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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
11face4374SRoman Zippel
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
271a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
281a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
291a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
30e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
31e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
32e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
33*5cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
34*5cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
35*5cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	bool
43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900  # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
49b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
50b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
51b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
52b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
53b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
54b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
55b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
56e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
57e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
58e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
591dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
601dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
611dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
62c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
63c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
66c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
67c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
68c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
69c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
70c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
71c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
72ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
84dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
85dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
8834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
904bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
914bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
92bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
934bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
944bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
954bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
964bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
974bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
984bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
994bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1004bb16672SJiri Slaby
1014bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1024bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1034bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1044bb16672SJiri Slaby
105e846f0dcSJani Nikulaconfig HEADER_TEST
106e846f0dcSJani Nikula	bool "Compile test headers that should be standalone compilable"
107e846f0dcSJani Nikula	help
108e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  Compile test headers listed in header-test-y target to ensure they are
109e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
110e846f0dcSJani Nikula
111e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested
112e846f0dcSJani Nikula	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
113e846f0dcSJani Nikula
11443c78d88SMasahiro Yamadaconfig KERNEL_HEADER_TEST
11543c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test kernel headers"
11643c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADER_TEST
11743c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	help
11843c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  Headers in include/ are used to build external moduls.
11943c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test them to ensure they are self-contained, i.e.
12043c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  compilable as standalone units.
12143c78d88SMasahiro Yamada
12243c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the headers
12343c78d88SMasahiro Yamada	  in include/ are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
12443c78d88SMasahiro Yamada
125d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
126d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
127d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADER_TEST && HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
128d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
129d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
131d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
132d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
133d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
134d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
145aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
146aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
147aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
148ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
149aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
150aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1516e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
153aaebf433SRyan Anderson
154aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1556e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
156aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
158aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1596e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1626e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1636e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
165aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1669afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1679afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1689afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1699afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1709afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1719afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1729afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1739afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1749afb719eSLaura Abbott
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1843ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1853ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1863ebe1243SLasse Collin
1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
190e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
193f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
194f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
195f16466afSVasily Gorbik
19630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
199f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2300a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2390a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2400a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2410a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2433ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2443ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2453ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2463ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2473ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2483ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2493ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2503ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2513ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2523ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2533ebe1243SLasse Collin
2543ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2553ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2563ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2573ebe1243SLasse Collin
2587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
263681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
266e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
267e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
268e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
269e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
270e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
271e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
272e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
275e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
276e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
278f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
279f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
280f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
281f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
282f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
283f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
284f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
285f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
286f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
287f16466afSVasily Gorbik
28830d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
28930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
290bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
291bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
292bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
293bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
294bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
295bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
296bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
297bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
298bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
29917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
30017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
30117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
30217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
30317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
30417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
30517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
30817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
331a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
332a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
333a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
334a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
335a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
336a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
33919c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
345b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
353bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
354bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
355bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
356bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
357bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
358bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
359226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
360226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
361226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
362226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
363226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
364226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
365226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
366a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
367226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
368226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
36969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
37069369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
371b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
37269369a70SJosh Triplett	help
37369369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
37469369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
37569369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
37669369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
37769369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
37869369a70SJosh Triplett
3791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
381804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
385cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
386cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3887a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3897a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3907a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
392cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3937a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
39428a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
39574c3cbe3SAl Viro
396d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
397764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
39887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
399d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
405fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
40802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
410fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
413c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
415fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
418fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
419fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
420fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
423c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
424abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
435abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
436ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
437554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
438041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
439abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
440abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
441abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
442abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
443abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
444abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
445abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
446abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
448abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
450abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
451abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
452abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
453b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
454b58c3584SRik van Riel
455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
457b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
46611d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
46711d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
46811d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
46911d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
47011d4afd4SVincent Guittot
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4732813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4923903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
49819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
5002813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
51219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
514f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
52419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
53319c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
541eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
542eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
543eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
544eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
545eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
546eb414681SJohannes Weiner
547eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
548eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
549eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
550eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
551eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5522ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5532ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5542ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5552ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
556c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
557eb414681SJohannes Weiner
558eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
559eb414681SJohannes Weiner
560e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
561e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
562e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
563e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
564e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
565e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
566428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
567428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
568e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
5737b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
5747b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5757b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
5767b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
5777b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5787b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
5797b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5825c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5835c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
584414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5852c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5865c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5875c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5885c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5892c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5902c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5912c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5922c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5935c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5940af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
595c903ff83SMike Travis
596de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
597de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
598de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
599de5b56baSVivek Goyal
6001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
601f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
619f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
620f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
621f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
62243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
623f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
624f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
625f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
626f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
62743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
628794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
629794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
630fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
631f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
632361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
633794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
639f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
640f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
641f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
642f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
643f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
644794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
645794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
646794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
6492240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
653361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
66923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
67023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
67123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6725e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6735e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
67423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
67523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
67623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
67723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
67823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
67923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
68023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
68123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
68223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
683f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
684f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
685427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
686427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
687f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
688427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
689f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
690f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
691f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
692f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
693f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
694427934b8SPetr Mladek
695f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
