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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
11face4374SRoman Zippel
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
27e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
28e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
29e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
30b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
31b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
32b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	bool
37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900  # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
46b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
47b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
48b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
49b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
50e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
51e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
52e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
531dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
541dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
551dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
62c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
63c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
64c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
65c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
66ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
78dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
79dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
8234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
844bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
854bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
86bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
874bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
884bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
894bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
904bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
914bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
924bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
934bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
944bb16672SJiri Slaby
954bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
964bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
974bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
984bb16672SJiri Slaby
991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
109aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
110aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
111aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
112ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
113aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
114aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
117aaebf433SRyan Anderson
118aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
120aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
122aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1236e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1246e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1266e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1286e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
129aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1309afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1319afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1329afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1339afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1349afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1359afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1369afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1379afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1389afb719eSLaura Abbott
1392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1483ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1493ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1503ebe1243SLasse Collin
1517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1527dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1537dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
154e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
155e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
156e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
157f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
158f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
159f16466afSVasily Gorbik
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
163f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
18830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
19030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1940a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
19930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2040a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2050a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2073ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2083ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2093ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2103ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2113ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2123ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2133ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2143ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2153ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2163ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2173ebe1243SLasse Collin
2183ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2193ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2203ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2213ebe1243SLasse Collin
2227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2260a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
227681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2297dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
230e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
231e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
232e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
233e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
234e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
235e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
241e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
242f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
243f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
244f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
245f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
246f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
247f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
248f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
249f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
250f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
251f16466afSVasily Gorbik
25230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
254bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
255bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
256bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
257bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
258bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
259bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
260bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
261bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
262bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
26317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
26417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
26517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
26617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
26717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
26817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
26917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
27217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
295a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
296a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
297a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
298a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
299a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
300a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
30319c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
309b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
317bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
318bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
319bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
320bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
321bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
322bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
323226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
324226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
325226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
326226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
327226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
328226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
329226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
330a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
331226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
332226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
33369369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
33469369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
335b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
33669369a70SJosh Triplett	help
33769369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
33869369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
33969369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
34069369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
34169369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
34269369a70SJosh Triplett
3431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
345804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
349cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
350cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3527a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3537a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3547a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
356cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3577a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
35828a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
35974c3cbe3SAl Viro
360d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
361764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
36287a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
363d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
371fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
37202fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
374fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
376fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
377c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
387c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
399abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
400ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
401554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
402041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
407abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
408abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
409abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
412abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
413abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
414abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
415abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
416abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
417b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
418b58c3584SRik van Riel
419fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
420fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
421b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
422fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
423fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
424fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
425fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
426fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
427fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
428fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
429fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
43011d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
43111d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
43211d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
43311d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
43411d4afd4SVincent Guittot
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4372813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4563903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
46219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4642813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
47619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
478f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
48819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
49719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
505eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
506eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
507eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
508eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
509eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
510eb414681SJohannes Weiner
511eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
512eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
513eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
514eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
515eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5162ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5172ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5182ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5192ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
520eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
521eb414681SJohannes Weiner
522eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
523eb414681SJohannes Weiner
524e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
525e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
526e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
527e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
528e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
529e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
530428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
531428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
532e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
5377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
5387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
5407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
5417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
5437b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5475c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
548414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5492c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5505c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5525c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5532c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5562c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5580af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
559c903ff83SMike Travis
560de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
561de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
562de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
563de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
565f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
583f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
584f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
585f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
58643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
587f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
588f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
589f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
590f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
59143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
592794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
593794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
594fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
595f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
596361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
597794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
59823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
59923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
60023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
60223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
603f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
604f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
605f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
606f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
607f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
608794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
609794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
610794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
61123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
6132240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
61423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
61523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
61623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
617361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
61823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
61923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
62623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
62723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6365e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6375e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
647f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
648f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
649427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
650427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
651f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
652427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
653f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
654f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
655f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
656f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
657f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
658427934b8SPetr Mladek
659f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
660427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
661427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
662427934b8SPetr Mladek
663427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
664427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
665427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
666427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
667427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
668427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
669427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
670427934b8SPetr Mladek
6715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
6735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
6755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
6765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
67738ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
67838ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
67938ff87f7SStephen Boyd
680*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
681*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
682*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
683*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
684*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
685*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
686*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
687*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
688*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
689*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
690*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
691*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
692*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
693*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
694*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
695*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
696*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
697*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
698*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
699*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
700*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
701*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
702*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
703*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
704*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
705*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
706*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
707*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
708*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
709*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
710*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
711*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
712*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
713*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
714*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
715*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
716*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
717*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
718*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
719*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
720*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
721*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
722*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
723*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
724*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
725*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
726*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
727*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
728*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
729*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
