1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 631a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 649371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 65b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 66b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 671a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 68b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 69b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 70b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 71b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 72c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 73e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 74e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 75e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 76587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 77587f1701SNick Desaulniers depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 78587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 79587f1701SNick Desaulniers 805cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 812d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 825cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 83eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 84eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 85eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 8651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 8751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 8851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 89b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 90b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 91b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 92e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 93e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 94e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 9510916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 961dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 971dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 98c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 99c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 100c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 101c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 102c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 103c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 104c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 105c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 106c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 107c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 108ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 120dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 121dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 12434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1264bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1274bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 128ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1294bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1304bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1314bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1324bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1334bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1344bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1354bb16672SJiri Slaby 1364bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1374bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1384bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1394bb16672SJiri Slaby 1403fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1413fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 142b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1433fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1443fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1453fe617ccSLinus Torvalds enables the '-Werror' flag to enforce that rule by default. 1463fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1473fe617ccSLinus Torvalds However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and 1483fe617ccSLinus Torvalds unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1493fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1503fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1513fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1523fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1533fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 154d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 155d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 156fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 157d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 158d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 159d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 160d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 161d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 162d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 163d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 174aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 175aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 176aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 177ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 178aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 179aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1806e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1816e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 182aaebf433SRyan Anderson 183aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1846e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 185aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 187aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 194aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1959afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1969afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1979afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1989afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1999afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2009afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2019afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2029afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2039afb719eSLaura Abbott 2042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2133ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2143ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2153ebe1243SLasse Collin 2167dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2177dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2187dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 219e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 220e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 221e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 22248f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 22348f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 22448f7ddf7SNick Terrell 225f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 226f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 227f16466afSVasily Gorbik 22830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 23148f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 23530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 24030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 24330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 24530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 24730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 25630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 26130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 26830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2710a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2720a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2730a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 27430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2753ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2763ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2773ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2783ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2793ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2803ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2813ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2823ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2833ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2843ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2853ebe1243SLasse Collin 2863ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2873ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2883ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2893ebe1243SLasse Collin 2907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2940a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 295681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 298e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 299e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 300e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 301e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 302e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 303e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 304e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 305e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 306e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 307e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 308e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 309e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 31048f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 31148f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 31248f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 31348f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 31448f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 31548f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 31648f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 31748f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 31848f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 31948f7ddf7SNick Terrell 320f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 321f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 322f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 323f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 324f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 325f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 326f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 327f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 328f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 329f16466afSVasily Gorbik 33030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 33130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 332ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 333ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 334ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 335ada4ab7aSChris Down help 336ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 337ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 338ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 339ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 340ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 341ada4ab7aSChris Down 342bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 343bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 344bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 345bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 346bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 347bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 348bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 349bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 350bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 35117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 35217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 35317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 35417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 35517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 35617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 35717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 36017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 370a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 383a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 384a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 385a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 386a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 387a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 388a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 39119c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 392a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 397b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 405bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 406bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 407bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 408bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 409bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 410bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 411c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 412c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 413c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 414c73be61cSDavid Howells help 415c73be61cSDavid Howells 416c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 417c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 418c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 419c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 420c73be61cSDavid Howells 421c73be61cSDavid Howells See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 422c73be61cSDavid Howells 423226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 424226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 425226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 426226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 427226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 428226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 429226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 430a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 431226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 432226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 43369369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 43469369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 435b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 43669369a70SJosh Triplett help 43769369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 43869369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 43969369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 44069369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 44169369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 44269369a70SJosh Triplett 4431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 445804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 449cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 450cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4527a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4537a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4547a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 456cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4577a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 45828a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 45974c3cbe3SAl Viro 460d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 461764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 462b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 46387a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 464d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 467abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 468abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 469abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 470fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 471fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 472fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 47302fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 474fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 475fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 476fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 477fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 478c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 479fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 480fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 481fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 482fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 483fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 484fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 485fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 488c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 499abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 500abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 501ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 502554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 503041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 504abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 505abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 506abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 507abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 508abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 510abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 511abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 515abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 516abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 517abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 518b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 519b58c3584SRik van Riel 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 521fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 522b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 524fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 527fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 530fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 53111d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 53211d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 53311d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 53411d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 53511d4afd4SVincent Guittot 53676504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 53798eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 538fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 539fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 54076504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 54198eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 54298eb401dSValentin Schneider help 54398eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 54498eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 54598eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 54698eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 54798eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 54898eb401dSValentin Schneider 54998eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 55098eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 55198eb401dSValentin Schneider 55298eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5537e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 55476504793SThara Gopinath 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5572813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5763903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 58219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5842813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 59619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 598f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 60819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 61719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 625eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 626eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 627eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 628eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 629eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 630eb414681SJohannes Weiner 631eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 632eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 633eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 634eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 635eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6362ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6372ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6382ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6392ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 640c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 641eb414681SJohannes Weiner 642eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 643eb414681SJohannes Weiner 644e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 645e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 646e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 647e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 648e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 649e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 650428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 651428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 652e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6547b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6557b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6567b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6577b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 665391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6665c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6675c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 668414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6692c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6705c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6715c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6725c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6732c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6742c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6752c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6762c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6775c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6780af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 679c903ff83SMike Travis 680de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 681de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 682de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 683de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 685f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 686a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 699a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 703f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 704f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 705f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 70643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 707f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 708f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 709f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 710f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 71143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 712794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 713794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 714*1c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 715f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 716361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 717794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 71823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 723f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 724f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 725f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 726f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 727f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 728794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 729794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 730794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7332240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 737361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7500f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7565e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7575e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 767f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 768f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 769427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 770427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 771f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 772427934b8SPetr Mladek help 773f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 774f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 775f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 776f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 777f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 778427934b8SPetr Mladek 779f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 780427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 781427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 782427934b8SPetr Mladek 783427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 784427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 785427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 786427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 787427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 788427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 789427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 790427934b8SPetr Mladek 79133701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 79233701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 79333701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 79433701557SChris Down help 79533701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 79633701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 79733701557SChris Down 79833701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 79933701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 80033701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 80133701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 80233701557SChris Down 80333701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 80433701557SChris Down 8055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 81138ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 81238ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 81338ff87f7SStephen Boyd 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 874be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 87572b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 87672b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 87772b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 87872b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 87972b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 88072b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 88172b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 88272b252aeSMel Gorman bool 88372b252aeSMel Gorman 884c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8853a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 886c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 887dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 888dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 889158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 890dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 891dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 89272b252aeSMel Gorman# 893be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 894be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 895be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 896be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 897be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 908554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9126d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 92423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9256341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9262bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 927ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 92823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 932d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 933da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 93445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 935ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 936ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 937ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 93823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 93923964d2dSLi Zefan 9403e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9413e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9423e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 943c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 944a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9453e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 94679bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 94700f0b825SBalbir Singh help 948a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 94900f0b825SBalbir Singh 950c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 9512d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 952c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 953a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 954c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 95584c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 95684c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 95784c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 95884c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 95984c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9632bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 964a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9682bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 973e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9777baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 980da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 986e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9877c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 988a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9897c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9907c941438SDhaval Giani help 9917c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9927c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9937c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9947c941438SDhaval Giani 9957c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9967c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9977c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9987c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9997c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10007c941438SDhaval Giani 1001ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1002ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1003ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1004ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1005ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1006ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1007ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1008ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1009ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1010d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1011ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10127c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10137c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10147c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10157c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10167c941438SDhaval Giani help 10177c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 101832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10197c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10207c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1021d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10227c941438SDhaval Giani 10237c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10247c941438SDhaval Giani 