696427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
697427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
698427934b8SPetr Mladek
699427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
700427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
701427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
702427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
703427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
704427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
705427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
706427934b8SPetr Mladek
7075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
71338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
71438ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
71538ff87f7SStephen Boyd
71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
75669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
75769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
75869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
75969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
76069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
76169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
76269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
76369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
76469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
76569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
76669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
76769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
76869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
769be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
770be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
774be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
776be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
77772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
77872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
77972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
78072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
78172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
78272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
78372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
78472b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
78572b252aeSMel Gorman
78672b252aeSMel Gorman#
787be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
788be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
789be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
790be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
791be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
804be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
805be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8066d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
807be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
808be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
809be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8106f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8116f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8126f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8136f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8146f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
81823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8196341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8202bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
821ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
82223964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
826d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
827da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
82845ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
829ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
830ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
831ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
83223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
83323964d2dSLi Zefan
8343e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
8353e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
8363e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
837c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
838a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
8393e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
84079bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
84100f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
842a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
84300f0b825SBalbir Singh
844c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
845a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
846c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
847c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
848a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
849a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
850c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
851a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
852c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
853a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
854a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
855a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
856a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
85743d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
85807555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
859a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
860a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
861a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
86200a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
863c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
86484c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
86584c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
86684c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
86784c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
86884c07d11SKirill Tkhai
8696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
8722bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
8772bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
882e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
889da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
895e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8967c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
897a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
8987c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8997c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9007c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9017c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9027c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9037c941438SDhaval Giani
9047c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9057c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9067c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9077c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9087c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9097c941438SDhaval Giani
910ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
911ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
912ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
913ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
914ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
915ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
916ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
917ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
918ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
919d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
920ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9217c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9227c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9237c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9247c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9257c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9267c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
92732bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9287c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9297c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
930d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9317c941438SDhaval Giani
9327c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9337c941438SDhaval Giani
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
9436cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
94698076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
95039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
95139d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
95239d3e758SParav Pandit	help
95339d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
95439d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
95539d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
95639d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
95739d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
95839d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
95939d3e758SParav Pandit
9606bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
966489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
967489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
968489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
969489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
970489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
9716bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
975afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
986afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9876bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
989e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
995afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
997afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9986bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
100189e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
100289e9b9e0STejun Heo
10036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
102530070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
102630070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1027483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1028483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
102930070984SDaniel Mack	help
103030070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
103130070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
103230070984SDaniel Mack
103330070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
103430070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
103530070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
103630070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
103730070984SDaniel Mack
10386bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
103923b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
104123b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
104423b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
104523b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
104623b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
105073b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
105173b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
105273b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
105373b35147SArnd Bergmann
105423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1055c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10576a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10582813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
10596a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1060c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1061c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1062c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1063c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1064c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1065c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10668dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
106858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
106958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
107017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
107158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
107258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
107358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
107458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1075ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1076ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10778dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
107817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1079ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1080ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1081614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1082ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1083aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
108419c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
10855673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1086aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1087aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1088aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1089e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1090e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1091d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1092d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1093d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1094e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1095aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1096aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
109774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
10989bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
109917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
110074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
110112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1102692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
110374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
110474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1105d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1106d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
110817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1109d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1110d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1111d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1112d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11148dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
11155cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
11165cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
11175cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
11185cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
11195cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
11205cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
11215cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
11225cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
11235cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
11245cb366bbSAdrian Reber
11255cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
11265cb366bbSAdrian Reber
11275091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11285091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11295091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11305091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11315091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11325091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11335091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11345091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11355091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11365091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11375091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11385091faa4SMike Galbraith
11397af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11405d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11477af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11627af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11635d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11777af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
117926b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1189f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1190f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1191f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1192f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1193f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1194f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1195f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
11968c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1197f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1198f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1199f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1200f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1201f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1202f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1203f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1204c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1205c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1206dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1207dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1208c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1209c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1210877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1211877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
12122cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1213877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1214877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1215877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1216877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1217877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1218877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1219877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1220877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1221c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
122296fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1223b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED  # avoid false positives
1224c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
122531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
122631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1227c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12283a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1229c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1230877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1231877417e6SArnd Bergmann
12325d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
12345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
12365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
12375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
12385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
12395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
12405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
12415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12425d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
12445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
124616fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1247e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1248e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
12495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12508b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
12518b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
12528b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
12535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
12555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
12565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
12575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
12585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
12595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
12605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12610847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12620847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12630847062aSRandy Dunlap
1264657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1265657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1266657a5209SMike Frysinger
1267657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1268657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1269657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1270657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1271657a5209SMike Frysinger
1272657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1273657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1274657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1275657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1276657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1277657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1278657a5209SMike Frysinger
