1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 631a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 649371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 65f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 66f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 671a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 68b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 69b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 70f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 71f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 72c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 73587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 74587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 75587f1701SNick Desaulniers 761aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 771aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 781aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 791aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .\n": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 801aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 815cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 822d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 835cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 84eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 85eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 86eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 8751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 8851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 8951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 90613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 91613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 92613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 93613fe169SNathan Chancellor 94b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 95b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 96b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 97e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 98e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 99e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 10010916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1011dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1021dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 103c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 104c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 105c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 106c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 107c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 108c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 109c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 110c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 111c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 112c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 113ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 125dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 126dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 12934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1314bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1324bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 133ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1344bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1354bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1364bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1374bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1384bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1394bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1404bb16672SJiri Slaby 1414bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1424bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1434bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1444bb16672SJiri Slaby 1453fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1463fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 147b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1483fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1493fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1503fe617ccSLinus Torvalds enables the '-Werror' flag to enforce that rule by default. 1513fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1523fe617ccSLinus Torvalds However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and 1533fe617ccSLinus Torvalds unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1543fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1553fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1563fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1573fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1583fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 159d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 160d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 161fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 162d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 163d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 164d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 165d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 166d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 167d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 168d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 179aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 180aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 181aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 182ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 183aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 184aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1866e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 187aaebf433SRyan Anderson 188aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 190aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1916e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 192aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 199aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2009afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2019afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2029afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2039afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2049afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2059afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2069afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2079afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2089afb719eSLaura Abbott 2092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2183ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2193ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2203ebe1243SLasse Collin 2217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 224e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 225e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 226e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 22748f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 22848f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 22948f7ddf7SNick Terrell 230f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 231f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 232f16466afSVasily Gorbik 23330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 23530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 23648f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 24030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 24330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 24530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 24730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 24830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 25030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 25430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 25630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 26130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 26330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2670a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 27330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2760a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2770a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2780a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2803ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2813ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2823ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2833ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2843ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2853ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2863ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2873ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2883ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2893ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2903ebe1243SLasse Collin 2913ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2923ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2933ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2943ebe1243SLasse Collin 2957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2990a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 300681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3017dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 303e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 304e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 305e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 306e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 307e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 308e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 309e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 310e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 311e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 312e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 313e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 314e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 31548f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 31648f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 31748f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 31848f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 31948f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 32048f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 32148f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 32248f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 32348f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 32448f7ddf7SNick Terrell 325f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 326f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 327f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 328f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 329f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 330f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 331f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 332f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 333f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 334f16466afSVasily Gorbik 33530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 33630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 337ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 338ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 339ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 340ada4ab7aSChris Down help 341ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 342ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 343ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 344ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 345ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 346ada4ab7aSChris Down 347bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 348bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 349bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 350bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 351bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 352bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 353bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 354bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 355bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 358a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 371a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 372a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 373a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 374a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 375a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 376a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3770cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 3780cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 3790cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 3800cbed0eeSGuo Ren 3811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 38319c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 384a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 389b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 397bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 398bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 399bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 400bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 401bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 402bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 403c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 404c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 405c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 406c73be61cSDavid Howells help 407c73be61cSDavid Howells 408c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 409c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 410c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 411c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 412c73be61cSDavid Howells 413c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 414c73be61cSDavid Howells 415226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 416226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 417226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 418226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 419226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 420226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 421226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 422a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 423226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 424226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 42569369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4267374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4277374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 42869369a70SJosh Triplett help 42969369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 43069369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 43169369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 43269369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 43369369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 43469369a70SJosh Triplett 4351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 437804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 441cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 442cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4447a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4457a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4467a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 448cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4497a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 45028a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 45174c3cbe3SAl Viro 452d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 453764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 454b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 45587a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 456d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 459abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 460abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 461abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 46502fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 466fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 467fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 468fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 469fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 470c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 471fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 472fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 473fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 474fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 475fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 476fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 477fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 478abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 480c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 481abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 49324a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 494554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 495041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 49724a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 498abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 499abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 500abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 501abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 502abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 503abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 504abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 505abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 506abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 507abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 508abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 510b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 511b58c3584SRik van Riel 512fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 513fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 514b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 515fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 516fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 518fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 519fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 521fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 52311d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 52411d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 52511d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 52611d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 52711d4afd4SVincent Guittot 52876504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 52998eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 530fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 531fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 53276504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 53398eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 53498eb401dSValentin Schneider help 53598eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 53698eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 53798eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 