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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT
38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	string
48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)"
58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	help
68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  This is used in unclear ways:
78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated
98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    The 'default' property references the environment variable,
108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd.
118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked.
128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury	  - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated
14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment
150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan	    line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the
16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig
17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt.
188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC)
21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC
25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang)
29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen
30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG
33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default 0
34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU
36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU)
37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada
38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM
39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM)
40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada
41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION
42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	int
43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	# Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler
44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM
45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	default $(as-version)
46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada
4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD
4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD)
4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada
5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION
5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada	int
5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD
5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada
5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD
5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD)
57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION
59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	int
6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD
6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor
631a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
649371f86eSMasahiro Yamada	bool
65b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
66b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag))
671a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
68b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
69b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	bool
70b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
71b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static)
72c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
73e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
74e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
75e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
76587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
77587f1701SNick Desaulniers	depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
78587f1701SNick Desaulniers	def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
79587f1701SNick Desaulniers
805cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
812d122942SWill Deacon	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
825cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
83eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
84eb111869SRasmus Villemoes	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
85eb111869SRasmus Villemoes
86*51c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR
87*51c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers	def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror)
88*51c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers
89b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
90b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
91b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
92e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
93e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
94e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
9510916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
961dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
971dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
98c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
99c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
100c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
101c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
102c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
103c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
104c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
105c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
106c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
107c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
108ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
120dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
121dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
12434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1264bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
1274bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
128ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada	depends on HAS_IOMEM
1294bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
1304bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
1314bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
1324bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
1334bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
1344bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1354bb16672SJiri Slaby
1364bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1374bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1384bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1394bb16672SJiri Slaby
140d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
141d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
142fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
143d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
144d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
145d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
146d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
147d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
148d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
149d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
160aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
161aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
162aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
163ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
164aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
165aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1666e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1676e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
168aaebf433SRyan Anderson
169aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1706e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
171aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
173aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1746e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1756e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1766e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1776e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1786e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1796e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
180aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1819afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1829afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1839afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1849afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1859afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1869afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1879afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1889afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1899afb719eSLaura Abbott
1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1982e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1993ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2003ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
2013ebe1243SLasse Collin
2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
205e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
206e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
207e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20848f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
20948f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool
21048f7ddf7SNick Terrell
211f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
212f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
213f16466afSVasily Gorbik
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
21748f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
23530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2407dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2417dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
24330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
24730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2480a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
25330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
25430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
25630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2570a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2580a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2590a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2613ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2623ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2633ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2643ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2653ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2663ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2673ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2683ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2693ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2703ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2713ebe1243SLasse Collin
2723ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2753ebe1243SLasse Collin
2767dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2800a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
281681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
285e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
286e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
287e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
288e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
289e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
290e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
291e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
292e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
293e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
294e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
295e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
29648f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD
29748f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool "ZSTD"
29848f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
29948f7ddf7SNick Terrell	help
30048f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression
30148f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and
30248f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You
30348f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command
30448f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  line tool is required for compression.
30548f7ddf7SNick Terrell
306f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
307f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
308f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
309f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
310f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
311f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
312f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
313f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
314f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
315f16466afSVasily Gorbik
31630d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
31730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
318ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT
319ada4ab7aSChris Down	string "Default init path"
320ada4ab7aSChris Down	default ""
321ada4ab7aSChris Down	help
322ada4ab7aSChris Down	  This option determines the default init for the system if no init=
323ada4ab7aSChris Down	  option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is
324ada4ab7aSChris Down	  not present, we will still then move on to attempting further
325ada4ab7aSChris Down	  locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use
326ada4ab7aSChris Down	  the fallback list when init= is not passed.