730*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
731*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
732*69842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
733be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
734be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
735be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
736be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
737be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
738be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
739be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
740be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
74172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
74272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
74372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
74472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
74572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
74672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
74772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
74872b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
74972b252aeSMel Gorman
75072b252aeSMel Gorman#
751be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
752be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
753be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
754be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
755be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
756be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
757be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
758be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
759be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
760be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
761be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
762be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
763be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
764be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
765be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
766be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
767be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
768be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
769be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
7706d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
7746f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
7756f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
7766f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
7776f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
7786f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
7796f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
7806f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
7816f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
78223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
7836341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
7842bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
785ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
78623964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
7875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
7885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
7895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
7905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
7919991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
79245ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
793ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
794ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
795ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
79623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
79723964d2dSLi Zefan
7983e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
7993e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
8003e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
801c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
802a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
8033e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
80479bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
80500f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
806a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
80700f0b825SBalbir Singh
808c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
809a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
810c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
811c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
812a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
813a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
814c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
815a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
816c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
817a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
818a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
819a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
820a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
82143d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
82207555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
823a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
824a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
825a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
82600a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
827c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
82884c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
82984c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
83084c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
83184c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
83284c07d11SKirill Tkhai
8336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
8362bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
8412bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
8426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
8446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
846e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
8486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
8506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
8516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8539991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8556bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8636bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
867e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8687c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
869a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
8707c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8717c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8727c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
8737c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
8747c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
8757c941438SDhaval Giani
8767c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
8777c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
8787c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
8797c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8807c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
8817c941438SDhaval Giani
882ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
883ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
884ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
885ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
886ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
887ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
888ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
889ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
890ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
891cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
892ab84d31eSPaul Turner
8937c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
8947c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
8957c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8967c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8977c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8987c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
89932bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9007c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9017c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
9027c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
9037c941438SDhaval Giani
9047c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9057c941438SDhaval Giani
9066bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
9076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
9086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
9116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
9126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
9136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
9156cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
9166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
91898076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
9206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
9216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
92239d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
92339d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
92439d3e758SParav Pandit	help
92539d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
92639d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
92739d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
92839d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
92939d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
93039d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
93139d3e758SParav Pandit
9326bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
938489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
939489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
940489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
941489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
942489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
9436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
947afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
9506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
958afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9596bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
961e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
967afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
969afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9706bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
97389e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
97489e9b9e0STejun Heo
9756bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9876bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
99730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
99830070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
999483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1000483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
100130070984SDaniel Mack	help
100230070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
100330070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
100430070984SDaniel Mack
100530070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
100630070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
100730070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
100830070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
100930070984SDaniel Mack
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
101123b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
101323b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
101623b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
101723b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
101823b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
102273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
102373b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
102473b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
102573b35147SArnd Bergmann
102623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1027c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10288dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10296a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10302813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
10316a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1032c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1033c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1034c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1035c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1036c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1037c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10388dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10398dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
104058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
104158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
104217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
104358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
104458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
104558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
104658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1047ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1048ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
105017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1051ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1052ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1053614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1054ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1055aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
105619c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
10575673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1058aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1059aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1060aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1061e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1062e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1063d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1064d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1065d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1066e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1067aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1068aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
106974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
10709bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
107117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
107274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
107312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1074692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
107574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
107674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1077d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1078d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
10798dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
108017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1081d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1082d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1083d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1084d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
10858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
10868dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
10875cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
10885cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
10895cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
10905cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
10915cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
10925cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
10935cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
10945cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
10955cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
10965cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10975cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
10985cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10995091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11005091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11015091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11025091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11035091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11045091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11055091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11065091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11075091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11085091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11095091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11105091faa4SMike Galbraith
11117af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11125d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11137af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11147af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11157af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11167af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11177af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11187af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11197af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11207af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11217af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11227af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11237af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11247af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11257af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11267af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11277af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11287af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11297af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11307af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11317af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11327af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11337af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11347af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11355d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11387af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11417af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11447af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11487af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11497af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
115126b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1161f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1162f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1163f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1164f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1165f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1166f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1167f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
11688c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1169f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1170f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1171f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1172f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1173f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1174f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1175f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1176c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1177c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1178dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1179dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1180c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1181c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1182877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1183877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
11842cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1185877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1186877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1187877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1188877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1189877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1190877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1191877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1192877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1193c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
119496fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1195b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED  # avoid false positives
1196c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
119731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
119831a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1199c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12003a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1201c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1202877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1203877417e6SArnd Bergmann
12045d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
12065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
12085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
12095d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
12105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
12115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
12125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
12135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12145d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
12165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
121816fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1219e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1220e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
12215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12228b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
12238b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
12248b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
12255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
12275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
12285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
12295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
12305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
12315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
12325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12330847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12340847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12350847062aSRandy Dunlap
