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 632f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 662f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 69eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 741a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 759371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 76f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 77f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 781a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 79b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 80b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 81f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 82f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 83c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 84587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85587f1701SNick 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) 86587f1701SNick Desaulniers 871aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 881aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 891aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 90*534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 911aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 925cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 932d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 945cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 95eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 96eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 97eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 9851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 9951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 10051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 101613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 102613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 103613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 104613fe169SNathan Chancellor 105b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 106b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 107b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 108e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 109e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 110e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 11110916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1121dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1131dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 114c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 115c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 116c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 117c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 118c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 119c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 120c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 121c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 122c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 123c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 124ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 136dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 137dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 14034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1424bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1434bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 144ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1454bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1464bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1474bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1484bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1494bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1504bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1514bb16672SJiri Slaby 1524bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1534bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1544bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1554bb16672SJiri Slaby 1563fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1573fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 158b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1593fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1603fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1612f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 1622f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to enforce that rule by default. 1633fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1643fe617ccSLinus Torvalds However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and 1653fe617ccSLinus Torvalds unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1663fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1673fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1683fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1693fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1703fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 171d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 172d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 173fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 174d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 175d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 176d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 177d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 178d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 179d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 180d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 191aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 192aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 193aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 194ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 195aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 196aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 199aaebf433SRyan Anderson 200aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 202aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 204aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 2066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 211aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2129afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2139afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2149afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2159afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2169afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2179afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2189afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2199afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2209afb719eSLaura Abbott 2212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2303ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2313ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2323ebe1243SLasse Collin 2337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 23948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 24048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 24148f7ddf7SNick Terrell 242f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 243f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 244f16466afSVasily Gorbik 24530d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 24730d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 24848f7ddf7SNick 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 24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 25030d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 25430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 25530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 25730d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 25930d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26130d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 26330d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 26430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 26830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 27330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 27830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2790a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 28330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28430d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2880a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2890a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2900a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2923ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2933ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2943ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2953ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2963ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2973ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2983ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2993ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3003ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 3013ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 3023ebe1243SLasse Collin 3033ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3043ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3053ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3063ebe1243SLasse Collin 3077dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3107dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3110a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 312681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3137dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3147dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 315e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 316e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 317e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 318e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 319e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 320e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 321e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 322e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 323e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 324e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 325e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 326e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 32748f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 32848f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 32948f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 33048f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 33148f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 33248f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 33348f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 33448f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 33548f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 33648f7ddf7SNick Terrell 337f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 338f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 339f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 340f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 341f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 342f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 343f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 344f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 345f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 346f16466afSVasily Gorbik 34730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 34830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 349ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 350ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 351ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 352ada4ab7aSChris Down help 353ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 354ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 355ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 356ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 357ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 358ada4ab7aSChris Down 359bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 360bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 361bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 362bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 363bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 364bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 365bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 366bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 367bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 370a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 383a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 384a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 385a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 386a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 387a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 388a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3890cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 3900cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 3910cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 3920cbed0eeSGuo Ren 3931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 39519c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 396a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 401b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 409bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 410bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 411bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 412bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 413bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 414bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 415c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 416c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 417c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 418c73be61cSDavid Howells help 419c73be61cSDavid Howells 420c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 421c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 422c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 423c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 424c73be61cSDavid Howells 425c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 426c73be61cSDavid Howells 427226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 428226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 429226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 430226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 431226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 432226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 433226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 434a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 435226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 436226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 43769369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4387374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4397374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 44069369a70SJosh Triplett help 44169369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 44269369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 44369369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 44469369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 44569369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 44669369a70SJosh Triplett 4471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 449804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 453cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 454cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4567a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4577a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4587a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 460cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4617a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 46228a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 46374c3cbe3SAl Viro 464d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 465764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 466b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 46787a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 468d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 471abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 472abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 473abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 474fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 475fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 47602382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 477fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 478fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 479fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 480fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 481c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 482fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 483fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 484fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 485fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 486fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 487fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 488fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 491c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 502abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 503abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 50424a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 505554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 506041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 507abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 50824a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 510abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 511abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 515abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 516abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 517abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 518abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 519abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 520abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 521b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 522b58c3584SRik van Riel 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 524fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 525b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 527fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 530fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 531fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 532fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 533fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 53411d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 53511d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 53611d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 53711d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 53811d4afd4SVincent Guittot 53976504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 54098eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 541fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 542fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 54376504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 54498eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 54598eb401dSValentin Schneider help 54698eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 54798eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 54898eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 54998eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 55098eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 55198eb401dSValentin Schneider 55298eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 55398eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 55498eb401dSValentin Schneider 55598eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5567e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 55776504793SThara Gopinath 