327ada4ab7aSChris Down
328bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
329bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
330bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
331bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
332bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
333bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
334bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
335bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
336bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
33717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
33817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
33917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
34017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
34117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
34217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
34317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
34617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
356a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
369a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
370a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
371a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
372a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
373a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
374a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
37719c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
378a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
383b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
391bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
392bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
393bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
394bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
395bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
396bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
397c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE
398c73be61cSDavid Howells	bool "General notification queue"
399c73be61cSDavid Howells	default n
400c73be61cSDavid Howells	help
401c73be61cSDavid Howells
402c73be61cSDavid Howells	  This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
403c73be61cSDavid Howells	  userspace by splicing them into pipes.  It can be used in conjunction
404c73be61cSDavid Howells	  with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
405c73be61cSDavid Howells	  notifications.
406c73be61cSDavid Howells
407c73be61cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
408c73be61cSDavid Howells
409226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
410226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
411226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
412226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
413226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
414226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
415226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
416a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
417226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
418226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
41969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
42069369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
421b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
42269369a70SJosh Triplett	help
42369369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
42469369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
42569369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
42669369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
42769369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
42869369a70SJosh Triplett
4291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
431804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
435cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
436cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4387a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
4397a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
4407a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
4411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
442cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
4437a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
44428a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
44574c3cbe3SAl Viro
446d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
447764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
44887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
449d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
452abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
453abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
454abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
45802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
463c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
466fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
467fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
468fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
469fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
470fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
471abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
473c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
474abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
486ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
487554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
488041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
490abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
493abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
495abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
497abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
498abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
499abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
500abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
501abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
502abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
503b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
504b58c3584SRik van Riel
505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
506fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
507b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
508fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
509fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
510fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
511fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
512fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
513fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
514fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
515fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
51611d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
51711d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
51811d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
51911d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
52011d4afd4SVincent Guittot
52176504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
52298eb401dSValentin Schneider	bool
523fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
524fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM64
52576504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
52698eb401dSValentin Schneider	depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL
52798eb401dSValentin Schneider	help
52898eb401dSValentin Schneider	  Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the
52998eb401dSValentin Schneider	  scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler
53098eb401dSValentin Schneider	  that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from
53198eb401dSValentin Schneider	  thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of
53298eb401dSValentin Schneider	  a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures.
53398eb401dSValentin Schneider
53498eb401dSValentin Schneider	  If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly,
53598eb401dSValentin Schneider	  i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones.
53698eb401dSValentin Schneider
53798eb401dSValentin Schneider	  This requires the architecture to implement
538432900f8SYue Hu	  arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure().
53976504793SThara Gopinath
540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
5422813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
5613903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
56719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
5692813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
58119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
583f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
59319c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
60219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
610eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
611eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
612eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
613eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
614eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
615eb414681SJohannes Weiner
616eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
617eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
618eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
619eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
620eb414681SJohannes Weiner
6212ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
6222ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
6232ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
6242ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
625c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
626eb414681SJohannes Weiner
627eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
628eb414681SJohannes Weiner
629e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
630e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
631e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
632e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
633e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
634e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
635428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
636428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
637e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
6387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
6397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
6407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
6417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
6427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
6437b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6447b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
6457b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
6467b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6477b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
6487b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
6515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
6525c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
653414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
6542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
6555c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6565c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
6575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
6582c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
6592c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
6602c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
6612c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
6625c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
6630af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
664c903ff83SMike Travis
665de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
666de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
667de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
668de5b56baSVivek Goyal
6691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
670f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
671a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
684a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
688f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
689f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
690f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
69143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
692f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
693f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
694f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
695f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
69643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
697794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
698794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
699550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 25 if !H8300
700550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 19 if H8300
701f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
702361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
703794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
70423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
70523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
70623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
70723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
70823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
709f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
