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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)"
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
11face4374SRoman Zippel
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
271a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
281a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
291a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
30e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
31e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
32e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	bool
40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900  # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
49b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
50b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
51b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
52b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
53e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
54e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
55e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
561dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
571dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
581dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
62c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
63c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
66c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
67c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
68c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
69ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
81dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
82dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
8534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
874bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
884bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
89bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
904bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
914bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
924bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
934bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
944bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
954bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
964bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
974bb16672SJiri Slaby
984bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
994bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1004bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1014bb16672SJiri Slaby
102e846f0dcSJani Nikulaconfig HEADER_TEST
103e846f0dcSJani Nikula	bool "Compile test headers that should be standalone compilable"
104e846f0dcSJani Nikula	help
105e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  Compile test headers listed in header-test-y target to ensure they are
106e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
107e846f0dcSJani Nikula
108e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested
109e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
110e846f0dcSJani Nikula
111*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamadaconfig KERNEL_HEADER_TEST
112*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test kernel headers"
113*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADER_TEST
114*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	help
115*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  Headers in include/ are used to build external moduls.
116*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test them to ensure they are self-contained, i.e.
117*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  compilable as standalone units.
118*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada
119*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the headers
120*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  in include/ are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
121*43c78d88SMasahiro Yamada
122d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
123d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
124d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADER_TEST && HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
125d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
126d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
127d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
128d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
129d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
131d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
142aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
143aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
144aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
145ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
146aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
147aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
150aaebf433SRyan Anderson
151aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
153aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1546e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
155aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1586e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1596e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
162aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1639afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1649afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1659afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1669afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1679afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1689afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1699afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1709afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1719afb719eSLaura Abbott
1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1813ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1823ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1833ebe1243SLasse Collin
1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
187e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
190f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
191f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
192f16466afSVasily Gorbik
19330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
19530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
196f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2197dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2207dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2270a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2342e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
23530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2360a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2370a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2380a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2403ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2413ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2423ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2433ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2443ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2453ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2463ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2473ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2483ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2493ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2503ebe1243SLasse Collin
2513ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2523ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2533ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2543ebe1243SLasse Collin
2557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2590a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
260681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
263e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
264e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
265e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
266e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
267e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
268e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
269e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
270e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
271e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
272e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
275f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
276f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
277f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
278f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
279f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
280f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
281f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
282f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
283f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
284f16466afSVasily Gorbik
28530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
287bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
288bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
289bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
290bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
291bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
292bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
293bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
294bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
295bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
29617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
29717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
29817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
29917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
30017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
30117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
30217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
30517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
328a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
329a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
330a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
331a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
332a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
333a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
33619c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
342b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
350bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
351bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
352bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
353bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
354bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
355bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
356226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
357226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
358226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
359226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
360226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
361226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
362226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
363a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
364226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
365226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
36669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
36769369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
368b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
36969369a70SJosh Triplett	help
37069369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
37169369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
37269369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
37369369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
37469369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
37569369a70SJosh Triplett
3761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
378804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
382cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
383cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3857a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3867a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3877a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
389cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3907a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
39128a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
39274c3cbe3SAl Viro
393d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
394764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
39587a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
396d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
399abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
400abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
401abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
403fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
404fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
40502fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
410c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
415fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
418abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
420c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
433ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
434554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
435041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
436abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
437abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
438abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
439abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
440abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
441abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
442abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
443abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
444abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
445abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
446abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
448abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
450b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
451b58c3584SRik van Riel
452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
453fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
454b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
46311d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
46411d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
46511d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
46611d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
46711d4afd4SVincent Guittot
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4702813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4893903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
49519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4972813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
50919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
511f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
52119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
53019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
538eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
539eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
540eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
541eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
542eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
543eb414681SJohannes Weiner
544eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
545eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
546eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
547eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
548eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5492ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5502ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5512ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5522ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
553eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
554eb414681SJohannes Weiner
555eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
556eb414681SJohannes Weiner
557e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
558e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
559e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
560e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
561e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
562e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
563428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
564428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
565e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5677b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
5707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
5717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
5737b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
5747b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5757b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
5767b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5795c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5805c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
581414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5822c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5835c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5845c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5855c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5862c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5872c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5882c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5892c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5905c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5910af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
