1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 11face4374SRoman Zippel 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 27*1a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 28*1a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 29*1a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 30e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 31e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 32e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized) 35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC >= 4.7 supports this option. 37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada bool 40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9 42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition. 44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases. 45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed 47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings. 48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 49b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 50b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 51b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 52b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 53e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 54e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 55e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 561dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 571dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 581dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 62c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 63c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 66c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 67c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 68c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 69ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 81dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 82dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 874bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 884bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 89bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 904bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 914bb16672SJiri Slaby help 924bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 934bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 944bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 954bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 964bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 974bb16672SJiri Slaby 984bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 994bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1004bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1014bb16672SJiri Slaby 102e846f0dcSJani Nikulaconfig HEADER_TEST 103e846f0dcSJani Nikula bool "Compile test headers that should be standalone compilable" 104e846f0dcSJani Nikula help 105e846f0dcSJani Nikula Compile test headers listed in header-test-y target to ensure they are 106e846f0dcSJani Nikula self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 107e846f0dcSJani Nikula 108e846f0dcSJani Nikula If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested 109e846f0dcSJani Nikula headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 110e846f0dcSJani Nikula 1111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 121aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 122aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 124ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 125aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 126aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1286e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 129aaebf433SRyan Anderson 130aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1316e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 132aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1336e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 134aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1356e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1366e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1376e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1386e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1396e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1406e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 141aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1429afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1439afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1449afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1459afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1469afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1479afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1489afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1499afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1509afb719eSLaura Abbott 1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1603ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1613ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1623ebe1243SLasse Collin 1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 166e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 167e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 168e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 169f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 170f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 171f16466afSVasily Gorbik 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 175f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 19030d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2060a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2150a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2160a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2170a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2193ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2203ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2213ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2223ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2233ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2243ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2253ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2263ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2273ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2283ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2293ebe1243SLasse Collin 2303ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2313ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2323ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2333ebe1243SLasse Collin 2347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2377dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2380a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 239681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2407dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2417dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 242e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 243e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 244e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 245e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 246e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 247e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 248e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 249e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 250e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 251e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 252e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 253e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 254f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 255f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 256f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 257f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 258f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 259f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 260f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 261f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 262f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 263f16466afSVasily Gorbik 26430d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 266bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 267bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 268bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 269bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 270bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 271bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 272bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 273bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 274bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 27517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 27617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 27717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 27817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 27917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 28017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 28117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 28417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 307a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 308a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 309a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 310a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 311a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 312a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 31519c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 321b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 329bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 330bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 331bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 332bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 333bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 334bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 335226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 336226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 337226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 338226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 339226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 340226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 341226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 342a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 343226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 344226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 34569369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 34669369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 347b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 34869369a70SJosh Triplett help 34969369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 35069369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 35169369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 35269369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 35369369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 35469369a70SJosh Triplett 3551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 357804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 361cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 362cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3647a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3657a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3667a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 368cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3697a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 37028a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 37174c3cbe3SAl Viro 372d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 373764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 37487a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 375d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 38402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 389c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 399c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 400abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 412ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 413554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 414041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 415abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 416abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 417abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 418abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 419abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 420abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 422abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 423abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 424abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 425abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 427abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 429b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 430b58c3584SRik van Riel 431fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 432fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 433b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 434fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 435fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 436fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 437fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 438fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 439fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 440fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 441fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 44211d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 44311d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 44411d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 44511d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 44611d4afd4SVincent Guittot 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4492813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4683903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 47419c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4762813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 48819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 490f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 50019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 50919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 517eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 518eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 519eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 520eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 521eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 522eb414681SJohannes Weiner 523eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 524eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 525eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 526eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 527eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5282ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5292ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5302ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5312ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 532eb414681SJohannes Weiner For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt. 533eb414681SJohannes Weiner 534eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 535eb414681SJohannes Weiner 536e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 537e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 538e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 539e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 540e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 541e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 542428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 543428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 544e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5457b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5467b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5477b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5487b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5497b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5507b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5517b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5527b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5547b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5557b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5585c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5595c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 560414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5612c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5625c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5635c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5645c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5652c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5662c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5672c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5682c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5695c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5700af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 571c903ff83SMike Travis 572de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 573de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 574de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 