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1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
2face4374SRoman Zippel	string
3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
4face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
547f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
6face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
747f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC
17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
26b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
27b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
28b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
29b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
31e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
32e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
331dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
341dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
351dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
36c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
37c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
38c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
39c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
40c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
41c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
42c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
43c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
44c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
45c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
46ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
58dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
59dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
6234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
644bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
654bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
66bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
694bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
704bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
714bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
724bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
734bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
744bb16672SJiri Slaby
754bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
764bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
774bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
784bb16672SJiri Slaby
791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
92ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
93aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
94aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
97aaebf433SRyan Anderson
98aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
100aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
102aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1109afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1119afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1129afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1139afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1149afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1159afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1169afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1179afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1189afb719eSLaura Abbott
1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1283ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1293ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1303ebe1243SLasse Collin
1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
134e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
135e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
136e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
137f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
138f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
139f16466afSVasily Gorbik
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
143f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1830a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1850a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1873ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1883ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1893ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1903ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1913ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1923ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1933ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1943ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1953ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1963ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1973ebe1243SLasse Collin
1983ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1993ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2003ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2013ebe1243SLasse Collin
2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2060a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
207681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
212e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
213e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
214e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
215e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
216e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
217e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
218e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
219e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
220e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
221e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
222f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
223f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
224f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
225f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
226f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
227f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
228f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
229f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
230f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
231f16466afSVasily Gorbik
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
234bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
235bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
236bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
237bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
238bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
239bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
240bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
241bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
242bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
24317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
24417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
24517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
24617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
24717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
24817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
24917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
25217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
275a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
276a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
277a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
278a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
279a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
280a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
28319c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
289b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
297bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
298bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
299bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
300bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
301bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
302bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
303226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
304226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
305226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
306226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
307226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
308226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
309226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
310a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
311226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
312226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
31369369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
31469369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
315b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
31669369a70SJosh Triplett	help
31769369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
31869369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
31969369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
32069369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
32169369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
32269369a70SJosh Triplett
3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
325804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
329cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
330cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3327a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3337a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3347a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
336cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3377a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
339939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
340939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
341939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
342939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
34474c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
34574c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
34663c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
34728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
34874c3cbe3SAl Viro
349d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
350764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
35187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
352d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
359fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
360fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
36102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
364fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
366c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
371fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
376c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
389ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
390554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
392abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
393abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
394abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
395abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
396abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
399abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
400abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
401abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
405b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
406b58c3584SRik van Riel
407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
409b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
410fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
415fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4202813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
44519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4472813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
45919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
461f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
47119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
48019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
4905c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
4915c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
492414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
4932c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
4945c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
4955c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
4965c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
4972c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
4982c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
4992c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5002c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5015c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5020af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
503c903ff83SMike Travis
504de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
505de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
506de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
507de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
509f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
510de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
528794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
529794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
530fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
531f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
532361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
533794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
53423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
53523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
53623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
53723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
53823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
539f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
540f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
541f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
542f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
543f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
544794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
545794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
546794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
54723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
54823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
5492240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
55023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
55123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
55223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
553361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
55423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
55523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
55623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
55723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
55823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
55923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
56023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
56123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
56223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
56323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
56423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
56523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
56623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
56723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
56823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
56923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
57023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
57123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
5725e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
5735e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
57423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
57523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
57623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
57723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
57823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
57923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
58023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
58123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
58223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
583f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
584f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
585427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
586427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
587f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
588427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
589f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
590f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
591f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
592f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
593f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
594427934b8SPetr Mladek
595f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
596427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
597427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
598427934b8SPetr Mladek
599427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
600427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
601427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
602427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
603427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
604427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
605427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
606427934b8SPetr Mladek
6075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
6095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
6115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
6125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
61338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
61438ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
61538ff87f7SStephen Boyd
616be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
617be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
618be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
619be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
620be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
621be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
622be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
623be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
62472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
62572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
62672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
62772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
62872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
62972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
