180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 30c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 31c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 32c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 33c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 34c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 35c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 36c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 37c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 38c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 39ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 51dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 52dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 5534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 5984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 6084336466SRoland McGrath help 6184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 6284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 6384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 6484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 6584336466SRoland McGrath 664bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 674bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 68bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 694bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 704bb16672SJiri Slaby help 714bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 724bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 734bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 744bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 754bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 764bb16672SJiri Slaby 774bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 784bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 794bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 804bb16672SJiri Slaby 811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 91aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 94ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 95aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 104aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1213ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1223ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1233ebe1243SLasse Collin 1247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 127e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 128e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 129e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1332d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1730a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1773ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1803ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1813ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin 1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1947dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1960a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 197681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 203e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 204e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 205e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 206e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 207e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 208e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 209e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 215bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 216bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 217bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 218bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 219bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 220bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 221bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 222bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2259361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 248a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 249a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 250a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 251a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 252a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 253a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 25619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 262b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 270bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 271bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 272bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 273bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 274bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 275bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 276226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 277226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 278226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 279226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 280226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 281226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 282226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 283a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 284226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 285226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 286990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 287f76be617SAndi Kleen bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 288990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 289f76be617SAndi Kleen default y 290990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 291990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 292990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 29969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 30069369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 301b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 30269369a70SJosh Triplett help 30369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 30469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 30569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 30669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 30769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 30869369a70SJosh Triplett 3091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 311804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 315cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 316cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3187a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3197a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3207a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 322cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3237a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 325939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 326939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 327939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 328939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 33074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 33174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 33328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 33474c3cbe3SAl Viro 335d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 336764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 337d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 34602fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 351c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 356fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 361c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 374ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 375554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 382abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 383abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 389abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 390b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 391b58c3584SRik van Riel 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 394b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4052813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 43019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4322813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 44419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 446f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 45619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 46519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 475*5c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 476*5c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 477*5c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker depends on NO_HZ_FULL 478*5c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 479*5c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 480*5c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 481*5c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. 482*5c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 4830af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 484c903ff83SMike Travis 485de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 486de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 487de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 488de5b56baSVivek Goyal 4891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 490f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 491de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 509794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 510794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 511fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 512f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 513361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 514794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 51523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 51623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 51723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 51823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 51923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 520f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 521f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 522f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 523f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 524f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 525794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 526794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 527794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 52823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 52923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 5302240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 53123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 53223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 53323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 534361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 53523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 53623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 53723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 53823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 53923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 54023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 54123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 54223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 54323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 54423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 54523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 54623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 54723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 54823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 54923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 55023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 55123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 55223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 5535e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 5545e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 55523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 55623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 55723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 55823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 55923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 56023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 56123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 56223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 56323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 564f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 565f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 566427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 567427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 568f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 569427934b8SPetr Mladek help 570f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 571f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 572f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 573f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 574f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 575427934b8SPetr Mladek 576f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 577427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 578427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 579427934b8SPetr Mladek 580427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 581427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 582427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 583427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 584427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 585427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 586427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 587427934b8SPetr Mladek 5885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 59438ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 59538ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 59638ff87f7SStephen Boyd 597be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 598be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 599be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 600be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 601be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 602be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 603be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 604be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 60572b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 60672b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 60772b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 60872b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 60972b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 61072b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 61172b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 61272b252aeSMel Gorman bool 61372b252aeSMel Gorman 61472b252aeSMel Gorman# 615be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 616be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 617be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 618be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 619be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 620be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 621be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 622be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 623be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 624be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 625be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 626be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 627be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 628be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 629be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 630be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 631be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 632be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 633be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 6346d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 635be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 636be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 637be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 6386f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 6396f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 6406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 6416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 6426f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 6436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 6446f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 6456f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 64623964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 6476341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 6482bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 649ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 65023964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 6559991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 65645ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 657ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 658ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 659ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 66023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 66123964d2dSLi Zefan 6623e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 6633e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 6643e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 665c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 666a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 6673e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 66879bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 66900f0b825SBalbir Singh help 670a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 67100f0b825SBalbir Singh 672c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 673a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 674c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 675c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 676a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 677a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 678c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 679a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 680c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 681a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 682a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 683a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 684a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 68543d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 68607555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 687a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 688a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 689a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 69000a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 691c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 6936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 6946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 6952bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 6966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 6976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 6986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 6996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 7002bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 7016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 7026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 7036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 7046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 705e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 