10252480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10262480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10272480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10282480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10292480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10302480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10312480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10322480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10332480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10342480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10352480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10362480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10372480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10382480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10392480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10402480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10412480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10422480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10432480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10442480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10452480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10462480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10566cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 105998076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 106339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 106439d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 106539d3e758SParav Pandit help 106639d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 106739d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 106839d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 106939d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 107039d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 107139d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 107239d3e758SParav Pandit 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1079489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1080489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1081489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1082489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1083489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1088afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1099afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1102e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1108afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1110afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 111489e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 111589e9b9e0STejun Heo 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11346546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11356546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 113930070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 114030070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1141483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1142483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 114330070984SDaniel Mack help 114430070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 114530070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 114630070984SDaniel Mack 114730070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 114830070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 114930070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 115030070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 115130070984SDaniel Mack 1152a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1153a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1154a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1155a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1156a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1157a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1158a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1159a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1160a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1161a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1162a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1163a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1164a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1165a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 116723b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 116923b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 117223b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 117323b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 117423b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 117873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 117973b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 118073b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 118173b35147SArnd Bergmann 118223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1183c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11862813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11876a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1188c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1189c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1190c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1191c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1192c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1193c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11948dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 119658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 119758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 119817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 119958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 120058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 120158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 120258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1203769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1204769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1205660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1206769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1207769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1208769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1209769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1210769071acSAndrei Vagin 1211ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1212ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 121417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1215ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1216ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1217614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1218ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1219aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 122019c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12215673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1222aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1223aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1224aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1225e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1226e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1227d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1228d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1229d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1230e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1231aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1232aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 123374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12349bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 123517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 123674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 123712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1238692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 123974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 124074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1241d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1242d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12438dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 124417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1245d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1246d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1247d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1248d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12508dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12515cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12525cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 12535cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1254bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12555cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12565cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12575cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12585cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12595cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12605cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12615cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12625cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12635cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12645091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12655091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12665091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12675091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12685091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12695091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12705091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12715091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12725091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12735091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12745091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12755091faa4SMike Galbraith 12767af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12775d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12937af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 13005d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 13047af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13057af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 13067af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13077af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 13087af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 13097af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13107af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13117af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 13127af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 13137af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13147af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13157af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 131626b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13177af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13187af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13197af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13207af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13217af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13227af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13237af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13247af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13257af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1326f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1327f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1328f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1329f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1330f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1331f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1332f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13338c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1334f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1335f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1336f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1337f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1338f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1339f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1340f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1341c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1342c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1343dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1344dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1345c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1346c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 134776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 134876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 13492910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 135076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 135176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 135276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13530947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 135485c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13550947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 135676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 135776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 135876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1359877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1360877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13612cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1362877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1363877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 136415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1365877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1366877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1367877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1368877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1369877417e6SArnd Bergmann 137015f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 137115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 137215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1373c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 137415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 137515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1376c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13775d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 137815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1379c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1380ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1381ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1382c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1383877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1384877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13855d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 13875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 13895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 13905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 13915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 13925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 13935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 13945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13955d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1399e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1400e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14028b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14038b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14048b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14095d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 141359612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 141459612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 141559612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 141659612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 141759612b24SNathan Chancellor 14180847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14190847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14200847062aSRandy Dunlap 1421657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1422657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1423657a5209SMike Frysinger 1424657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1425657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1426657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1427657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1428657a5209SMike