592c903ff83SMike Travis
593de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
594de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
595de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
596de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
598f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
616f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
617f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
618f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
61943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
620f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
621f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
622f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
623f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
62443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
625794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
626794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
627fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
628f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
629361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
630794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
636f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
637f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
638f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
639f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
640f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
641794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
642794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
643794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
6462240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
650361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6695e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6705e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
67123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
67223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
67323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
67423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
67523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
67623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
67723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
67823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
67923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
680f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
681f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
682427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
683427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
684f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
685427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
686f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
687f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
688f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
689f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
690f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
691427934b8SPetr Mladek
692f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
693427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
694427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
695427934b8SPetr Mladek
696427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
697427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
698427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
699427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
700427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
701427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
702427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
703427934b8SPetr Mladek
7045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
71038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
71138ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
71238ff87f7SStephen Boyd
713be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
714be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
715be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
716be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
717be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
718be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
719be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
720be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
72172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
72272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
72372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
72472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
72572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
72672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
72772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
72872b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
72972b252aeSMel Gorman
73072b252aeSMel Gorman#
731be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
732be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
733be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
734be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
735be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
736be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
737be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
738be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
739be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
740be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
741be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
742be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
743be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
744be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
745be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
746be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
747be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
748be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
749be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
7506d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
751be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
752be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
753be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
7546f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
7556f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
7566f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
7576f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
7586f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
7596f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
7606f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
7616f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
76223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
7636341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
7642bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
765ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
76623964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
7675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
7685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
7695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
7705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
7719991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
77245ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
773ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
774ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
775ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
77623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
77723964d2dSLi Zefan
7783e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
7793e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
7803e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
781c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
782a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
7833e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
78479bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
78500f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
786a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
78700f0b825SBalbir Singh
788c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
789a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
790c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
791c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
792a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
793a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
794c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
795a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
796c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
797a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
798a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
799a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
800a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
80143d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
80207555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
803a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
804a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
805a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
80600a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
807c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
80884c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
80984c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
81084c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
81184c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
81284c07d11SKirill Tkhai
8136bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
8146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
8156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
8162bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
8206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
8212bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
8226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
826e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
8286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
8316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8339991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
8416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
8426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
8446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
8466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
847e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8487c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
849a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
8507c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8517c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8527c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
8537c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
8547c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
8557c941438SDhaval Giani
8567c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
8577c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
8587c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
8597c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8607c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
8617c941438SDhaval Giani
862ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
863ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
864ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
865ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
866ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
867ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
868ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
869ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
870ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
871cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
872ab84d31eSPaul Turner
8737c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
8747c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
8757c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8767c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8777c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8787c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
87932bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
8807c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
8817c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
8827c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
8837c941438SDhaval Giani
8847c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
8857c941438SDhaval Giani
8866bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
8956cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
89898076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
9016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
90239d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
90339d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
90439d3e758SParav Pandit	help
90539d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
90639d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
90739d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
90839d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
90939d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
91039d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
91139d3e758SParav Pandit
9126bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
9136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
9166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
9176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
918489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
919489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
920489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
921489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
922489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
9236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
927afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
938afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
941e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
947afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
949afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9506bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
9516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
95389e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
95489e9b9e0STejun Heo
9556bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9616bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9676bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
97730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
97830070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
979483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
980483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
98130070984SDaniel Mack	help
98230070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
98330070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
98430070984SDaniel Mack
98530070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
98630070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
98730070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
98830070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
98930070984SDaniel Mack
9906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
99123b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
99323b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
99623b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
99723b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
99823b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
100273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
100373b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
100473b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
100573b35147SArnd Bergmann
100623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1007c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10102813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
10116a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1012c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1013c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1014c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1015c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1016c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1017c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10188dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10198dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
102058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
102158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
102217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
102358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
102458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
102558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
102658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1027ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1028ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10298dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
103017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1031ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1032ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1033614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1034ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1035aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
103619c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
10375673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1038aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1039aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1040aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1041e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1042e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1043d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1044d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1045d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1046e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1047aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1048aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