7076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 7086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 7096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 7106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 7116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7129991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 7136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 7156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 7166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 7176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 7186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 7206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 7216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 7236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 7246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 7256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 726e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7277c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 728a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 7297c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7307c941438SDhaval Giani help 7317c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7327c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7337c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7347c941438SDhaval Giani 7357c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7367c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7377c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7387c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7397c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7407c941438SDhaval Giani 741ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 742ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 743ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 744ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 745ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 746ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 747ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 748ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 749ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 750ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 751ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7527c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7537c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7547c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7557c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7567c941438SDhaval Giani help 7577c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 75832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7597c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7607c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7617c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7627c941438SDhaval Giani 7637c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7647c941438SDhaval Giani 7656bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 7666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 7676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 7696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 7706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 7716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 7726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 7736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 7746cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 7756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 7776cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 7786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 7796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 7806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 78139d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 78239d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 78339d3e758SParav Pandit help 78439d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 78539d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 78639d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 78739d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 78839d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 78939d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 79039d3e758SParav Pandit 7916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 7926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 7936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 797489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 798489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 799489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 800489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 801489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 8026bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 806afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 8096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 8146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 8156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 817afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8186bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 820e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 8216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 826afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 828afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8296bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 8316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 83289e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 83389e9b9e0STejun Heo 8346bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8406bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 8416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 8426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 8446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 8486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 8516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 85630070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 85730070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 858483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 859483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 86030070984SDaniel Mack help 86130070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 86230070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 86330070984SDaniel Mack 86430070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 86530070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 86630070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 86730070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 86830070984SDaniel Mack 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 87023b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 87223b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 87523b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 87623b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 87723b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 88173b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 88273b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 88373b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 88473b35147SArnd Bergmann 88523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 886c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 887067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 888067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 8892e13ba54SIago López Galeiras select PROC_CHILDREN 890067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 891067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 892067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 893067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 894067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 895067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 896067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 897067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 898067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 8998dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 9006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 9012813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 9026a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 903c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 904c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 905c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 906c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 907c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 908c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 9098dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 9108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 91158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 91258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 91317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 91458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 91558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 91658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 91758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 918ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 919ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 9208dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 92117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 922ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 923ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 924614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 925ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 926aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 92719c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 9285673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 929aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 930aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 931aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 932e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 933e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 934d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 935d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 936d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 937e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 938aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 939aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 94074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 9419bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 94217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 94374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 94412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 945692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 94674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 94774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 948d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 949d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 9508dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 95117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 952d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 953d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 954d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 955d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 9568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 9578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 9585091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 9595091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 9605091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 9615091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 9625091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9635091faa4SMike Galbraith help 9645091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 9655091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 9665091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 9675091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 9685091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 9695091faa4SMike Galbraith 9707af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9715d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 9727af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9737af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9747af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9757af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 9767af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 9777af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 9787af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9797af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 9807af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 9817af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9827af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 9837af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 9847af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 9857af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9867af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 9877af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 9887af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 9897af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9907af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9917af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 9927af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9937af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 9945d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 9957af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9967af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9977af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9987af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9997af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 10007af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10017af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 10027af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 10037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10047af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10057af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 10067af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 10077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10087af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 10097af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 101026b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 10117af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10127af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 10137af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 10147af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 10157af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 10167af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 10177af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10187af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 10197af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1020f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1021f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1022f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1023f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1024f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1025f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1026f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1027f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 10288c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1029f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1030f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1031f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1032f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1033f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1034f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1035f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1036c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1037c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1038dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1039dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1040c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1041c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1042877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1043877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1044877417e6SArnd Bergmann default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1045877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1046877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1047877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1048877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1049877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1050877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1051877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1052877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1053c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 105496fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1055c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 105631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 105731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1058c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 10593a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1060c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1061877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1062877417e6SArnd Bergmann 10630847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 10640847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 10650847062aSRandy Dunlap 1066b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1067b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1068b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1069657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1070657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1071657a5209SMike Frysinger 1072657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1073657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1074657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1075657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1076657a5209SMike Frysinger 1077657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1078657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1079657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1080657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1081657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1082657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1083657a5209SMike Frysinger 1084657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1085657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1086657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1087657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1088657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1089657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1090657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1091657a5209SMike Frysinger 1092657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1093657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1094657a5209SMike Frysinger 1095f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1096f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1097f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1098f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 10996a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 11006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1101f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1102f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1109ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 11106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 