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 2187