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 335cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 342d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 355cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 36eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 37eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 38eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized) 41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC >= 4.7 supports this option. 43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada bool 46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9 48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 49b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition. 50b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases. 51b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 52b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed 53b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings. 54b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 55b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 56b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 5787c9366eSJohannes Berg depends on !UML 58b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 59e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 60e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 61e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 6210916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 631dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 641dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 66c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 67c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 68c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 69c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 70c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 71c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 72c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 73c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 74c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 75ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 87dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 88dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 9134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 934bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 944bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 95bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 964bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 974bb16672SJiri Slaby help 984bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 994bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1004bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1014bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1024bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1034bb16672SJiri Slaby 1044bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1054bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1064bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1074bb16672SJiri Slaby 108d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 109d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 110fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 111d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 112d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 113d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 114d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 115d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 116d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 117d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 128aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 129aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 130aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 131ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 132aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 133aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1356e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 136aaebf433SRyan Anderson 137aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1386e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 139aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1406e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 141aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1426e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1436e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1446e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1456e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1466e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1476e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 148aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1499afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1509afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1519afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1529afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1539afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1549afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1559afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1569afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1579afb719eSLaura Abbott 1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1673ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin 1707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 173e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 174e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 175e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 176f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 177f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 178f16466afSVasily Gorbik 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 182f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2067dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2130a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2220a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2230a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2240a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2263ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2273ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2283ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2293ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2303ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2313ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2323ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2333ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2343ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2353ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2363ebe1243SLasse Collin 2373ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2383ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2393ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2403ebe1243SLasse Collin 2417dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2427dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2437dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2447dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2450a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 246681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2487dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 249e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 250e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 251e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 252e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 253e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 254e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 255e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 256e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 257e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 258e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 259e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 260e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 261f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 262f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 263f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 264f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 265f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 266f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 267f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 268f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 269f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 270f16466afSVasily Gorbik 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 273bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 274bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 275bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 276bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 277bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 278bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 279bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 280bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 281bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 28217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 28317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 28417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 28517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 28617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 28717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 28817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 29117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 314a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 315a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 316a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 317a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 318a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 319a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 32219c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 328b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 336bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 337bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 338bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 339bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 340bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 341bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 342226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 343226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 344226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 345226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 346226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 347226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 348226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 349a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 350226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 351226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 35269369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 35369369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 354b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 35569369a70SJosh Triplett help 35669369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 35769369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 35869369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 35969369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 36069369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 36169369a70SJosh Triplett 3621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 364804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 368cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 369cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3717a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3727a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3737a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 375cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3767a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 37728a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 37874c3cbe3SAl Viro 379d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 380764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 38187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 382d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 39102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 396c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 403fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 406c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 407abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 417abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 418abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 419ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 420554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 421041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 422abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 423abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 424abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 425abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 427abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 429abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 430abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 433abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 435abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 436b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 437b58c3584SRik van Riel 438fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 439fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 440b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 441fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 442fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 443fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 444fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 448fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 44911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 45011d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 45111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 45211d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 45311d4afd4SVincent Guittot 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4562813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4753903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 48119c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4832813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 49519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 497f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 50719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 51619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 524eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 525eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 526eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 527eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 528eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 529eb414681SJohannes Weiner 530eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 531eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 532eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 533eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 534eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5352ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5362ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5372ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5382ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 539c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 540eb414681SJohannes Weiner 541eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 542eb414681SJohannes Weiner 543e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 544e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 545e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 546e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 547e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 548e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 549428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 550428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 551e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5527b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5547b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5557b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5567b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5577b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5655c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5665c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 567414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5682c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5695c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5705c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5715c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5722c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5732c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5742c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5752c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5765c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5770af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 578c903ff83SMike Travis 579de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 580de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 581de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 582de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 584f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 602f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 603f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 604f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 60543d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 606f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 607f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 608f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 609f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 61043d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 611794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 612794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 613fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 614f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 615361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 616794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 61723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 61823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 61923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 622f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 623f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 624f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 625f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 626f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 627794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 628794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 629794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6322240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 636361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6555e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6565e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 666f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 667f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 668427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 669427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 670f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 671427934b8SPetr Mladek help 672f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 673f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 674f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 675f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 676f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 677427934b8SPetr Mladek 678f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 679427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 680427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 681427934b8SPetr Mladek 682427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 683427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 684427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 685427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 686427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 687427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 688427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 689427934b8SPetr Mladek 6905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 69638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 69738ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 69838ff87f7SStephen Boyd 69969842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 70069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 70269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 70369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 70469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 70569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 70669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 70769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 70969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 71069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 71169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 71269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 752be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 753be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 754be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 755be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 756be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 757be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 758be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 759be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 76072b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 76172b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 76272b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 76372b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 76472b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 76572b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 76672b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 76772b252aeSMel Gorman bool 76872b252aeSMel Gorman 769c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 770c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel def_bool y 771c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel depends on !