1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 2face4374SRoman Zippel string 3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 4face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 5*2972666aSMasahiro Yamada default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname --release)/.config" 6face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 7*2972666aSMasahiro Yamada default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname --release)" 8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 12b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 13b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 14b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 15e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 16e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 17e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 181dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 191dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 201dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 21c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 22c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 23c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 24c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 25c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 26c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 27c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 28c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 29c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 30c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 31ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 43dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 44dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 4734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 494bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 504bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 51bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 524bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 534bb16672SJiri Slaby help 544bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 554bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 564bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 574bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 584bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 594bb16672SJiri Slaby 604bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 614bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 624bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 634bb16672SJiri Slaby 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 74aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 75aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 76aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 77ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 78aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 79aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 806e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 816e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 82aaebf433SRyan Anderson 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 846e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson 886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson 952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 982e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 992e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1043ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1053ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1063ebe1243SLasse Collin 1077dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 110e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 111e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 112e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 11330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1162d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1397dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1407dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1470a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1560a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1570a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1580a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1603ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1613ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1623ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1633ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1643ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1653ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1663ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin 1757dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1767dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1790a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 180681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 183e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 184e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 185e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 186e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 187e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 197bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 198bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 199bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 200bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 201bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 202bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 203bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 204bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2089361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 231a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 232a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 233a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 234a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 235a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 23919c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 245b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 253bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 254bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 255bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 256bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 257bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 259226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 260226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 261226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 262226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 263226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 264226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 265226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 266a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 26969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 27069369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 271b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 27269369a70SJosh Triplett help 27369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 27469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 27569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 27669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 27769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 27869369a70SJosh Triplett 2791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 281804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 285cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 286cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2887a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 2897a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 2907a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 2911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 292cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 2937a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 295939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 296939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 297939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 298939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 30263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 30328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 30474c3cbe3SAl Viro 305d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 306764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 307d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 308391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 309391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 310abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 311abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 312abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 313fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 314fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 315fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 31602fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 317fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 318fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 319fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 320fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 321c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 322fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 323fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 324fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 325fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 326fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 327fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 328fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 329abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 330391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 331c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 332abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 334391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 335391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 336391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 337391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 340391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 341391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 343abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 344ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 345554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 346abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 347abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 348abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 349abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 352abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 353abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 358abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 360b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 361b58c3584SRik van Riel 362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 364b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 366fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 371fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 3752813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 40019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4022813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 41419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 416f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 42619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 43519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 4455c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 4465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 447414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 4482c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 4495c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 4505c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 4515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 4522c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 4532c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 4542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 4552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 4565c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 4570af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 458c903ff83SMike Travis 459de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 460de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 461de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 462de5b56baSVivek Goyal 4631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 464f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 465de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 483794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 484794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 485fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 486f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 487361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 488794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 48923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 49023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 49123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 49223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 49323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 494f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 495f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 496f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 497f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 498f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 499794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 500794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 501794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 50223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 50323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 5042240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 50523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 50623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 50723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 508361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 50923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 51023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 51123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 51223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 51323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 51423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 51523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 51623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 51723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 51823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 51923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 52023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 52123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 52223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 52323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 52423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 52523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 52623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 5275e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 5285e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 52923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 53023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 53123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 53223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 53323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 53423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 53523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 53623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 53723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 538f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 539f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 540427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 541427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 542f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 543427934b8SPetr Mladek help 544f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 545f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 546f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 547f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 548f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 549427934b8SPetr Mladek 550f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 551427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 552427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 553427934b8SPetr Mladek 554427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 555427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 556427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 557427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 558427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 559427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 560427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 561427934b8SPetr Mladek 5625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 56838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 56938ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 57038ff87f7SStephen Boyd 571be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 572be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 573be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 574be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 575be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 576be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 577be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 578be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 57972b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 58072b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 58172b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 58272b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 58372b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 58472b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 58572b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 58672b252aeSMel Gorman bool 58772b252aeSMel Gorman 58872b252aeSMel Gorman# 589be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 590be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 591be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 592be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 593be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 594be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 595be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 596be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 597be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 598be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 599be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 600be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 601be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 602be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 603be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 604be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 605be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 606be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 607be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 6086d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 609be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 610be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 611be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 6126f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 6136f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 6146f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 6156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 6166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 6176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 6186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 6196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 62023964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 6216341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 6222bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 623ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 62423964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 6299991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 63045ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 631ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 632ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 633ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 63423964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 63523964d2dSLi Zefan 6363e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 6373e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 6383e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 639c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 640a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 6413e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 64279bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 64300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 644a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 64500f0b825SBalbir