ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
969ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
970ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
971ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
972ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
973ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
974d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
975ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9767c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9777c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9787c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9797c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9807c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9817c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
98232bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9837c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9847c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
985d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9867c941438SDhaval Giani
9877c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9887c941438SDhaval Giani
9892480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9902480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
9912480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9922480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
9932480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
9942480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
9952480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
9962480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
9972480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9982480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
10002480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
10012480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
10022480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
10032480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10042480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
10052480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
10062480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
10072480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
10082480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10092480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
10102480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10206cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
102398076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
102739d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
102839d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
102939d3e758SParav Pandit	help
103039d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
103139d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
103239d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
103339d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
103439d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
103539d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
103639d3e758SParav Pandit
10376bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1043489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1044489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1045489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1046489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1047489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10486bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1052afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1063afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1066e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1072afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1074afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10756bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
107889e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
107989e9b9e0STejun Heo
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10866bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
10986546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
10996546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
110330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
110430070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1105483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1106483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
110730070984SDaniel Mack	help
110830070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
110930070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
111030070984SDaniel Mack
111130070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
111230070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
111330070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
111430070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
111530070984SDaniel Mack
1116a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC
1117a72232eaSVipin Sharma	bool "Misc resource controller"
1118a72232eaSVipin Sharma	default n
1119a72232eaSVipin Sharma	help
1120a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host.
1121a72232eaSVipin Sharma
1122a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system
1123a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller
1124a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process
1125a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  attached to a cgroup hierarchy.
1126a72232eaSVipin Sharma
1127a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  For more information, please check misc cgroup section in
1128a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst.
1129a72232eaSVipin Sharma
11306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
113123b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
113323b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
113623b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
113723b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
113823b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
114273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
114373b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
114473b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
114573b35147SArnd Bergmann
114623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1147c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
11488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11496a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11502813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11516a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1152c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1153c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1154c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1155c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1156c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1157c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
116058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
116158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
116217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
116358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
116458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
116558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
116658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1167769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1168769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1169660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1170769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1171769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1172769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1173769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1174769071acSAndrei Vagin
1175ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1176ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
117817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1179ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1180ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1181614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1182ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1183aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
118419c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11855673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1186aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1187aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1188aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1189e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1190e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1191d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1192d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1193d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1194e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1195aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1196aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
119774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11989bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
119917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
120074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
120112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1202692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
120374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
120474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1205d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1206d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
120817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1209d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1210d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1211d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1212d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12148dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12155cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
12165cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
12175cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
1218bfe3911aSChris Wilson	select KCMP
12195cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
12205cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
12215cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
12225cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
12235cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
12245cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
12255cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12265cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
12275cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12285091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12295091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12305091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12315091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12325091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12335091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12345091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12355091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12365091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12375091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12385091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12395091faa4SMike Galbraith
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12415d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12645d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12787af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
128026b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
12978c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1300f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1303f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1304f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1305c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1306c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1307dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1308dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1309c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1310c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
131176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
131276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
13132910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
131476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
131576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
131676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
13170947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
131885c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
13190947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
132076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
132176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
132276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1323877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1324877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
13252cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1326877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1327877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
132815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1329877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1330877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1331877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1332877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1333877417e6SArnd Bergmann
133415f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
133515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
133615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1337c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
133815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
133915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1340c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13415d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
134215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
1343c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1344ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1345ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1346c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1347877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1348877417e6SArnd Bergmann
13495d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
13515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
13535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
13545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
13555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
13565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
13575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
13585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13595d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
13615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
1363e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1364e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
13655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13668b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
13678b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
13688b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
13695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
13715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
13725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
13735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
13745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
13755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
13765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
137759612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN
137859612b24SNathan Chancellor	def_bool y
137959612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1380d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000
138159612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
138259612b24SNathan Chancellor
13830847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13840847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13850847062aSRandy Dunlap