1236657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1237657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1238657a5209SMike Frysinger
1239657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1240657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1241657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1242657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1243657a5209SMike Frysinger
1244657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1245657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1246657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1247657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1248657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1249657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1250657a5209SMike Frysinger
1251657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1252657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1253657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1254657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1255657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1256657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1257657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1258657a5209SMike Frysinger
1259657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1260657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1261657a5209SMike Frysinger
1262f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1263f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1264f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1265f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
12666a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
12676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1268f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1269f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1276ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12776a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
12782813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1279ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1280ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1281ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1282ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12832813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
12842813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
12852813893fSIulia Manda	default y
12862813893fSIulia Manda	help
12872813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
12882813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
12892813893fSIulia Manda
12902813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
12912813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
12922813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
12932813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
12942813893fSIulia Manda
12952813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
12962813893fSIulia Manda
1297f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1298f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1299a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1300f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1301f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1302f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1303f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1304f6187769SFabian Frederick
1305f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1306f6187769SFabian Frederick
13076af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13086af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13096af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
13106af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
13116af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
13126af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
13136af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
13146af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
13156af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
13166af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1317b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
13186a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
131926a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1320c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1321b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1322b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
132313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
132413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
132513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
132613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1327b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
132813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
132913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
133013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1331b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1332c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1333ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1334d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1335d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1336d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1337d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1338d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1339d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1340d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1341d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1342d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1343d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1344d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1345d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1346d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1347baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1348baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1349baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1350baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1351baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1352baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1353baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1354baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1355baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1356baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1357baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1358baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1359baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1360baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1361baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1362baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1363baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1364d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1365d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
13666a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
136774876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1368d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1369d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1370d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1371d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1372d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1373d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1374d59745ceSMatt Mackall
137542a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
137642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
137742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
137842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
137942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1380c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13816a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1382c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1383c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1384c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1385c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1386c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1387c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1388c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1389c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1390708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1391046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1392708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13936a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1394708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1395708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1396708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13978761f1abSRalf Baechle
1398e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13996a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
14008761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
140115f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1402e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1403e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1404e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1405e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1406e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
14071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
14166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1418bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1424bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1425bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1426bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1427bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1428bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
142903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
143003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
143162b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
143203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
143303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
143403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
143503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
143603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
14371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
14386a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1444fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
14456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1446fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1447fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1448fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1449fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1450fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1451fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1452fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1453b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
14546a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1455b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1456b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1457b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1458b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1459b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1460b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1461b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1462e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
14636a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1464e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1465e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1466e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1467e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1468e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1469e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1470e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14726a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1482ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14836a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1484ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1485ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1486ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1487ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1488ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1489ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
14902b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
14912b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
14922b188cc1SJens Axboe	select ANON_INODES
14932b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
14942b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
14952b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
14962b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
14972b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
14982b188cc1SJens Axboe
1499d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1500d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1501d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1502d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1503d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1504d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1505d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1506d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1507d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1508d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
15095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
15105b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
15115b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
15125b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
15135b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
15145b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
15155b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
15165b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
15175b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
15185b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
15195b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
15205b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1529d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1530d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1531d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1532d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1533d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1534d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1540d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1541d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1542d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1543d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1544d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1545d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1551d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1552d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1553d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1554a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1555d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1556d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1557d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1558d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1559d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1560d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1561d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1562d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1564d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1565d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1566d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1567d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1575bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1581290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1582290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1583290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1584290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1585290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1586290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1587290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
15953ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
15963ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
15973ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
159870216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
159970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
160070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1601d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1602d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1603d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1604d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1605d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1606d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1607d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1608d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1609d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1610d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1611d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1612d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1613d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1614d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1615d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1616d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1617d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1618d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1619d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1620d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1621d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1622d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1623d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
16246befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16256befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16265d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16276befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
16286befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
16296befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
16306befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
16316befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
16326befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1633cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
16340793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1635018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1636018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
16370793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1638906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1639906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1640906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1641906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1642906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1643ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1644424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1645ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1646ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1647ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1648ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1649ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
165057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
16510793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1652cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
165357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1654392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1655cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1656e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
165783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
16580793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
165957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
166057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
16610793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1662dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
166357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
166457c0c15bSIngo Molnar
166557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
166657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
16670793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
16680793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
16690793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
16700793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
16710793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
16720793a61dSThomas Gleixner
167357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1674dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
167557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16760793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16770793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16780793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16790793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16800793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1681906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1682906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1683906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1684cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1685906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1686906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1687906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1688906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1689906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1690906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1691906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1692906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1693906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16940793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16950793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1696f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1697f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1699f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
17002aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
17012aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
17026a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
17032aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1704f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
170541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