11112813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1112ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1113ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1114ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1115ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11162813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 11172813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 11182813893fSIulia Manda default y 11192813893fSIulia Manda help 11202813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 11212813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 11222813893fSIulia Manda 11232813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 11242813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 11252813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 11262813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 11272813893fSIulia Manda 11282813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 11292813893fSIulia Manda 1130f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1131f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1132f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1133f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1134f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1135f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1136f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1137f6187769SFabian Frederick 1138f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1139f6187769SFabian Frederick 11406af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 11416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 11426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 11436af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 11446af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 11456af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 11466af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 11476af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 11486af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 11496af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1150b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 11516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 115226a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1153c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1154b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1155b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 115613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 115713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 115813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 115913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1160b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 116113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 116213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 116313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1164b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1165c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1166ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1167baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1168baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1169baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1170baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1171baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1172baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1173baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1174baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1175baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1176baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1177baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1178baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1179baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1180baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1181baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1182baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1183baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 11841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 11856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 119671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 119771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 119871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 119971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 120071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 120271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 120371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 120471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 120571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 120771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1208d59745ceSMatt Mackall 12094d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 12104d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel bool 1211076501ffSRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 12124d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel default X86_64 && SMP 12134d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel 12142213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 12152213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel bool 12162213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel depends on KALLSYMS 12172213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 12182213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel help 12192213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 12202213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 12212213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 12222213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 12232213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 12242213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 12252213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel address encountered in the image. 12262213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 12272213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 12282213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 12292213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 12302213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 12312213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 1232d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1233d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 12346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 123574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1236d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1237d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1238d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1239d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1240d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1241d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1242d59745ceSMatt Mackall 124342a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 124442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 124542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 124642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 124742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1248c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1250c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1251c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1252c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1253c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1254c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1255c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1256c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1257c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1258708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1259046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1260708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 12616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1262708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1263708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1264708e9a79SMatt Mackall 12658761f1abSRalf Baechle 1266e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 12676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 12688761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 126915f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1270e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1271e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1272e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1273e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1274e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 12751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 12846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1286bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1292bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1293bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1294bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1295bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1296bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 129703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 129803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 129962b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 130003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 130103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 130203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 130303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 130403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 13051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 13066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1308448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1313fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 13146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1315448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1316fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1317fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1318fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1319fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1320fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1321fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1322fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1323b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 13246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1325448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1326b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1327b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1328b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1329b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1330b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1331b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1332b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1333e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1335448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1336e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1337e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1338e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1339e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1340e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1341e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1342e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1343f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1344f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1345e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1346f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1347f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1348f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1349f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1350f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1351f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1352f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1364ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1366ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1367ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1368ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1369ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1370ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1371ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1372d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1373d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1374d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1375d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1376d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1377d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1378d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1379d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1380d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1381d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1382a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD 1383a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1384a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli select ANON_INODES 1385a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 1386a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli help 1387a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1388a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli handle page faults in userland. 1389a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli 1390657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1391657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1392657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1393657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1394657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1395657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1396657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1397657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1398657a5209SMike Frysinger 13995b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 14005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 14015b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 14025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 14035b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 14045b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 14055b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 14065b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 14075b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 14085b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 14095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 14105b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 14116befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14126befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14135d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 14146befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14156befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14166befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14176befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14186befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14196befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1420cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14210793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1422018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1423018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1425906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1426906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1427906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1428906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1429906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1430ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1431ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" 1432ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1433ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1434ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1435ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1436ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 143757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14380793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1439cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 144057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1441392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1442cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14434c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1444e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 144583fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 14460793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 144757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 144857c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 14490793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1450dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 145157c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 145257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 145357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 145457c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 14550793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 14560793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 14570793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 14580793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 14590793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 14600793a61dSThomas Gleixner 146157c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1462dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 146357c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 14640793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 14650793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 14660793a61dSThomas Gleixner 14670793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 14680793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1469906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1470906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1471906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1472cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1473906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1474906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1475906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1476906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1477906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1478906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1479906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1480906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1481906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 14820793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 14830793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1484f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1485f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 14866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1487f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 14882aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 14892aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 14906a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 14912aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1492f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 149341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 149441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 14956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1496f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 149741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 149841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 149941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 150041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 150141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 150241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 15031663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 15041663f26dSTejun Heo default n 15051663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 