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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
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