1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 11face4374SRoman Zippel 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 271a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 281a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 291a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 30e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 31e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 32e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 335cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 342d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 355cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 36eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 37eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 38eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized) 41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC >= 4.7 supports this option. 43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada bool 46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9 48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 49b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition. 50b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases. 51b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 52b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed 53b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings. 54b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 55b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 56b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 57b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 58e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 59e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 60e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 611dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 621dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 631dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 66c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 67c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 68c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 69c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 70c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 71c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 72c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 73c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 74ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 86dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 87dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 9034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 924bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 934bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 94bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 954bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 964bb16672SJiri Slaby help 974bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 984bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 994bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1004bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1014bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1024bb16672SJiri Slaby 1034bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1044bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1054bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1064bb16672SJiri Slaby 107d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 108d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 109fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 110d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 111d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 112d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 113d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 114d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 115d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 116d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 127aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 128aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 129aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 130ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 131aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 132aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1336e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 135aaebf433SRyan Anderson 136aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1376e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 138aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1396e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 140aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1416e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1426e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1436e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1446e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1456e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1466e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 147aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1489afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1499afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1509afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1519afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1529afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1539afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1549afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1559afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1569afb719eSLaura Abbott 1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1663ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1673ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1683ebe1243SLasse Collin 1697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 172e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 173e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 174e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 175f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 176f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 177f16466afSVasily Gorbik 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 181f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 19030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2120a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2210a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2220a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2230a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2253ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2263ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2273ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2283ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2293ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2303ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2313ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2323ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2333ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2343ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2353ebe1243SLasse Collin 2363ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2373ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2383ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2393ebe1243SLasse Collin 2407dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2417dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2427dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2437dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2440a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 245681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2467dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 248e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 249e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 250e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 251e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 252e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 253e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 254e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 255e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 256e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 257e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 258e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 259e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 260f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 261f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 262f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 263f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 264f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 265f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 266f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 267f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 268f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 269f16466afSVasily Gorbik 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 27130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 272bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 273bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 274bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 275bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 276bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 277bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 278bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 279bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 280bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 28117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 28217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 28317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 28417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 28517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 28617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 28717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 29017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 313a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 314a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 315a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 316a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 317a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 318a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 32119c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 327b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 335bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 336bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 337bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 338bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 339bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 340bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 341226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 342226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 343226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 344226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 345226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 346226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 347226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 348a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 349226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 350226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 35169369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 35269369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 353b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 35469369a70SJosh Triplett help 35569369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 35669369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 35769369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 35869369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 35969369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 36069369a70SJosh Triplett 3611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 363804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 367cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 368cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3707a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3717a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3727a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 374cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3757a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 37628a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 37774c3cbe3SAl Viro 378d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 379764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 38087a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 381d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 39002fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 395c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 405c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 416abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 417abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 418ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 419554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 420041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 422abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 423abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 424abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 425abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 427abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 429abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 430abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 433abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 435b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 436b58c3584SRik van Riel 437fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 438fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 439b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 440fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 441fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 442fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 443fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 444fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 44811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 44911d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 45011d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 45111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 45211d4afd4SVincent Guittot 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4552813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4743903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 48019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4822813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 49419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 496f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 50619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 51519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 523eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 524eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 525eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 526eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 527eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 528eb414681SJohannes Weiner 529eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 530eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 531eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 532eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 533eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5342ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5352ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5362ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5372ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 538c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 539eb414681SJohannes Weiner 540eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 541eb414681SJohannes Weiner 542e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 543e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 544e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 545e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 546e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 547e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 548428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 549428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 550e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5517b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5527b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5547b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5557b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5567b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5577b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5645c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5655c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 566414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5672c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5685c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5695c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5705c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5712c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5722c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5732c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5742c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5755c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5760af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 577c903ff83SMike Travis 578de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 579de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 580de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 581de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 583f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 602f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 603f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 60443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 605f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 606f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 607f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 608f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 60943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 610794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 611794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 612fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 613f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 614361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 615794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 61623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 61723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 61823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 61923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 621f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 622f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 623f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 624f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 625f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 626794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 627794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 628794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6312240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 635361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6545e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6555e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 665f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 666f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 667427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 668427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 669f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 670427934b8SPetr Mladek help 671f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 672f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 673f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 674f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 675f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 676427934b8SPetr Mladek 677f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 678427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 679427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 680427934b8SPetr Mladek 681427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 682427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 683427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 684427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 685427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 686427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 687427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 688427934b8SPetr Mladek 6895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 69538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 69638ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 69738ff87f7SStephen Boyd 69869842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 69969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 70169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 70269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 70369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 70469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 70569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 70669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 70869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 70969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 71069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 71169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 751be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 752be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 753be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 754be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 755be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 756be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 757be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 758be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 75972b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 76072b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 76172b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 76272b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 76372b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 76472b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 76572b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 76672b252aeSMel Gorman bool 76772b252aeSMel Gorman 768c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 769c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel def_bool y 770c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel depends on !