1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 138b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 148b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 158b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 168b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 178b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 198b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 208b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 218b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 228b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Ensure full rebuild when the compier is updated 238b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/kconfig.h contains this option in the comment line so 248b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the auto-generated 258b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig will touch it 268b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada and then every file will be rebuilt. 278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 29e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q gcc) 30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 33fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 369553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION 379553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap int 389553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 399553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap 40469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 41e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q clang) 42469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 43b744b43fSSami Tolvanenconfig LD_IS_LLD 44b744b43fSSami Tolvanen def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD) 45b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 46469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 47469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 48469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 49469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 501a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 519371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 52b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 53b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 541a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 55b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 56b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 57b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 58b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 60e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 61e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 62e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 63587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 64587f1701SNick Desaulniers depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 65587f1701SNick 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) 66587f1701SNick Desaulniers 675cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 682d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 695cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 70eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 71eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 72eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 73b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 74b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 7587c9366eSJohannes Berg depends on !UML 76b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 77e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 78e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 79e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 8010916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 811dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 821dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 83c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 84c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 85c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 86c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 87c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 88c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 89c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 90c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 91c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 92c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 93ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 105dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 106dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 10934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1114bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1124bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 113*334ef6edSHeiko Carstens depends on !UML && !S390 1144bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 1154bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1164bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1174bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1184bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1194bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1204bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1214bb16672SJiri Slaby 1224bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1234bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1244bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1254bb16672SJiri Slaby 126d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 127d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 128fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 129d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 131d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 132d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 133d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 134d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 146aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 147aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 148aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 149ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 150aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 151aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 154aaebf433SRyan Anderson 155aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 157aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1586e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 159aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1626e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1636e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1656e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 166aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1679afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1689afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1699afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1709afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1719afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1729afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1739afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1749afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1759afb719eSLaura Abbott 1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1853ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin 1887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 19448f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 19548f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 19648f7ddf7SNick Terrell 197f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 198f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 199f16466afSVasily Gorbik 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 20348f7ddf7SNick 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 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2340a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2352e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2362e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 23930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 24030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2430a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2440a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2450a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2473ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2483ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2493ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2503ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2513ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2523ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2533ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2543ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2553ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2563ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2573ebe1243SLasse Collin 2583ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2593ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2603ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2613ebe1243SLasse Collin 2627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2660a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 267681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2687dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 270e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 271e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 272e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 275e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 276e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 280e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 281e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 28248f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 28348f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 28448f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 28548f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 28648f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 28748f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 28848f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 28948f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 29048f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 29148f7ddf7SNick Terrell 292f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 293f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 294f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 295f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 296f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 297f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 298f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 299f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 300f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 301f16466afSVasily Gorbik 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 304ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 305ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 306ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 307ada4ab7aSChris Down help 308ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 309ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 310ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 311ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 312ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 313ada4ab7aSChris Down 314bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 315bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 316bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 317bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 318bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 319bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 320bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 321bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 322bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 32317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 32417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 32517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 32617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 32717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 32817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 32917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 33217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 342a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 355a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 356a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 357a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 358a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 359a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 360a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 36319c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 364a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 369b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 377bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 378bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 379bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 380bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 381bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 382bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 383c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 384c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 385c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 386c73be61cSDavid Howells help 387c73be61cSDavid Howells 388c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 389c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 390c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 391c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 392c73be61cSDavid Howells 393c73be61cSDavid Howells See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 394c73be61cSDavid Howells 395226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 396226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 397226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 398226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 399226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 400226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 401226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 402a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 403226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 404226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 40569369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 40669369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 407b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 40869369a70SJosh Triplett help 40969369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 41069369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 41169369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 41269369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 41369369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 41469369a70SJosh Triplett 4151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 417804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 421cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 422cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4247a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4257a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4267a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 428cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4297a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 43028a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 43174c3cbe3SAl Viro 432d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 433764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 43487a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 435d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 438abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 439abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 440abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 441fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 442fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 443fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 44402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 448fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 449c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 453fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 457abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 459c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 460abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 470abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 471abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 472ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 473554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 474041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 475abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 476abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 477abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 478abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 479abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 480abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 481abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 482abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 483abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 487abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 488abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 489b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 490b58c3584SRik van Riel 491fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 492fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 493b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 494fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 495fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 496fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 497fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 498fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 499fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 501fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 50211d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 50311d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 50411d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 50511d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 50611d4afd4SVincent Guittot 50776504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 50898eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 509fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 510fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 51176504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 51298eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 51398eb401dSValentin Schneider help 51498eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 51598eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 51698eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 51798eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 51898eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 51998eb401dSValentin Schneider 52098eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 52198eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 52298eb401dSValentin Schneider 52398eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 52498eb401dSValentin Schneider arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_get_thermal_pressure(). 