53898eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 53998eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 54098eb401dSValentin Schneider 54198eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 54298eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 54398eb401dSValentin Schneider 54498eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5457e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 54676504793SThara Gopinath 547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5492813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5683903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 57419c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5762813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 58819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 590f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 60019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 60919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 617eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 618eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 619eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 620eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 621eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 622eb414681SJohannes Weiner 623eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 624eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 625eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 626eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 627eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6282ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6292ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6302ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6312ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 632c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 633eb414681SJohannes Weiner 634eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 635eb414681SJohannes Weiner 636e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 637e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 638e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 639e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 640e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 641e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 642428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 643428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 644e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6457b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6467b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6477b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6487b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6497b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6507b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6517b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6527b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6547b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6557b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 657391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6585c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6595c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 660414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6612c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6625c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6635c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6645c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6652c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6662c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6672c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6682c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6695c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6700af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 671c903ff83SMike Travis 672de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 673de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 674de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 675de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 677f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 678a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 691a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 695f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 696f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 697f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 69843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 699f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 700f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 701f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 702f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 70343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 704794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 705794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7061c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 707f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 708361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 709794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 71023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 71123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 71223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 71323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 71423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 715f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 716f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 717f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 718f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 719f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 720794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 721794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 722794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7252240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 729361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7420f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7485e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7495e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 759f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 760f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 761427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 762427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 763f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 764427934b8SPetr Mladek help 765f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 766f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 767f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 768f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 769f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 770427934b8SPetr Mladek 771f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 772427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 773427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 774427934b8SPetr Mladek 775427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 776427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 777427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 778427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 779427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 780427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 781427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 782427934b8SPetr Mladek 78333701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 78433701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 78533701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 78633701557SChris Down help 78733701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 78833701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 78933701557SChris Down 79033701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 79133701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 79233701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 79333701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 79433701557SChris Down 79533701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 79633701557SChris Down 7975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 80338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 80438ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 80538ff87f7SStephen Boyd 80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 859be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 866be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 86772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 86872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 86972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 87072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 87172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 87272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 87372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 87472b252aeSMel Gorman bool 87572b252aeSMel Gorman 876c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8773a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 878c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 879dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 880dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 881158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 882dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 883dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 884f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable gcc-12 array-bounds globally. 885f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds# We may want to target only particular configurations some day. 886f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 887f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds def_bool y 888f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 889f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 890f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 891f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 130000 && GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 892f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 89372b252aeSMel Gorman# 894be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 895be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 896be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 897be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 898be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 904be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 908be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 909554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9136d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 92523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9266341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9272bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 928ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 92923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 933d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 934da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 93545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 936ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 937ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 938ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 93923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 94023964d2dSLi Zefan 9413e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9423e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9433e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9446a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9456a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9466a010a49STejun Heo help 9476a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9486a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9496a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9506a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9516a010a49STejun Heo 9526a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9536a010a49STejun Heo 954c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 955a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9563e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 95779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 95800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 959a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 96000f0b825SBalbir Singh 961c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 9622d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 963c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 964a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 965c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 96684c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 96784c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 96884c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 96984c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 97084c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9742bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 975a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9792bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 984e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9887baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 991da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 997e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9987c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 999a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10007c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10017c941438SDhaval Giani help 10027c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10037c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10047c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10057c941438SDhaval Giani 10067c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10077c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10087c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10097c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10107c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10117c941438SDhaval Giani 1012ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1013ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1014ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1015ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1016ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1017ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1018ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1019ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1020ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1021d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1022ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10237c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10247c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10257c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10267c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10277c941438SDhaval Giani help 10287c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 102932bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10307c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10317c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1032d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10337c941438SDhaval Giani 10347c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10357c941438SDhaval Giani 10362480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10372480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10382480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10392480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10402480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10412480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10422480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10432480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10442480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10452480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10462480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10472480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10482480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10492480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10502480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10512480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10522480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10532480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10542480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10552480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10562480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10572480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10676cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 107098076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 107439d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 107539d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 107639d3e758SParav Pandit help 107739d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 107839d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 107939d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 108039d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 108139d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 108239d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 108339d3e758SParav Pandit 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1090489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1091489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1092489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1093489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1094489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1099afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1110afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1113e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1119afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1121afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 112589e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 112689e9b9e0STejun Heo 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11456546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11466546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 115030070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 115130070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1152483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1153483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 115430070984SDaniel Mack help 115530070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 115630070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 115730070984SDaniel Mack 115830070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 115930070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 116030070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 116130070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 116230070984SDaniel Mack 