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1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
2face4374SRoman Zippel	string
3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
4face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
547f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
6face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
747f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC
17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
26e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
27e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
28e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
29b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
30b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
31b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
32b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
33e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
34e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
35e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
361dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
371dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
381dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
39c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
40c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
41c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
42c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
43c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
44c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
45c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
46c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
47c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
48c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
49ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
61dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
62dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
6534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
674bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
69bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
704bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
714bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
724bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
734bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
744bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
754bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
764bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
774bb16672SJiri Slaby
784bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
794bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
804bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
814bb16672SJiri Slaby
821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
92aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
93aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
94aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
95ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
96aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
97aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
100aaebf433SRyan Anderson
101aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
103aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
105aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
112aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1139afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1149afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1159afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1169afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1179afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1189afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1199afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1209afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1219afb719eSLaura Abbott
1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1313ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1323ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1333ebe1243SLasse Collin
1347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
137e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
138e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
139e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
140f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
141f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
142f16466afSVasily Gorbik
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
146f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1770a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1860a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1870a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1880a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1903ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1913ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1923ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1933ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1943ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1953ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1963ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1973ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1983ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1993ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2003ebe1243SLasse Collin
2013ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2023ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2033ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2043ebe1243SLasse Collin
2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2067dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2077dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2090a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
210681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2117dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
213e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
214e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
215e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
216e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
217e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
218e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
219e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
220e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
221e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
222e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
223e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
224e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
225f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
226f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
227f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
228f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
229f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
230f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
231f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
232f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
233f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
234f16466afSVasily Gorbik
23530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
237bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
238bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
239bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
240bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
241bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
242bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
243bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
244bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
245bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
24617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
24717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
24817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
24917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
25017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
25117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
25217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
25517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
278a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
279a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
280a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
281a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
282a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
283a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
28619c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
292b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
300bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
301bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
302bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
303bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
304bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
305bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
306226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
307226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
308226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
309226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
310226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
311226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
312226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
313a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
314226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
315226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
31669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
31769369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
318b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
31969369a70SJosh Triplett	help
32069369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
32169369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
32269369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
32369369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
32469369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
32569369a70SJosh Triplett
3261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
328804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
332cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
333cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3357a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3367a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3377a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
339cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3407a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
34128a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
34274c3cbe3SAl Viro
343d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
344764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
34587a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
346d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
347391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
349abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
35502fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
356fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
359fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
360c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
361fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
364fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
366fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
370c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
372391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
382abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
383ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
384554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
389abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
390abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
392abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
393abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
394abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
395abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
396abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
399b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
400b58c3584SRik van Riel
401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
403b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
404fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
405fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
410fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
41211d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
41311d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
41411d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
41511d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
41611d4afd4SVincent Guittot
417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4192813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4383903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
44419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4462813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
45819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
460f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
47019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
47919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
487eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
488eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
489eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
490eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
491eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
492eb414681SJohannes Weiner
493eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
494eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
495eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
496eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
497eb414681SJohannes Weiner
4982ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
4992ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5002ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5012ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
502eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
503eb414681SJohannes Weiner
504eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
505eb414681SJohannes Weiner
506e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
507e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
508e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
509e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
510e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
511e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
512428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
513428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
514e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5157b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5167b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5177b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5187b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
5197b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
5207b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5217b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
5227b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
5237b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5247b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
5257b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5285c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5295c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
530414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5312c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5325c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5335c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5345c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5352c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5362c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5372c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5382c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5395c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5400af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
541c903ff83SMike Travis
542de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
543de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
544de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
545de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
547f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
548de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
566794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
567794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
568fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
569f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
570361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
571794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
57223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
57323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
57423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
57523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
57623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
577f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
578f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
579f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
580f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
581f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
582794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
583794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
584794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
58523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
58623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
5872240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
58823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
58923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
59023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
591361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
59223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
59323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
59423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
59523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
59623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
59723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
59823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
59923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
60023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
60223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
60323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
60423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
60523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
60623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
60723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
60823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
60923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6105e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6115e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
61323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
61423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
61523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
61623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
61723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
61823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
61923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
621f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
622f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
623427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
624427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
625f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
626427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
627f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
628f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
629f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
630f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
631f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
632427934b8SPetr Mladek
633f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
634427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
635427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
636427934b8SPetr Mladek
637427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
638427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
639427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
640427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
641427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
642427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
643427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
644427934b8SPetr Mladek
6455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
6475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
6495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
6505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
65138ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
65238ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
65338ff87f7SStephen Boyd
654be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
655be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
656be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
657be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
658be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
659be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
660be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
661be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
66272b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
66372b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
66472b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
66572b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
66672b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
66772b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
66872b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
66972b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
67072b252aeSMel Gorman