52576504793SThara Gopinath 526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5282813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5473903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 55319c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5552813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 56719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 569f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 57919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 58819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 596eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 597eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 598eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 599eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 600eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 601eb414681SJohannes Weiner 602eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 603eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 604eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 605eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 606eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6072ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6082ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6092ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6102ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 611c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 612eb414681SJohannes Weiner 613eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 614eb414681SJohannes Weiner 615e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 616e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 617e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 618e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 619e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 620e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 621428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 622428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 623e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6247b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6257b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6267b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6277b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6287b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6297b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6307b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6317b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6327b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 636391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6375c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6385c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 639414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6402c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6415c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6425c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6435c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6442c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6452c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6462c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6472c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6485c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6490af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 650c903ff83SMike Travis 651de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 652de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 653de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 654de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 656f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 657a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 670a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 674f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 675f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 676f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 67743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 678f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 679f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 680f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 681f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 68243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 683794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 684794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 685550c10d2SJohn Ogness range 12 25 if !H8300 686550c10d2SJohn Ogness range 12 19 if H8300 687f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 688361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 689794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 69023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 69123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 69223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 69323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 69423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 695f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 696f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 697f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 698f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 699f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 700794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 701794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 702794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 70323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 70423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7052240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 70623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 70723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 70823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 709361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 71023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 71123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 71223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 71323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 71423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 71523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 71623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 71823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 72523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7285e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7295e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 739f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 740f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 741427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 742427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 743f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 744427934b8SPetr Mladek help 745f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 746f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 747f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 748f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 749f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 750427934b8SPetr Mladek 751f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 752427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 753427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 754427934b8SPetr Mladek 755427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 756427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 757427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 758427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 759427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 760427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 761427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 762427934b8SPetr Mladek 7635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 76938ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 77038ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 77138ff87f7SStephen Boyd 77269842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 77369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 77469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 77569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 77669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 77769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 77869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 77969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 78069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 78169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 78269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 78369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 78469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 78569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 825be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 826be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 827be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 828be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 829be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 830be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 831be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 832be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 83372b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 83472b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 83572b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 83672b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 83772b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 83872b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 83972b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 84072b252aeSMel Gorman bool 84172b252aeSMel Gorman 842c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8433a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 844c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 84572b252aeSMel Gorman# 846be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 847be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 848be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 849be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 850be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 851be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 852be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 853be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 854be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 855be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 858be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 859be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8656d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8696f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8706f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8716f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8726f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8736f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8746f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8756f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8766f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 87723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8786341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8792bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 880ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 88123964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 885d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 886da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 88745ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 888ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 889ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 890ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 89123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 89223964d2dSLi Zefan 8933e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8943e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8953e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 896c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 897a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8983e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 89979bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 90000f0b825SBalbir Singh help 901a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 90200f0b825SBalbir Singh 903c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 9042d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 905c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 906a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 907c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 90884c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 90984c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 91084c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 91184c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 91284c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9136bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9162bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 917a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9212bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 926e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9307baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 933da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 939e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9407c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 941a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9427c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9437c941438SDhaval Giani help 9447c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9457c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9467c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9477c941438SDhaval Giani 9487c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9497c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9507c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9517c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9527c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9537c941438SDhaval Giani 954ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 955ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 956ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 957ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 958ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 959ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 960ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 961ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 962ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 963d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 964ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9657c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9667c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9677c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9687c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9697c941438SDhaval Giani help 9707c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 97132bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9727c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9737c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 974d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9757c941438SDhaval Giani 9767c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9777c941438SDhaval Giani 9782480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9792480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9802480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9812480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9822480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9832480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9842480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9852480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9862480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9872480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9882480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9892480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9902480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9912480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9922480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9932480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9942480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9952480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9962480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9972480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9982480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10096cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 101298076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 101639d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 101739d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 101839d3e758SParav Pandit help 101939d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 102039d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 102139d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 102239d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 102339d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 102439d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 102539d3e758SParav Pandit 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1032489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1033489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1034489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1035489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1036489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1041afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1052afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1055e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1063afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 106789e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 106889e9b9e0STejun Heo 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10876546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 10886546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 109230070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 109330070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1094483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1095483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 109630070984SDaniel Mack help 109730070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 109830070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 109930070984SDaniel Mack 110030070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 110130070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 110230070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 110330070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 110430070984SDaniel Mack 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 110623b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 110823b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 111123b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 111223b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 111323b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 111773b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 111873b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 111973b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 112073b35147SArnd Bergmann 