710f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
711f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
712f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
713f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
714794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
715794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
716794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
71823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
7192240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
723361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
72523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
7360f7636e1SPaul Menzel	  so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
7425e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
7435e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
753f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
754f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
755427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
756427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
757f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
758427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
759f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
760f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
761f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
762f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
763f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
764427934b8SPetr Mladek
765f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
766427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
767427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
768427934b8SPetr Mladek
769427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
770427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
771427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
772427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
773427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
774427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
775427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
776427934b8SPetr Mladek
7775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
78338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
78438ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
78538ff87f7SStephen Boyd
78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
841be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
842be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
843be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
844be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
845be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
846be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
84772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
84872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
84972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
85072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
85172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
85272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
85372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
85472b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
85572b252aeSMel Gorman
856c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
8573a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
858c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
85972b252aeSMel Gorman#
860be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
861be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
862be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
863be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
864be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
874be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
878be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8796d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
880be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
881be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
882be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8836f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8846f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8856f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8866f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8876f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8886f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8896f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8906f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
89123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8926341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8932bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
894ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
89523964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
899d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
900da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
90145ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
902ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
903ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
904ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
90523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
90623964d2dSLi Zefan
9073e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9083e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
9093e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
910c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
911a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9123e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
91379bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
91400f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
915a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
91600f0b825SBalbir Singh
917c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
9182d1c4980SJohannes Weiner	bool
919c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
920a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
921c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
92284c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
92384c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
92484c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
92584c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
92684c07d11SKirill Tkhai
9276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
9302bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
931a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
9352bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
940e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
9447baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
947da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9496bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
9506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
9516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
953e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9547c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
955a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
9567c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9577c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9587c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9597c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9607c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9617c941438SDhaval Giani
9627c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9637c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9647c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9657c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9667c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9677c941438SDhaval Giani
968ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
969ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
970ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
971ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
972ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
973ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
974ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
975ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
976ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
977d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
978ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9797c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9807c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9817c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9827c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9837c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9847c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
98532bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9867c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9877c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
988d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9897c941438SDhaval Giani
9907c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9917c941438SDhaval Giani
9922480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9932480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
9942480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9952480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
9962480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
9972480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
9982480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
10002480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10012480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
10022480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
10032480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
10042480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
10052480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
10062480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10072480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
10082480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
10092480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
10102480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
10112480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10122480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
10132480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10236cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
102698076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
103039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
103139d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
103239d3e758SParav Pandit	help
103339d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
103439d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
103539d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
103639d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
103739d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
103839d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
103939d3e758SParav Pandit
10406bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1046489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1047489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1048489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1049489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1050489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10516bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1055afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1066afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1069e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1075afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1077afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
108189e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
108289e9b9e0STejun Heo
10836bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10896bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
11016546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
11026546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
110630070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
110730070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1108483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1109483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
111030070984SDaniel Mack	help
111130070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
111230070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
111330070984SDaniel Mack
111430070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
111530070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
111630070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
111730070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
111830070984SDaniel Mack
1119a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC
1120a72232eaSVipin Sharma	bool "Misc resource controller"
1121a72232eaSVipin Sharma	default n
1122a72232eaSVipin Sharma	help
1123a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host.
1124a72232eaSVipin Sharma
1125a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system
1126a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller
1127a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process
1128a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  attached to a cgroup hierarchy.
1129a72232eaSVipin Sharma
1130a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  For more information, please check misc cgroup section in
1131a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst.