104974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
10509bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
105117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
105274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
105312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1054692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
105574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
105674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1057d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1058d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
10598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
106017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1061d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1062d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1063d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1064d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
10658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
10668dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
10675cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
10685cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
10695cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
10705cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
10715cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
10725cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
10735cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
10745cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
10755cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
10765cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10775cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
10785cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10795091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
10805091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
10815091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
10825091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
10835091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10845091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
10855091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
10865091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
10875091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
10885091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
10895091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
10905091faa4SMike Galbraith
10917af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10925d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
10937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10947af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10967af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
10977af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
10987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
10997af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11007af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11017af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11027af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11037af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11047af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11057af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11067af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11077af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11087af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11097af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11107af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11117af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11127af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11137af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11147af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11155d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11167af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11177af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11187af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11197af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11207af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11217af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11227af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11237af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11247af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11257af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11267af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11277af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11287af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11297af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
11307af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
113126b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
11327af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11337af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
11347af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
11357af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
11367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
11377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
11387af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
11407af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1141f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1142f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1143f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1144f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1145f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1146f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1147f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
11488c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1149f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1150f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1151f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1152f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1153f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1154f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1155f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1156c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1157c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1158dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1159dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1160c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1161c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1162877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1163877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
11642cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1165877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1166877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1167877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1168877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1169877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1170877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1171877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1172877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1173c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
117496fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1175b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED  # avoid false positives
1176c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
117731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
117831a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1179c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
11803a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1181c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1182877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1183877417e6SArnd Bergmann
11845d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
11865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
11885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
11895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
11905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
11915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
11925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
11935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11945d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
11965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
119816fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1199e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1200e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
12015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12028b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
12038b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
12048b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
12055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
12075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
12085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
12095d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
12105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
12115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
12125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12130847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12140847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12150847062aSRandy Dunlap
1216657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1217657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1218657a5209SMike Frysinger
1219657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1220657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1221657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1222657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1223657a5209SMike Frysinger
1224657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1225657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1226657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1227657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1228657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1229657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1230657a5209SMike Frysinger
1231657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1232657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1233657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1234657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1235657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1236657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1237657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1238657a5209SMike Frysinger
1239657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1240657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1241657a5209SMike Frysinger
1242f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1243f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1244f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1245f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
12466a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1248f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1249f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1256ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12576a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
12582813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1259ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1260ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1261ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1262ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12632813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
12642813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
12652813893fSIulia Manda	default y
12662813893fSIulia Manda	help
12672813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
12682813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
12692813893fSIulia Manda
12702813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
12712813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
12722813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
12732813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
12742813893fSIulia Manda
12752813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
12762813893fSIulia Manda
1277f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1278f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1279a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1280f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1281f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1282f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1283f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1284f6187769SFabian Frederick
1285f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1286f6187769SFabian Frederick
12876af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
12886af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
12896af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
12906af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
12916af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
12926af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
12936af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
12946af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
12956af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
12966af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1297b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
129926a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1300c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1301b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1302b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
130313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
130413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
130513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
130613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1307b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
130813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
130913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
131013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1311b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1312c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1313ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1314d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1315d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1316d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1317d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1318d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1319d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1320d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1321d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1322d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1323d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1324d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1325d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1326d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1327baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1328baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1329baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1330baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1331baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1332baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1333baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1334baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1335baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1336baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1337baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1338baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1339baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1340baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1341baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1342baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1343baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1344d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1345d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13466a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
134774876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1348d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1349d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1350d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1351d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1352d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1353d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1354d59745ceSMatt Mackall
135542a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
135642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
135742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
135842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
135942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1360c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13616a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1362c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1363c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1364c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1365c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1366c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1367c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1368c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1369c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1370708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1371046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1372708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13736a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1374708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1375708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1376708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13778761f1abSRalf Baechle