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5602813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5793903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 58519c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5872813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 59919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 601f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 61119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 62019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 622391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 628eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 629eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 630eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 631eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 632eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 633eb414681SJohannes Weiner 634eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 635eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 636eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 637eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 638eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6392ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6402ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6412ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6422ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 643c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 644eb414681SJohannes Weiner 645eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 646eb414681SJohannes Weiner 647e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 648e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 649e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 650e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 651e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 652e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 653428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 654428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 655e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6567b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6577b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 667391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 668391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6695c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6705c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 671414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6722c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6735c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6745c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6755c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6762c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6772c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6782c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6792c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6805c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6810af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 682c903ff83SMike Travis 683de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 684de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 685de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 686de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 688f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 689a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 702a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 706f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 707f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 708f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 70943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 710f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 711f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 712f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 713f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 71443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 715794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 716794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7171c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 718f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 719361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 720794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 72523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 726f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 727f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 728f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 729f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 730f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 731794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 732794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 733794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7362240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 740361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7530f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7595e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7605e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 770f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 771f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 772427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 773427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 774f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 775427934b8SPetr Mladek help 776f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 777f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 778f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 779f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 780f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 781427934b8SPetr Mladek 782f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 783427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 784427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 785427934b8SPetr Mladek 786427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 787427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 788427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 789427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 790427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 791427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 792427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 793427934b8SPetr Mladek 79433701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 79533701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 79633701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 79733701557SChris Down help 79833701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 79933701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 80033701557SChris Down 80133701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 80233701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 80333701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 80433701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 80533701557SChris Down 80633701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 80733701557SChris Down 8085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 81438ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 81538ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 81638ff87f7SStephen Boyd 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 874be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 877be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 87872b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 87972b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 88072b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 88172b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 88272b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 88372b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 88472b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 88572b252aeSMel Gorman bool 88672b252aeSMel Gorman 887c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8883a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 889c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 890dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 891dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 892158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 893dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 894dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 895f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable gcc-12 array-bounds globally. 896f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds# We may want to target only particular configurations some day. 897f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 898f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds def_bool y 899f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 900f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 901f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 902f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 130000 && GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 903f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 90472b252aeSMel Gorman# 905be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 906be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 907be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 908be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 909be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 912be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 913be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 914be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 915be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 916be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 917be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 920554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9246d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 926be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9286f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9296f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9306f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9316f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9326f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9336f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9346f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9356f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 93623964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9376341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9382bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 939ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 94023964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 944d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 945da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 94645ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 947ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 948ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 949ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 95023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 95123964d2dSLi Zefan 9523e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9533e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9543e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9556a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9566a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9576a010a49STejun Heo help 9586a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9596a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9606a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9616a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9626a010a49STejun Heo 9636a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9646a010a49STejun Heo 965c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 966a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9673e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 96879bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 96900f0b825SBalbir Singh help 970a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 97100f0b825SBalbir Singh 97284c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 97384c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 97484c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 97584c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 97684c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9802bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 981a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9852bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 990e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9947baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 997da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1003e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10047c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1005a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10067c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10077c941438SDhaval Giani help 10087c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10097c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10107c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10117c941438SDhaval Giani 10127c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10137c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10147c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10157c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10167c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10177c941438SDhaval Giani 1018ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1019ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1020ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1021ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1022ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1023ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1024ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1025ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1026ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1027d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1028ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10297c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10307c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10317c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10327c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10337c941438SDhaval Giani help 10347c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 103532bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10367c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10377c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1038d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10397c941438SDhaval Giani 10407c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10417c941438SDhaval Giani 10422480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10432480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10442480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10452480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10462480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10472480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10482480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10492480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10502480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10512480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10522480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10532480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10542480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10552480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10562480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10572480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10582480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10592480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10602480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10612480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10622480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10632480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10736cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 107698076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 108039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 108139d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 108239d3e758SParav Pandit help 108339d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 108439d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 108539d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 108639d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 108739d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 108839d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 108939d3e758SParav Pandit 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1096489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1097489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1098489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1099489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1100489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1105afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1116afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1119e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1125afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1127afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 113189e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 113289e9b9e0STejun Heo 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11516546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11526546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 115630070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 115730070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1158483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1159483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 116030070984SDaniel Mack help 116130070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 116230070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 116330070984SDaniel Mack 116430070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 116530070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 116630070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 116730070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 116830070984SDaniel Mack 1169a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1170a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1171a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1172a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1173a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1174a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1175a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1176a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1177a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1178a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1179a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1180a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1181a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1182a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11836bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 118423b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 118623b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 118923b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 119023b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 119123b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 119573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 119673b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 119773b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 119873b35147SArnd Bergmann 119923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1200c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 12018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 12026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 