112123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1122c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11238dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11252813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11266a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1127c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1128c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1129c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1130c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1131c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1132c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11338dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11348dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 113558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 113658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 113717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 113858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 113958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 114058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 114158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1142769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1143769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1144660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1145769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1146769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1147769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1148769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1149769071acSAndrei Vagin 1150ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1151ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11528dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 115317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1154ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1155ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1156614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1157ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1158aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 115919c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11605673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1161aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1162aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1163aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1164e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1165e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1166d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1167d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1168d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1169e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1170aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1171aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 117274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11739bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 117417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 117574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 117612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1177692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 117874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 117974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1180d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1181d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11828dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 118317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1184d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1185d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1186d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1187d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11888dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11898dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11905cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11915cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11925cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11935cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11945cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11955cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11965cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11975cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11985cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11995cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12005cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12015cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12025091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12035091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12045091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12055091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12065091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12075091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12085091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12095091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12105091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12115091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12125091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12135091faa4SMike Galbraith 12147af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12155d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12377af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12385d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12527af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 125426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1264f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1265f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1266f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1267f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1268f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1269f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1270f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12718c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1272f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1273f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1274f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1275f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1276f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1277f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1278f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1279c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1280c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1281dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1282dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1283c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1284c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 128576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 128676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12872910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 128876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 128976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 129076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 12910947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 129285c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 12930947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 129476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 129576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 129676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1297877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1298877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12992cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1300877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1301877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 130215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1303877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1304877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1305877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1306877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1307877417e6SArnd Bergmann 130815f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 130915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 131015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1311c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 131215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 131315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1314c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13155d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 131615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1317c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1318ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1319ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1320c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1321877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1322877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13235d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13245d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 13255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 13275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 13285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 13295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 13305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 13315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 13325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13335d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1337e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1338e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 13395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13408b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 13418b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 13428b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 13435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 13455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 13465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 13475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 13485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 13495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 13505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13510847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13520847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13530847062aSRandy Dunlap 1354657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1355657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1356657a5209SMike Frysinger 1357657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1358657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1359657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1360657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1361657a5209SMike Frysinger 1362657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1363657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1364657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1365657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1366657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1367657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1368657a5209SMike Frysinger 1369657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1370657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1371657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1372657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1373657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1374657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1375657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1376657a5209SMike Frysinger 1377657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1378657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1379657a5209SMike Frysinger 1380f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1381f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1382f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1383f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13846a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1386f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1387f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1394ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13962813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1397ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1398ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1399ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1400ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14012813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14022813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14032813893fSIulia Manda default y 14042813893fSIulia Manda help 14052813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14062813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14072813893fSIulia Manda 14082813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14092813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14102813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14112813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14122813893fSIulia Manda 14132813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14142813893fSIulia Manda 1415f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1416f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1417a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1418a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1419f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1420f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1421f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1422f6187769SFabian Frederick 1423f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1424f6187769SFabian Frederick 14256af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14266af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14276af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1428a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 14296af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14306af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14316af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 14326af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 14336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 14346af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1435d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1436d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1437d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1438d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1439d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1440d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1441d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1442d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1443d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1444d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1448baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1449baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1450baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1451baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1452baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1453baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1454baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1455baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1456baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1457baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1458baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1459baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1460baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1461baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1462baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1463baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1464baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1465d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1466d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 146874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1469d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1470d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1471d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1472d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1473d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1474d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1475d59745ceSMatt Mackall 147642a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 147742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 147842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 147942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 148042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1481c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1483c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1484c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1485c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1486c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1487c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1488c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1489c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1490c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1491708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1492046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1493708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1495708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1496708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1497708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14988761f1abSRalf Baechle 1499e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15018761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 150215f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1503e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1504e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1505e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1506e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1507e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1519bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1525bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1526bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1527bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1528bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1529bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 153003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 153103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 153262b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 153303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 153403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 153503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 153603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 153703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 