1378e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13808761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
138115f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1382e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1383e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1384e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1385e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1386e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13966a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1398bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1404bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1405bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1406bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1407bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1408bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
140903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
141003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
141162b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
141203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
141303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
141403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
141503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
141603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
14171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1424fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1426fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1427fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1428fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1429fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1430fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1431fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1432fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1433b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
14346a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1435b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1436b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1437b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1438b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1439b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1440b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1441b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1442e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
14436a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1444e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1445e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1446e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1447e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1448e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1449e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1450e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14526a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1462ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14636a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1464ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1465ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1466ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1467ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1468ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1469ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
14702b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
14712b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
14722b188cc1SJens Axboe	select ANON_INODES
14732b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
14742b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
14752b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
14762b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
14772b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
14782b188cc1SJens Axboe
1479d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1480d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1481d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1482d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1483d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1484d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1485d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1486d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1487d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1488d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
14895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
14905b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
14915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
14925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
14935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
14945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
14955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
14965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
14975b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
14985b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
14995b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
15005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1509d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1510d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1529d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1530d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1531d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1532d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1533d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1534a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1540d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1541d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1542d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1543d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1544d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1545d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1551d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1552d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1553d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1554d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1555bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1556d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1557d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1558d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1559d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1560d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1561290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1562290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1563290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1564290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1565290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1566290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1567290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
15753ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
15763ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
15773ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
157870216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
157970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
158070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1581d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1582d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1583d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1584d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1585d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1586d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1587d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1588d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1589d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1590d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1591d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1592d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1593d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1594d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1595d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1596d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1597d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1598d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1599d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1600d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1601d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1602d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1603d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
16046befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16056befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16065d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
16086befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
16096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
16106befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16126befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1613cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16140793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1615018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1616018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16170793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1618906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1619906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1620906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1621906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1622906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1623ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1624424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1625ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1626ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1627ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1628ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1629ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
163057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16310793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1632cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
163357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1634392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1635cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1636e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
163783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16380793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
163957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
164057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16410793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1642dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
164357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
164457c0c15bSIngo Molnar
164557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
164657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16470793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16490793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16500793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16510793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16520793a61dSThomas Gleixner
165357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1654dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
165557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16560793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16570793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16580793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16590793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16600793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1661906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1662906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1663906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1664cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1665906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1666906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1667906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1668906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1669906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1670906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1671906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1672906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1673906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16740793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16750793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1676f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1677f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16786a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1679f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16802aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16812aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16832aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1684f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
168541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
168641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16876a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1688f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
168941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
169041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
169141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
169241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
169341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
169441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
16951663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
16961663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
16971663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
16981663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
16991663f26dSTejun Heo	help
17001663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
17011663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
17021663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
17031663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
17041663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
17051663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
17061663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
17071663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
17081663f26dSTejun Heo
1709b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1710b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1711b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1712b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1713b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1714b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1715b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1716692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1717b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1718b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1719b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1720b943c460SRandy Dunlap
172181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
172281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1723a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
172481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
172581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
172681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
172781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
172881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
172904385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
173081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
173181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
173234013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
173302f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
173481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
173581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
173681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1737ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
173881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
173981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
174081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
174181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
174281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
174302f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
174402f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
174581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
174681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
174881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
174981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
175037291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
175137291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
175237291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
175381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
175481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
175581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
17567660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
17577660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
17587660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
17597660a6fdSKees Cook	help
17607660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
17617660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
17627660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
17637660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