12032813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 12046a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1205c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1206c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1207c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1208c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1209c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1210c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 12118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 12128dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 121358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 121458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 121517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 121658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 121758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 121858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 121958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1220769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1221769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1222660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1223769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1224769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1225769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1226769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1227769071acSAndrei Vagin 1228ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1229ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12308dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 123117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1232ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1233ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1234614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1235ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1236aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 123719c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12385673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1239aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1240aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1241aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1242e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1243e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1244d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1245d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1246d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1247e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1248aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1249aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 125074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12519bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 125217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 125374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 125412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1255692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 125674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 125774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1258d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1259d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12608dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 126117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1262d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1263d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1264d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1265d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12668dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12685cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12695cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 127030341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 12715cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1272bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12735cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12745cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12755cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12765cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12775cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12785cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12795cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12805cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12815cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12825091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12835091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12845091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12855091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12865091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12875091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12885091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12895091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12905091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12915091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12925091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12935091faa4SMike Galbraith 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12955d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 13047af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 13057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13067af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 13077af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 13087af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 13097af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13107af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 13117af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 13127af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 13137af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13147af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13157af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 13167af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13177af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 13185d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 13197af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 13207af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 13217af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 13227af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13237af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 13247af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13257af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 13267af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 13277af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13287af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13297af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 13307af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 13317af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13327af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13337af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 133426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13357af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13367af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13377af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13387af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13397af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13407af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13417af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13427af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13437af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1344f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1345f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1346f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1347f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1348f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1349f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1350f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13518c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1352f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1353f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1354f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1355f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1356f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1357f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1358f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1359c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1360c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1361dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1362dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1363c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1364c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 136576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 136676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1367a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 136876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 136976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 137076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13710947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 137285c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13730947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 137476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 137576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 137676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1377a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1378a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1379a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1380a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1381a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1382a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1383a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1384a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1385a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1386a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1387a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1388a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1389a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1390a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1391a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1392a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1393a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1394a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1395a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 13961274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 13971274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 13981274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 13991274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14001274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14011274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14021274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14031274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14041274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14051274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1406877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1407877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14082cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1409877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1410877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 141115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1412877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1413877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1414877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1415877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1416877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1417c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 141815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1419c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1420ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1421ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1422c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1423877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1424877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14255d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14355d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1439e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1440e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14428b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14438b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14448b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 145359612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 145459612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 145559612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 145659612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 145759612b24SNathan Chancellor 14580847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14590847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14600847062aSRandy Dunlap 1461657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1462657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1463657a5209SMike Frysinger 1464657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1465657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1466657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1467657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1468657a5209SMike Frysinger 1469657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1470657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1471657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1472657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1473657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1474657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1475657a5209SMike Frysinger 1476657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1477657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1478657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1479657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1480657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1481657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1482657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1483657a5209SMike Frysinger 1484657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1485657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1486657a5209SMike Frysinger 1487f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1488f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1489f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1490ec8f7f48SEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1491f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14926a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1494f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1495f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1502ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 15042813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1505ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1506ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1507ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1508ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 15092813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 15102813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 15112813893fSIulia Manda default y 15122813893fSIulia Manda help 15132813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 15142813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15152813893fSIulia Manda 15162813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15172813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15182813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15192813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15202813893fSIulia Manda 15212813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15222813893fSIulia Manda 1523f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1524f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1525a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1526a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1527f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1528f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1529f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1530f6187769SFabian Frederick 1531f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1532f6187769SFabian Frederick 15336af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15346af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15356af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1536a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15386af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15396af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15406af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1543d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1544d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1545d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1551d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1552d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1553d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1554d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1555d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1556baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1557baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1558baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1559baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1560baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1561baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1562baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1563baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1564baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1565baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1566baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1567baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1568baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1569baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1570baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1571baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1572baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1573d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1574d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 157674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1577d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1578d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1579d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1580d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1581d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1582d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1583d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1584c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1586c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1587c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1588c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1589c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1590c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1591c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1592c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1593c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1594708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1595046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1596708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1598708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1599708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1600708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16018761f1abSRalf Baechle 1602e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16048761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 