1132a72232eaSVipin Sharma
11336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
113423b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
113623b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
113923b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
114023b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
114123b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
114573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
114673b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
114773b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
114873b35147SArnd Bergmann
114923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1150c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
11518dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11526a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11532813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11546a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1155c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1156c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1157c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1158c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1159c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1160c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11618dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11628dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
116358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
116458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
116517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
116658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
116758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
116858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
116958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1170769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1171769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1172660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1173769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1174769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1175769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1176769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1177769071acSAndrei Vagin
1178ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1179ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11808dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
118117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1182ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1183ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1184614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1185ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1186aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
118719c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11885673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1189aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1190aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1191aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1192e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1193e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1194d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1195d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1196d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1197e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1198aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1199aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
120074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
12019bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
120217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
120374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
120412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1205692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
120674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
120774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1208d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1209d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
121117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1212d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1213d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1214d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1215d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12168dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12185cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
12195cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
12205cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
1221bfe3911aSChris Wilson	select KCMP
12225cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
12235cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
12245cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
12255cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
12265cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
12275cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
12285cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12295cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
12305cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12315091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12325091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12335091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12345091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12355091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12365091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12375091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12385091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12395091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12405091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12415091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12425091faa4SMike Galbraith
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12445d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12675d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12817af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
128326b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
13008c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1303f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1304f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1305f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1306f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1307f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1308c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1309c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1310dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1311dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1312c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1313c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
131476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
131576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
13162910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
131776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
131876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
131976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
13200947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
132185c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
13220947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
132376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
132476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
132576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1326877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1327877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
13282cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1329877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1330877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
133115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1332877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1333877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1334877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1335877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1336877417e6SArnd Bergmann
133715f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
133815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
133915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1340c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
134115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
134215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1343c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13445d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
134515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
1346c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1347ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1348ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1349c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1350877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1351877417e6SArnd Bergmann
13525d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
13545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
13565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
13575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
13585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
13595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
13605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
13615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13625d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
13645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
1366e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1367e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
13685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13698b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
13708b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
13718b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
13725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
13745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
13755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
13765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
13775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
13785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
13795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
138059612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN
138159612b24SNathan Chancellor	def_bool y
138259612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1383d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000
138459612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
138559612b24SNathan Chancellor
13860847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13870847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13880847062aSRandy Dunlap
1389657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1390657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1391657a5209SMike Frysinger
1392657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1393657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1394657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1395657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1396657a5209SMike Frysinger
1397657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1398657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1399657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1400657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1401657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1402657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1403657a5209SMike Frysinger
1404657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1405657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1406657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1407657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1408657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1409657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1410657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1411657a5209SMike Frysinger
1412657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1413657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1414657a5209SMike Frysinger
1415f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1416f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1417f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1418f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
14196a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
14206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1421f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1422f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1429ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
14306a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
14312813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1432ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1433ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1434ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1435ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14362813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
14372813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
14382813893fSIulia Manda	default y
14392813893fSIulia Manda	help
14402813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
14412813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
14422813893fSIulia Manda
14432813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
14442813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
14452813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
14462813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
14472813893fSIulia Manda
14482813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
14492813893fSIulia Manda
1450f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1451f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1452a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1453a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
1454f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1455f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1456f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1457f6187769SFabian Frederick
1458f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1459f6187769SFabian Frederick
14606af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
14616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
14626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
1463a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
14646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14696af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1481d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1482d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1483baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1484baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1485baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1486baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1487baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1488baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1489baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1490baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1491baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1492baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1493baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1494baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1495baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1496baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1497baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1498baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1499baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1500d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1501d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
15026a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
150374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1504d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1505d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1506d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1507d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1508d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1509d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1510d59745ceSMatt Mackall
151142a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
151242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
151342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
151442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
151542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1516c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
15176a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1518c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1519c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1520c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1521c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1522c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1523c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1524c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1525c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1526708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1527046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1528708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
15296a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1530708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1531708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1532708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15338761f1abSRalf Baechle
1534e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15356a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15368761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
153715f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1538e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1539e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1540e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1541e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1542e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15526a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1554bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1560bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1561bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1562bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1563bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1564bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
156503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
156603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
156762b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
156803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
156903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
157003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
157103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