67172b252aeSMel Gorman#
672be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
673be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
674be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
675be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
676be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
677be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
678be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
679be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
680be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
681be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
682be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
683be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
684be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
685be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
686be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
687be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
688be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
689be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
690be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6916d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
692be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
693be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
694be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
6956f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
6966f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
6976f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
6986f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
6996f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
7006f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
7016f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
7026f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
70323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
7046341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
7052bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
706ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
70723964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
7085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
7095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
7105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
7115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
7129991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
71345ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
714ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
715ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
716ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
71723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
71823964d2dSLi Zefan
7193e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
7203e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
7213e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
722c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
723a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
7243e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
72579bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
72600f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
727a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
72800f0b825SBalbir Singh
729c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
730a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
731c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
732c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
733a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
734a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
735c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
736a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
737c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
738a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
739a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
740a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
741a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
74243d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
74307555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
744a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
745a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
746a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
74700a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
748c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
74984c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
75084c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
75184c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
75284c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
75384c07d11SKirill Tkhai
7546bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
7556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
7566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
7572bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
7586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
7606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
7616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
7622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
7636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
7646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
7656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
7666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
767e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
7696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
7706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
7716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
7726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
7736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7749991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
7756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7766bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
7776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
7786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
7796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
7806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
7826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
7836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
7866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
7876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
788e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7897c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
790a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
7917c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
7927c941438SDhaval Giani	help
7937c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
7947c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
7957c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
7967c941438SDhaval Giani
7977c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
7987c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
7997c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
8007c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8017c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
8027c941438SDhaval Giani
803ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
804ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
805ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
806ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
807ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
808ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
809ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
810ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
811ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
812cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
813ab84d31eSPaul Turner
8147c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
8157c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
8167c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8177c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8187c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8197c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
82032bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
8217c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
8227c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
8237c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
8247c941438SDhaval Giani
8257c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
8267c941438SDhaval Giani
8276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
8286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
8316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
8366cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
83998076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
8416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
8426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
84339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
84439d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
84539d3e758SParav Pandit	help
84639d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
84739d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
84839d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
84939d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
85039d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
85139d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
85239d3e758SParav Pandit
8536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
859489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
860489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
861489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
862489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
863489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
8646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
868afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
879afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
882e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
888afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
890afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
89489e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
89589e9b9e0STejun Heo
8966bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
9016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9026bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
9066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
9076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9086bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
9096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
9116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
9136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
9156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
9176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
91830070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
91930070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
920483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
921483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
92230070984SDaniel Mack	help
92330070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
92430070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
92530070984SDaniel Mack
92630070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
92730070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
92830070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
92930070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
93030070984SDaniel Mack
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
93223b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
93423b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
93723b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
93823b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
93923b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
94373b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
94473b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
94573b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
94673b35147SArnd Bergmann
94723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
948c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
9506a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
9512813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
9526a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
953c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
954c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
955c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
956c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
957c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
958c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
9598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
9608dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
96158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
96258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
96317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
96458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
96558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
96658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
96758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
968ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
969ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
9708dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
97117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
972ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
973ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
974614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
975ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
976aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
97719c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
9785673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
979aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
980aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
981aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
982e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
983e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
984d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
985d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
986d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
987e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
988aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
989aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
99074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
9919bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
99217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
99374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
99412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
995692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
99674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
99774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
998d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
999d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
10008dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
100117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1002d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1003d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1004d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1005d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
10068dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
10078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
10085cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
10095cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
10105cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
10115cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
10125cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
10135cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
10145cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
10155cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
10165cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
10175cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10185cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
10195cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10205091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
10215091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
10225091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
10235091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
10245091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10255091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
10265091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
10275091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
10285091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
10295091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
10305091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
10315091faa4SMike Galbraith
10327af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10335d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
10347af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10357af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
10387af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
10397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
10407af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
10427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
10437af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
10457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
10467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
10477af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
10497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
10507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
10517af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
10547af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10557af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
10565d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
10577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
10627af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
10647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
10657af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
10687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
10697af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10707af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
10717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
107226b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
10737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
10757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
10767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
10777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
10787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
10797af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
10817af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1082f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1083f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1084f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1085f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1086f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1087f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1088f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
10898c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1090f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1091f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1092f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1093f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1094f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1095f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1096f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1097c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1098c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1099dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1100dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1101c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1102c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1103877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1104877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
11052cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1106877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1107877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1108877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1109877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1110877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1111877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1112877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1113877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1114c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
111596fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1116c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
111731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
111831a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1119c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
11203a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1121c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1122877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1123877417e6SArnd Bergmann
11245d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
11265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
11285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
11295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
11305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
11315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
11325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
11335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11345d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
11365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
113816fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1139e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1140e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
11415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11428b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
11438b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
