1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_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 16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 199553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION 209553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap int 219553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 229553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 26469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 28469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 29469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 301a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 311a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 321a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 33e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 34e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 35e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 365cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 372d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 385cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 39eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 40eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 41eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 42b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 43b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 4487c9366eSJohannes Berg depends on !UML 45b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 46e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 47e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 48e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 4910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 501dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 511dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 52c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 53c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 54c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 55c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 59c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 60c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 61c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 62ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 74dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 75dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 804bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 814bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 82bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 834bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 844bb16672SJiri Slaby help 854bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 864bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 874bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 884bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 894bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 904bb16672SJiri Slaby 914bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 924bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 934bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 944bb16672SJiri Slaby 95d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 96d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 97fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 98d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 99d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 100d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 101d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 102d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 103d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 104d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 115aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 117aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 118ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 119aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 120aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson 124aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 126aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 128aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1296e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1306e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1316e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1326e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1336e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 135aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1369afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1379afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1389afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1399afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1409afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1419afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1429afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1439afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1449afb719eSLaura Abbott 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1543ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1553ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1563ebe1243SLasse Collin 1577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 160e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 161e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 162e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 163f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 164f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 165f16466afSVasily Gorbik 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 169f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2000a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2090a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2100a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2110a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2133ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2143ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2153ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2163ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2173ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2183ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2193ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2203ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2213ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2223ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2233ebe1243SLasse Collin 2243ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2253ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2263ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2273ebe1243SLasse Collin 2287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2297dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2320a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 233681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 241e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 242e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 243e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 244e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 245e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 246e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 247e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 248f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 249f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 250f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 251f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 252f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 253f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 254f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 255f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 256f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 257f16466afSVasily Gorbik 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 25930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 260bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 261bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 262bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 263bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 264bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 265bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 266bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 267bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 268bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 26917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 27017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 27117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 27217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 27317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 27417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 27517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 27817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 301a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 302a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 303a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 304a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 305a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 306a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 30919c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 315b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 323bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 324bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 325bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 326bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 327bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 328bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 329226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 330226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 331226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 332226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 333226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 334226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 335226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 336a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 337226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 338226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 33969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 34069369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 341b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 34269369a70SJosh Triplett help 34369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 34469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 34569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 34669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 34769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 34869369a70SJosh Triplett 3491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 351804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 355cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 356cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3587a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3597a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3607a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 362cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3637a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 36428a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 36574c3cbe3SAl Viro 366d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 367764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 36887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 369d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 376fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 37802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 383c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 393c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 394abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 406ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 407554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 408041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 409abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 412abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 413abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 414abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 415abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 416abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 417abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 418abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 419abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 420abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 422abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 423b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 424b58c3584SRik van Riel 425fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 426fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 427b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 428fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 429fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 430fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 431fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 432fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 433fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 434fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 435fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 43611d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 43711d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 43811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 43911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 44011d4afd4SVincent Guittot 44176504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 44276504793SThara Gopinath bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure" 44376504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 44476504793SThara Gopinath 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4472813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4663903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 47219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4742813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 48619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 488f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 49819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 50719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 515eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 516eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 517eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 518eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 519eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 520eb414681SJohannes Weiner 521eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 522eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 523eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 524eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 525eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5262ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5272ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5282ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5292ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 530c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 531eb414681SJohannes Weiner 532eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 533eb414681SJohannes Weiner 534e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 535e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 536e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 537e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 538e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 539e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 540428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 541428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 542e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5437b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5447b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5457b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5467b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5477b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5487b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5497b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5507b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5517b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5527b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5565c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 558414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5592c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5605c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5615c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5625c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5632c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5642c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5652c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5662c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5675c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5680af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 569c903ff83SMike Travis 570de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 571de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 572de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 573de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 575f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 593f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 594f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 595f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 59643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 597f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 598f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 599f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 600f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 60143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 602794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 603794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 604fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 605f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 606361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 607794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 60823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 60923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 61023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 61123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 613f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 614f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 615f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 616f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 617f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 618794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 619794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 620794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6232240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 62623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 627361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6465e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6475e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 657f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 658f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 659427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 660427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 661f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 662427934b8SPetr Mladek help 663f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 664f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 665f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 666f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 667f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 668427934b8SPetr Mladek 669f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 670427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 671427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 672427934b8SPetr Mladek 673427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 674427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 675427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 676427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 677427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 678427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 679427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 680427934b8SPetr Mladek 6815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 68738ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 68838ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 68938ff87f7SStephen Boyd 69069842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 69169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 69269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 69369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 69469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 69569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 69669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 69769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 69869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 69969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 70069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 70169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 70269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 70369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 70569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 70669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 70769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 70969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 71169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 71269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 743be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 