1279657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1280657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1281657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1282657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1283657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1284657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1285657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1286657a5209SMike Frysinger
1287657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1288657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1289657a5209SMike Frysinger
1290f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1291f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1292f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1293f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
12946a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12956a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1296f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1297f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1304ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13062813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1307ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1308ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1309ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1310ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13112813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13122813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13132813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13142813893fSIulia Manda	help
13152813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13162813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13172813893fSIulia Manda
13182813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
13192813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
13202813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
13212813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
13222813893fSIulia Manda
13232813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
13242813893fSIulia Manda
1325f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1326f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1327a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1328f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1329f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1330f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1331f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1332f6187769SFabian Frederick
1333f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1334f6187769SFabian Frederick
13356af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13366af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
13386af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
13396af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
13406af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
13416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
13426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
13436af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
13446af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1345b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
13466a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
134726a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1348c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1349b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1350b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
135113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
135213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
135313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
135413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1355b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
135613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
135713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
135813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1359b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1360c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1361ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1362d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1363d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1364d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1365d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1366d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1367d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1368d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1375baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1376baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1377baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1378baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1379baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1380baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1381baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1382baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1383baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1384baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1385baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1386baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1387baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1388baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1389baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1390baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1391baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1392d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1393d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
139574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1396d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1397d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1398d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1399d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1400d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1401d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1402d59745ceSMatt Mackall
140342a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
140442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
140542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
140642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
140742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1408c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1410c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1411c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1412c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1413c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1414c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1415c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1416c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1417c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1418708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1419046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1420708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
14216a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1422708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1423708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1424708e9a79SMatt Mackall
14258761f1abSRalf Baechle
1426e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
14276a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
14288761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
142915f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1430e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1431e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1432e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1433e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1434e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
14351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
14446a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1446bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1452bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1453bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1454bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1455bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1456bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
145703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
145803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
145962b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
146003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
146103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
146203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
146303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
146403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
14651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
14666a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1472fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
14736a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1474fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1475fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1476fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1477fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1478fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1479fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1480fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1481b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
14826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1483b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1484b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1485b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1486b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1487b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1488b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1489b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1490e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
14916a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1492e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1493e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1494e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1495e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1496e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1497e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1498e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15006a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1510ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15116a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1512ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1513ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1514ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1515ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1516ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1517ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
15182b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
15192b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
15202b188cc1SJens Axboe	select ANON_INODES
15212b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
15222b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
15232b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
15242b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
15252b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
15262b188cc1SJens Axboe
1527d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1528d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1529d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1530d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1531d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1532d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1533d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1534d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1535d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1536d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
15375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
15385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
15395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
15405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
15415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
15425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
15435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
15445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
15455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
15465b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
15475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
15485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1551d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1552d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1553d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1554d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1555d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1556d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1557d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1558d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1559d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1560d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1561d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1562d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1564d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1565d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1566d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1567d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1582a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1603bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1609290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1610290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1611290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1612290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1613290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1614290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1615290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
16233ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
16243ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
16253ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
162670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
162770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
162870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1629d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1630d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1631d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1632d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1633d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1634d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1635d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1636d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1637d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1638d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1639d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1640d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1641d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1642d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1643d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1644d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1645d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1646d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1647d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1648d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1649d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1650d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1651d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
16526befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16536befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16545d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16556befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
16566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
16576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
16586befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16596befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16606befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1661cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16620793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1663018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1664018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16650793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1666906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1667906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1668906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1669906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1670906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1671ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1672424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1673ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1674ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1675ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1676ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1677ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
167857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16790793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1680cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
168157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1682392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1683cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1684e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
168583fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16860793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
168757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
168857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16890793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1690dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
169157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
169257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
169357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
169457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16950793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16960793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16970793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16980793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16990793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
17000793a61dSThomas Gleixner
170157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1702dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
170357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
17040793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
17050793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
17060793a61dSThomas Gleixner
17070793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
17080793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1709906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1710906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1711906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1712cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1713906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1714906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1715906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1716906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1717906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1718906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1719906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1720906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1721906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
17220793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
17230793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1724f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1725f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
17266a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1727f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
17282aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
17292aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
17306a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
17312aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1732f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
173341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
173441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
17356a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1736f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
173741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
173841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
173941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
174041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
174141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
174241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
17431663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
17441663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
17451663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
17461663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
17471663f26dSTejun Heo	help
17481663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
17491663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
