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)" 92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 199553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION 209553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap int 219553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 229553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 26b744b43fSSami Tolvanenconfig LD_IS_LLD 27b744b43fSSami Tolvanen def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD) 28b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 29469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 32469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 331a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 341a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 351a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 36e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 37e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 38e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 39*587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 40*587f1701SNick Desaulniers depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 41*587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 42*587f1701SNick Desaulniers 435cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 442d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 455cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 46eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 47eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 48eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 49b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 50b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 5187c9366eSJohannes Berg depends on !UML 52b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 53e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 54e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 55e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 5610916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 571dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 581dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 62c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 63c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 66c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 67c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 68c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 69ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 81dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 82dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 874bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 884bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 89bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 904bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 914bb16672SJiri Slaby help 924bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 934bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 944bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 954bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 964bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 974bb16672SJiri Slaby 984bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 994bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1004bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1014bb16672SJiri Slaby 102d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 103d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 104fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 105d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 106d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 107d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 108d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 109d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 110d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 111d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 122aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 124aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 125ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 126aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 127aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1286e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1296e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 130aaebf433SRyan Anderson 131aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1326e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 133aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 135aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1366e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1376e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1386e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1396e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1406e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1416e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 142aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1439afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1449afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1459afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1469afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1479afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1489afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1499afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1509afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1519afb719eSLaura Abbott 1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1613ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1623ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1633ebe1243SLasse Collin 1647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 167e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 168e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 169e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 170f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 171f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 172f16466afSVasily Gorbik 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 176f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 19030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2070a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2160a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2170a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2180a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2203ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2213ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2223ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2233ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2243ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2253ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2263ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2273ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2283ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2293ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2303ebe1243SLasse Collin 2313ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2323ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2333ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2343ebe1243SLasse Collin 2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2377dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2387dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2390a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 240681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2417dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2427dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 243e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 244e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 245e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 246e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 247e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 248e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 249e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 250e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 251e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 252e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 253e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 254e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 255f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 256f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 257f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 258f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 259f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 260f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 261f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 262f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 263f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 264f16466afSVasily Gorbik 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 267ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 268ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 269ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 270ada4ab7aSChris Down help 271ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 272ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 273ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 274ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 275ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 276ada4ab7aSChris Down 277bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 278bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 279bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 280bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 281bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 282bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 283bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 284bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 285bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 28617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 28717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 28817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 28917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 29017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 29117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 29217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 29517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 318a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 319a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 320a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 321a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 322a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 323a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 32619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 332b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 340bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 341bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 342bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 343bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 344bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 345bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 346226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 347226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 348226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 349226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 350226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 351226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 352226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 353a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 354226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 355226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 35669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 35769369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 358b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 35969369a70SJosh Triplett help 36069369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 36169369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 36269369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 36369369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 36469369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 36569369a70SJosh Triplett 3661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 368804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 372cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 373cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3757a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3767a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3777a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 379cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3807a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 38128a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 38274c3cbe3SAl Viro 383d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 384764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 38587a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 386d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 389abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 390abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 39502fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 400c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 403fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 404fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 405fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 408abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 410c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 422abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 423ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 424554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 425041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 427abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 429abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 430abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 433abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 435abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 436abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 437abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 438abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 439abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 440b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 441b58c3584SRik van Riel 442fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 443fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 444b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 448fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 449fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 45311d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 45411d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 45511d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 45611d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 45711d4afd4SVincent Guittot 45876504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 45976504793SThara Gopinath bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure" 46076504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 46176504793SThara Gopinath 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4642813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4833903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 48919c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4912813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 50319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 505f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 51519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 52419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 532eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 533eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 534eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 535eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 536eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 537eb414681SJohannes Weiner 538eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 539eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 540eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 541eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 542eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5432ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5442ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5452ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5462ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 547c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 548eb414681SJohannes Weiner 549eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 550eb414681SJohannes Weiner 551e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 552e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 553e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 554e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 555e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 556e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 557428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 558428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 559e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5677b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5735c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5745c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 575414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5762c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5775c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5785c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5795c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5802c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5812c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5822c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5832c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5845c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5850af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 586c903ff83SMike Travis 587de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 588de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 589de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 590de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 592f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 610f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 611f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 612f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 61343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 614f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 615f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 616f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 617f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 61843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 619794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 620794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 621fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 622f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 623361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 624794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 62623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 62723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 630f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 631f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 632f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 633f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 634f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 635794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 636794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 637794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6402240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 644361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6635e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6645e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 66923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 67023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 67123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 67223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 67323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 674f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 675f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 676427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 677427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 678f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 679427934b8SPetr Mladek help 680f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 681f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 682f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 683f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 684f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 685427934b8SPetr Mladek 686f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 687427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 688427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 689427934b8SPetr Mladek 690427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 691427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 