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 2395