$(cc-option,-D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) 771c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 77272b252aeSMel Gorman# 773be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 774be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 775be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 776be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 777be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 778be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 779be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 780be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 787be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 7926d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7966f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7976f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7986f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 7996f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8006f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8016f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8026f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8036f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 80423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8056341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8062bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 807ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 80823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 812d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 813da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 81445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 815ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 816ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 817ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 81823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 81923964d2dSLi Zefan 8203e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8213e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8223e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 823c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 824a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8253e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 82679bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 82700f0b825SBalbir Singh help 828a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 82900f0b825SBalbir Singh 830c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 831a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 832c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 833c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 834a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 835a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 836c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 837a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 838c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 839a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 840a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 841a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 842a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 84343d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 84407555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 845a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 846a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 847a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 84800a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 849c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 85084c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 85184c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 85284c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 85384c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 85484c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8582bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8632bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 868e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 875da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 881e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8827c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 883a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8847c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8857c941438SDhaval Giani help 8867c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8877c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8887c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8897c941438SDhaval Giani 8907c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8917c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8927c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8937c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8947c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8957c941438SDhaval Giani 896ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 897ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 898ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 899ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 900ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 901ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 902ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 903ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 904ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 905d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 906ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9077c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9087c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9097c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9107c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9117c941438SDhaval Giani help 9127c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 91332bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9147c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9157c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 916d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9177c941438SDhaval Giani 9187c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9197c941438SDhaval Giani 9202480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9212480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9222480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9232480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9242480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9252480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9262480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9272480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9282480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9292480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9302480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9312480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9322480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9332480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9342480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9352480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9362480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9372480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9382480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9392480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9402480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9412480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9426bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9516cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 95498076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 95839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 95939d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 96039d3e758SParav Pandit help 96139d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 96239d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 96339d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 96439d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 96539d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 96639d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 96739d3e758SParav Pandit 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 974489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 975489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 976489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 977489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 978489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 983afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 994afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 997e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1003afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1005afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 100989e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 101089e9b9e0STejun Heo 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 103330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 103430070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1035483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1036483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 103730070984SDaniel Mack help 103830070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 103930070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 104030070984SDaniel Mack 104130070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 104230070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 104330070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 104430070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 104530070984SDaniel Mack 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 104723b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 104923b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 105223b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 105323b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 105423b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 105873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 105973b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 106073b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 106173b35147SArnd Bergmann 106223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1063c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10662813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10676a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1068c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1069c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1070c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1071c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1072c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1073c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10748dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 107658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 107758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 107817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 107958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 108058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 108158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 108258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1083*769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1084*769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1085*769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1086*769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1087*769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1088*769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1089*769071acSAndrei Vagin 1090ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1091ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 109317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1094ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1095ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1096614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1097ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1098aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 109919c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11005673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1101aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1102aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1103aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1104e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1105e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1106d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1107d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1108d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1109e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1110aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1111aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 111274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11139bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 111417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 111574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 111612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1117692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 111874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 111974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1120d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1121d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11228dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 112317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1124d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1125d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1126d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1127d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11288dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11298dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11305cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11315cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11325cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11335cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11345cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11355cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11365cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11375cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11385cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11395cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11405cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11415cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11425091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11435091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11445091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11455091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11465091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11475091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11485091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11495091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11505091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11515091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11525091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11535091faa4SMike Galbraith 11547af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11555d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11785d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 119426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1204f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1205f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1206f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1207f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1208f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1209f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1210f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12118c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1212f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1213f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1214f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1215f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1216f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1219c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1220c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1221dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1222dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1223c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1224c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1225877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1226877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12272cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1228877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1229877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 123015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1231877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1232877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1233877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1234877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1235877417e6SArnd Bergmann 123615f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 123715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 123815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1239b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 1240c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 124115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 124215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1243c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12445d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 124515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 12465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 12475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 1248ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1249ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1250c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1251877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1252877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12535d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12635d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 126716fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1268e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1269e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12718b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12728b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12738b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12820847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12830847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12840847062aSRandy Dunlap 1285657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1286657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1287657a5209SMike Frysinger 1288657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1289657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1290657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1291657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1292657a5209SMike Frysinger 