Singh 646c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 647a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 648c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 649c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 650a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 651a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 652c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 653a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 654c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 655a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 656a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 657a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 658a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 65943d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 66007555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 661a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 662a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 663a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 66400a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 665c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 6676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 6686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 6692bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 6706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 6716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 6726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 6736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 6742bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 6756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 6766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 6776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 6786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 679e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 6806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 6816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 6826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 6836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 6846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 6856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 6869991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 6876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 6886bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 6896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 6906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 6916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 6926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 6936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 6946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 6956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 6966bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 6976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 6986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 6996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 700e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7017c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 702a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 7037c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7047c941438SDhaval Giani help 7057c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7067c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7077c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7087c941438SDhaval Giani 7097c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7107c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7117c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7127c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7137c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7147c941438SDhaval Giani 715ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 716ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 717ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 718ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 719ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 720ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 721ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 722ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 723ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 724cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 725ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7267c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7277c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7287c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7297c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7307c941438SDhaval Giani help 7317c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 73232bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7337c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7347c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7357c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7367c941438SDhaval Giani 7377c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7387c941438SDhaval Giani 7396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 7406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 7416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 7436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 7446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 7456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 7466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 7476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 7486cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 7496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 7516cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 7526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 7536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 7546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 75539d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 75639d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 75739d3e758SParav Pandit help 75839d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 75939d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 76039d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 76139d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 76239d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 76339d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 76439d3e758SParav Pandit 7656bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 7666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 7676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 7696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 7706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 771489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 772489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 773489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 774489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 775489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 7766bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 7776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 7786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 7796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 780afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 7816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 7836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 7846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 7866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 7876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 7886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 7896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 7906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 791afc24d49SVivek Goyal 7926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 7936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 794e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 7986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 7996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 800afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 802afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 80689e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 80789e9b9e0STejun Heo 8086bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 8096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 8156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 8216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 8226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 8266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 83030070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 83130070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 832483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 833483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 83430070984SDaniel Mack help 83530070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 83630070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 83730070984SDaniel Mack 83830070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 83930070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 84030070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 84130070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 84230070984SDaniel Mack 8436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 84423b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 84623b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 84923b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 85023b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 85123b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 85573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 85673b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 85773b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 85873b35147SArnd Bergmann 85923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 860c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 8618dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 8626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 8632813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 8646a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 865c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 866c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 867c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 868c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 869c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 870c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 8718dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 8728dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 87358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 87458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 87517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 87658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 87758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 87858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 87958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 880ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 881ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 8828dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 88317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 884ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 885ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 886614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 887ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 888aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 88919c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 8905673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 891aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 892aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 893aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 894e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 895e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 896d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 897d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 898d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 899e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 900aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 901aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 90274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 9039bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 90417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 90574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 90612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 907692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 90874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 90974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 910d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 911d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 9128dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 91317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 914d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 915d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 916d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 917d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 9188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 9198dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 9205091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 9215091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 9225091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 9235091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 9245091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9255091faa4SMike Galbraith help 9265091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 9275091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 9285091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 9295091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 9305091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 9315091faa4SMike Galbraith 9327af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9335d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 9347af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9357af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9367af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9377af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 9387af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 9397af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 9407af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9417af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 9427af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 9437af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9447af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 9457af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 9467af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 9477af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9487af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 9497af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 9507af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 9517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9527af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9537af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 9547af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9557af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 9565d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 9577af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9587af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9597af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9607af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9617af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 9627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9637af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 9647af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 9657af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9667af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9677af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 9687af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 9697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9707af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 9717af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 97226b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 9737af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9747af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 9757af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 9767af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 9777af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 9787af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 9797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9807af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 9817af37becSDaniel Lezcano 982f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 983f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 984f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 985f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 986f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 987f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 988f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 9898c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 990f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 991f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 992f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 993f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 994f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 995f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 996f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 997c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 998c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 999dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1000dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1001c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1002c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1003877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1004877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 10052cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1006877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1007877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1008877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1009877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1010877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1011877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1012877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1013877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1014c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 101596fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1016c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 101731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 101831a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1019c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 10203a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1021c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1022877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1023877417e6SArnd Bergmann 10240847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 10250847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 10260847062aSRandy Dunlap 1027b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1028b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1029b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1030657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1031657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1032657a5209SMike Frysinger 1033657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1034657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1035657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1036657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1037657a5209SMike Frysinger 1038657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1039657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1040657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1041657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1042657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1043657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1044657a5209SMike Frysinger 1045657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1046657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1047657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1048657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1049657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1050657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1051657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1052657a5209SMike Frysinger 1053657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1054657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1055657a5209SMike Frysinger 1056f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1057f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1058f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1059f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 10606a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 