1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 11face4374SRoman Zippel 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 271a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 281a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 291a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 30e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 31e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 32e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 335cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 342d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 355cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 36eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 37eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 38eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized) 41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC >= 4.7 supports this option. 43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada bool 46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9 48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 49b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition. 50b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases. 51b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 52b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed 53b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings. 54b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 55b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 56b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 57b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 58e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 59e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 60e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 611dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 621dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 631dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 66c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 67c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 68c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 69c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 70c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 71c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 72c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 73c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 74ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 86dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 87dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 9034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 924bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 934bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 94bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 954bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 964bb16672SJiri Slaby help 974bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 984bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 994bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1004bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1014bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1024bb16672SJiri Slaby 1034bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1044bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1054bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1064bb16672SJiri Slaby 107e846f0dcSJani Nikulaconfig HEADER_TEST 108e846f0dcSJani Nikula bool "Compile test headers that should be standalone compilable" 109e846f0dcSJani Nikula help 110e846f0dcSJani Nikula Compile test headers listed in header-test-y target to ensure they are 111e846f0dcSJani Nikula self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 112e846f0dcSJani Nikula 113e846f0dcSJani Nikula If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested 114e846f0dcSJani Nikula headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 115e846f0dcSJani Nikula 11643c78d88SMasahiro Yamadaconfig KERNEL_HEADER_TEST 11743c78d88SMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test kernel headers" 11843c78d88SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADER_TEST 11943c78d88SMasahiro Yamada help 12043c78d88SMasahiro Yamada Headers in include/ are used to build external moduls. 12143c78d88SMasahiro Yamada Compile test them to ensure they are self-contained, i.e. 12243c78d88SMasahiro Yamada compilable as standalone units. 12343c78d88SMasahiro Yamada 12443c78d88SMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the headers 12543c78d88SMasahiro Yamada in include/ are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 12643c78d88SMasahiro Yamada 127d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 128d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 129d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADER_TEST && HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 131d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 132d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 133d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 134d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 136d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 147aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 148aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 149aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 150ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 151aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 152aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1546e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 155aaebf433SRyan Anderson 156aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 158aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1596e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 160aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1626e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1636e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1656e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1666e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 167aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1689afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1699afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1709afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1719afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1729afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1739afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1749afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1759afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1769afb719eSLaura Abbott 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1863ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin 1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 195f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 196f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 197f16466afSVasily Gorbik 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 201f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2320a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2342e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2352e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 23730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 24030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2410a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2420a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2430a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2453ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2463ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2473ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2483ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2493ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2503ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2513ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2523ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2533ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2543ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2553ebe1243SLasse Collin 2563ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2573ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2583ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2593ebe1243SLasse Collin 2607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 265681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 268e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 269e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 270e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 271e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 272e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 275e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 276e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 280f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 281f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 282f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 283f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 284f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 285f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 286f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 287f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 288f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 289f16466afSVasily Gorbik 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 292bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 293bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 294bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 295bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 296bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 297bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 298bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 299bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 300bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 30117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 30217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 30317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 30417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 30517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 30617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 30717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 31017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 333a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 334a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 335a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 336a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 337a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 338a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 34119c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 347b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 355bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 356bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 357bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 358bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 359bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 360bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 361226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 362226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 363226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 364226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 365226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 366226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 367226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 368a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 369226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 370226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 37169369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 37269369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 373b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 37469369a70SJosh Triplett help 37569369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 37669369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 37769369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 37869369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 37969369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 38069369a70SJosh Triplett 3811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 383804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 387cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 388cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3907a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3917a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3927a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 394cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3957a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 39628a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 39774c3cbe3SAl Viro 398d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 399764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 40087a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 401d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 41002fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 415c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 418fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 419fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 420fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 421fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 422fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 423abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 425c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 436abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 437abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 438ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 439554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 440041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 441abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 442abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 443abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 444abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 445abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 446abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 448abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 450abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 451abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 452abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 453abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 454abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 455b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 456b58c3584SRik van Riel 457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 459b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 466fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 467fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 46811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 46911d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 47011d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 47111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 47211d4afd4SVincent Guittot 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4752813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4943903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 50019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5022813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 51419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 516f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 52619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 53519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 543eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 544eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 545eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 546eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 547eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 548eb414681SJohannes Weiner 549eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 550eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 551eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 552eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 553eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5542ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5552ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5562ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5572ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 558c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 559eb414681SJohannes Weiner 560eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 561eb414681SJohannes Weiner 562e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 563e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 564e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 565e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 566e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 567e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 568428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 569428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 570e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5737b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5747b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5757b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5767b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5777b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5787b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5797b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5807b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5817b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5845c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5855c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 586414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5872c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5885c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5895c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5905c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5912c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5922c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5932c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5942c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5955c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5960af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 597c903ff83SMike Travis 598de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 599de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 600de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 601de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 603f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 621f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 622f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 623f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 62443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 625f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 626f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 627f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 628f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 62943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 630794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 631794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 632fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 633f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 634361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 635794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 641f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 642f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 643f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 644f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 645f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 646794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 647794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 648794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6512240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 655361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 66923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 67023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 67123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 67223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 67323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6745e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6755e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 67623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 67723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 67823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 67923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 68023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 68123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 