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 2065