17647660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
17657660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
17667660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
17677660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
17687660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
17697660a6fdSKees Cook
1770c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1771c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1772210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1773c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1774c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1775210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1776c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1777c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1778c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
17792482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
17802482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
17812482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
17822482ddecSKees Cook	help
17832482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
17842482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
17852482ddecSKees Cook	  sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
17862482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
17872482ddecSKees Cook
1788e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1789e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1790e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1791e900a918SDan Williams	help
1792e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1793e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1794e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1795e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1796e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1797e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1798e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1799e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1800e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1801e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1802e900a918SDan Williams
1803e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1804e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1805e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1806e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1807e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1808e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1809e900a918SDan Williams
1810e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1811e900a918SDan Williams
1812345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1813345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1814b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1815345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1816345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1817345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1818345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1819345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1820345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1821345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1822345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1823ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1824ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
18256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1826ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1827ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1828ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
18293903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1830ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1831ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1832ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1833ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1834ea637639SJie Zhang
1835ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1836ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1837ea637639SJie Zhang
1838ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1839ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1840ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1841ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1842ea637639SJie Zhang
1843ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1844ea637639SJie Zhang
1845091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1846091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1847091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1848091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1849091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1850d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1851091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1852091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1853091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1854091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1855091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1856091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
185782c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1858091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1859091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1860091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1861091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
186282c04ff8SPeter Foley
1863125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1864b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1865125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1866125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1867125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1868125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
18695f87f112SIngo Molnar#
18705f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
18715f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
18725f87f112SIngo Molnar#
187397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18745f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
187597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
18761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18781572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
18791572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1880ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18816341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1882ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
188866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
189011097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
19041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19090b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
19100b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1911826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1912826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1913826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1914826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
191591e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
191691e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
191791e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1918826e4506SLinus Torvalds
19191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1924f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1925f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
192919c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
19380d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
194756067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
194856067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
194956067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
195056067812SArd Biesheuvel
19511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1962106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1963106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1964106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1965091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1966106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1967106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1968106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1969cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
1970106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1971228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1972228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1973228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1974228c37ffSDavid Howells
1975ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1976ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1977ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1978ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1979ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1980106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1981106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1982106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1983106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1984106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1985106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1986ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1987d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1988d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1989d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1990d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1991d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1992d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1993d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1994d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1995d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1996d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1997d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1998ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1999ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2000ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2001ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2002ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2003ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2004ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2005ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2006ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2007ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2008ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2009ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2010ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2011ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2012ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2013ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2014ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2015ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2016ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2017ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2018ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2019ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2020ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2021ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2022ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2023ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2024ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2025ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2026ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2027ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2028ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2029ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
203022753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
203122753674SMichal Marek	string
203222753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
203322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
203422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
203522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
203622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
203722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
203822753674SMichal Marek
2039beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2041beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
2042beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2043beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2044b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2045b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2046beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2047b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2048beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2049b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2050b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2051beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2052b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2053b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2054beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2055b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2056b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2057b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2058beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2059beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2060beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2061beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2062beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2063beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2064beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2065beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2066beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2067beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2068beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2069beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2070beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2071beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2072beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2073beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2074beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2075beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2076beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2077dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2078dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2079dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2080dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2081dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2082dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2083dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2084dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2085dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2086dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2087dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2088dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2089dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2090dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2091f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2092dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
20930b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20940b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20956c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20966c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20976c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20986c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
209998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
210098a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
210198a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
21025f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
21035f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
210498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
210598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2106692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
210798a79d6aSRusty Russell
21083a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2109e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2110e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2111e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2112e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
211316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
211416295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
211516295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
211616295becSSteffen Klassert
21174520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
21184520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
21194520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
21204520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
21214520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
21224520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
21234520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
21244520c6a4SDavid Howells
21256beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2126e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2127e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2128e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
21291bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
21301bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
21317303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
21327303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
21337303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
21347303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
21357303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
21367303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
21371bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
21381bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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