1293657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1294657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1295657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1296657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1297657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1298657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1299657a5209SMike Frysinger 1300657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1301657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1302657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1303657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1304657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1305657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1306657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1307657a5209SMike Frysinger 1308657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1309657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1310657a5209SMike Frysinger 1311f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1312f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1313f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1314f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13156a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1317f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1318f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1325ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13272813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1328ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1329ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1330ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1331ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13322813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13332813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13342813893fSIulia Manda default y 13352813893fSIulia Manda help 13362813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13372813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13382813893fSIulia Manda 13392813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13402813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13412813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13422813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13432813893fSIulia Manda 13442813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13452813893fSIulia Manda 1346f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1347f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1348a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1349f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1350f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1351f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1352f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1353f6187769SFabian Frederick 1354f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1355f6187769SFabian Frederick 13566af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13576af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13586af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1366d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1367d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1368d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1375d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1376d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1377d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1378d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1379baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1380baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1381baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1382baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1383baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1384baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1385baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1386baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1387baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1388baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1389baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1390baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1391baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1392baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1393baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1394baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1395baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1396d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1397d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 139974876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1400d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1401d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1402d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1403d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1404d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1405d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1406d59745ceSMatt Mackall 140742a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 140842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 140942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 141042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 141142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1412c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1414c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1415c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1416c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1417c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1418c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1419c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1420c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1421c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1422708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1423046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1424708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1426708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1427708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1428708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14298761f1abSRalf Baechle 1430e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14328761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 143315f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1434e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1435e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1436e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1437e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1438e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1450bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1456bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1457bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1458bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1459bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1460bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 146103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 146203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 146362b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 146403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 146503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 146603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 146703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 146803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1476fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1478fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1479fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1480fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1481fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1482fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1483fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1484fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1485b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1487b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1488b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1489b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1490b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1491b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1492b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1493b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1494e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1496e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1497e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1498e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1499e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1500e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1501e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1502e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1514ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1516ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1517ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1518ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1519ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1520ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1521ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15222b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15232b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 15242b188cc1SJens Axboe select ANON_INODES 1525561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15262b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15272b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15282b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15292b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15302b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15312b188cc1SJens Axboe 1532d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1533d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1534d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1535d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1536d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1537d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1538d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1539d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1540d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1541d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15465b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1554d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1555d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1556d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1557d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1558d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1559d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1560d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1561d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1562d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1564d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1565d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1566d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1567d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1587a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1608bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1614290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1615290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1616290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1617290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1618290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1619290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1620290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16283ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16293ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16303ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 163170216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 163270216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 163370216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1634d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1635d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1636d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1637d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1638d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1639d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1640d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1641d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1642d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1643d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1644d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1645d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1646d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1647d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1648d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1649d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1650d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1651d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1652d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1653d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1654d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1655d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1656d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16576befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16586befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16595d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16606befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16616befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16626befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16636befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16646befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16656befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1666cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16670793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1668018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1669018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16700793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1671906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1672906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1673906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1674906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1675906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1676ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1677424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1678ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1679ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1680ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1681ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1682ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 168357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 16840793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1685cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 168657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1687392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1688cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1689e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 169083fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16910793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 169257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 169357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16940793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1695dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 169657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 169757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 169857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 169957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17000793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17010793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17020793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17030793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17040793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17050793a61dSThomas Gleixner 170657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1707dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 170857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17090793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17100793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17120793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17130793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1714906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1715906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1716906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1717cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1718906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1719906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1720906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1721906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1722906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1723906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1724906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1725906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1726906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17270793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17280793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1729f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1730f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1732f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17332aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17342aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17356a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17362aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1737f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 173841ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 173941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1741f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 174241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 174341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 174441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 174541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 174641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 174741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17481663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17491663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17501663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17511663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17521663f26dSTejun Heo help 17531663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17541663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17551663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17561663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17571663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17581663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17591663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17601663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17611663f26dSTejun Heo 1762b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1763b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1764b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1765b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1766b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1767b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1768b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1769692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1770b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1771b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1772b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1773b943c460SRandy Dunlap 177481819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 177581819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1776a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 177781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 177881819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 177981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 178081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 178181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 178204385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 178381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 178481819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 178534013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 178602f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 178781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 178881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 178981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1790ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 179181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 179281819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 179381819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 