Frysinger 1429657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1430657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1431657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1432657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1433657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1434657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1435657a5209SMike Frysinger 1436657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1437657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1438657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1439657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1440657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1441657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1442657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1443657a5209SMike Frysinger 1444657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1445657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1446657a5209SMike Frysinger 1447f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1448f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1449f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1450f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14516a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1453f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1454f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1461ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14632813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1464ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1465ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1466ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1467ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14682813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14692813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14702813893fSIulia Manda default y 14712813893fSIulia Manda help 14722813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14732813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14742813893fSIulia Manda 14752813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14762813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14772813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14782813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14792813893fSIulia Manda 14802813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14812813893fSIulia Manda 1482f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1483f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1484a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1485a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1486f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1487f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1488f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1489f6187769SFabian Frederick 1490f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1491f6187769SFabian Frederick 14926af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14936af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14946af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1495a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 14966af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14976af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14986af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 14996af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15006af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15016af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1509d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1510d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1515baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1516baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1517baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1518baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1519baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1520baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1521baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1522baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1523baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1524baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1525baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1526baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1527baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1528baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1529baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1530baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1531baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1532d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1533d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 153574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1536d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1537d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1538d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1539d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1540d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1541d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1542d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1543c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1545c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1546c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1547c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1548c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1549c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1550c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1551c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1552c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1553708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1554046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1555708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15566a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1557708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1558708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1559708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15608761f1abSRalf Baechle 1561e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15638761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 156415f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1565e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1566e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1567e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1568e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1569e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15803f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1582bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1588bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1589bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1590bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1591bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1592bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 15931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1600fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1602fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1603fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1604fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1605fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1606fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1607fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1608fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1609b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1611b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1612b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1613b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1614b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1615b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1616b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1617b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1618e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1620e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1621e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1622e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1623e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1624e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1625e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1626e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1638ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1640ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1641ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1642ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1643ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1644ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1645ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16462b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16472b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1648561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16492b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16502b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16512b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16522b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16532b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16542b188cc1SJens Axboe 1655d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1656d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1657d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1658d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1659d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1660d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1661d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1662d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1663d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1664d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16655a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 16665a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 16675a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 16685a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 16695a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 16707677f7fdSAxel Rasmussenconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR 16717677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen bool 16727677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen help 16737677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support 16747677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen 16755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1689d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1690d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1693d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1694d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1695d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1696d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1697d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1698d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1705d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1711d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1715d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1716d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1717d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1720a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1721d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1722d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1724d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1725d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1726d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1727d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1729d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1734d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1736d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1738fc611f47SKP Singh 1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1740d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1742d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1743d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1744d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1745d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 17463ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17473ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17483ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 174970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 175070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 175170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1752bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP 1753bfe3911aSChris Wilson bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1754bfe3911aSChris Wilson help 1755bfe3911aSChris Wilson Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1756bfe3911aSChris Wilson user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1757bfe3911aSChris Wilson share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1758bfe3911aSChris Wilson memory space. 1759bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1760bfe3911aSChris Wilson If unsure, say N. 1761bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1762d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1763d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1764d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1765d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1766d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1767d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1768d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1769d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1770d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1771d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1772d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1773d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1774d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1775d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1776d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1777d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1778d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1779d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1780d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1781d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1782d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1783d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 17856befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 17916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 17926befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1793cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17940793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1795018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1796018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17970793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17982aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 17992aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18002aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18012aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1802906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1803906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1804906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1805906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1806906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1807ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1808424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1809ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1810ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1811ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1812ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1813ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 181457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18150793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1816cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 181757c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1818392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1819cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1820e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 