744be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 745be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 746be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 747be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 748be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 749be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 750be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 75172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 75272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 75372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 75472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 75572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 75672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 75772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 75872b252aeSMel Gorman bool 75972b252aeSMel Gorman 760c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 7613a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 762c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 76372b252aeSMel Gorman# 764be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 765be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 766be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 767be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 768be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 769be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 770be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 774be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 776be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 778be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 7836d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7876f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7886f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7896f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 7906f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 7916f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 7926f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 7936f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 7946f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 79523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 7966341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 7972bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 798ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 79923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 803d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 804da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 80545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 806ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 807ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 808ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 80923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 81023964d2dSLi Zefan 8113e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8123e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8133e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 814c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 815a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8163e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 81779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 81800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 819a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 82000f0b825SBalbir Singh 821c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 822*2d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 823c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 824a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 825c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82684c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 82784c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 82884c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 82984c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 83084c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8342bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8392bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 844e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8487baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 851da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 857e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8587c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 859a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8607c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8617c941438SDhaval Giani help 8627c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8637c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8647c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8657c941438SDhaval Giani 8667c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8677c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8687c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8697c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8707c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8717c941438SDhaval Giani 872ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 873ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 874ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 875ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 876ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 877ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 878ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 879ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 880ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 881d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 882ab84d31eSPaul Turner 8837c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 8847c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 8857c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8867c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8877c941438SDhaval Giani help 8887c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 88932bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 8907c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 8917c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 892d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 8937c941438SDhaval Giani 8947c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 8957c941438SDhaval Giani 8962480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 8972480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 8982480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8992480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9002480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9012480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9022480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9032480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9042480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9052480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9062480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9072480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9082480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9092480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9102480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9112480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9122480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9132480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9142480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9152480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9162480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9172480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9186bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9276cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 93098076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 93439d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 93539d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 93639d3e758SParav Pandit help 93739d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 93839d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 93939d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 94039d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 94139d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 94239d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 94339d3e758SParav Pandit 9446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 950489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 951489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 952489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 953489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 954489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9556bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 959afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 970afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 973e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 979afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 981afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 98589e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 98689e9b9e0STejun Heo 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10056546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 10066546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 101030070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 101130070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1012483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1013483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 101430070984SDaniel Mack help 101530070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 101630070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 101730070984SDaniel Mack 101830070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 101930070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 102030070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 102130070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 102230070984SDaniel Mack 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 102423b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 102623b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 102923b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 103023b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 103123b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 103573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 103673b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 103773b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 103873b35147SArnd Bergmann 103923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1040c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10418dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10432813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10446a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1045c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1046c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1047c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1048c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1049c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1050c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10518dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10528dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 105358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 105458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 105517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 105658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 105758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 105858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 105958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1060769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1061769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1062660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1063769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1064769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1065769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1066769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1067769071acSAndrei Vagin 1068ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1069ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10708dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 107117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1072ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1073ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1074614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1075ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1076aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 107719c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 10785673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1079aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1080aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1081aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1082e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1083e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1084d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1085d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1086d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1087e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1088aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1089aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 109074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 10919bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 109217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 109374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 109412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1095692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 109674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 109774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1098d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1099d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11008dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 110117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1102d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1103d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1104d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1105d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11068dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11085cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11095cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11105cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11115cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11125cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11135cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11145cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11155cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11165cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11175cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11185cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11195cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11205091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11215091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11225091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11235091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11245091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11255091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11265091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11275091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11285091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11295091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11305091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11315091faa4SMike Galbraith 11327af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11335d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11347af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11357af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11367af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11377af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11387af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11397af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11407af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11417af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11427af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11437af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11447af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11457af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11467af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11477af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11487af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11497af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11557af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11565d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 117226b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1182f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1183f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1184f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1185f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1186f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1187f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1188f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 11898c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1190f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1191f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1192f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1193f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1194f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1195f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1196f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1197c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1198c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1199dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1200dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1201c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1202c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 120376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 120476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12052910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 120676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 120776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 120876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 12090947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 121085c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 12110947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 121276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 121376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 121476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1215877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1216877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12172cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1218877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1219877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 122015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1221877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1222877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1223877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1224877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1225877417e6SArnd Bergmann 122615f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 122715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 122815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1229c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 123015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 123115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1232c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12335d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 123415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1235c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1236ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1237ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1238c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1239877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1240877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12415d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12515d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 125516fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1256e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1257e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12598b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12608b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12618b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12700847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12710847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12720847062aSRandy Dunlap 1273657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1274657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1275657a5209SMike Frysinger 1276657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1277657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1278657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1279657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1280657a5209SMike Frysinger 1281657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1282657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1283657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1284657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1285657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1286657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1287657a5209SMike Frysinger 1288657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1289657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1290657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1291657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1292657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1293657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1294657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1295657a5209SMike