157203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15746a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1580fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15816a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1582fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1583fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1584fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1585fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1586fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1587fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1588fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1589b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15906a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1591b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1592b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1593b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1594b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1595b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1596b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1597b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1598e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15996a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1600e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1601e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1602e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1603e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1604e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1605e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1606e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
16071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
16086a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1618ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
16196a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1620ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1621ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1622ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1623ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1624ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1625ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
16262b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
16272b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1628561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
16292b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
16302b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
16312b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
16322b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
16332b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
16342b188cc1SJens Axboe
1635d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1636d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1637d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1638d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1639d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1640d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1641d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1642d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1643d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1644d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
16455a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
16465a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
16475a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
16485a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
16495a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
16507677f7fdSAxel Rasmussenconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR
16517677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen	bool
16527677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen	help
16537677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen	  Arch has userfaultfd minor fault support
16547677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen
16555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1689d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1690d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1693d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1694d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1695d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1696d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1697d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1698d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1700a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1705d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1711d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1715d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1716d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1717d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1718fc611f47SKP Singh
1719fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM
1720fc611f47SKP Singh	bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
17214edf16b7SKP Singh	depends on BPF_EVENTS
1722fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1723fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on SECURITY
1724fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_JIT
1725fc611f47SKP Singh	help
1726fc611f47SKP Singh	  Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1727fc611f47SKP Singh	  implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1728fc611f47SKP Singh
1729fc611f47SKP Singh	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1730fc611f47SKP Singh
1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1734bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
17351e6c62a8SAlexei Starovoitov	select TASKS_TRACE_RCU
173648cac3f4SFlorent Revest	select BINARY_PRINTF
173788759609SCong Wang	select NET_SOCK_MSG if INET
1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1740d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1742d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
174381c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
174481c22041SDaniel Borkmann	bool
174581c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1746290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1747290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1748290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1749290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1750290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1751290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1752290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
175381c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
175481c22041SDaniel Borkmann	def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
175581c22041SDaniel Borkmann	depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
175681c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1757d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitovsource "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig"
1758d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitov
1759d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1760d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1761d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1762d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1763d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1764d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1765d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
17663ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
17673ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
17683ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
176970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
177070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
177170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1772bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP
1773bfe3911aSChris Wilson	bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT
1774bfe3911aSChris Wilson	help
1775bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides
1776bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they
1777bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual
1778bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  memory space.
1779bfe3911aSChris Wilson
1780bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  If unsure, say N.
1781bfe3911aSChris Wilson
1782d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1783d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1785d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1786d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1790d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1791d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1792d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1793d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1794d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1795d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1796d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1797d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1798d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1799d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1800d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1801d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1802d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1803d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1804d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
18056befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
18066befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
18076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
18086befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
18096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
18106befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
18116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
18126befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1813cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
18140793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1815018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1816018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
18170793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1818906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1819906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1820906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1821906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1822906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1823ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1824424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1825ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1826ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1827ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1828ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1829ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
183057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
18310793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1832cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
183357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1834392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1835cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1836e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
183783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
18380793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
183957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
184057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
18410793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1842dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
184357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
184457c0c15bSIngo Molnar
184557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
184657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
18470793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
18480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
18490793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
18510793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
18520793a61dSThomas Gleixner
185357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1854dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
185557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
18560793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
18570793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
18580793a61dSThomas Gleixner
18590793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
18600793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1861906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1862906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1863906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1864cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1866906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1867906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1868906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1869906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1870906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1871906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1872906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1873906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
18740793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
18750793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1876f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1877f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
18786a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1879f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
18802aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
18812aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
18826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
18832aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1884f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
188541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
188641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
18876a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1888f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
188941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
189041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
189141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
189241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
189341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
189441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1895b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1896b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1897b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1898b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1899b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1900b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1901b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1902692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1903b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1904b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1905b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1906b943c460SRandy Dunlap
190781819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
190881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1909a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
191081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
191181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
191281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
191381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
191481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
191504385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
191681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
191781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
191834013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
191902f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
192081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
192181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
192281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1923ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
192481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
192581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
192681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
192781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
192881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
192902f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
193002f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
193181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
193281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
19336a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
193481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
193581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
193637291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
193737291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
193837291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
193981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
194081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
194181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
19427660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
19437660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
19447660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
19457660a6fdSKees Cook	help
19467660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
19477660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
19487660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
19497660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
19507660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
19517660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
19527660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
19537660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
19547660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
19557660a6fdSKees Cook
1956c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
19573404be67SKees Cook	bool "Randomize slab freelist"
1958210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1959c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1960210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1961c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1962c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1963c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
19642482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
19652482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
19663404be67SKees Cook	depends on SLAB || SLUB
19672482ddecSKees Cook	help
19682482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
19692482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
197092bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
19713404be67SKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
19723404be67SKees Cook	  sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
19733404be67SKees Cook	  CONFIG_SLUB.