692427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 693427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 694427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 695427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 696427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 697427934b8SPetr Mladek 6985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 70438ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 70538ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 70638ff87f7SStephen Boyd 70769842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 70869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 71069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 71169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 71269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 75669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 75769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 75869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 75969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 760be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 761be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 762be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 763be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 764be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 765be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 766be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 767be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 76872b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 76972b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 77072b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 77172b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 77272b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 77372b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 77472b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 77572b252aeSMel Gorman bool 77672b252aeSMel Gorman 777c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 7783a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 779c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 78072b252aeSMel Gorman# 781be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 782be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 783be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 784be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 785be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 787be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8006d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8046f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8056f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8066f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8076f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8086f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8096f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8106f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8116f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 81223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8136341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8142bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 815ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 81623964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8175cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8185cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 820d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 821da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 82245ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 823ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 824ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 825ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 82623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 82723964d2dSLi Zefan 8283e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8293e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8303e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 831c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 832a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8333e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 83479bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 83500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 836a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 83700f0b825SBalbir Singh 838c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 8392d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 840c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 841a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 842c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 84384c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 84484c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 84584c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 84684c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 84784c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8486bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8512bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8562bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 861e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8657baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 868da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8706bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 874e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8757c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 876a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8777c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8787c941438SDhaval Giani help 8797c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8807c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8817c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8827c941438SDhaval Giani 8837c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8847c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8857c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8867c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8877c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8887c941438SDhaval Giani 889ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 890ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 891ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 892ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 893ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 894ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 895ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 896ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 897ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 898d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 899ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9007c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9017c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9027c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9037c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9047c941438SDhaval Giani help 9057c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 90632bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9077c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9087c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 909d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9107c941438SDhaval Giani 9117c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9127c941438SDhaval Giani 9132480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9142480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9152480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9162480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9172480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9182480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9192480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9202480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9212480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9222480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9232480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9242480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9252480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9262480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9272480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9282480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9292480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9302480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9312480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9322480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9332480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9342480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9446cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 94798076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 95139d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 95239d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 95339d3e758SParav Pandit help 95439d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 95539d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 95639d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 95739d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 95839d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 95939d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 96039d3e758SParav Pandit 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 967489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 968489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 969489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 970489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 971489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 976afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 987afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 990e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 996afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 998afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 100289e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 100389e9b9e0STejun Heo 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10226546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 10236546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 102730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 102830070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1029483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1030483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 103130070984SDaniel Mack help 103230070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 103330070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 103430070984SDaniel Mack 103530070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 103630070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 103730070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 103830070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 103930070984SDaniel Mack 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 104123b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 104323b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 104623b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 104723b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 104823b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 105273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 105373b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 105473b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 105573b35147SArnd Bergmann 105623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1057c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10588dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10602813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10616a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1062c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1063c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1064c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1065c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1066c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1067c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10698dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 107058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 107158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 107217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 107358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 107458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 107558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 107658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1077769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1078769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1079660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1080769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1081769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1082769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1083769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1084769071acSAndrei Vagin 1085ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1086ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10878dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 108817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1089ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1090ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1091614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1092ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1093aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 109419c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 10955673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1096aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1097aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1098aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1099e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1100e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1101d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1102d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1103d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1104e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1105aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1106aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 110774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11089bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 110917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 111074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 111112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1112692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 111374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 111474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1115d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1116d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 111817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1119d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1120d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1121d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1122d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11238dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11248dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11255cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11265cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11275cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11285cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11295cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11305cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11315cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11325cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11335cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11345cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11355cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11365cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11375091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11385091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11395091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11405091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11415091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11425091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11435091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11445091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11455091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11465091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11475091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11485091faa4SMike Galbraith 11497af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11505d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11735d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 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. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 118926b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1199f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1200f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1201f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1202f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1203f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1204f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1205f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12068c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1207f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1208f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1209f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1210f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1211f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1212f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1213f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1214c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1215c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1216dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1217dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1218c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1219c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 122076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 122176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12222910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 122376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 122476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 122576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 12260947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 122785c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 12280947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 122976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 123076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 123176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1232877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1233877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12342cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1235877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1236877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 123715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1238877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1239877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1240877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1241877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1242877417e6SArnd Bergmann 124315f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 124415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 124515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1246c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 124715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 124815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1249c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12505d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 125115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1252c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1253ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1254ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1255c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1256877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1257877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12585d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12685d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 127216fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1273e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1274e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12768b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12778b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12788b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12870847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12880847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12890847062aSRandy Dunlap 1290657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1291657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1292657a5209SMike Frysinger 1293657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1294657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1295657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1296657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1297657a5209SMike