1163a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1164a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1165a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1166a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1167a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1168a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1169a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1170a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1171a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1172a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1173a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1174a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1175a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1176a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 117823b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 118023b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 118323b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 118423b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 118523b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 118973b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 119073b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 119173b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 119273b35147SArnd Bergmann 119323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1194c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11972813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11986a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1199c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1200c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1201c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1202c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1203c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1204c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12058dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12068dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 120758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 120858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 120917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 121058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 121158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 121258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 121358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1214769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1215769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1216660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1217769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1218769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1219769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1220769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1221769071acSAndrei Vagin 1222ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1223ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12248dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 122517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1226ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1227ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1228614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1229ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1230aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 123119c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12325673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1233aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1234aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1235aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1236e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1237e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1238d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1239d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1240d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1241e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1242aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1243aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 124474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12459bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 124617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 124774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 124812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1249692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 125074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 125174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1252d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1253d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 125517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1256d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1257d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1258d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1259d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12608dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12618dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12625cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12635cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1264*30341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 12655cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1266bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12675cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12685cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12695cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12705cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12715cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12725cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12735cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12745cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12755cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12765091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12775091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12785091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12795091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12805091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12815091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12825091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12835091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12845091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12855091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12865091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12875091faa4SMike Galbraith 12887af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12895d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12937af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13047af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 13057af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 13067af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 13077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13087af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13097af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 13107af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13117af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 13125d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 13137af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 13147af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 13157af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 13167af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13177af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 13187af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13197af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 13207af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 13217af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13227af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13237af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 13247af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 13257af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13267af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13277af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 132826b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13297af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13307af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13317af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13327af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13337af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13347af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13357af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13367af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13377af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1338f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1339f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1340f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1341f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1342f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1343f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1344f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13458c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1346f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1347f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1348f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1349f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1350f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1351f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1352f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1353c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1354c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1355dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1356dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1357c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1358c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 135976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 136076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1361a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 136276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 136376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 136476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13650947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 136685c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13670947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 136876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 136976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 137076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1371a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1372a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1373a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1374a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1375a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1376a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1377a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1378a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1379a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1380a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1381a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1382a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1383a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1384a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1385a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1386a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1387a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1388a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1389a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 13901274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 13911274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 13921274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 13931274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 13941274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 13951274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 13961274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 13971274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 13981274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 13991274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1400877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1401877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14022cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1403877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1404877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 140515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1406877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1407877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1408877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1409877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1410877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1411c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 141215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1413c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1414ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1415ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1416c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1417877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1418877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14195d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14235d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14245d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14295d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1433e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1434e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14368b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14378b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14388b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 144759612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 144859612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 144959612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 145059612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 145159612b24SNathan Chancellor 14520847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14530847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14540847062aSRandy Dunlap 1455657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1456657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1457657a5209SMike Frysinger 1458657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1459657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1460657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1461657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1462657a5209SMike Frysinger 1463657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1464657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1465657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1466657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1467657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1468657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1469657a5209SMike Frysinger 1470657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1471657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1472657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1473657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1474657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1475657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1476657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1477657a5209SMike Frysinger 1478657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1479657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1480657a5209SMike Frysinger 1481f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1482f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1483f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1484ec8f7f48SEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1485f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14866a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1488f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1489f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1496ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14982813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1499ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1500ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1501ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1502ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15032813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15042813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15052813893fSIulia Manda default y 15062813893fSIulia Manda help 15072813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15082813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15092813893fSIulia Manda 15102813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15112813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15122813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15132813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15142813893fSIulia Manda 15152813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15162813893fSIulia Manda 1517f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1518f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1519a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1520a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1521f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1522f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1523f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1524f6187769SFabian Frederick 1525f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1526f6187769SFabian Frederick 15276af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15286af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15296af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1530a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15316af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15326af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15346af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15356af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15366af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1540d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1541d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1542d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1543d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1544d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1545d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1550baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1551baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1552baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1553baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1554baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1555baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1556baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1557baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1558baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1559baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1560baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1561baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1562baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1563baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1564baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1565baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1566baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1567d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1568d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 