Frysinger 1296657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1297657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1298657a5209SMike Frysinger 1299f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1300f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1301f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1302f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13036a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1305f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1306f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1313ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13152813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1316ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1317ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1318ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1319ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13202813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13212813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13222813893fSIulia Manda default y 13232813893fSIulia Manda help 13242813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13252813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13262813893fSIulia Manda 13272813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13282813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13292813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13302813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13312813893fSIulia Manda 13322813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13332813893fSIulia Manda 1334f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1335f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1336a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1337f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1338f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1339f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1340f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1341f6187769SFabian Frederick 1342f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1343f6187769SFabian Frederick 13446af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13456af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13466af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13476af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13486af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13496af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13506af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13516af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13526af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13536af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1354d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1355d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1356d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1357d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1358d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1359d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1360d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1361d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1362d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1363d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1364d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1365d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1366d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1367baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1368baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1369baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1370baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1371baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1372baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1373baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1374baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1375baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1376baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1377baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1378baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1379baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1380baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1381baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1382baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1383baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1384d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1385d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 138774876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1388d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1389d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1390d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1391d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1392d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1393d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1394d59745ceSMatt Mackall 139542a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 139642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 139742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 139842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 139942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1400c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1402c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1403c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1404c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1405c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1406c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1407c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1408c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1409c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1410708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1411046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1412708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1414708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1415708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1416708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14178761f1abSRalf Baechle 1418e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14208761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 142115f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1422e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1423e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1424e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1425e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1426e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1438bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1444bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1445bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1446bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1447bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1448bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 144903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 145003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 145162b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 145203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 145303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 145403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 145503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 145603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1464fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1466fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1467fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1468fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1469fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1470fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1471fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1472fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1473b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1475b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1476b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1477b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1478b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1479b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1480b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1481b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1482e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1484e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1485e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1486e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1487e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1488e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1489e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1490e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1502ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1504ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1505ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1506ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1507ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1508ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1509ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15102b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15112b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1512561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15132b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15142b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15152b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15162b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15172b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15182b188cc1SJens Axboe 1519d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1520d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1521d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1522d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1523d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1524d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1525d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1526d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1527d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1528d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15295a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 15305a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 15315a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 15325a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 15335a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 15345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1551d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1552d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1553d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1554d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1555d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1556d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1557d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1558d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1559d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1560d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1561d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1562d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1564d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1565d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1566d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1567d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1579a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1597fc611f47SKP Singh 1598fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1599fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 16004edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1601fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1602fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1603fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1604fc611f47SKP Singh help 1605fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1606fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1607fc611f47SKP Singh 1608fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1609fc611f47SKP Singh 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1613bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 161981c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 162081c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 162181c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1622290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1623290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1624290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1625290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1626290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1627290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1628290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 162981c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 163081c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 163181c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 163281c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1634d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1635d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1636d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16403ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16413ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16423ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 164370216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 164470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 164570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1646d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1647d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1648d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1649d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1650d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1651d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1652d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1653d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1654d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1655d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1656d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1657d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1658d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1659d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1660d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1661d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1662d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1663d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1664d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1665d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1666d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1667d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1668d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16696befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16706befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16715d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16726befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16736befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16746befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16756befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16766befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16776befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1678cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16790793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1680018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1681018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16820793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1683906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1684906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1685906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1686906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1687906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1688ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1689424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1690ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1691ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1692ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1693ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1694ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 169557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 16960793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1697cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 169857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1699392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1700cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1701e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 170283fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17030793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 170457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 170557c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17060793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1707dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 170857c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 170957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 171057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 171157c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17120793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17130793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17140793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17150793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17160793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 171857c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1719dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 172057c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17210793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17220793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17230793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17240793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17250793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1726906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1727906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1728906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1729cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1730906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1731906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1732906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1733906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1734906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1735906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1736906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1737906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1738906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17390793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1741f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1742f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1744f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17452aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17462aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17476a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17482aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1749f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 175041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 175141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1753f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 175441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 175541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 175641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 175741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 175841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 175941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17601663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17611663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17621663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17631663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17641663f26dSTejun Heo help 17651663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17661663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17671663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17681663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17691663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17701663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17711663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17721663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17731663f26dSTejun Heo 1774b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1775b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1776b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1777b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1778b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1779b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1780b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1781692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1782b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1783b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1784b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1785b943c460SRandy Dunlap 178681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 178781819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1788a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 178981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 179081819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 179181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 179281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 