17501663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
17511663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
17521663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
17531663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
17541663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
17551663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
17561663f26dSTejun Heo
1757b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1758b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1759b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1760b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1761b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1762b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1763b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1764692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1765b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1766b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1767b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1768b943c460SRandy Dunlap
176981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
177081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1771a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
177281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
177381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
177481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
177581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
177681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
177704385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
177881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
177981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
178034013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
178102f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
178281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
178381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
178481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1785ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
178681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
178781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
178881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
178981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
179081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
179102f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
179202f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
179381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
179481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17956a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
179681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
179781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
179837291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
179937291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
180037291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
180181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
180281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
180381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
18047660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
18057660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
18067660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
18077660a6fdSKees Cook	help
18087660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
18097660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
18107660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
18117660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
18127660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
18137660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
18147660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
18157660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
18167660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
18177660a6fdSKees Cook
1818c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1819c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1820210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1821c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1822c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1823210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1824c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1825c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1826c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
18272482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
18282482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
18292482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
18302482ddecSKees Cook	help
18312482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
18322482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
183392bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
18342482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
18352482ddecSKees Cook
1836e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1837e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1838e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1839e900a918SDan Williams	help
1840e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1841e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1842e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1843e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1844e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1845e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1846e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1847e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1848e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1849e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1850e900a918SDan Williams
1851e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1852e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1853e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1854e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1855e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1856e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1857e900a918SDan Williams
1858e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1859e900a918SDan Williams
1860345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1861345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1862b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1863345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1864345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
186592bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
1866345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1867345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1868345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1869345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1870345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1871ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1872ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
18736a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1874ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1875ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1876ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
18773903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1878ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1879ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1880ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1881ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1882ea637639SJie Zhang
1883ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1884ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1885ea637639SJie Zhang
1886ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1887ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1888ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1889ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1890ea637639SJie Zhang
1891ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1892ea637639SJie Zhang
1893091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1894091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1895091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1896091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1897091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1898d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1899091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1900091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1901091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1902091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1903091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1904091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
190582c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1906091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1907091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1908091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1909091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
191082c04ff8SPeter Foley
1911125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1912b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1913125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1914125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1915125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1916125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
19175f87f112SIngo Molnar#
19185f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
19195f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
19205f87f112SIngo Molnar#
192197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
19225f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
192397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
19241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19261572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
19271572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1928ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
19296341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1930ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
19311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
193666da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
193811097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19570b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
19580b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1959826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1960826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1961826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1962826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
196391e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
196491e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
196591e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1966826e4506SLinus Torvalds
19671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
19681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1972f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1973f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
197719c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
19860d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
199556067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
199656067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
199756067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
199856067812SArd Biesheuvel
19991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2010106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2011106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2012106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
2013091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2014106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2015106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2016106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2017cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2018106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2019228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2020228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2021228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2022228c37ffSDavid Howells
2023ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2024ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2025ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2026ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2027ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2028106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2029106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2030106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2031106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2032106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2033106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2034ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2035d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2036d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2037d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2038d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2039d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2040d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2041d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2042d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2043d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2044d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2045d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2046ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2047ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2048ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2049ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2050ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2051ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2052ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2053ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2054ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2055ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2056ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2057ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2058ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2059ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2060ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2061ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2062ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2063ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2064ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2065ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2066ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2067ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2068ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2069ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2070ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2071ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2075ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2076ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2077ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
207822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
207922753674SMichal Marek	string
208022753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
208122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
208222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
208322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
208422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
208522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
208622753674SMichal Marek
2087beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2088beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2089beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
2090beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2091beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2092b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2093b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2094beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2095b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2096beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2097b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2098b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2099beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2100b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2101b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2102beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2103b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2104b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2105b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2106beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2107beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2108beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2109beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2110beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2111beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2112beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2113beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2114beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2115beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2116beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2117beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2118beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2119beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2120beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2121beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2122beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2123beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2124beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2125dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2126dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2127dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2128dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2129dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2130dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2131dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2132dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2133dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2134dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2135dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2136dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2137dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2138dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2139f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2140dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
21410b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
21420b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
21436c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
21446c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
21456c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
21466c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
214798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
214898a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
214998a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
21505f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
21515f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
215298a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
215398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2154692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
215598a79d6aSRusty Russell
21563a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2157e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2158e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2159e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2160e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
216116295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
216216295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
216316295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
216416295becSSteffen Klassert
21654520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
21664520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
21674520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
21684520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
21694520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
21704520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
21714520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
21724520c6a4SDavid Howells
21736beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2174e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2175e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2176e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
21771bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
21781bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
21797303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
21807303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
21817303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
21827303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
21837303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
21847303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
21851bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
21861bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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