15381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1545fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1547fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1548fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1549fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1550fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1551fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1552fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1553fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1554b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1556b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1557b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1558b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1559b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1560b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1561b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1562b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1563e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1565e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1566e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1567e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1568e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1569e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1570e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1571e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15736a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1583ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1585ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1586ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1587ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1588ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1589ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1590ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15912b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15922b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1593561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15942b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15952b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15962b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15972b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15982b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15992b188cc1SJens Axboe 1600d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1601d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1602d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1603d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1604d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1605d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1606d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1607d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1608d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1609d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16105a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 16115a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 16125a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 16135a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 16145a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 16155b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16165b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16175b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16185b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16195b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16205b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16215b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16225b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16235b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16245b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16255b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16265b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1634d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1635d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1636d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1640d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1641d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1642d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1643d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1644d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1645d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1658d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1659d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1660a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1662d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1678fc611f47SKP Singh 1679fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1680fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 16814edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1682fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1683fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1684fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1685fc611f47SKP Singh help 1686fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1687fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1688fc611f47SKP Singh 1689fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1690fc611f47SKP Singh 1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1693d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1694bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 16951e6c62a8SAlexei Starovoitov select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 1696d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1697d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1698d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 170181c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 170281c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 170381c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1704290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1705290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1706290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1707290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1708290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1709290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1710290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 171181c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 171281c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 171381c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 171481c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1715d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitovsource "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig" 1716d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitov 1717d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1720d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1721d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1722d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 17243ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17253ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17263ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 172770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 172870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 172970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1730d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1731d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1732d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1733d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1734d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1735d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1736d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1737d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1738d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1739d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1740d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1741d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1742d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1743d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1744d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1745d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1746d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1747d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1748d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1749d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1750d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1751d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1752d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 17536befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17546befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17555d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 17566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17586befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17596befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 17606befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 17616befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1762cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17630793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1764018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1765018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17660793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1767906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1768906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1769906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1770906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1771906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1772ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1773424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1774ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1775ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1776ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1777ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1778ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 177957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17800793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1781cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 178257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1783392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1784cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1785e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 178683fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17870793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 178857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 178957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17900793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1791dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 179257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 179357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 179457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 179557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17960793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17970793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17980793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17990793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18000793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18010793a61dSThomas Gleixner 180257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1803dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 180457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18050793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18060793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18070793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18080793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18090793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1810906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1811906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1812906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1813cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1814906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1815906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1816906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1817906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1818906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1819906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1820906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1821906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1822906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18230793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1825f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1826f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 18276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1828f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 18292aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 18302aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 18316a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 18322aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1833f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 183441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 183541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 18366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1837f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 183841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 183941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 184041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 184141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 184241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 184341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 18441663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 18451663f26dSTejun Heo default n 18461663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 18471663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 18481663f26dSTejun Heo help 18491663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 18501663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 18511663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 18521663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 18531663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 18541663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 18551663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 18561663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 18571663f26dSTejun Heo 1858b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1859b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1860b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1861b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1862b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1863b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1864b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1865692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1866b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1867b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1868b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1869b943c460SRandy Dunlap 187081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 187181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1872a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 187381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 187481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 187581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 187681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 187781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 187804385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 187981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 188081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 188134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 188202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 188381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 188481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 188581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1886ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 188781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 188881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 188981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 189081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 189181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 189202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 189302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 189481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 189581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18966a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 189781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 189881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 189937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 190037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 190137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 190281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 190381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 190481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 19057660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 19067660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 19077660a6fdSKees Cook default y 19087660a6fdSKees Cook help 19097660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 19107660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 19117660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 19127660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 19137660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 19147660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 19157660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 19167660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 19177660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 19187660a6fdSKees Cook 1919c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 19203404be67SKees Cook bool "Randomize slab freelist" 1921210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1922c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1923210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1924c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1925c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1926c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 19272482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 19282482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 19293404be67SKees Cook depends on SLAB || SLUB 19302482ddecSKees Cook help 19312482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 19322482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 193392bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 19343404be67SKees Cook freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 19353404be67SKees Cook sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 19363404be67SKees Cook CONFIG_SLUB. 19372482ddecSKees Cook 1938e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1939e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1940e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1941e900a918SDan Williams help 1942e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1943e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1944e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1945e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1946e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1947e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1948e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1949e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1950e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1951e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1952e900a918SDan Williams 1953e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1954e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1955e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1956e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1957e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1958e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1959e900a918SDan