63072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
63172b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
63272b252aeSMel Gorman
63372b252aeSMel Gorman#
634be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
635be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
636be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
637be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
638be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
639be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
640be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
641be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
642be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
643be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
644be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
645be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
646be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
647be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
648be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
649be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
650be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
651be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
652be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6536d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
654be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
655be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
656be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
6576f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
6586f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
6596f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
6606f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
6616f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
6626f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
6636f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
6646f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
66523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
6666341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
6672bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
668ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
66923964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
6705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
6715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
6725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
6735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
6749991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
67545ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
676ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
677ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
678ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
67923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
68023964d2dSLi Zefan
6813e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
6823e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
6833e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
684c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
685a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
6863e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
68779bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
68800f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
689a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
69000f0b825SBalbir Singh
691c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
692a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
693c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
694c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
695a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
696a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
697c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
698a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
699c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
700a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
701a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
702a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
703a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
70443d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
70507555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
706a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
707a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
708a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
70900a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
710c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
711*84c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
712*84c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
713*84c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
714*84c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
715*84c07d11SKirill Tkhai
7166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
7176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
7186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
7192bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
7206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
7226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
7236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
7242bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
7256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
7266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
7276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
7286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
729e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
7316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
7326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
7336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
7346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
7356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7369991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
7376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7386bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
7396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
7406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
7416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
7426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
7446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
7456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
7476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
7486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
7496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
750e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7517c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
752a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
7537c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
7547c941438SDhaval Giani	help
7557c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
7567c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
7577c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
7587c941438SDhaval Giani
7597c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
7607c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
7617c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
7627c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
7637c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
7647c941438SDhaval Giani
765ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
766ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
767ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
768ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
769ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
770ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
771ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
772ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
773ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
774cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
775ab84d31eSPaul Turner
7767c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
7777c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
7787c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
7797c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
7807c941438SDhaval Giani	help
7817c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
78232bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
7837c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
7847c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
7857c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
7867c941438SDhaval Giani
7877c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
7887c941438SDhaval Giani
7896bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
7906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
7916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
7926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
7936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
7946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
7986cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
7996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
8016cc578dfSParav Pandit	  to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
8026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
80539d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
80639d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
80739d3e758SParav Pandit	help
80839d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
80939d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
81039d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
81139d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
81239d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
81339d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
81439d3e758SParav Pandit
8156bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
8206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
821489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
822489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
823489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
824489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
825489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
8266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
8286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
830afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
8316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
841afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8426bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
844e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
8486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
850afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
852afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
85689e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
85789e9b9e0STejun Heo
8586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8646bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8706bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
88030070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
88130070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
882483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
883483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
88430070984SDaniel Mack	help
88530070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
88630070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
88730070984SDaniel Mack
88830070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
88930070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
89030070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
89130070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
89230070984SDaniel Mack
8936bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
89423b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
89623b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
89923b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
90023b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
90123b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
9026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
90573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
90673b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
90773b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
90873b35147SArnd Bergmann
90923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
910c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
9126a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
9132813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
9146a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
915c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
916c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
917c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
918c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
919c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
920c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
9218dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
9228dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
92358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
92458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
92517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
92658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
92758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
92858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
92958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
930ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
931ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
9328dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
93317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
934ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
935ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
936614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
937ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
938aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
93919c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
9405673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
941aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
942aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
943aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
944e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
945e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
946d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
947d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
948d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
949e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
950aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
951aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
95274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
9539bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
95417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
95574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
95612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
957692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
95874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
95974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
960d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
961d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
9628dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
96317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
964d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
965d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
966d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
967d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
9688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
9698dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
9705091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
9715091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
9725091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
9735091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
9745091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9755091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
9765091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
9775091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
9785091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
9795091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
9805091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
9815091faa4SMike Galbraith
9827af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
9835d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
9847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
9857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
9867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
9877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
9887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
9897af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
9907af37becSDaniel Lezcano
9917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
9927af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
9937af37becSDaniel Lezcano
9947af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
9957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
9967af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
9977af37becSDaniel Lezcano
9987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
9997af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
10007af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
10017af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10027af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10037af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
10047af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10057af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
10065d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
10077af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10087af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10097af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10107af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10117af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
10127af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10137af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
10147af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
10157af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10167af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10177af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
10187af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
10197af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10207af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
10217af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
102226b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
10237af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10247af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
10257af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
10267af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