575de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 577f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 595f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 596f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 597f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 59843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 599f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 600f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 601f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 602f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 60343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 604794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 605794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 606fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 607f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 608361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 609794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 61023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 61123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 61323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 61423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 615f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 616f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 617f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 618f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 619f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 620794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 621794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 622794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6252240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 62623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 62723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 629361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6485e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6495e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 659f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 660f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 661427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 662427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 663f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 664427934b8SPetr Mladek help 665f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 666f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 667f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 668f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 669f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 670427934b8SPetr Mladek 671f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 672427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 673427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 674427934b8SPetr Mladek 675427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 676427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 677427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 678427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 679427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 680427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 681427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 682427934b8SPetr Mladek 6835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 68938ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 69038ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 69138ff87f7SStephen Boyd 692be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 693be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 694be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 695be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 696be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 697be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 698be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 699be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 70072b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 70172b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 70272b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 70372b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 70472b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 70572b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 70672b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 70772b252aeSMel Gorman bool 70872b252aeSMel Gorman 70972b252aeSMel Gorman# 710be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 711be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 712be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 713be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 714be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 715be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 716be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 717be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 718be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 719be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 720be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 721be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 722be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 723be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 724be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 725be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 726be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 727be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 728be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 7296d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 730be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 731be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 732be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7336f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7346f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7356f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 7366f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 7376f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 7386f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 7396f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 7406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 74123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 7426341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 7432bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 744ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 74523964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 7465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 7475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 7485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 7495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 7509991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 75145ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 752ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 753ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 754ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 75523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 75623964d2dSLi Zefan 7573e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 7583e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 7593e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 760c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 761a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 7623e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 76379bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 76400f0b825SBalbir Singh help 765a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 76600f0b825SBalbir Singh 767c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 768a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 769c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 770c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 771a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 772a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 773c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 774a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 775c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 776a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 777a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 778a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 779a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 78043d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 78107555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 782a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 783a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 784a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 78500a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 786c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 78784c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 78884c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 78984c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 79084c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 79184c07d11SKirill Tkhai 7926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 7936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 7946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 7952bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 7986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 7996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8002bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 805e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8129991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 8156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 8206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 8216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 826e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8277c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 828a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8297c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8307c941438SDhaval Giani help 8317c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8327c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8337c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8347c941438SDhaval Giani 8357c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8367c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8377c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8387c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8397c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8407c941438SDhaval Giani 841ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 842ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 843ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 844ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 845ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 846ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 847ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 848ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 849ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 850cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 851ab84d31eSPaul Turner 8527c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 8537c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 8547c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8557c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8567c941438SDhaval Giani help 8577c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 85832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 8597c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 8607c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 8617c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 8627c941438SDhaval Giani 8637c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 8647c941438SDhaval Giani 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 8746cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 87798076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 88139d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 88239d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 88339d3e758SParav Pandit help 88439d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 88539d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 88639d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 88739d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 88839d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 88939d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 89039d3e758SParav Pandit 8916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 897489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 898489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 899489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 900489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 901489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9026bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 906afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 9096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 917afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9186bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 920e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 926afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 928afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9296bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 93289e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 93389e9b9e0STejun Heo 9346bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9406bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 9516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 9536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 9556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 95630070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 95730070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 958483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 959483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 96030070984SDaniel Mack help 96130070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 96230070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 96330070984SDaniel Mack 96430070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 96530070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 96630070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 96730070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 96830070984SDaniel Mack 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 97023b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 97223b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 97523b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 97623b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 97723b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 98173b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 98273b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 98373b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 98473b35147SArnd Bergmann 98523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 986c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9878dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 9886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 9892813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 9906a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 991c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 992c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 993c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 994c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 995c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 996c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 9978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 9988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 99958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 100058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 100117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 100258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 100358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 100458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 100558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1006ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1007ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 100917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1010ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1011ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1012614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1013ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1014aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 101519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 10165673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1017aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1018aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1019aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1020e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1021e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1022d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1023d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1024d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1025e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1026aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1027aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 102874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 10299bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 103017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 