$(cc-option,-D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) 772c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 77372b252aeSMel Gorman# 774be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 775be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 776be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 777be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 778be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 787be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 7936d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7976f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7986f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7996f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8006f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8016f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8026f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8036f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8046f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 80523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8066341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8072bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 808ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 80923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 813d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 814da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 81545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 816ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 817ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 818ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 81923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 82023964d2dSLi Zefan 8213e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8223e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8233e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 824c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 825a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8263e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 82779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 82800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 829a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 83000f0b825SBalbir Singh 831c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 832a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 833c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 834c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 835a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 836a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 837c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 838a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 839c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 840a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 841a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 842a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 843a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 84443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 84507555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 846a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 847a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 848a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 84900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 850c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 85184c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 85284c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 85384c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 85484c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 85584c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8642bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 869e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 876da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 882e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8837c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 884a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8857c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8867c941438SDhaval Giani help 8877c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8887c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8897c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8907c941438SDhaval Giani 8917c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8927c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8937c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8947c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8957c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8967c941438SDhaval Giani 897ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 898ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 899ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 900ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 901ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 902ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 903ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 904ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 905ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 906d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 907ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9087c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9097c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9107c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9117c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9127c941438SDhaval Giani help 9137c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 91432bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9157c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9167c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 917d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9187c941438SDhaval Giani 9197c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9207c941438SDhaval Giani 9212480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9222480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9232480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9242480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9252480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9262480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9272480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9282480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9292480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9302480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9312480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9322480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9332480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9342480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9352480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9362480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9372480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9382480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9392480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9402480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9412480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9422480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9526cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 95598076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 95939d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 96039d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 96139d3e758SParav Pandit help 96239d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 96339d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 96439d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 96539d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 96639d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 96739d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 96839d3e758SParav Pandit 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 975489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 976489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 977489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 978489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 979489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 984afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 995afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 998e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1004afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1006afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 101089e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 101189e9b9e0STejun Heo 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 103430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 103530070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1036483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1037483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 103830070984SDaniel Mack help 103930070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 104030070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 104130070984SDaniel Mack 104230070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 104330070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 104430070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 104530070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 104630070984SDaniel Mack 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 104823b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 105023b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 105323b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 105423b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 105523b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 105973b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 106073b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 106173b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 106273b35147SArnd Bergmann 106323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1064c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10666a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10672813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10686a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1069c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1070c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1071c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1072c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1073c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1074c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10768dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 107758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 107858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 107917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 108058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 108158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 108258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 108358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1084769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1085769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1086660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1087769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1088769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1089769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1090769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1091769071acSAndrei Vagin 1092ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1093ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10948dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 109517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1096ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1097ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1098614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1099ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1100aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 110119c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11025673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1103aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1104aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1105aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1106e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1107e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1108d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1109d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1110d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1111e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1112aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1113aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 111474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11159bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 111617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 111774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 111812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1119692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 112074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 112174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1122d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1123d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11248dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 112517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1126d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1127d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1128d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1129d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11308dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11318dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11325cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11335cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11345cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11355cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11365cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11375cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11385cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11395cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11405cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11415cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11425cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11435cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11445091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11455091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11465091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11475091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11485091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11495091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11505091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11515091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11525091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11535091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11545091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11555091faa4SMike Galbraith 11567af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11575d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11805d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 119626b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1206f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1207f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1208f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1209f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1210f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1211f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1212f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12138c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1214f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1215f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1216f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1219f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1220f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1221c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1222c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1223dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1224dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1225c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1226c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 122776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 122876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12292910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 123076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 123176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 123276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 12330947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 123485c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 12350947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 123676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 123776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 123876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1239877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1240877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12412cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1242877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1243877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 124415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1245877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1246877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1247877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1248877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1249877417e6SArnd Bergmann 125015f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 125115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 125215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1253b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 1254c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 125515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 125615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1257c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12585d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 125915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 12605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 12615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 1262ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1263ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1264c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1265877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1266877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12675d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12775d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 128116fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1282e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1283e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12858b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12868b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12878b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12960847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12970847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12980847062aSRandy Dunlap 1299657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1300657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1301657a5209SMike