Frysinger 1298657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1299657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1300657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1301657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1302657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1303657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1304657a5209SMike Frysinger 1305657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1306657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1307657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1308657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1309657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1310657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1311657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1312657a5209SMike Frysinger 1313657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1314657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1315657a5209SMike Frysinger 1316f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1317f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1318f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1319f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13206a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13216a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1322f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1323f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1330ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13322813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1333ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1334ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1335ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1336ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13372813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13382813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13392813893fSIulia Manda default y 13402813893fSIulia Manda help 13412813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13422813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13432813893fSIulia Manda 13442813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13452813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13462813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13472813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13482813893fSIulia Manda 13492813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13502813893fSIulia Manda 1351f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1352f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1353a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1354f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1355f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1356f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1357f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1358f6187769SFabian Frederick 1359f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1360f6187769SFabian Frederick 13616af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13676af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13686af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13696af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13706af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1375d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1376d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1377d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1378d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1379d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1380d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1381d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1382d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1383d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1384baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1385baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1386baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1387baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1388baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1389baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1390baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1391baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1392baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1393baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1394baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1395baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1396baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1397baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1398baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1399baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1400baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1401d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1402d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 140474876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1405d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1406d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1407d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1408d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1409d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1410d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1411d59745ceSMatt Mackall 141242a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 141342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 141442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 141542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 141642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1417c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1419c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1420c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1421c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1422c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1423c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1424c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1425c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1426c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1427708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1428046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1429708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1431708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1432708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1433708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14348761f1abSRalf Baechle 1435e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14378761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 143815f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1439e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1440e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1441e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1442e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1443e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1455bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1461bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1462bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1463bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1464bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1465bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 146603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 146703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 146862b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 146903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 147003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 147103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 147203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 147303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1481fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1483fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1484fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1485fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1486fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1487fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1488fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1489fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1490b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1492b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1493b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1494b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1495b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1496b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1497b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1498b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1499e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1501e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1502e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1503e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1504e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1505e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1506e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1507e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1519ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1521ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1522ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1523ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1524ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1525ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1526ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15272b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15282b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1529561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15302b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15312b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15322b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15332b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15342b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15352b188cc1SJens Axboe 1536d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1537d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1538d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1539d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1540d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1541d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1542d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1543d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1544d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1545d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15465a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 15475a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 15485a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 15495a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 15505a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 15515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1564d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1565d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1566d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1567d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1596a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1614fc611f47SKP Singh 1615fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1616fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 16174edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1618fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1619fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1620fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1621fc611f47SKP Singh help 1622fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1623fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1624fc611f47SKP Singh 1625fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1626fc611f47SKP Singh 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1630bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1634d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1635d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 163681c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 163781c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 163881c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1639290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1640290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1641290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1642290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1643290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1644290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1645290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 164681c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 164781c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 164881c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 164981c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16573ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16583ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16593ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 166070216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 166170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 166270216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1663d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1664d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1665d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1666d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1667d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1668d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1669d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1670d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1671d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1672d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1673d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1674d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1675d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1676d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1677d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1678d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1679d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1680d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1681d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1682d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1683d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1684d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1685d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16866befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16885d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16926befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16936befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1695cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16960793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1697018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1698018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16990793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1700906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1701906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1702906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1703906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1704906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1705ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1706424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1707ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1708ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1709ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1710ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1711ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 171257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17130793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1714cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 171557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1716392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1717cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1718e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 171983fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17200793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 172157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 172257c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17230793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1724dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 172557c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 172657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 172757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 172857c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17290793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17300793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17310793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17320793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17330793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 173557c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1736dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 173757c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17380793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17390793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17410793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17420793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1743906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1744906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1745906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1746cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1747906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1748906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1749906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1750906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1751906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1752906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1753906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1754906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1755906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17560793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17570793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1758f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1759f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1761f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17622aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17632aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17646a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17652aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1766f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 176741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 176841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1770f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 177141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 177241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 177341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 177441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 177541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 177641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17771663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17781663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17791663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17801663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17811663f26dSTejun Heo help 17821663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17831663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17841663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17851663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17861663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17871663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17881663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17891663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17901663f26dSTejun Heo 1791b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1792b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1793b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1794b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1795b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1796b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1797b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1798692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1799b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1800b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1801b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1802b943c460SRandy Dunlap 180381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 180481819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1805a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 180681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 180781819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 180881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 