1386657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1387657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1388657a5209SMike Frysinger
1389657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1390657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1391657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1392657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1393657a5209SMike Frysinger
1394657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1395657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1396657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1397657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1398657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1399657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1400657a5209SMike Frysinger
1401657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1402657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1403657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1404657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1405657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1406657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1407657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1408657a5209SMike Frysinger
1409657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1410657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1411657a5209SMike Frysinger
1412f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1413f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1414f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1415f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
14166a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
14176a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1418f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1419f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1426ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
14276a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
14282813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1429ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1430ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1431ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1432ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14332813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
14342813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
14352813893fSIulia Manda	default y
14362813893fSIulia Manda	help
14372813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
14382813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
14392813893fSIulia Manda
14402813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
14412813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
14422813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
14432813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
14442813893fSIulia Manda
14452813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
14462813893fSIulia Manda
1447f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1448f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1449a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1450a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
1451f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1452f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1453f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1454f6187769SFabian Frederick
1455f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1456f6187769SFabian Frederick
14576af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
14586af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
14596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
1460a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
14616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1480baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1481baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1482baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1483baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1484baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1485baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1486baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1487baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1488baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1489baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1490baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1491baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1492baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1493baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1494baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1495baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1496baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1497d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1498d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14996a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
150074876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1501d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1502d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1503d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1504d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1505d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1506d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1507d59745ceSMatt Mackall
150842a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
150942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
151042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
151142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
151242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1513c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
15146a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1515c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1516c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1517c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1518c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1519c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1520c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1521c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1522c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1523708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1524046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1525708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
15266a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1527708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1528708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1529708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15308761f1abSRalf Baechle
1531e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15326a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15338761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
153415f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1535e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1536e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1537e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1538e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1539e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15426a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15496a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1551bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1557bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1558bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1559bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1560bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1561bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
156203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
156303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
156462b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
156503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
156603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
156703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
156803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
156903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1577fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15786a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1579fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1580fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1581fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1582fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1583fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1584fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1585fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1586b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15876a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1588b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1589b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1590b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1591b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1592b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1593b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1594b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1595e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15966a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1597e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1598e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1599e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1600e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1601e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1602e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1603e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
16041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
16056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1615ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
16166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1617ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1618ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1619ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1620ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1621ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1622ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
16232b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
16242b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1625561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
16262b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
16272b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
16282b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
16292b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
16302b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
16312b188cc1SJens Axboe
1632d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1633d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1634d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1635d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1636d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1637d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1638d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1639d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1640d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1641d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
16425a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
16435a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
16445a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
16455a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
16465a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
16477677f7fdSAxel Rasmussenconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR
16487677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen	bool
16497677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen	help
16507677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen	  Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support
16517677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen
16525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1689d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1690d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1693d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1694d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1695d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1696d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1697a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1698d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1705d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1711d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1715fc611f47SKP Singh
1716fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM
1717fc611f47SKP Singh	bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
17184edf16b7SKP Singh	depends on BPF_EVENTS
1719fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1720fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on SECURITY
1721fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_JIT
1722fc611f47SKP Singh	help
1723fc611f47SKP Singh	  Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1724fc611f47SKP Singh	  implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1725fc611f47SKP Singh
1726fc611f47SKP Singh	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1727fc611f47SKP Singh
1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1729d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1731bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
17321e6c62a8SAlexei Starovoitov	select TASKS_TRACE_RCU
173348cac3f4SFlorent Revest	select BINARY_PRINTF
173488759609SCong Wang	select NET_SOCK_MSG if INET
1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1736d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
174081c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
174181c22041SDaniel Borkmann	bool
174281c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1743290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1744290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1745290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1746290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1747290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1748290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1749290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
175081c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
175181c22041SDaniel Borkmann	def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
175281c22041SDaniel Borkmann	depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
175381c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1754d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitovsource "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig"
1755d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitov
1756d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1757d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1758d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1759d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1760d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1761d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1762d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
17633ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
17643ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
17653ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
176670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
176770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
176870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1769bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP
1770bfe3911aSChris Wilson	bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT
1771bfe3911aSChris Wilson	help
1772bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides
1773bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they
1774bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual
1775bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  memory space.
1776bfe3911aSChris Wilson
1777bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  If unsure, say N.