103174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 103212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1033692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 103474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 103574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1036d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1037d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 10388dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 103917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1040d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1041d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1042d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1043d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 10448dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 10458dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 10465cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 10475cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 10485cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 10495cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 10505cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 10515cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 10525cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 10535cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 10545cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 10555cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10565cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 10575cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10585091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 10595091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 10605091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 10615091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 10625091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10635091faa4SMike Galbraith help 10645091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 10655091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 10665091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 10675091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 10685091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 10695091faa4SMike Galbraith 10707af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10715d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 10727af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10737af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10747af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10757af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 10767af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 10777af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 10787af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10797af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 10807af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 10817af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10827af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 10837af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 10847af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 10857af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10867af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 10877af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 10887af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 10897af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10907af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10917af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 10927af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10937af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 10945d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 10957af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10967af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10977af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10987af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10997af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11007af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11017af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11027af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11047af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11057af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11067af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11087af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11097af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 111026b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11117af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11127af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11137af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11147af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11157af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11167af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11177af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11187af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11197af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1120f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1121f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1122f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1123f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1124f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1125f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1126f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 11278c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1128f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1129f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1130f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1131f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1132f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1133f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1134f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1135c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1136c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1137dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1138dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1139c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1140c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1141877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1142877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 11432cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1144877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1145877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1146877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1147877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1148877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1149877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1150877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1151877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1152c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 115396fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1154b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 1155c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 115631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 115731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1158c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 11593a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1160c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1161877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1162877417e6SArnd Bergmann 11635d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 11655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 11675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 11685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 11695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 11705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 11715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 11725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11735d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 117716fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1178e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1179e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 11805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11818b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 11828b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 11838b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 11845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 11865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 11875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 11885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 11895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 11905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 11915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11920847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 11930847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 11940847062aSRandy Dunlap 1195657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1196657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1197657a5209SMike Frysinger 1198657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1199657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1200657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1201657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1202657a5209SMike Frysinger 1203657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1204657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1205657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1206657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1207657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1208657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1209657a5209SMike Frysinger 1210657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1211657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1212657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1213657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1214657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1215657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1216657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1217657a5209SMike Frysinger 1218657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1219657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1220657a5209SMike Frysinger 1221f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1222f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1223f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1224f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 12256a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1227f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1228f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1235ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 12366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 12372813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1238ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1239ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1240ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1241ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12422813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 12432813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 12442813893fSIulia Manda default y 12452813893fSIulia Manda help 12462813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 12472813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 12482813893fSIulia Manda 12492813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 12502813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 12512813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 12522813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 12532813893fSIulia Manda 12542813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 12552813893fSIulia Manda 1256f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1257f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1258a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1259f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1260f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1261f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1262f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1263f6187769SFabian Frederick 1264f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1265f6187769SFabian Frederick 12666af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 12676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 12686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 12696af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 12706af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 12716af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 12726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 12736af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 12746af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 12756af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1276b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 12776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 127826a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1279c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1280b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1281b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 128213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 128313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 128413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 128513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1286b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 128713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 128813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 128913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1290b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1291c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1292ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1293d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1294d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1295d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1296d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1297d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1298d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1299d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1300d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1301d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1302d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1303d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1304d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1305d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1306baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1307baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1308baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1309baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1310baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1311baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1312baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1313baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1314baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1315baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1316baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1317baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1318baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1319baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1320baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1321baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1322baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1323d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1324d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 132674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1327d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1328d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1329d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1330d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1331d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1332d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1333d59745ceSMatt Mackall 133442a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 133542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 133642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 133742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 133842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1339c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1341c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1342c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1343c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1344c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1345c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1346c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1347c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1348c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1349708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1350046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1351708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1353708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1354708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1355708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13568761f1abSRalf Baechle 1357e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13598761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 