10616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1062f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1063f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1070ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 10716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 10722813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1073ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1074ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1075ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1076ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 10772813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 10782813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 10792813893fSIulia Manda default y 10802813893fSIulia Manda help 10812813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 10822813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 10832813893fSIulia Manda 10842813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 10852813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 10862813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 10872813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 10882813893fSIulia Manda 10892813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 10902813893fSIulia Manda 1091f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1092f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1093a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1094f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1095f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1096f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1097f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1098f6187769SFabian Frederick 1099f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1100f6187769SFabian Frederick 11016af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 11026af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 11036af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 11046af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 11056af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 11066af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 11076af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 11086af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 11096af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 11106af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1111b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 11126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 111326a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1114c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1115b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1116b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 111713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 111813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 111913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 112013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1121b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 112213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 112313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 112413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1125b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1126c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1127ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1128d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1129d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1130d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1131d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1132d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1133d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1134d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1135d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1136d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1137d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1138d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1139d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1140d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1141baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1142baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1143baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1144baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1145baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1146baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1147baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1148baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1149baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1150baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1151baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1152baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1153baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1154baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1155baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1156baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1157baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1158d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1159d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 11606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 116174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1162d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1163d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1164d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1165d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1166d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1167d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1168d59745ceSMatt Mackall 116942a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 117042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 117142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 117242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 117342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1174c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 11756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1176c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1177c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1178c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1179c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1180c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1181c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1182c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1183c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1184708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1185046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1186708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 11876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1188708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1189708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1190708e9a79SMatt Mackall 11918761f1abSRalf Baechle 1192e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 11936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 11948761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 119515f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1196e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1197e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1198e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1199e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1200e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 12011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 12106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1212bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1218bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1219bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1220bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1221bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1222bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 122303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 122403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 122562b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 122603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 122703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 122803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 122903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 123003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 12311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 12326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1234448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1239fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 12406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1241448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1242fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1243fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1244fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1245fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1246fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1247fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1248fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1249b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 12506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1251448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1252b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1253b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1254b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1255b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1256b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1257b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1258b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1259e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 12606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1261448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1262e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1263e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1264e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1265e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1266e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1267e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1268e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 12691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 12706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1280ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 12816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1282ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1283ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1284ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1285ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1286ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1287ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1288d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1289d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1290d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1291d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1292d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1293d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1294d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1295d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1296d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1297d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 12985b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 12995b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 13005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 13015b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 13025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 13035b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 13045b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 13055b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 13065b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 13075b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 13085b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 13095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1310d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1311d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1312d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select PROC_CHILDREN 1313d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1314d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1315d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1316d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1317d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1318d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap entries. 1319d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1320d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N here. 1321d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1322d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1323d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1324d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1325d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1326d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1327d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1328d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1329d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1330d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1331d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1332d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1333d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1334d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1335d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1336d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1337d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1338d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1339d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1340d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1341d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1342d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1343d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1344d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1345d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1346d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1347d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1348d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1349d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1350d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1351d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1352d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1353d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1354d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1355a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1356d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1357d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1358d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1359d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1360d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1361d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1362d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1363d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1364d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1365d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1366d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1367d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1368d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1375d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1376d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1377d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1378d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1379d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1380d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1381d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1382290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1383290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1384290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1385290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1386290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1387290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1388290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1389d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1390d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1391d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1394d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1395d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1396d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 13973ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 13983ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 13993ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 140070216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 140170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 140270216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 14036befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14046befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14055d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 14066befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14086befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14106befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1412cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14130793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1414018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1415018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14160793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1417906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1418906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1419906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1420906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1421906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1422ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1423424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1424ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1425ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1426ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1427ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1428ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 142957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14300793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1431cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 143257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1433392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1434cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14354c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1436e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 143783fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 14380793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 143957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 144057c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 14410793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1442dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 144357c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 144457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 144557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 144657c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 14470793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 14480793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 14490793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 14500793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 14510793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 14520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 145357c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1454dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 145557c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 14560793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 14570793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 14580793a61dSThomas Gleixner 14590793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 14600793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1461906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1462906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1463906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1464cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1465906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1466906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1467906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1468906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1469906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1470906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1471906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1472906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1473906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 14740793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 14750793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1476f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1477f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1479f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 14802aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 