1778bfe3911aSChris Wilson
1779d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1780d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1781d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1782d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1783d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1785d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1786d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1790d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1791d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1792d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1793d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1794d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1795d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1796d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1797d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1798d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1799d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1800d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1801d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
18026befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
18036befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
18046befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
18056befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
18066befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
18076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
18086befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
18096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1810cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
18110793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1812018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1813018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
18140793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1815906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1816906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1817906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1818906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1819906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1820ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1821424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1822ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1823ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1824ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1825ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1826ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
182757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
18280793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1829cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
183057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1831392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1832cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1833e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
183483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
18350793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
183657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
183757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
18380793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1839dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
184057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
184157c0c15bSIngo Molnar
184257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
184357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
18450793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
18460793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
18470793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
18480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
18490793a61dSThomas Gleixner
185057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1851dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
185257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
18530793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
18540793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
18550793a61dSThomas Gleixner
18560793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
18570793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1858906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1859906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1860906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1861cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1862906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1863906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1866906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1867906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1868906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1869906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1870906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
18710793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
18720793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1873f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1874f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
18756a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1876f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
18772aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
18782aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
18796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
18802aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1881f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
188241ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
188341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
18846a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1885f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
188641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
188741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
188841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
188941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
189041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
189141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1892b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1893b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1894b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1895b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1896b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1897b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1898b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1899692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1900b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1901b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1902b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1903b943c460SRandy Dunlap
190481819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
190581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1906a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
190781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
190881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
190981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
191081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
191181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
191204385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
191381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
191481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
191534013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
191602f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
191781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
191881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
191981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1920ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
192181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
192281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
192381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
192481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
192581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
192602f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
192702f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
192881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
192981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
19306a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
193181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
193281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
193337291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
193437291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
193537291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
193681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
193781819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
193881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
19397660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
19407660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
19417660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
19427660a6fdSKees Cook	help
19437660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
19447660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
19457660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
19467660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
19477660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
19487660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
19497660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
19507660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
19517660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
19527660a6fdSKees Cook
1953c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
19543404be67SKees Cook	bool "Randomize slab freelist"
1955210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1956c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1957210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1958c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1959c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1960c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
19612482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
19622482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
19633404be67SKees Cook	depends on SLAB || SLUB
19642482ddecSKees Cook	help
19652482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
19662482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
196792bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
19683404be67SKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
19693404be67SKees Cook	  sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
19703404be67SKees Cook	  CONFIG_SLUB.
19712482ddecSKees Cook
1972e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1973e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1974e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1975e900a918SDan Williams	help
1976e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1977e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1978e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1979e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1980e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1981e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1982e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1983e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1984e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1985e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1986e900a918SDan Williams
1987e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1988e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1989e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1990e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1991e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1992e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1993e900a918SDan Williams
1994e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1995e900a918SDan Williams
1996345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1997345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1998b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1999345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
2000345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
200192bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
2002345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
2003345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
2004345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
2005345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
2006345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
2007ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
2008ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
20096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
2010ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
2011ea637639SJie Zhang	help
2012ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
20133903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
2014ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
2015ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
2016ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
2017ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
2018ea637639SJie Zhang
2019ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
2020ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
2021ea637639SJie Zhang
2022ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
2023ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
2024ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
2025ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
2026ea637639SJie Zhang
2027dd19d293SStephen Kitt	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
2028ea637639SJie Zhang
2029091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2030091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
2031091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
2032091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
2033091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
2034d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
2035091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
2036091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
2037091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
2038091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
2039091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
2040091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
204182c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
2042091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
2043091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
2044091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
2045091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
204682c04ff8SPeter Foley
2047125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
2048b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
2049125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
2050125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
2051f8408264SViresh Kumar	  by profilers.
2052125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
20535f87f112SIngo Molnar#
20545f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
20555f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
20565f87f112SIngo Molnar#
205797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
20585f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
205997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
20601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20621572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
20631572497cSChristoph Hellwig
2064ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
20656341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
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
2190d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
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?"
2200ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
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
223222753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
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
22893d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
22903d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
22913d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
22923d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
22933d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
22943d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
22953d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
22963d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
22973d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
22983d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
22993d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
23003d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
23013d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
2302*17652f42SRasmus Villemoesconfig MODPROBE_PATH
2303*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	string "Path to modprobe binary"
2304*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	default "/sbin/modprobe"
2305*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	help
2306*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  When kernel code requests a module, it does so by calling
2307*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  the "modprobe" userspace utility. This option allows you to
2308*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  set the path where that binary is found. This can be changed
2309*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  at runtime via the sysctl file
2310*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. Setting this to the empty string
2311*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  removes the kernel's ability to request modules (but
2312*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  userspace can still load modules explicitly).
2313*17652f42SRasmus Villemoes
2314dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2315a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT
2316a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
2317dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2318dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2319dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2320dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2321dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2322dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2323dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2324dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2325dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2326dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2327dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2328f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2329dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
23301518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
23311518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
23321518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
23331518c633SQuentin Perret	help
23341518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
23351518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
23361518c633SQuentin Perret
23371518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
23381518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
23391518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
23401518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
23411518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
23421518c633SQuentin Perret
23430b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
23440b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
23456c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
23466c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
2347cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG
23486c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
234998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
235098a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
235198a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
23525f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
23535f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
235498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
235598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2356692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
235798a79d6aSRusty Russell
23583a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2359e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2360e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2361e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2362e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
236316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
236416295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
236516295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
236616295becSSteffen Klassert
23674520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
23684520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
23694520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
23704520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
23714520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
23724520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
23734520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
23744520c6a4SDavid Howells
23756beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2376e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
23770ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
23780ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann	bool
23790ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann
2380e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2381e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
23821bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
23831bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
23847303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
23857303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
23867303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
23877303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
23887303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
23897303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
23901bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
23911bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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