Frysinger 1302657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1303657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1304657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1305657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1306657a5209SMike Frysinger 1307657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1308657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1309657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1310657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1311657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1312657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1313657a5209SMike Frysinger 1314657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1315657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1316657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1317657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1318657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1319657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1320657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1321657a5209SMike Frysinger 1322657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1323657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1324657a5209SMike Frysinger 1325f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1326f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1327f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1328f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13296a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1331f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1332f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1339ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13412813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1342ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1343ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1344ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1345ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13462813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13472813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13482813893fSIulia Manda default y 13492813893fSIulia Manda help 13502813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13512813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13522813893fSIulia Manda 13532813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13542813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13552813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13562813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13572813893fSIulia Manda 13582813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13592813893fSIulia Manda 1360f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1361f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1362a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1363f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1364f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1365f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1366f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1367f6187769SFabian Frederick 1368f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1369f6187769SFabian Frederick 13706af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13716af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13736af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13746af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13756af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13766af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13776af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13786af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13796af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1380d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1381d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1382d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1383d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1384d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1385d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1386d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1387d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1388d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1389d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1390d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1391d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1393baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1394baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1395baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1396baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1397baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1398baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1399baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1400baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1401baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1402baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1403baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1404baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1405baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1406baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1407baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1408baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1409baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1410d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1411d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 141374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1414d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1415d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1416d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1417d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1418d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1419d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1420d59745ceSMatt Mackall 142142a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 142242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 142342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 142442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 142542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1426c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1428c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1429c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1430c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1431c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1432c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1433c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1434c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1435c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1436708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1437046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1438708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1440708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1441708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1442708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14438761f1abSRalf Baechle 1444e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14468761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 144715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1448e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1449e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1450e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1451e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1452e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1464bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1470bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1471bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1472bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1473bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1474bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 147503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 147603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 147762b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 147803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 147903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 148003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 148103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 148203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1490fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1492fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1493fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1494fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1495fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1496fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1497fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1498fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1499b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1501b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1502b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1503b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1504b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1505b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1506b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1507b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1508e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1510e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1511e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1512e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1513e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1514e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1515e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1516e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1528ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1530ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1531ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1532ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1533ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1534ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1535ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15362b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15372b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 15382b188cc1SJens Axboe select ANON_INODES 1539561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15402b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15412b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15422b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15432b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15442b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15452b188cc1SJens Axboe 1546d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1547d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1548d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1549d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1550d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1551d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1552d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1553d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1554d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1555d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15675b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1601a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1619fc611f47SKP Singh 1620fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1621fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 1622*4edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1623fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1624fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1625fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1626fc611f47SKP Singh help 1627fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1628fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1629fc611f47SKP Singh 1630fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1631fc611f47SKP Singh 1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1634d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1635bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1636d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1640d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 164181c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 164281c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 164381c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1644290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1645290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1646290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1647290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1648290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1649290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1650290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 165181c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 165281c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 165381c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 165481c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1658d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1659d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1660d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16623ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16633ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16643ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 166570216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 166670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 166770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1668d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1669d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1670d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1671d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1672d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1673d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1674d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1675d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1676d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1677d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1678d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1679d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1680d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1681d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1682d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1683d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1684d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1685d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1686d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1687d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1688d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1689d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1690d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16916befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16926befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16935d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16966befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1700cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17010793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1702018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1703018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17040793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1705906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1706906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1707906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1708906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1709906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1710ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1711424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1712ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1713ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1714ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1715ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1716ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 171757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17180793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1719cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 172057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1721392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1722cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1723e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 172483fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17250793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 172657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 172757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17280793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1729dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 173057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 173157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 173257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 173357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17340793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17350793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17360793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17370793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17380793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 174057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1741dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 174257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17430793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17440793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17460793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17470793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1748906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1749906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1750906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1751cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1752906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1753906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1754906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1755906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1756906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1757906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1758906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1759906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1760906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17610793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1763f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1764f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1766f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17682aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17696a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17702aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1771f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 177241ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 177341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1775f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 177641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 177741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 177841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 177941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 178041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 178141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17821663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17831663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17841663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17851663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17861663f26dSTejun Heo help 17871663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17881663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17891663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17901663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17911663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17921663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17931663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17941663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17951663f26dSTejun Heo 1796b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1797b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1798b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1799b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1800b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1801b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1802b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1803692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1804b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1805b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1806b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1807b943c460SRandy