182183fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 18220793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 182357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 182457c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18250793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1826dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 182757c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 182857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 182957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 183057c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18310793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18320793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18330793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18350793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18360793a61dSThomas Gleixner 183757c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1838dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 183957c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18400793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18410793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18420793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18430793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1845906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1846906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1847906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1848cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1849906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1850906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1851906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1852906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1853906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1854906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1855906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1856906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1857906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18580793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18590793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1860f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1861f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 18626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1863f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 18642aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 18652aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 18666a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 18672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1868f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 186941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 187041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 18716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1872f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 187341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 187441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 187541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 187641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 187741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 187841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1879b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1880b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1881b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1882b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1883b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1884b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1885b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1886692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1887b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1888b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1889b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1890b943c460SRandy Dunlap 189181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 189281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1893a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 189481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 189581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 189681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 189781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 189881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 1899252220daSIngo Molnar depends on !PREEMPT_RT 190004385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 190181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 190281819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 190334013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 190402f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 190581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 190681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 190781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1908ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 190981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 191081819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 191181819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 191281819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 191381819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 191402f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 191502f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 191681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 191781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 19186a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 191981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1920252220daSIngo Molnar depends on !PREEMPT_RT 192181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 192237291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 192337291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 192437291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 192581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 192681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 192781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 19287660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 19297660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 19307660a6fdSKees Cook default y 1931eb52c0fcSHyeonggon Yoo depends on SLAB || SLUB 19327660a6fdSKees Cook help 19337660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 19347660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 19357660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 19367660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 19377660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 19387660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 19397660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 19407660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 19417660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 19427660a6fdSKees Cook 1943c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 19443404be67SKees Cook bool "Randomize slab freelist" 1945210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1946c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1947210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1948c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1949c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1950c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 19512482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 19522482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 19533404be67SKees Cook depends on SLAB || SLUB 19542482ddecSKees Cook help 19552482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 19562482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 195792bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 19583404be67SKees Cook freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 19593404be67SKees Cook sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 19603404be67SKees Cook CONFIG_SLUB. 19612482ddecSKees Cook 1962e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1963e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1964e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1965e900a918SDan Williams help 1966e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1967e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1968e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1969e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1970e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1971e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1972e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1973e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1974e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1975e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1976e900a918SDan Williams 1977e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1978e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1979e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1980e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1981e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1982e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1983e900a918SDan Williams 1984e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1985e900a918SDan Williams 1986345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1987345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1988b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1989345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1990345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 199192bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1992345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1993345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1994345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1995345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1996345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1997ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1998ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19996a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 2000ea637639SJie Zhang default n 2001ea637639SJie Zhang help 2002ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 20033903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 2004ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 2005ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 2006ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 2007ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 2008ea637639SJie Zhang 2009ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 2010ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 2011ea637639SJie Zhang 2012ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 2013ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 2014ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 2015ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 2016ea637639SJie Zhang 2017dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 2018ea637639SJie Zhang 2019091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2020091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2021091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2022091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2023091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2024d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2025091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2026091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2027091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2028091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2029091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2030091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 203182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2032091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2033091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2034091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2035091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 203682c04ff8SPeter Foley 2037125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2038b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2039125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2040125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2041f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2042125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20435f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20445f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20455f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20465f87f112SIngo Molnar# 204797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20485f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 204997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 20501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20521572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20531572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2054ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20556341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2056ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 20571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2062c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2063c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2064c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2065c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 206666da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 20686dd85ff1SMasahiro Yamada modules 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 20751da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 20781da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 20791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20801da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 20811da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 20831da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20870b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 20880b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 2089826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2090826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 2091826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2092826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 209391e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 209491e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 209591e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2096826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 21011da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2102f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2103f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 21041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 21061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 210719c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 21121da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 21131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 21141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 21160d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 21171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 21191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 21201da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 21211da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 21221da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 21231da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 21241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21252ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 21262ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 21272ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 21282ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 21292ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 21302ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 21312ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 21322ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 213356067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 213456067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 213556067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 213656067812SArd Biesheuvel 21371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 21381da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 