180981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 181081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 181104385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 181281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181381819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 181434013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 181502f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 181681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1819ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 182081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 182181819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 182281819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 182381819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 182481819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 182502f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 182602f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 182781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 182881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18296a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 183081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 183181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 183237291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 183337291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 183437291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 183581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 183781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18387660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18397660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18407660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18417660a6fdSKees Cook help 18427660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18437660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18447660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18457660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18467660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18477660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18487660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18497660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18507660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18517660a6fdSKees Cook 1852c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1853c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1854210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1855c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1856c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1857210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1858c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1859c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1860c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18612482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18622482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18632482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18642482ddecSKees Cook help 18652482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18662482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 186792bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18682482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18692482ddecSKees Cook 1870e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1871e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1872e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1873e900a918SDan Williams help 1874e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1875e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1876e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1877e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1878e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1879e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1880e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1881e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1882e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1883e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1884e900a918SDan Williams 1885e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1886e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1887e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1888e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1889e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1890e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1891e900a918SDan Williams 1892e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1893e900a918SDan Williams 1894345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1895345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1896b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1897345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1898345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 189992bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1900345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1901345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1902345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1903345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1904345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1905ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1906ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19076a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1908ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1909ea637639SJie Zhang help 1910ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19113903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1912ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1913ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1914ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1915ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1916ea637639SJie Zhang 1917ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1918ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1919ea637639SJie Zhang 1920ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1921ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1922ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1923ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1924ea637639SJie Zhang 1925ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1926ea637639SJie Zhang 1927091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1928091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1929091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1930091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1931091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1932d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1933091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1934091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1935091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1936091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1937091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1938091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 193982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1940091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1941091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1942091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1943091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 194482c04ff8SPeter Foley 1945125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1946b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1947125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1948125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1949125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1950125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19515f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19525f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19535f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19545f87f112SIngo Molnar# 195597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19565f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 195797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19601572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19611572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1962ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19636341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1964ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1970c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1971c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1972c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1973c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 197466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 197611097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19950b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19960b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1997826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1998826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1999826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2000826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 200191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 200291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 200391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2004826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2010f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2011f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 201519c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20240d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20332ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20342ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20352ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20362ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20372ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20382ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20392ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20402ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 204156067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 204256067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 204356067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 204456067812SArd Biesheuvel 20451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2056106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2057106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2058c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2059106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2060106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2061106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2062cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2063106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2064228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2065228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2066228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2067228c37ffSDavid Howells 206849fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 206949fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 207049fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 207149fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 207249fcf732SDavid Howells 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2075ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2076ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2077ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2078106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2079106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2080106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2081106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2082106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2083106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2084ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2085d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2086d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2087d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2088d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2089d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2090d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2091d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2092d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2093d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2094d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2095d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2100ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2104ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2105ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2114ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2124ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2125ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2126ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2127ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 212822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 212922753674SMichal Marek string 213022753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 213122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 213222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 213322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 213422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 213522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 213622753674SMichal Marek 2137beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2138beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2139beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2140beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2141b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2142b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2143beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2144b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2145beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2146b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2147b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2148beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2149b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2150b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2151beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2152b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2153b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2154b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2155beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2157beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2158beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2159beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2160beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2163beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2164beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2166beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2168beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2169beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2170beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2171beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2172beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2173beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21743d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21753d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21763d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21773d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21783d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21793d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21803d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21813d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21823d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21833d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21843d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21853d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21863d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2187efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2188efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2189efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2190efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2191efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2192efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2193efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2194efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2195efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2196efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2197efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2198efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2199efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2200efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2201efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2202efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2203dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2204dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2205d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2206dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2207dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2208dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2209dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2210dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2211dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2212dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2213dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2214dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2215dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2216dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2217f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2218dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22191518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 22201518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 22211518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 22221518c633SQuentin Perret help 22231518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 22241518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 22251518c633SQuentin Perret 22261518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 22271518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 22281518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 22291518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 22301518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 22311518c633SQuentin Perret 22320b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22330b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22346c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22356c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 22366c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 22376c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 223898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 223998a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 224098a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22415f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22425f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 224398a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 224498a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2245692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 224698a79d6aSRusty Russell 22473a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2248e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2249e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2250e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2251e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 225216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 225316295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 225416295becSSteffen Klassert bool 225516295becSSteffen Klassert 22564520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22574520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22584520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22594520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22604520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22614520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22624520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22634520c6a4SDavid Howells 22646beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2265e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 22660ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 22670ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 22680ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2269e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2270e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22711bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22721bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22737303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22747303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22757303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22767303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22777303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22787303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22791bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22801bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2281