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 2139