Williams 1960e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1961e900a918SDan Williams 1962345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1963345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1964b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1965345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1966345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 196792bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1968345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1969345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1970345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1971345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1972345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1973ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1974ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19756a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1976ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1977ea637639SJie Zhang help 1978ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19793903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1980ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1981ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1982ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1983ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1984ea637639SJie Zhang 1985ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1986ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1987ea637639SJie Zhang 1988ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1989ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1990ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1991ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1992ea637639SJie Zhang 1993dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 1994ea637639SJie Zhang 1995091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1996091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1997091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1998091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1999091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2000d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2001091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2002091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2003091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2004091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2005091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2006091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 200782c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2008091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2009091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2010091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2011091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 201282c04ff8SPeter Foley 2013125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2014b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2015125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2016125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2017125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 2018125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20195f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20205f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20215f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20225f87f112SIngo Molnar# 202397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20245f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 202597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 20261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20281572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20291572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2030ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20316341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2032ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 20331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2038c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2039c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2040c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2041c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 204266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 204411097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20630b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 20640b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 2065826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2066826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 2067826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2068826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 206991e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 207091e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 207191e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2072826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2078f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2079f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 208319c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20881da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20920d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20961da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21012ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 21022ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 21032ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 21042ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 21052ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 21062ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 21072ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 21082ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 210956067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 211056067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 211156067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 211256067812SArd Biesheuvel 21131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 21141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 21151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 21171da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 21181da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 21191da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 21201da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 21211da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 21221da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 21231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2124106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2125106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2126c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2127106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2128106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2129106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2130cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2131106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2132228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2133228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2134228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2135228c37ffSDavid Howells 213649fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 213749fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 213849fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 213949fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 214049fcf732SDavid Howells 2141ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2142ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2143ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2144ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2145ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2146106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2147106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2148106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2149106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2150106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2151106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2152ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2153d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2154d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2155d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2156d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2157d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2158d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2159d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2160d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2161d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2162d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2163d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2164ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2165ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2166ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2167ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2168ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2169ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2170ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2171ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2172ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2173ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2174ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2175ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2176ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2177ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2178ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2179ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2180ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2181ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2182ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2183ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2184ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2185ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2186ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2187ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2188ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2189ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2190ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2191ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2192ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2193ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2194ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2195ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 219622753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 219722753674SMichal Marek string 219822753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 219922753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 220022753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 220122753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 220222753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 220322753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 220422753674SMichal Marek 2205beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2206beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2207beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2208beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2209b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2210b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2211beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2212b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2213beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2214b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2215b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2216beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2217b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2218b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2219beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2220b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2221b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2222b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2223beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2224beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2225beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2226beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2227beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2228beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2229beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2230beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2231beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2232beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2233beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2234beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2235beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2236beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2237beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2238beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2239beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2240beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2241beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 22423d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 22433d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 22443d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 22453d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 22463d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 22473d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 22483d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 22493d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 22503d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 22513d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 22523d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 22533d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 22543d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2255efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2256efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2257efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2258efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2259efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2260efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2261efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2262efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2263efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2264efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2265efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2266efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2267efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2268efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2269efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2270efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2271dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2272dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2273d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2274dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2275dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2276dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2277dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2278dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2279dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2280dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2281dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2282dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2283dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2284dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2285f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2286dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22871518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 22881518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 22891518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 22901518c633SQuentin Perret help 22911518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 22921518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 22931518c633SQuentin Perret 22941518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 22951518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 22961518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 22971518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 22981518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 22991518c633SQuentin Perret 23000b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 23010b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 23026c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 23036c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 23046c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 23056c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 230698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 230798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 230898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 23095f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 23105f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 231198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 231298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2313692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 231498a79d6aSRusty Russell 23153a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2316e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2317e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2318e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2319e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 232016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 232116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 232216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 232316295becSSteffen Klassert 23244520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 23254520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 23264520c6a4SDavid Howells help 23274520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 23284520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 23294520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 23304520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 23314520c6a4SDavid Howells 23326beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2333e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 23340ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 23350ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 23360ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2337e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2338e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 23391bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 23401bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 23417303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 23427303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 23437303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 23447303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 23457303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 23467303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 23471bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 23481bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2349