157074876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1571d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1572d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1573d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1574d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1575d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1576d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1577d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1578c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1580c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1581c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1582c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1583c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1584c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1585c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1586c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1587c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1588708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1589046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1590708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1592708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1593708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1594708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15958761f1abSRalf Baechle 1596e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15988761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 159915f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1600e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1601e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1602e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1603e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1604e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 16051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16076a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16153f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1617bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1623bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1624bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1625bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1626bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1627bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1635fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1637fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1638fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1639fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1640fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1641fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1642fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1643fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1644b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1646b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1647b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1648b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1649b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1650b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1651b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1652b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1653e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1655e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1656e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1657e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1658e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1659e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1660e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1661e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16636a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1673ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1675ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1676ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1677ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1678ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1679ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1680ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16812b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16822b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1683561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16842b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16852b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16862b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16872b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16882b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16892b188cc1SJens Axboe 1690d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1691d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1692d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1693d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1694d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1695d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1696d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1697d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1698d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1699d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17015b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17035b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17045b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17055b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17065b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17075b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17085b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17105b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17115b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1715d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1716d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1717d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1720d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1721d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1722d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1724d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1725d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1726bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1727bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1728bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1729bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1734d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1736bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1740d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1742d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1743d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1744d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1745d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1746a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1747d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1748d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1749d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1750d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1751d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1752d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1753d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1754d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1755d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1756d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1757d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1758d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1759d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1760d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1761d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1762d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1763d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1764fc611f47SKP Singh 17653ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17663ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17673ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 176870216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 176970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 177070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1771bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP 1772bfe3911aSChris Wilson bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1773bfe3911aSChris Wilson help 1774bfe3911aSChris Wilson Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1775bfe3911aSChris Wilson user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1776bfe3911aSChris Wilson share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1777bfe3911aSChris Wilson memory space. 1778bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1779bfe3911aSChris Wilson If unsure, say N. 1780bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1781d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1782d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1783d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1785d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1786d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1790d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1791d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1792d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1793d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1794d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1795d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1796d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1797d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1798d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1799d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1800d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1801d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1802d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1803d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 18046befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 18056befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 18066befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 18076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 18086befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 18096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 18106befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 18116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1812cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18130793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1814018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1815018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18160793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18172aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18182aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18192aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18202aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1821906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1822906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1823906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1824906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1825906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1826ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1827424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1828ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1829ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1830ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1831ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1832ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 183357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1835cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 183657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1837392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1838cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1839e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 184083fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 18410793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 184257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 184357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1845dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 184657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 184757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 184857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 184957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18510793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18520793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18530793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18540793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18550793a61dSThomas Gleixner 185657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1857dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 185857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18590793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18600793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18610793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18620793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18630793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1866906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1867cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1868906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1869906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1870906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1871906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1872906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1873906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1874906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1875906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1876906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18770793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18780793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1879091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1880091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1881091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1882091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1883091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1884d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1885091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1886091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1887091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1888091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1889091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1890091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 189182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1892091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1893091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1894091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1895091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 189682c04ff8SPeter Foley 1897125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1898b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1899125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1900125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1901f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1902125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19035f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19045f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19055f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19065f87f112SIngo Molnar# 190797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19085f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 190997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19121572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19131572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1914ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19156341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19161c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1917ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1923c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1924c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1925c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1926c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 192773b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 19286c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 192998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 193098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 193198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19325f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19335f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 193498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 193598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1936692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 193798a79d6aSRusty Russell 19383a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1939e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1940e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1941e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1942e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 194316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 194416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 194516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 194616295becSSteffen Klassert 19474520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19484520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19494520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19504520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19514520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19524520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19534520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19544520c6a4SDavid Howells 19556beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1956e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 19570ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 19580ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 19590ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 1960e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1961e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19621bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19631bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19647303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19657303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 19667303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 19677303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 19687303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 19697303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 19701bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 19711bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 1972