15061663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 15071663f26dSTejun Heo help 15081663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 15091663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 15101663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 15111663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 15121663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 15131663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 15141663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 15151663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 15161663f26dSTejun Heo 1517b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1518b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1519b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1520b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1521b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1522b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1523b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1524692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1525b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1526b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1527b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1528b943c460SRandy Dunlap 152981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 153081819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1531a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 153281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 153381819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 153481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 153581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 153681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 153704385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 153881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 153981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 154034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 154102f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 154281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 154381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 154481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1545ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 154681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 154781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 154881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 154981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 155081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 155102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 155202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 155381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 155481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15556a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 155681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 155781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 155837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 155937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 156037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 156181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 156281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 156381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 15647660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 15657660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 15667660a6fdSKees Cook default y 15677660a6fdSKees Cook help 15687660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 15697660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 15707660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 15717660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 15727660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 15737660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 15747660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 15757660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 15767660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 15777660a6fdSKees Cook 1578c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1579c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1580210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1581c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1582c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1583210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1584c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1585c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1586c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 15872482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 15882482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 15892482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 15902482ddecSKees Cook help 15912482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 15922482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 15932482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 15942482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 15952482ddecSKees Cook 1596345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1597345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1598b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1599345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1600345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1601345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1602345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1603345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1604345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1605345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1606345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1607ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1608ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16096a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1610ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1611ea637639SJie Zhang help 1612ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1613ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1614ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1615ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1616ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1617ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1618ea637639SJie Zhang 1619ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1620ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1621ea637639SJie Zhang 1622ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1623ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1624ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1625ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1626ea637639SJie Zhang 1627ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1628ea637639SJie Zhang 1629091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1630091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1631091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1632091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1633091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1634d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1635091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1636091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1637091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1638091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1639091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1640091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 164182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1642091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1643091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1644091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1645091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 164682c04ff8SPeter Foley 1647125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1648b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1649125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1650125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1651125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1652125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16535f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16545f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16555f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16565f87f112SIngo Molnar# 165797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16585f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 165997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1660fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1661fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1664ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1665ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1666ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1667ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1668158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1669158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1670158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 16710f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1672158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1673158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1674ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 16756341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1676ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 168266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 168411097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17030b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 17040b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1705826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1706826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1707826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1708826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 170991e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 171091e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 171191e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1712826e4506SLinus Torvalds 17131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1718f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1719f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 172319c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17320d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 174156067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 174256067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 174356067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 174456067812SArd Biesheuvel 17451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1756106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1757106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1758106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1759091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1760106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1761106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1762106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1763106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1764106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1765228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1766228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1767228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1768228c37ffSDavid Howells 1769ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1770ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1771ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1772ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1773ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1774106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1775106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1776106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1777106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1778106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1779106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1780ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1781d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1782d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1783d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1784d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1785d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1786d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1787d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1788d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1789d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1790d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1791d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1792ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1793ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1794ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1795ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1796ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1797ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1798ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1799ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1800ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1801ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1802ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1803ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1804ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1805ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1806ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1807ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1808ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1809ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1810ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1811ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1812ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1813ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1814ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1815ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1816ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1817ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1818ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1819ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1820ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1821ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1822ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1823ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 182422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 182522753674SMichal Marek string 182622753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 182722753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 182822753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 182922753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 183022753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 183122753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 183222753674SMichal Marek 1833beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1834beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1835beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1836beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1837beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1838b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1839b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1840beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1841b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1842beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1843b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1844b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1845beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1846b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1847b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1848beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1849b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1850b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1851b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1852beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1853beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1854beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1855beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1856beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1857beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1858beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1859beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1860beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1861beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1862beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1863beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1864beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1865beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1866beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1867beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1868beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1869beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1870beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1871dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1872dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1873dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1874dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 1875dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1876dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1877dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1878dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1879dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1880dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1881dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1882dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1883dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1884dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1885f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1886dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 18870b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 18880b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 18896c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 18906c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 18916c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 18926c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 189398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 189498a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 189598a79d6aSRusty Russell help 18965f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 18975f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 189898a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 189998a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1900692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 190198a79d6aSRusty Russell 19023a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1903e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1904e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1905e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1906e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 190716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 190816295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 190916295becSSteffen Klassert bool 191016295becSSteffen Klassert 19114520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19124520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19134520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19144520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19154520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19164520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19174520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19184520c6a4SDavid Howells 19196beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1920