179481819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 179581819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 179602f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 179702f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 179881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 179981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18006a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 180181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 180281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 180337291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 180437291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 180537291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 180681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 180781819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 180881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18097660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18107660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18117660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18127660a6fdSKees Cook help 18137660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18147660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18157660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18167660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18177660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18187660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18197660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18207660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18217660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18227660a6fdSKees Cook 1823c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1824c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1825210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1826c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1827c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1828210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1829c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1830c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1831c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18322482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18332482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18342482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18352482ddecSKees Cook help 18362482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18372482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 183892bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18392482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18402482ddecSKees Cook 1841e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1842e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1843e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1844e900a918SDan Williams help 1845e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1846e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1847e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1848e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1849e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1850e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1851e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1852e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1853e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1854e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1855e900a918SDan Williams 1856e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1857e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1858e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1859e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1860e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1861e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1862e900a918SDan Williams 1863e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1864e900a918SDan Williams 1865345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1866345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1867b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1868345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1869345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 187092bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1871345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1872345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1873345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1874345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1875345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1876ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1877ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 18786a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1879ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1880ea637639SJie Zhang help 1881ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 18823903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1883ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1884ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1885ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1886ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1887ea637639SJie Zhang 1888ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1889ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1890ea637639SJie Zhang 1891ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1892ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1893ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1894ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1895ea637639SJie Zhang 1896ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1897ea637639SJie Zhang 1898091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1899091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1900091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1901091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1902091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1903d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1904091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1905091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1906091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1907091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1908091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1909091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 191082c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1911091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1912091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1913091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1914091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 191582c04ff8SPeter Foley 1916125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1917b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1918125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1919125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1920125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1921125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19225f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19235f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19245f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19255f87f112SIngo Molnar# 192697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19275f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 192897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19311572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19321572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1933ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19346341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1935ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1941c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1942c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1943c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1944c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 194566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 194711097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19660b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19670b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1968826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1969826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1970826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1971826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 197291e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 197391e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 197491e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1975826e4506SLinus Torvalds 19761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1981f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1982f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 198619c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 19950d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20042ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20052ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20062ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20072ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20082ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20092ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20102ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20112ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 201256067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 201356067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 201456067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 201556067812SArd Biesheuvel 20161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2027106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2028106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2029c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2030106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2031106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2032106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2033cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2034106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2035228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2036228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2037228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2038228c37ffSDavid Howells 203949fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 204049fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 204149fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 204249fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 204349fcf732SDavid Howells 2044ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2045ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2046ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2047ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2048ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2049106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2050106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2051106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2052106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2053106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2054106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2055ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2056d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2057d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2058d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2059d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2060d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2061d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2062d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2063d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2064d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2065d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2066d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2067ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2068ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2069ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2070ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2071ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2075ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2076ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2077ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2078ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2079ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2080ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2081ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2082ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2083ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2084ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2085ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2086ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2087ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2088ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2089ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2090ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2091ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2092ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2093ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 209922753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 210022753674SMichal Marek string 210122753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 210222753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 210322753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 210422753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 210522753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 210622753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 210722753674SMichal Marek 2108beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2109beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2110beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2111beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2112b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2113b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2114beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2115b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2116beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2117b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2118b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2119beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2120b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2121b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2122beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2123b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2124b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2125b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2126beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2127beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2128beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2129beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2130beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2131beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2132beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2133beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2134beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2135beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2136beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2137beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2138beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2139beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2140beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2141beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2142beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2143beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2144beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21453d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21463d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21473d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21483d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21493d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21503d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21513d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21523d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21533d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21543d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21553d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21563d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21573d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2158efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2159efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2160efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2161efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2162efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2163efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2164efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2165efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2166efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2167efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2168efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2169efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2170efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2171efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2172efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2173efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2174dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2175dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2176d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2177dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2178dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2179dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2180dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2181dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2182dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2183dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2184dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2185dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2186dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2187dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2188f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2189dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 21900b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 21910b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 21926c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 21936c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 21946c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 21956c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 219698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 219798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 219898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21995f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22005f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 220198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 220298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2203692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 220498a79d6aSRusty Russell 22053a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2206e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2207e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2208e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2209e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 221016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 221116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 221216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 221316295becSSteffen Klassert 22144520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22154520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22164520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22174520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22184520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22194520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22204520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22214520c6a4SDavid Howells 22226beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2223e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2224e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2225e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22261bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22271bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22287303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22297303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22307303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22317303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22327303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22337303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22341bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22351bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2236