179381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 179404385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 179581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 179681819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 179734013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 179802f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 179981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 180081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 180181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1802ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 180381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 180481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 180581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 180681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 180781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 180802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 180902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 181081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18126a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 181381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 181481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 181637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 181737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 182081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18217660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18227660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18237660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18247660a6fdSKees Cook help 18257660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18267660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18277660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18287660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18297660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18307660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18317660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18327660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18337660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18347660a6fdSKees Cook 1835c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1836c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1837210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1838c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1839c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1840210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1841c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1842c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1843c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18442482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18452482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18462482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18472482ddecSKees Cook help 18482482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18492482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 185092bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18512482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18522482ddecSKees Cook 1853e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1854e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1855e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1856e900a918SDan Williams help 1857e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1858e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1859e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1860e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1861e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1862e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1863e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1864e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1865e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1866e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1867e900a918SDan Williams 1868e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1869e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1870e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1871e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1872e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1873e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1874e900a918SDan Williams 1875e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1876e900a918SDan Williams 1877345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1878345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1879b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1880345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1881345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 188292bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1883345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1884345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1885345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1886345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1887345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1888ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1889ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 18906a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1891ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1892ea637639SJie Zhang help 1893ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 18943903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1895ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1896ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1897ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1898ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1899ea637639SJie Zhang 1900ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1901ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1902ea637639SJie Zhang 1903ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1904ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1905ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1906ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1907ea637639SJie Zhang 1908ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1909ea637639SJie Zhang 1910091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1911091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1912091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1913091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1914091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1915d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1916091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1917091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1918091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1919091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1920091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1921091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 192282c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1923091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1924091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1925091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1926091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 192782c04ff8SPeter Foley 1928125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1929b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1930125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1931125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1932125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1933125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19345f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19355f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19365f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19375f87f112SIngo Molnar# 193897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19395f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 194097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19431572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19441572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1945ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19466341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1947ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1953c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1954c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1955c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1956c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 195766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 195911097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19681da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19780b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19790b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1980826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1981826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1982826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1983826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 198491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 198591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 198691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1987826e4506SLinus Torvalds 19881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1993f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1994f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 199819c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20070d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20162ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20172ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20182ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20192ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20202ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20212ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20222ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20232ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 202456067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 202556067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 202656067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 202756067812SArd Biesheuvel 20281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2039106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2040106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2041c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2042106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2043106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2044106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2045cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2046106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2047228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2048228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2049228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2050228c37ffSDavid Howells 205149fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 205249fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 205349fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 205449fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 205549fcf732SDavid Howells 2056ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2057ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2058ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2059ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2060ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2061106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2062106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2063106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2064106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2065106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2066106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2067ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2068d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2069d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2070d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2071d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2072d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2073d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2074d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2075d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2076d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2077d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2078d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2079ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2080ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2081ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2082ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2083ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2084ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2085ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2086ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2087ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2088ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2089ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2090ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2091ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2092ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2093ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2100ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2104ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2105ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 211122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 211222753674SMichal Marek string 211322753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 211422753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 211522753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 211622753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 211722753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 211822753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 211922753674SMichal Marek 2120beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2121beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2122beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2123beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2124b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2125b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2126beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2127b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2128beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2129b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2130b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2131beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2132b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2133b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2134beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2135b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2136b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2137b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2138beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2139beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2140beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2141beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2142beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2143beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2144beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2145beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2146beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2147beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2148beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2149beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2150beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2151beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2152beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2153beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2154beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2155beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21573d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21583d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21593d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21603d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21613d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21623d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21633d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21643d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21653d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21663d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21673d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21683d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21693d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2170efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2171efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2172efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2173efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2174efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2175efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2176efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2177efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2178efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2179efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2180efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2181efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2182efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2183efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2184efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2185efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2186dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2187dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2188d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2189dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2190dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2191dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2192dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2193dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2194dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2195dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2196dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2197dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2198dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2199dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2200f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2201dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22021518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 22031518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 22041518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 22051518c633SQuentin Perret help 22061518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 22071518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 22081518c633SQuentin Perret 22091518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 22101518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 22111518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 22121518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 22131518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 22141518c633SQuentin Perret 22150b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22160b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22176c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22186c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 22196c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 22206c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 222198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 222298a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 222398a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22245f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22255f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 222698a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 222798a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2228692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 222998a79d6aSRusty Russell 22303a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2231e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2232e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2233e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2234e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 223516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 223616295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 223716295becSSteffen Klassert bool 223816295becSSteffen Klassert 22394520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22404520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22414520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22424520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22434520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22444520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22454520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22464520c6a4SDavid Howells 22476beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2248e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 22490ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 22500ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 22510ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2252e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2253e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22541bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22551bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22567303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22577303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22587303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22597303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22607303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22617303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22621bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22631bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2264