160515f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1606e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1607e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1608e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1609e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1610e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 16111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16213f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1623bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1629bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1630bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1631bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1632bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1633bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1641fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1643fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1644fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1645fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1646fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1647fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1648fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1649fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1650b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1652b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1653b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1654b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1655b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1656b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1657b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1658b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1659e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1661e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1662e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1663e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1664e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1665e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1666e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1667e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1679ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1681ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1682ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1683ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1684ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1685ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1686ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16872b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16882b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1689561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16902b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16912b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16922b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16932b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16942b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16952b188cc1SJens Axboe 1696d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1697d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1698d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1699d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1700d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1701d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1702d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1703d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1704d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1705d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 17065b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 17075b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 17085b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 17095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 17105b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 17115b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 17125b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 17135b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 17145b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17155b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17165b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17175b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1720d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1721d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1722d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1724d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1725d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1726d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1727d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1729d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1732bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1733bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1734bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1735bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1736d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1740d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1742bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1743d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1744d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1745d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1746d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1747d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1748d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1749d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1750d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1751d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1752a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1753d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1754d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1755d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1756d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1757d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1758d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1759d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1760d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1761d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1762d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1763d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1764d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1765d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1766d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1767d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1768d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1769d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1770fc611f47SKP Singh 17713ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17723ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17733ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 177470216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 177570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 177670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1777bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP 1778bfe3911aSChris Wilson bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1779bfe3911aSChris Wilson help 1780bfe3911aSChris Wilson Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1781bfe3911aSChris Wilson user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1782bfe3911aSChris Wilson share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1783bfe3911aSChris Wilson memory space. 1784bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1785bfe3911aSChris Wilson If unsure, say N. 1786bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1790d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1791d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1792d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1793d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1794d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1795d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1796d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1797d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1798d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1799d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1800d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1801d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1802d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1803d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1804d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1805d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1806d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1807d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1808d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1809d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 18106befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 18116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 18126befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 18136befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 18146befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 18156befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 18166befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 18176befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1818cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18190793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1820018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1821018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18220793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18232aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18242aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18252aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18262aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1827906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1828906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1829906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1830906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1831906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1832ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1833424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1834ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1835ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1836ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1837ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1838ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 183957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1841cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 184257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1843392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1844cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1845e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 184683fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 18470793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 184857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 184957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1851dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 185257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 185357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 185457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 185557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18560793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18570793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18580793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18590793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18600793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18610793a61dSThomas Gleixner 186257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1863dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 186457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18650793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18660793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18670793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18680793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1870906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1871906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1872906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1873cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1874906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1875906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1876906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1877906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1878906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1879906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1880906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1881906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1882906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18830793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18840793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1885091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1886091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1887091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1888091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1889091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1890d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1891091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1892091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1893091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1894091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1895091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1896091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 189782c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1898091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1899091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1900091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1901091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 190282c04ff8SPeter Foley 1903125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1904b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1905125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1906125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1907f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1908125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19092f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 19102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 19112f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 19122f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 19132f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 19142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 19152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 19162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF 19172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda select CONSTRUCTORS 19182f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19192f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19212f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19232f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19242f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19252f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19262f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19272f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19282f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19292f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19302f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19312f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19322f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19332f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19342f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,command -v $(RUSTC) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(RUSTC) --version || echo n) 19352f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19362f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19372f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19382f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19392f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,command -v $(BINDGEN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(BINDGEN) --version || echo n) 19402f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19415f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19425f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19435f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19445f87f112SIngo Molnar# 194597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19465f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 194797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19501572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19511572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1952ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19536341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19541c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1955ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1961c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1962c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1963c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1964c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 196573b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 19666c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 196798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 196898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 196998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19705f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19715f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 197298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 197398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1974692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 197598a79d6aSRusty Russell 19763a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1977e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1978e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1979e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1980e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 198116295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 198216295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 198316295becSSteffen Klassert bool 198416295becSSteffen Klassert 19854520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19864520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19874520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19884520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19894520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19904520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19914520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19924520c6a4SDavid Howells 19936beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1994e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 19950ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 19960ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 19970ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 1998e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1999e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20001bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20011bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20027303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20037303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20047303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20057303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20067303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20077303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20081bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20091bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2010