68223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 68323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 68423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 685f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 686f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 687427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 688427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 689f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 690427934b8SPetr Mladek help 691f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 692f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 693f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 694f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 695f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 696427934b8SPetr Mladek 697f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 698427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 699427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 700427934b8SPetr Mladek 701427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 702427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 703427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 704427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 705427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 706427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 707427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 708427934b8SPetr Mladek 7095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 71538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 71638ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 71738ff87f7SStephen Boyd 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 75669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 75769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 75869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 75969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 76169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 76269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 76369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 76469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 76569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 76669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 76869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 77069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 774be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 776be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 778be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 77972b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 78072b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 78172b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 78272b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 78372b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 78472b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 78572b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 78672b252aeSMel Gorman bool 78772b252aeSMel Gorman 78872b252aeSMel Gorman# 789be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 790be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 791be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 792be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 793be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 804be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 805be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 806be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 807be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8086d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 809be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 810be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 811be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8126f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8136f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8146f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 82023964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8216341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8222bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 823ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 82423964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 828d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 829da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 83045ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 831ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 832ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 833ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 83423964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 83523964d2dSLi Zefan 8363e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8373e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8383e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 839c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 840a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8413e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 84279bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 84300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 844a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 84500f0b825SBalbir Singh 846c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 847a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 848c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 849c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 850a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 851a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 852c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 853a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 854c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 855a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 856a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 857a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 858a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 85943d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 86007555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 861a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 862a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 863a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 86400a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 865c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 86684c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 86784c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 86884c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 86984c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 87084c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8742bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8792bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 884e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 891da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8936bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 897e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8987c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 899a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9007c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9017c941438SDhaval Giani help 9027c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9037c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9047c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9057c941438SDhaval Giani 9067c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9077c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9087c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9097c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9107c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9117c941438SDhaval Giani 912ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 913ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 914ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 915ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 916ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 917ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 918ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 919ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 920ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 921d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 922ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9237c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9247c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9257c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9267c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9277c941438SDhaval Giani help 9287c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 92932bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9307c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9317c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 932d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9337c941438SDhaval Giani 9347c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9357c941438SDhaval Giani 9362480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9372480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9382480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9392480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9402480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9412480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9422480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9432480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9442480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9452480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9462480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9472480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9482480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9492480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9502480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9512480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9522480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9532480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9542480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9552480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9562480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9572480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9676cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 97098076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 97439d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 97539d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 97639d3e758SParav Pandit help 97739d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 97839d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 97939d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 98039d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 98139d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 98239d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 98339d3e758SParav Pandit 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 990489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 991489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 992489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 993489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 994489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 999afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1010afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1013e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1019afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1021afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 102589e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 102689e9b9e0STejun Heo 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 104930070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 105030070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1051483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1052483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 105330070984SDaniel Mack help 105430070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 105530070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 105630070984SDaniel Mack 105730070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 105830070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 105930070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 106030070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 106130070984SDaniel Mack 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 106323b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 106523b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 106823b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 106923b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 107023b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 107473b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 107573b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 107673b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 107773b35147SArnd Bergmann 107823964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1079c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10808dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10822813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10836a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1084c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1085c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1086c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1087c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1088c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1089c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10908dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 109258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 109358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 109417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 109558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 109658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 109758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 109858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1099ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1100ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 110217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1103ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1104ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1105614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1106ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1107aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 110819c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11095673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1110aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1111aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1112aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1113e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1114e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1115d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1116d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1117d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1118e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1119aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1120aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 112174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11229bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 112317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 112474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 112512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1126692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 112774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 112874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1129d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1130d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11318dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 113217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1133d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1134d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1135d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1136d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11378dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11388dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11395cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11405cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11415cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11425cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11435cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11445cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11455cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11465cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11475cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11485cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11495cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11505cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11515091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11525091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11535091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11545091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11555091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11565091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11575091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11585091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11595091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11605091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11615091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11625091faa4SMike Galbraith 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11645d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11875d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 120326b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12117af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1213f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1214f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1215f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1216f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1219f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12208c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1221f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1222f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1223f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1224f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1225f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1226f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1227f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1228c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1229c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1230dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1231dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1232c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1233c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1234877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1235877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12362cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1237877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1238877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 123915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1240877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1241877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1242877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1243877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1244877417e6SArnd Bergmann 124515f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 124615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 124715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1248b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 1249c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 125015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 125115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1252c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12535d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 125415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 12555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 12565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 1257ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1258ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1259c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1260877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1261877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12625d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12725d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 