136015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1361e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1362e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1363e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1364e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1365e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1377bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1383bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1384bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1385bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1386bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1387bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 138803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 138903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 139062b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 139103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 139203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 139303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 139403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 139503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 13961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 13976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1403fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1405fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1406fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1407fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1408fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1409fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1410fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1411fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1412b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1414b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1415b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1416b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1417b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1418b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1419b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1420b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1421e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1423e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1424e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1425e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1426e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1427e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1428e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1429e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1441ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1443ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1444ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1445ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1446ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1447ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1448ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 14492b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 14502b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 14512b188cc1SJens Axboe select ANON_INODES 14522b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 14532b188cc1SJens Axboe help 14542b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 14552b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 14562b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 14572b188cc1SJens Axboe 1458d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1459d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1460d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1461d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1462d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1463d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1464d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1465d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1466d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1467d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 14685b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 14695b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 14705b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 14715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 14725b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 14735b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 14745b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 14755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 14765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 14775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 14785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 14795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1481d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1482d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1483d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1484d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1485d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1486d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1487d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1488d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1489d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1494d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1496d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1497d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1498d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1499d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1500d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1509d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1510d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1513a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1529d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1530d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1531d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1532d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1533d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1534bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1540290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1541290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1542290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1543290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1544290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1545290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1546290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1551d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1552d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1553d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 15543ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 15553ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 15563ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 155770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 155870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 155970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1560d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1561d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1562d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1563d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1564d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1565d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1566d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1567d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1568d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1569d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1570d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1571d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1572d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1573d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1574d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1575d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1576d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1577d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1578d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1579d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1580d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1581d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1582d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 15836befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 15846befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 15855d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 15866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 15876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 15886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 15896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 15906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 15916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1592cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15930793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1594018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1595018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 15960793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1597906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1598906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1599906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1600906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1601906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1602ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1603424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1604ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1605ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1606ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1607ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1608ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 160957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 16100793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1611cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 161257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1613392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1614cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1615e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 161683fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16170793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 161857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 161957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16200793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1621dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 162257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 162357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 162457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 162557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 16260793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16280793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16290793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16300793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16310793a61dSThomas Gleixner 163257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1633dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 163457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 16350793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 16360793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 16370793a61dSThomas Gleixner 16380793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 16390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1640906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1641906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1642906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1643cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1644906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1645906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1646906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1647906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1648906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1649906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1650906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1651906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1652906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 16530793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 16540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1655f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1656f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1658f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16592aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16602aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16616a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16622aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1663f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 166441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 166541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16666a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1667f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 166841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 166941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 167041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 167141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 167241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 167341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 16741663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 16751663f26dSTejun Heo default n 16761663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 16771663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 16781663f26dSTejun Heo help 16791663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 16801663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 16811663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 16821663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 16831663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 16841663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 16851663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 16861663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 16871663f26dSTejun Heo 1688b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1689b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1690b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1691b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1692b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1693b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1694b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1695692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1696b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1697b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1698b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1699b943c460SRandy Dunlap 170081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 170181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1702a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 170381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 170481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 170581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 170681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 170781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 170804385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 170981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 171081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 171134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 171202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 171381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 171481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 171581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1716ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 171781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 171881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 171981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 172081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 172181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 172202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 172302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 172481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 172581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 17266a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 172781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 172881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 172937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 173037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 173137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 173281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 173381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 173481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 17357660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 17367660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 17377660a6fdSKees Cook default y 17387660a6fdSKees Cook help 17397660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 17407660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 17417660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 17427660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 17437660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 17447660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 