19742482ddecSKees Cook
1975e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1976e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1977e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1978e900a918SDan Williams	help
1979e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1980e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1981e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1982e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1983e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1984e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1985e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1986e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1987e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1988e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1989e900a918SDan Williams
1990e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1991e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1992e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1993e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1994e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1995e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1996e900a918SDan Williams
1997e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1998e900a918SDan Williams
1999345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
2000345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
2001b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
2002345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
2003345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
200492bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
2005345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
2006345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
2007345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
2008345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
2009345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
2010ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
2011ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
20126a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
2013ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
2014ea637639SJie Zhang	help
2015ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
20163903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
2017ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
2018ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
2019ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
2020ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
2021ea637639SJie Zhang
2022ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
2023ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
2024ea637639SJie Zhang
2025ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
2026ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
2027ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
2028ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
2029ea637639SJie Zhang
2030dd19d293SStephen Kitt	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
2031ea637639SJie Zhang
2032091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2033091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
2034091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
2035091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
2036091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
2037d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
2038091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
2039091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
2040091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
2041091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
2042091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
2043091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
204482c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
2045091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
2046091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
2047091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
2048091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
204982c04ff8SPeter Foley
2050125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
2051b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
2052125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
2053125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
2054f8408264SViresh Kumar	  by profilers.
2055125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
20565f87f112SIngo Molnar#
20575f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
20585f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
20595f87f112SIngo Molnar#
206097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
20615f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
206297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
20631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20651572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
20661572497cSChristoph Hellwig
2067ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
20686341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
2069ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
20701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2075c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2076c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	def_bool n
2077c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2078c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann
207966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
20801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
20816dd85ff1SMasahiro Yamada	modules
20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
20881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
20911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
20921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
20951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
20961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21000b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
21010b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
2102826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2103826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
2104826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
2105826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
210691e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
210791e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
210891e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
2109826e4506SLinus Torvalds
21101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
21121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
21141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
2115f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2116f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
21171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
21191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
212019c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
21211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
21231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
21241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
21251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
21261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
21271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
21290d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
21301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
21321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
21331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
21341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
21351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
21361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
21371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21382ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS
21392ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	bool
21402ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
21412ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	help
21422ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
21432ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
21442ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  supports it.
21452ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada
214656067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
214756067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
214856067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
214956067812SArd Biesheuvel
21501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
21511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
21521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
21541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
21551da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
21561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
21571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
21581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
21591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
21601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2161106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2162106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2163c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2164106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2165106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2166106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2167cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2168106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2169228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2170228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2171228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2172228c37ffSDavid Howells
217349fcf732SDavid Howells	  You should enable this option if you wish to use either
217449fcf732SDavid Howells	  CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
217549fcf732SDavid Howells	  another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
217649fcf732SDavid Howells	  of the lockdown policy.