127616fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1277e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1278e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12808b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12818b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12828b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12910847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12920847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12930847062aSRandy Dunlap 1294657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1295657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1296657a5209SMike Frysinger 1297657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1298657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1299657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1300657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1301657a5209SMike Frysinger 1302657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1303657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1304657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1305657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1306657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1307657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1308657a5209SMike Frysinger 1309657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1310657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1311657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1312657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1313657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1314657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1315657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1316657a5209SMike Frysinger 1317657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1318657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1319657a5209SMike Frysinger 1320f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1321f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1322f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1323f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13246a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1326f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1327f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1334ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13362813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1337ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1338ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1339ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1340ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13412813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13422813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13432813893fSIulia Manda default y 13442813893fSIulia Manda help 13452813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13462813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13472813893fSIulia Manda 13482813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13492813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13502813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13512813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13522813893fSIulia Manda 13532813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13542813893fSIulia Manda 1355f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1356f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1357a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1358f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1359f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1360f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1361f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1362f6187769SFabian Frederick 1363f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1364f6187769SFabian Frederick 13656af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13696af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13706af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13716af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13736af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13746af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1375b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 137726a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1378c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1379b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1380b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 138113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 138213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 138313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 138413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1385b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 138613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 138713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 138813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1389b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1390c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1391ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1394d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1395d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1396d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1397d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1398d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1399d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1400d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1401d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1402d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1403d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1404d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1405baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1406baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1407baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1408baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1409baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1410baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1411baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1412baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1413baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1414baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1415baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1416baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1417baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1418baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1419baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1420baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1421baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1422d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1423d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 142574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1426d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1427d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1428d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1429d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1430d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1431d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1432d59745ceSMatt Mackall 143342a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 143442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 143542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 143642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 143742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1438c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1440c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1441c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1442c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1443c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1444c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1445c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1446c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1447c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1448708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1449046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1450708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1452708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1453708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1454708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14558761f1abSRalf Baechle 1456e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14588761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 145915f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1460e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1461e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1462e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1463e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1464e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1476bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1482bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1483bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1484bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1485bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1486bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 148703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 148803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 148962b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 149003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 149103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 149203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 149303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 149403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1502fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1504fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1505fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1506fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1507fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1508fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1509fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1510fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1511b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1513b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1514b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1515b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1516b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1517b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1518b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1519b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1520e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15216a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1522e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1523e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1524e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1525e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1526e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1527e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1528e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1540ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1542ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1543ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1544ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1545ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1546ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1547ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15482b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15492b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 15502b188cc1SJens Axboe select ANON_INODES 1551*561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15522b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15532b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15542b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15552b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15562b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15572b188cc1SJens Axboe 1558d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1559d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1560d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1561d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1562d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1563d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1564d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1565d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1566d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1567d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15685b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15695b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15705b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15725b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15735b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15745b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1613a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1634bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1635d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1636d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1640290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1641290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1642290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1643290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1644290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1645290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1646290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16543ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16553ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16563ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 165770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 165870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 165970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1660d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1661d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1662d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1663d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1664d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1665d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1666d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1667d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1668d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1669d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1670d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1671d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1672d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1673d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1674d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1675d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1676d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1677d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1678d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1679d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1680d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1681d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1682d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16836befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16846befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16855d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1692cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16930793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1694018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1695018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16960793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1697906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1698906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1699906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1700906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1701906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1702ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1703424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1704ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1705ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1706ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1707ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1708ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 170957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17100793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1711cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 171257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1713392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1714cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1715e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 171683fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17170793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 171857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 171957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17200793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1721dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 172257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 172357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 172457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 172557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17260793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17270793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17280793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17290793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17300793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17310793a61dSThomas Gleixner 173257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1733dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 173457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17350793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17360793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17370793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17380793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1740906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1741906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1742906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1743cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1744906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1745906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1746906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1747906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1748906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1749906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1750906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1751906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1752906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17530793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1755f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1756f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1758f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17592aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17602aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17616a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17622aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1763f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 176441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 176541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17666a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1767f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 176841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 176941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 177041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 177141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 177241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 177341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17741663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17751663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17761663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17771663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17781663f26dSTejun Heo help 17791663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17801663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17811663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17821663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17831663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17841663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17851663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17861663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17871663f26dSTejun Heo 