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 2392