170641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
17076a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1708f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
170941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
171041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
171141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
171241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
171341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
171441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
17151663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
17161663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
17171663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
17181663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
17191663f26dSTejun Heo	help
17201663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
17211663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
17221663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
17231663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
17241663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
17251663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
17261663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
17271663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
17281663f26dSTejun Heo
1729b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1730b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1731b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1732b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1733b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1734b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1735b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1736692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1737b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1738b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1739b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1740b943c460SRandy Dunlap
174181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
174281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1743a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
174481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
174581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
174681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
174781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
174881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
174904385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
175081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
175181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
175234013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
175302f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
175481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
175581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
175681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1757ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
175881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
175981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
176081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
176181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
176281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
176302f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
176402f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
176581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
176681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
17676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
176881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
176981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
177037291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
177137291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
177237291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
177381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
177481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
177581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
17767660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
17777660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
17787660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
17797660a6fdSKees Cook	help
17807660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
17817660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
17827660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
17837660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
17847660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
17857660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
17867660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
17877660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
17887660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
17897660a6fdSKees Cook
1790c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1791c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1792210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1793c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1794c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1795210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1796c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1797c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1798c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
17992482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
18002482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
18012482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
18022482ddecSKees Cook	help
18032482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
18042482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
18052482ddecSKees Cook	  sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
18062482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
18072482ddecSKees Cook
1808e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1809e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1810e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1811e900a918SDan Williams	help
1812e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1813e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1814e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1815e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1816e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1817e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1818e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1819e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1820e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1821e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1822e900a918SDan Williams
1823e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1824e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1825e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1826e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1827e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1828e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1829e900a918SDan Williams
1830e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1831e900a918SDan Williams
1832345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1833345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1834b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1835345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1836345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1837345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1838345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1839345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1840345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1841345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1842345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1843ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1844ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
18456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1846ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1847ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1848ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
18493903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1850ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1851ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1852ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1853ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1854ea637639SJie Zhang
1855ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1856ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1857ea637639SJie Zhang
1858ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1859ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1860ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1861ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1862ea637639SJie Zhang
1863ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1864ea637639SJie Zhang
1865091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1866091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1867091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1868091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1869091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1870d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1871091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1872091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1873091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1874091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1875091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1876091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
187782c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1878091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1879091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1880091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1881091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
188282c04ff8SPeter Foley
1883125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1884b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1885125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1886125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1887125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1888125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
18895f87f112SIngo Molnar#
18905f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
18915f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
18925f87f112SIngo Molnar#
189397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
18945f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
189597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
18961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18981572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
18991572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1900ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
19016341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1902ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
19031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
19041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
190866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
191011097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
19161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
19171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19290b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
19300b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1931826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1932826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1933826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1934826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
193591e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
193691e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
193791e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1938826e4506SLinus Torvalds
19391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1944f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1945f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
194919c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
19580d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
196756067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
196856067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
196956067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
197056067812SArd Biesheuvel
19711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1982106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1983106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1984106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1985091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1986106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1987106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1988106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1989cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
1990106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1991228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1992228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1993228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1994228c37ffSDavid Howells
1995ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1996ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1997ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1998ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1999ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2000106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2001106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2002106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2003106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2004106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2005106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2006ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2007d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2008d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2009d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2010d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2011d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2012d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2013d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2014d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2015d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2016d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2017d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2018ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2019ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2020ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2021ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2022ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2023ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2024ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2025ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2026ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2027ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2028ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2029ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2030ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2031ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2032ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2033ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2034ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2035ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2036ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2037ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2038ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2039ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2040ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2041ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2042ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2043ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2044ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2045ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2046ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2047ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2048ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2049ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
205022753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
205122753674SMichal Marek	string
205222753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
205322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
205422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
205522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
205622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
205722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
205822753674SMichal Marek
2059beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2060beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2061beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
2062beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2063beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2064b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2065b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2066beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2067b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2068beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2069b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2070b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2071beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2072b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2073b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2074beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2075b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2076b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2077b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2078beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2079beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2080beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2081beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2082beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2083beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2084beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2085beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2086beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2087beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2088beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2089beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2090beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2091beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2092beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2093beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2094beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2095beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2096beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2097dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2098dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2099dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2100dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2101dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2102dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2103dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2104dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2105dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2106dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2107dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2108dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2109dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2110dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2111f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2112dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
21130b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
21140b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
21156c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
21166c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
21176c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
21186c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
211998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
212098a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
212198a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
21225f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
21235f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
212498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
212598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2126692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
212798a79d6aSRusty Russell
21283a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2129e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2130e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2131e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2132e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
213316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
213416295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
213516295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
213616295becSSteffen Klassert
21374520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
21384520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
21394520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
21404520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
21414520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
21424520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
21434520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
21444520c6a4SDavid Howells
21456beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2146e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2147e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2148e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
21491bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
21501bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
21517303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
21527303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
21537303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
21547303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
21557303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
21567303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
21571bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
21581bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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