21391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 21411da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 21421da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 21431da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 21441da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 21451da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 21461da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 21471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2148106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2149106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2150c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2151106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2152106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2153106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2154cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2155106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2156228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2157228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2158228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2159228c37ffSDavid Howells 216049fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 216149fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 216249fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 216349fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 216449fcf732SDavid Howells 2165ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2166ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2167ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2168ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2169ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2170106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2171106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2172106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2173106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2174106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2175106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2176ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2177d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2178d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2179d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 21800165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 2181d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2182d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2183d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2184d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2185d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2186d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2187d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2188ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2189ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 21900165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 2191ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2192ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2193ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2194ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2195ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2196ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2197ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2198ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2199ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2200ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2201ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2202ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2203ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2204ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2205ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2206ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2207ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2208ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2209ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2210ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2211ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2212ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2213ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2214ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2215ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2216ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2217ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2218ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2219ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 222022753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 222122753674SMichal Marek string 22220165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 222322753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 222422753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 222522753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 222622753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 222722753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 222822753674SMichal Marek 2229beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2230d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada prompt "Module compression mode" 2231beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2232d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada This option allows you to choose the algorithm which will be used to 2233d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada compress modules when 'make modules_install' is run. (or, you can 2234d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada choose to not compress modules at all.) 2235beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2236d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada External modules will also be compressed in the same way during the 2237d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada installation. 2238d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2239d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada For modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient to 2240d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2241d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2242d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2243d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2244d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Please note that the tool used to load modules needs to support the 2245d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada corresponding algorithm. module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod 2246c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski MAY support gzip, xz and zstd. 2247d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2248d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Your build system needs to provide the appropriate compression tool 2249d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada to compress the modules. 2250d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2251d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada If in doubt, select 'None'. 2252d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2253d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamadaconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE 2254d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada bool "None" 2255d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2256d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Do not compress modules. The installed modules are suffixed 2257d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko. 2258beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2259beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2260beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2261d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2262d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Compress modules with GZIP. The installed modules are suffixed 2263d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko.gz. 2264beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2265beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2266beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2267d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2268d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Compress modules with XZ. The installed modules are suffixed 2269d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko.xz. 2270beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2271c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorskiconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD 2272c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski bool "ZSTD" 2273c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski help 2274c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski Compress modules with ZSTD. The installed modules are suffixed 2275c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski with .ko.zst. 2276beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2277beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2278beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2279b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhovconfig MODULE_DECOMPRESS 2280b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov bool "Support in-kernel module decompression" 2281b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov depends on MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP || MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2282b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov select ZLIB_INFLATE if MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2283b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov select XZ_DEC if MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2284b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov help 2285b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 2286b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov Support for decompressing kernel modules by the kernel itself 2287b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov instead of relying on userspace to perform this task. Useful when 2288b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov load pinning security policy is enabled. 2289b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 2290b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov If unsure, say N. 2291b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 22923d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 22933d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 22943d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 22953d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 22963d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 22973d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 22983d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 22993d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 23003d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 23013d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 23023d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 23033d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 23043d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 230517652f42SRasmus Villemoesconfig MODPROBE_PATH 230617652f42SRasmus Villemoes string "Path to modprobe binary" 230717652f42SRasmus Villemoes default "/sbin/modprobe" 230817652f42SRasmus Villemoes help 230917652f42SRasmus Villemoes When kernel code requests a module, it does so by calling 231017652f42SRasmus Villemoes the "modprobe" userspace utility. This option allows you to 231117652f42SRasmus Villemoes set the path where that binary is found. This can be changed 231217652f42SRasmus Villemoes at runtime via the sysctl file 231317652f42SRasmus Villemoes /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. Setting this to the empty string 231417652f42SRasmus Villemoes removes the kernel's ability to request modules (but 231517652f42SRasmus Villemoes userspace can still load modules explicitly). 231617652f42SRasmus Villemoes 2317dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2318a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT 2319a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds depends on !COMPILE_TEST 2320dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2321dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2322dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2323dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2324dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2325dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2326dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2327dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2328dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2329dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2330dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2331f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2332dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 23331518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 23341518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 23351518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 23361518c633SQuentin Perret help 23371518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 23381518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 23391518c633SQuentin Perret 23401518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 23411518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 23421518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 23431518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 23441518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 23451518c633SQuentin Perret 23460b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 23470b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 23486c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 23496c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 2350cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG 23516c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 235298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 235398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 235498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 23555f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 23565f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 235798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 235898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2359692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 236098a79d6aSRusty Russell 23613a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2362e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2363e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2364e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2365e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 236616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 236716295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 236816295becSSteffen Klassert bool 236916295becSSteffen Klassert 23704520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 23714520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 23724520c6a4SDavid Howells help 23734520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 23744520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 23754520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 23764520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 23774520c6a4SDavid Howells 23786beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2379e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 23800ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 23810ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 23820ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2383e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2384e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 23851bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 23861bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 23877303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 23887303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 23897303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 23907303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 23917303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 23927303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 23931bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 23941bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2395