10277af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
10287af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
10297af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10307af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
10317af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1032f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1033f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1034f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1035f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1036f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1037f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1038f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
10398c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1040f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1041f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1042f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1043f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1044f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1045f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1046f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1047c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1048c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1049dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1050dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1051c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1052c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1053877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1054877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
10552cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1056877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1057877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1058877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1059877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1060877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1061877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1062877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1063877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1064c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
106596fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1066c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
106731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
106831a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1069c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
10703a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1071c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1072877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1073877417e6SArnd Bergmann
10745d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
10755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
10765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
10775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
10785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
10795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
10805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
10815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
10825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
10835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
10845d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
10855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
10865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
10875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
10885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
10898b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
10908b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
10918b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
10925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
10935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
10945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
10955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
10965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
10975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
10985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
10995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11000847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
11010847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
11020847062aSRandy Dunlap
1103b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1104b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1105b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1106657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1107657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1108657a5209SMike Frysinger
1109657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1110657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1111657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1112657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1113657a5209SMike Frysinger
1114657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1115657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1116657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1117657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1118657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1119657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1120657a5209SMike Frysinger
1121657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1122657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1123657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1124657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1125657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1126657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1127657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1128657a5209SMike Frysinger
1129657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1130657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1131657a5209SMike Frysinger
1132f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1133f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1134f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1135f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
11366a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
11376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1138f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1139f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1146ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
11476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
11482813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1149ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1150ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1151ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1152ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
11532813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
11542813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
11552813893fSIulia Manda	default y
11562813893fSIulia Manda	help
11572813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
11582813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
11592813893fSIulia Manda
11602813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
11612813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
11622813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
11632813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
11642813893fSIulia Manda
11652813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
11662813893fSIulia Manda
1167f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1168f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1169a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1170f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1171f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1172f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1173f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1174f6187769SFabian Frederick
1175f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1176f6187769SFabian Frederick
11776af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
11786af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
11796af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
11806af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
11816af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
11826af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
11836af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
11846af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
11856af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
11866af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1187b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
11886a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
118926a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1190c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1191b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1192b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
119313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
119413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
119513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
119613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1197b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
119813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
119913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
120013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1201b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1202c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1203ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1204d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1205d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1206d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1207d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1208d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1209d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1210d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1211d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1212d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1213d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1214d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1215d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1216d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1217baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1218baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1219baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1220baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1221baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1222baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1223baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1224baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1225baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1226baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1227baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1228baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1229baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1230baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1231baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1232baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1233baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1234d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1235d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
12366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
123774876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1238d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1239d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1240d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1241d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1242d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1243d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1244d59745ceSMatt Mackall
124542a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
124642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
124742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
124842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
124942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1250c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
12516a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1252c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1253c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1254c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1255c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1256c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1257c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1258c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1259c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1260708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1261046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1262708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
12636a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1264708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1265708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1266708e9a79SMatt Mackall
12678761f1abSRalf Baechle
1268e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
12696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
12708761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
127115f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1272e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1273e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1274e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1275e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1276e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
12771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
12796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
12866a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1288bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1294bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1295bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1296bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1297bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1298bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
129903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
130003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
130162b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
130203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
130303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
130403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
130503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
130603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
13071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13086a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1310448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1315fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1317448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1318fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1319fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1320fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1321fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1322fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1323fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1324fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1325b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
13266a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1327448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1328b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1329b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1330b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1331b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1332b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1333b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1334b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1335e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
13366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1337448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1338e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1339e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1340e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1341e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1342e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1343e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1344e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
13451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
13466a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1356ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
13576a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1358ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1359ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1360ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1361ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1362ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1363ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1364d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1365d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1366d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1367d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1368d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1369d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1370d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1371d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1372d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1373d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
13745b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
13755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
13765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
13775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
13785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
13795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
13805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
13815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
13825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
13835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
13845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
13855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1386d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1387d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1388d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select PROC_CHILDREN
1389d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1390d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1391d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1394d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  entries.
1395d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1396d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If unsure, say N here.