11448b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
11455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
11475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
11485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
11495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
11505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
11515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
11525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11530847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
11540847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
11550847062aSRandy Dunlap
1156b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1157b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1158b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1159657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1160657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1161657a5209SMike Frysinger
1162657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1163657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1164657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1165657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1166657a5209SMike Frysinger
1167657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1168657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1169657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1170657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1171657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1172657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1173657a5209SMike Frysinger
1174657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1175657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1176657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1177657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1178657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1179657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1180657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1181657a5209SMike Frysinger
1182657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1183657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1184657a5209SMike Frysinger
1185f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1186f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1187f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1188f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
11896a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
11906a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1191f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1192f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1199ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12006a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
12012813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1202ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1203ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1204ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1205ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12062813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
12072813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
12082813893fSIulia Manda	default y
12092813893fSIulia Manda	help
12102813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
12112813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
12122813893fSIulia Manda
12132813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
12142813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
12152813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
12162813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
12172813893fSIulia Manda
12182813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
12192813893fSIulia Manda
1220f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1221f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1222a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1223f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1224f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1225f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1226f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1227f6187769SFabian Frederick
1228f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1229f6187769SFabian Frederick
12306af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
12316af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
12326af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
12336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
12346af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
12356af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
12366af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
12376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
12386af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
12396af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1240b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12416a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
124226a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1243c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1244b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1245b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
124613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
124713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
124813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
124913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1250b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
125113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
125213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
125313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1254b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1255c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1256ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1257d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1258d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1259d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1260d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1261d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1262d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1263d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1264d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1265d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1266d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1267d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1268d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1269d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1270baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1271baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1272baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1273baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1274baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1275baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1276baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1277baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1278baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1279baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1280baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1281baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1282baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1283baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1284baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1285baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1286baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1287d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1288d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
12896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
129074876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1291d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1292d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1293d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1294d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1295d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1296d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1297d59745ceSMatt Mackall
129842a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
129942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
130042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
130142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
130242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1303c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13046a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1305c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1306c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1307c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1308c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1309c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1310c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1311c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1312c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1313708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1314046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1315708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1317708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1318708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1319708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13208761f1abSRalf Baechle
1321e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13226a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13238761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
132415f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1325e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1326e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1327e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1328e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1329e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13326a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13396a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1341bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1347bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1348bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1349bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1350bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1351bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
135203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
135303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
135462b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
135503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
135603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
135703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
135803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
135903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
13601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13616a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1363448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1368fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1370448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1371fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1372fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1373fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1374fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1375fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1376fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1377fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1378b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
13796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1380448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1381b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1382b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1383b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1384b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1385b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1386b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1387b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1388e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
13896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1390448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1391e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1392e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1393e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1394e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1395e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1396e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1397e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
13981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
13996a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1409ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14106a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1411ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1412ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1413ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1414ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1415ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1416ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1417*2b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
1418*2b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1419*2b188cc1SJens Axboe	select ANON_INODES
1420*2b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
1421*2b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
1422*2b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
1423*2b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
1424*2b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
1425*2b188cc1SJens Axboe
1426d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1427d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1428d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1429d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1430d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1431d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1432d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1433d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1434d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1435d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
14365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
14375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
14385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
14395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
14405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
14415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
14425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
14435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
14445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
14455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
14465b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
14475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1453d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1458d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1459d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1460d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1461d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1462d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1463d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1464d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1465d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1466d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1481a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1482d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1483d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1484d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1485d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1486d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1487d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1488d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1489d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1494d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1496d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1497d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1498d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1499d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1500d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1503bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1509290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1510290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1511290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1512290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1513290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1514290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1515290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
15243ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
15253ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
15263ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
152770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
152870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
152970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1530d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1531d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1532d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1533d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1534d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1535d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1536d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1537d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1538d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1539d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1540d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1541d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1542d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1543d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1544d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1545d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1546d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1547d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1548d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1549d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1550d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1551d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1552d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
15536befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
15546befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
15555d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
15566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
15576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
15586befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
15596befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
15606befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
15616befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1562cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15630793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1564018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1565018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
15660793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1567906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1568906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1569906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1570906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1571906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1572ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1573424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1574ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1575ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1576ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1577ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1578ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
157957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
15800793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1581cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
158257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1583392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1584cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15854c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1586e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
158783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
15880793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
158957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
159057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
15910793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1592dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
159357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
159457c0c15bSIngo Molnar
159557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
159657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
15970793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
15980793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
15990793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16000793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16010793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16020793a61dSThomas Gleixner
160357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1604dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