217749fcf732SDavid Howells
2178ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2179ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2180ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2181ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2182ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2183106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2184106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2185106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2186106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2187106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2188106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2189ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2190d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2191d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2192d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
21930165f4caSNayna Jain	depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG
2194d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2195d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2196d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2197d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2198d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2199d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2200d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2201ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2202ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
22030165f4caSNayna Jain	depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG
2204ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2205ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2206ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2207ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2208ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2209ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2210ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2211ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2212ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2213ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2214ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2215ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2216ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2217ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2218ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2219ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2220ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2221ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2222ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2223ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2224ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2225ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2226ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2227ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2228ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2229ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2230ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2231ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2232ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
223322753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
223422753674SMichal Marek	string
22350165f4caSNayna Jain	depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG
223622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
223722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
223822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
223922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
224022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
224122753674SMichal Marek
2242beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2243d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	prompt "Module compression mode"
2244beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2245d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  This option allows you to choose the algorithm which will be used to
2246d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  compress modules when 'make modules_install' is run. (or, you can
2247d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  choose to not compress modules at all.)
2248beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2249d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  External modules will also be compressed in the same way during the
2250d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  installation.
2251d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada
2252d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  For modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient to
2253d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2254d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada
2255d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2256d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada
2257d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  Please note that the tool used to load modules needs to support the
2258d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  corresponding algorithm. module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod
2259c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski	  MAY support gzip, xz and zstd.
2260d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada
2261d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  Your build system needs to provide the appropriate compression tool
2262d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  to compress the modules.
2263d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada
2264d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  If in doubt, select 'None'.
2265d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada
2266d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamadaconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE
2267d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	bool "None"
2268d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	help
2269d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  Do not compress modules. The installed modules are suffixed
2270d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  with .ko.
2271beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2272beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2273beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2274d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	help
2275d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  Compress modules with GZIP. The installed modules are suffixed
2276d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  with .ko.gz.
2277beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2278beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2279beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2280d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	help
2281d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  Compress modules with XZ. The installed modules are suffixed
2282d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada	  with .ko.xz.
2283beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2284c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorskiconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD
2285c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski	bool "ZSTD"
2286c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski	help
2287c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski	  Compress modules with ZSTD. The installed modules are suffixed
2288c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski	  with .ko.zst.
2289beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2290beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2291beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
22923d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
22933d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
22943d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
22953d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
22963d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
22973d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
22983d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
22993d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
23003d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
23013d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
23023d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
23033d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
23043d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
230517652f42SRasmus Villemoesconfig MODPROBE_PATH
230617652f42SRasmus Villemoes	string "Path to modprobe binary"
230717652f42SRasmus Villemoes	default "/sbin/modprobe"
230817652f42SRasmus Villemoes	help
230917652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  When kernel code requests a module, it does so by calling
231017652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  the "modprobe" userspace utility. This option allows you to
231117652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  set the path where that binary is found. This can be changed
231217652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  at runtime via the sysctl file
231317652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. Setting this to the empty string
231417652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  removes the kernel's ability to request modules (but
231517652f42SRasmus Villemoes	  userspace can still load modules explicitly).
231617652f42SRasmus Villemoes
2317dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2318a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT
2319a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
2320dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2321dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2322dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2323dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2324dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2325dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2326dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2327dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2328dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2329dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2330dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2331f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2332dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
23331518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
23341518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
23351518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
23361518c633SQuentin Perret	help
23371518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
23381518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
23391518c633SQuentin Perret
23401518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
23411518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
23421518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
23431518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
23441518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
23451518c633SQuentin Perret
23460b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
23470b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
23486c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
23496c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
2350cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG
23516c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
235298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
235398a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
235498a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
23555f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
23565f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
235798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
235898a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2359692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
236098a79d6aSRusty Russell
23613a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2362e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2363e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2364e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2365e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
236616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
236716295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
236816295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
236916295becSSteffen Klassert
23704520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
23714520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
23724520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
23734520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
23744520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
23754520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
23764520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
23774520c6a4SDavid Howells
23786beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2379e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
23800ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
23810ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann	bool
23820ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann
2383e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2384e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
23851bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
23861bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
23877303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
23887303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
23897303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
23907303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
23917303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
23927303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
23931bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
23941bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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