17457660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 17467660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 17477660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 17487660a6fdSKees Cook 1749c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1750c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1751210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1752c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1753c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1754210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1755c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1756c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1757c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 17582482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 17592482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 17602482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 17612482ddecSKees Cook help 17622482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 17632482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 17642482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 17652482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 17662482ddecSKees Cook 1767e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1768e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1769e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1770e900a918SDan Williams help 1771e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1772e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1773e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1774e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1775e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1776e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1777e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1778e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1779e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1780e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1781e900a918SDan Williams 1782e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1783e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1784e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1785e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1786e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1787e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1788e900a918SDan Williams 1789e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1790e900a918SDan Williams 1791345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1792345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1793b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1794345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1795345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1796345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1797345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1798345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1799345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1800345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1801345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1802ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1803ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 18046a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1805ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1806ea637639SJie Zhang help 1807ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 18083903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1809ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1810ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1811ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1812ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1813ea637639SJie Zhang 1814ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1815ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1816ea637639SJie Zhang 1817ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1818ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1819ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1820ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1821ea637639SJie Zhang 1822ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1823ea637639SJie Zhang 1824091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1825091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1826091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1827091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1828091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1829d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1830091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1831091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1832091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1833091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1834091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1835091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 183682c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1837091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1838091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1839091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1840091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 184182c04ff8SPeter Foley 1842125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1843b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1844125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1845125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1846125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1847125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18485f87f112SIngo Molnar# 18495f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 18505f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 18515f87f112SIngo Molnar# 185297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 18535f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 185497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 18551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18571572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 18581572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1859ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 18606341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1861ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 18621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 186766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 186911097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18880b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 18890b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1890826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1891826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1892826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1893826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 189491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 189591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 189691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1897826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1903f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1904f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 190819c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 19170d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 192656067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 192756067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 192856067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 192956067812SArd Biesheuvel 19301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1941106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1942106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1943106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1944091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1945106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1946106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1947106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1948cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1949106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1950228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1951228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1952228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1953228c37ffSDavid Howells 1954ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1955ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1956ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1957ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1958ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1959106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1960106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1961106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1962106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1963106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1964106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1965ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1966d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1967d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1968d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1969d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1970d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1971d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1972d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1973d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1974d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1975d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1976d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1977ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1978ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1979ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1980ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1981ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1982ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1983ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1984ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1985ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1986ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1987ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1988ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1989ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1990ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1991ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1992ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1993ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1994ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1995ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1996ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1997ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1998ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1999ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2000ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2001ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2002ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2003ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2004ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2005ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2006ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2007ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2008ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 200922753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 201022753674SMichal Marek string 201122753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 201222753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 201322753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 201422753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 201522753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 201622753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 201722753674SMichal Marek 2018beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2019beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2020beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 2021beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2022beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2023b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2024b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2025beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2026b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2027beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2028b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2029b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2030beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2031b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2032b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2033beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2034b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2035b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2036b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2037beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2038beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2039beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2041beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2042beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2043beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2044beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2045beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2046beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2047beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2048beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2049beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2050beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2051beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2052beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2053beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2054beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2055beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2056dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2057dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2058dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2059dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2060dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2061dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2062dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2063dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2064dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2065dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2066dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2067dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2068dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2069dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2070f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2071dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 20720b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 20730b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 20746c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 20756c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 20766c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 20776c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 207898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 207998a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 208098a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20815f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20825f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 208398a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 208498a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2085692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 208698a79d6aSRusty Russell 20873a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2088e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2089e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2090e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2091e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 209216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 209316295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 209416295becSSteffen Klassert bool 209516295becSSteffen Klassert 20964520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20974520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20984520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20994520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21004520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21014520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21024520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21034520c6a4SDavid Howells 21046beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2105e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2106e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2107e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21081bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21091bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21107303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21117303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21127303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21137303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21147303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21157303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21161bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21171bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2118