160557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16060793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16070793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16080793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16090793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16100793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1611906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1612906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1613906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1614cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1615906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1616906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1617906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1618906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1619906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1620906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1621906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1622906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1623906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16240793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16250793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1626f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1627f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1629f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16302aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16312aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16326a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16332aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1634f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
163541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
163641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1638f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
163941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
164041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
164141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
164241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
164341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
164441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
16451663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
16461663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
16471663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
16481663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
16491663f26dSTejun Heo	help
16501663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
16511663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
16521663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
16531663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
16541663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
16551663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
16561663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
16571663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
16581663f26dSTejun Heo
1659b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1660b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1661b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1662b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1663b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1664b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1665b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1666692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1667b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1668b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1669b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1670b943c460SRandy Dunlap
167181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
167281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1673a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
167481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
167581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
167681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
167781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
167881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
167904385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
168081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
168181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
168234013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
168302f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
168481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
168581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
168681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1687ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
168881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
168981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
169081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
169181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
169281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
169302f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
169402f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
169581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
169681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
16976a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
169881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
169981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
170037291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
170137291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
170237291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
170381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
170481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
170581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
17067660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
17077660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
17087660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
17097660a6fdSKees Cook	help
17107660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
17117660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
17127660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
17137660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
17147660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
17157660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
17167660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
17177660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
17187660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
17197660a6fdSKees Cook
1720c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1721c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1722210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1723c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1724c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1725210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1726c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1727c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1728c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
17292482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
17302482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
17312482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
17322482ddecSKees Cook	help
17332482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
17342482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
17352482ddecSKees Cook	  sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
17362482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
17372482ddecSKees Cook
1738345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1739345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1740b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1741345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1742345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1743345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1744345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1745345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1746345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1747345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1748345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1749ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1750ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17516a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1752ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1753ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1754ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
17553903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1756ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1757ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1758ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1759ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1760ea637639SJie Zhang
1761ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1762ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1763ea637639SJie Zhang
1764ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1765ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1766ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1767ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1768ea637639SJie Zhang
1769ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1770ea637639SJie Zhang
1771091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1772091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1773091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1774091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1775091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1776d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1777091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1778091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1779091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1780091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1781091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1782091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
178382c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1784091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1785091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1786091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1787091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
178882c04ff8SPeter Foley
1789125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1790b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1791125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1792125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1793125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1794125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
17955f87f112SIngo Molnar#
17965f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
17975f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
17985f87f112SIngo Molnar#
179997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18005f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
180197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
18021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18041572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
18051572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1806ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18076341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1808ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
181466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
181611097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18350b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
18360b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1837826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1838826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1839826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1840826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
184191e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
184291e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
184391e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1844826e4506SLinus Torvalds
18451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1850f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1851f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
185519c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
18640d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
187356067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
187456067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
187556067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
187656067812SArd Biesheuvel
18771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1888106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1889106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1890106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1891091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1892106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1893106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1894106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1895cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
1896106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1897228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1898228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1899228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1900228c37ffSDavid Howells
1901ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1902ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1903ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1904ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1905ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1906106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1907106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1908106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1909106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1910106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1911106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1912ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1913d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1914d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1915d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1916d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1917d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1918d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1919d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1920d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1921d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1922d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1923d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1924ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1925ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1926ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1928ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1929ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1930ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1931ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1932ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1933ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1934ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1935ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1936ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1937ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1938ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1939ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1940ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1941ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1942ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1943ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1944ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1945ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1946ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1947ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1948ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1949ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1950ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1951ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1952ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1953ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1954ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1955ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
195622753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
195722753674SMichal Marek	string
195822753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
195922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
196022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
196122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
196222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
196322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
196422753674SMichal Marek
1965beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
1966beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
1967beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
1968beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1969beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1970b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1971b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
1972beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1973b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
1974beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1975b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1976b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
1977beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1978b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1979b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
1980beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1981b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1982b6c09b51SRusty Russell
1983b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
1984beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1985beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
1986beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
1987beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1988beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1989beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1990beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1991beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
1992beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1993beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1994beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1995beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1996beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
1997beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1998beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1999beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2000beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2001beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2002beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2003dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2004dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2005dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2006dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2007dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2008dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2009dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2010dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2011dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2012dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2013dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2014dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2015dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2016dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2017f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2018dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
20190b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20200b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20216c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20226c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20236c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20246c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
202598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
202698a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
202798a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20285f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20295f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
203098a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
203198a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2032692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
203398a79d6aSRusty Russell
20343a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2035e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2036e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2037e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2038e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
203916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
204016295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
204116295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
204216295becSSteffen Klassert
20434520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
20444520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
20454520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
20464520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
20474520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
20484520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
20494520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20504520c6a4SDavid Howells
20516beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2052e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2053e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2054e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
20551bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
20561bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
20577303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
20587303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
20597303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
20607303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
20617303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
20627303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
20631bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
20641bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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