Dunlap 180881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 180981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1810a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 181181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 181381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 181581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 181604385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 181781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 181934013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 182002f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 182181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 182281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 182381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1824ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 182581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 182681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 182781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 182881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 182981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 183002f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 183102f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 183281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18346a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 183581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 183681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 183737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 183837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 183937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 184081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 184181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 184281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18437660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18447660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18457660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18467660a6fdSKees Cook help 18477660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18487660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18497660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18507660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18517660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18527660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18537660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18547660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18557660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18567660a6fdSKees Cook 1857c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1858c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1859210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1860c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1861c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1862210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1863c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1864c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1865c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18662482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18672482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18682482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18692482ddecSKees Cook help 18702482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18712482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 187292bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18732482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18742482ddecSKees Cook 1875e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1876e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1877e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1878e900a918SDan Williams help 1879e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1880e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1881e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1882e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1883e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1884e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1885e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1886e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1887e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1888e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1889e900a918SDan Williams 1890e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1891e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1892e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1893e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1894e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1895e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1896e900a918SDan Williams 1897e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1898e900a918SDan Williams 1899345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1900345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1901b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1902345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1903345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 190492bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1905345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1906345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1907345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1908345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1909345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1910ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1911ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19126a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1913ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1914ea637639SJie Zhang help 1915ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19163903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1917ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1918ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1919ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1920ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1921ea637639SJie Zhang 1922ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1923ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1924ea637639SJie Zhang 1925ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1926ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1927ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1928ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1929ea637639SJie Zhang 1930ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1931ea637639SJie Zhang 1932091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1933091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1934091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1935091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1936091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1937d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1938091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1939091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1940091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1941091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1942091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1943091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 194482c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1945091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1946091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1947091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1948091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 194982c04ff8SPeter Foley 1950125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1951b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1952125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1953125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1954125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1955125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19565f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19575f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19585f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19595f87f112SIngo Molnar# 196097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19615f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 196297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19651572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19661572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1967ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19686341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1969ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1975c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1976c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1977c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1978c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 197966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 198111097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20000b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 20010b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 2002826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2003826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 2004826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2005826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 200691e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 200791e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 200891e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2009826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2015f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2016f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 202019c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20290d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20382ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20392ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20402ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20412ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20422ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20432ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20442ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20452ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 204656067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 204756067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 204856067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 204956067812SArd Biesheuvel 20501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2061106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2062106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2063c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2064106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2065106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2066106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2067cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2068106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2069228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2070228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2071228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2072228c37ffSDavid Howells 207349fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 207449fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 207549fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 207649fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 207749fcf732SDavid Howells 2078ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2079ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2080ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2081ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2082ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2083106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2084106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2085106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2086106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2087106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2088106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2089ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2090d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2091d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2092d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2093d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2094d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2095d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2096d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2097d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2098d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2099d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2100d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2104ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2105ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2114ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2124ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2125ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2126ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2127ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2128ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2129ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2130ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2131ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2132ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 213322753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 213422753674SMichal Marek string 213522753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 213622753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 213722753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 213822753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 213922753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 214022753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 214122753674SMichal Marek 2142beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2143beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2144beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2145beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2146b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2147b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2148beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2149b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2150beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2151b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2152b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2153beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2154b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2155b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2157b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2158b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2159b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2160beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2163beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2164beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2166beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2168beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2169beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2170beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2171beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2172beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2173beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2174beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2175beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2176beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2177beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2178beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21793d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21803d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21813d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21823d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21833d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21843d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21853d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21863d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21873d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21883d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21893d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21903d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21913d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2192efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2193efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2194efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2195efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2196efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2197efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2198efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2199efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2200efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2201efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2202efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2203efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2204efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2205efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2206efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2207efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2208dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2209dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2210d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2211dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2212dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2213dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2214dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2215dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2216dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2217dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2218dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2219dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2220dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2221dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2222f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2223dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22240b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22250b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22266c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22276c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 22286c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 22296c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 223098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 223198a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 223298a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22335f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22345f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 223598a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 223698a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2237692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 223898a79d6aSRusty Russell 22393a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2240e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2241e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2242e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2243e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 224416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 224516295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 224616295becSSteffen Klassert bool 224716295becSSteffen Klassert 22484520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22494520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22504520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22514520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22524520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22534520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22544520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22554520c6a4SDavid Howells 22566beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2257e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2258e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2259e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22601bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22611bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22627303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22637303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22647303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22657303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22667303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22677303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22681bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22691bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2270