14812aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 14832aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1484f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 148541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 148641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 14876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1488f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 148941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 149041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 149141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 149241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 149341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 149441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 14951663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 14961663f26dSTejun Heo default n 14971663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 14981663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 14991663f26dSTejun Heo help 15001663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 15011663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 15021663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 15031663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 15041663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 15051663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 15061663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 15071663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 15081663f26dSTejun Heo 1509b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1510b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1511b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1512b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1513b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1514b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1515b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1516692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1517b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1518b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1519b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1520b943c460SRandy Dunlap 152181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 152281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1523a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 152481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 152581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 152681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 152781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 152881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 152904385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 153081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 153181819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 153234013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 153302f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 153481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 153581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 153681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1537ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 153881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 153981819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 154081819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 154181819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 154281819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 154302f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 154402f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 154581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 154681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15476a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 154881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 154981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 155037291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 155137291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 155237291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 155381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 155481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 155581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 15567660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 15577660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 15587660a6fdSKees Cook default y 15597660a6fdSKees Cook help 15607660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 15617660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 15627660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 15637660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 15647660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 15657660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 15667660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 15677660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 15687660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 15697660a6fdSKees Cook 1570c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1571c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1572210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1573c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1574c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1575210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1576c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1577c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1578c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 15792482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 15802482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 15812482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 15822482ddecSKees Cook help 15832482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 15842482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 15852482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 15862482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 15872482ddecSKees Cook 1588345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1589345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1590b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1591345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1592345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1593345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1594345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1595345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1596345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1597345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1598345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1599ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1600ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16016a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1602ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1603ea637639SJie Zhang help 1604ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1605ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1606ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1607ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1608ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1609ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1610ea637639SJie Zhang 1611ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1612ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1613ea637639SJie Zhang 1614ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1615ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1616ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1617ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1618ea637639SJie Zhang 1619ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1620ea637639SJie Zhang 1621091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1622091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1623091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1624091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1625091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1626d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1627091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1628091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1629091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1630091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1631091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1632091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 163382c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1634091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1635091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1636091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1637091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 163882c04ff8SPeter Foley 1639125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1640b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1641125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1642125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1643125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1644125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16455f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16465f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16475f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16485f87f112SIngo Molnar# 164997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16505f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 165197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1652fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1653fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1656ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1657ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1658ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1659ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1660ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 16616341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1662ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 166866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 167011097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16890b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 16900b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1691826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1692826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1693826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1694826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 169591e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 169691e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 169791e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1698826e4506SLinus Torvalds 16991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1704f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1705f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 170919c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17180d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 172756067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 172856067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 172956067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 173056067812SArd Biesheuvel 17311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1742106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1743106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1744106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1745091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1746106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1747106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1748106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1749cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1750106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1751228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1752228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1753228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1754228c37ffSDavid Howells 1755ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1756ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1757ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1758ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1759ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1760106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1761106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1762106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1763106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1764106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1765106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1766ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1767d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1768d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1769d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1770d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1771d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1772d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1773d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1774d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1775d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1776d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1777d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1778ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1779ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1780ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1781ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1782ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1783ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1784ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1785ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1786ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1787ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1788ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1789ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1790ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1791ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1792ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1793ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1794ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1795ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1796ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1797ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1798ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1799ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1800ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1801ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1802ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1803ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1804ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1805ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1806ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1807ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1808ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1809ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 181022753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 181122753674SMichal Marek string 181222753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 181322753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 181422753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 181522753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 181622753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 181722753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 181822753674SMichal Marek 1819beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1820beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1821beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1822beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1823beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1824b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1825b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1826beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1827b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1828beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1829b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1830b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1831beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1832b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1833b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1834beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1835b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1836b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1837b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1838beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1839beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1840beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1841beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1842beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1843beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1844beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1845beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1846beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1847beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1848beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1849beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1850beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1851beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1852beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1853beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1854beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1855beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1856beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1857dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1858dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1859dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1860dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 1861dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1862dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1863dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1864dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1865dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1866dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1867dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1868dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1869dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1870dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1871f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1872dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 18730b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 18740b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 18756c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 18766c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 18776c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 18786c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 187998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 188098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 188198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 18825f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 18835f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 188498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 188598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1886692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 188798a79d6aSRusty Russell 18883a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1889e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1890e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1891e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1892e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 189316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 189416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 189516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 189616295becSSteffen Klassert 18974520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 18984520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 18994520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19004520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19014520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19024520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19034520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19044520c6a4SDavid Howells 19056beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1906e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 1907e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1908e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19091bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19101bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19117303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19127303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 19137303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 19147303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 19157303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 19167303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 19171bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 19181bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 1919