1788b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1789b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1790b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1791b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1792b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1793b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1794b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1795692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1796b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1797b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1798b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1799b943c460SRandy Dunlap 180081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 180181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1802a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 180381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 180481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 180581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 180681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 180781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 180804385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 180981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 181134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 181202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 181381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 181581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1816ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 181781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 181981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 182081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 182181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 182202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 182302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 182481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 182581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18266a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 182781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 182881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 182937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 183037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 183137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 183281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 183481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18357660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18367660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18377660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18387660a6fdSKees Cook help 18397660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18407660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18417660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18427660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18437660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18447660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18457660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18467660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18477660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18487660a6fdSKees Cook 1849c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1850c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1851210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1852c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1853c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1854210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1855c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1856c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1857c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18582482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18592482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18602482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18612482ddecSKees Cook help 18622482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18632482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 186492bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18652482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18662482ddecSKees Cook 1867e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1868e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1869e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1870e900a918SDan Williams help 1871e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1872e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1873e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1874e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1875e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1876e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1877e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1878e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1879e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1880e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1881e900a918SDan Williams 1882e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1883e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1884e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1885e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1886e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1887e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1888e900a918SDan Williams 1889e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1890e900a918SDan Williams 1891345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1892345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1893b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1894345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1895345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 189692bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1897345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1898345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1899345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1900345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1901345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1902ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1903ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19046a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1905ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1906ea637639SJie Zhang help 1907ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19083903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1909ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1910ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1911ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1912ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1913ea637639SJie Zhang 1914ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1915ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1916ea637639SJie Zhang 1917ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1918ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1919ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1920ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1921ea637639SJie Zhang 1922ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1923ea637639SJie Zhang 1924091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1925091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1926091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1927091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1928091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1929d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1930091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1931091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1932091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1933091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1934091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1935091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 193682c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1937091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1938091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1939091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1940091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 194182c04ff8SPeter Foley 1942125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1943b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1944125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1945125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1946125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1947125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19485f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19495f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19505f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19515f87f112SIngo Molnar# 195297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19535f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 195497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19571572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19581572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1959ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19606341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1961ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1967c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1968c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1969c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1970c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 197166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 197311097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19920b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19930b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1994826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1995826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1996826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1997826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 199891e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 199991e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 200091e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2001826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2007f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2008f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 201219c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20210d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20302ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20312ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20322ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20332ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20342ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20352ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20362ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20372ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 203856067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 203956067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 204056067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 204156067812SArd Biesheuvel 20421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2053106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2054106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2055c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2056106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2057106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2058106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2059cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2060106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2061228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2062228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2063228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2064228c37ffSDavid Howells 206549fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 206649fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 206749fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 206849fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 206949fcf732SDavid Howells 2070ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2071ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2075106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2076106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2077106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2078106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2079106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2080106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2081ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2082d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2083d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2084d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2085d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2086d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2087d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2088d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2089d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2090d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2091d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2092d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2093ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2100ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2104ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2105ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2114ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2124ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 212522753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 212622753674SMichal Marek string 212722753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 212822753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 212922753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 213022753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 213122753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 213222753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 213322753674SMichal Marek 2134beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2135beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2136beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2137beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2138b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2139b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2140beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2141b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2142beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2143b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2144b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2145beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2146b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2147b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2148beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2149b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2150b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2151b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2152beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2153beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2154beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2155beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2157beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2158beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2159beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2160beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2163beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2164beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2166beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2168beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2169beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2170beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21713d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21723d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21733d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21743d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21753d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21763d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21773d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21783d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21793d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21803d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21813d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21823d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21833d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2184efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2185efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2186efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2187efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2188efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2189efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2190efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2191efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2192efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2193efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2194efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2195efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2196efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2197efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2198efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2199efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2200dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2201dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2202d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2203dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2204dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2205dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2206dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2207dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2208dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2209dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2210dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2211dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2212dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2213dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2214f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2215dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22160b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22170b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22186c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22196c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 22206c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 22216c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 222298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 222398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 222498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22255f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22265f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 222798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 222898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2229692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 223098a79d6aSRusty Russell 22313a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2232e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2233e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2234e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2235e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 223616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 223716295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 223816295becSSteffen Klassert bool 223916295becSSteffen Klassert 22404520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22414520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22424520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22434520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22444520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22454520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22464520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22474520c6a4SDavid Howells 22486beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2249e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2250e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2251e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22521bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22531bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22547303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22557303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22567303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22577303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22587303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22597303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22601bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22611bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2262