1397d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1398d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1399d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1400d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1401d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1402d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1403d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1404d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1405d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1406d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1407d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1408d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1409d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1410d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1411d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1412d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1413d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1414d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1415d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1416d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1417d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1418d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1419d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1420d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1421d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1422d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1423d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1424d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1425d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1426d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1427d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1428d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1429d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1430d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1431a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1432d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1433d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1434d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1435d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1436d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1437d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1438d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1439d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1440d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1441d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1442d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1443d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1444d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1453bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1458d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1459290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1460290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1461290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1462290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1463290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1464290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1465290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1466d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
14743ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
14753ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
14763ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
147770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
147870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
147970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1480d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1481d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1482d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1483d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1484d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1485d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1486d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1487d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1488d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1489d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1490d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1491d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1492d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1493d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1494d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1495d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1496d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1497d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1498d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1499d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1500d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1501d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1502d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
15036befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
15046befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
15055d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
15066befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
15076befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
15086befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
15096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
15106befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
15116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1512cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15130793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1514018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1515018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
15160793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1517906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1518906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1519906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1520906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1521906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1522ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1523424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1524ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1525ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1526ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1527ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1528ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
152957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
15300793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1531cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
153257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1533392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1534cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15354c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1536e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
153783fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
15380793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
153957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
154057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
15410793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1542dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
154357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
154457c0c15bSIngo Molnar
154557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
154657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
15470793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
15480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
15490793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
15500793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
15510793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
15520793a61dSThomas Gleixner
155357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1554dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
155557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
15560793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
15570793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
15580793a61dSThomas Gleixner
15590793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
15600793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1561906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1562906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1563906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1564cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1565906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1566906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1567906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1568906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1569906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1570906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1571906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1572906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1573906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
15740793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
15750793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1576f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1577f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
15786a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1579f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
15802aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
15812aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
15826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
15832aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1584f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
158541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
158641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
15876a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1588f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
158941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
159041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
159141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
159241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
159341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
159441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
15951663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
15961663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
15971663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
15981663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
15991663f26dSTejun Heo	help
16001663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
16011663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
16021663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
16031663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
16041663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
16051663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
16061663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
16071663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
16081663f26dSTejun Heo
1609b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1610b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1611b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1612b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1613b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1614b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1615b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1616692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1617b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1618b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1619b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1620b943c460SRandy Dunlap
162181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
162281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1623a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
162481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
162581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
162681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
162781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
162881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
162904385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
163081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
163181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
163234013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
163302f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
163481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
163581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
163681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1637ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
163881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
163981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
164081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
164181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
164281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
164302f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
164402f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
164581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
164681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
16476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
164881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
164981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
165037291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
165137291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
165237291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
165381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
165481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
165581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
16567660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
16577660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
16587660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
16597660a6fdSKees Cook	help
16607660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
16617660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
16627660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
16637660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
16647660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
16657660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
16667660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
16677660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
16687660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
16697660a6fdSKees Cook
1670c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1671c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1672210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1673c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1674c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1675210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1676c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1677c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1678c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
16792482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
16802482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
16812482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
16822482ddecSKees Cook	help
16832482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
16842482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
16852482ddecSKees Cook	  sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
16862482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
16872482ddecSKees Cook
1688345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1689345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1690b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1691345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1692345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1693345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1694345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1695345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1696345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1697345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1698345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1699ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1700ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17016a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1702ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1703ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1704ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1705ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1706ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1707ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1708ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1709ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1710ea637639SJie Zhang
1711ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1712ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1713ea637639SJie Zhang
1714ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1715ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1716ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1717ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1718ea637639SJie Zhang
1719ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1720ea637639SJie Zhang
1721091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1722091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1723091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1724091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1725091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1726d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1727091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1728091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1729091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1730091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1731091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1732091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
173382c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1734091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1735091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1736091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1737091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
173882c04ff8SPeter Foley
1739125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1740b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1741125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1742125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1743125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1744125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
17455f87f112SIngo Molnar#
17465f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
17475f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
17485f87f112SIngo Molnar#
174997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
17505f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
175197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
17521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17541572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
17551572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1756ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
17576341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1758ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
17591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
176466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
176611097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17850b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
17860b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1787826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1788826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1789826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1790826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
179191e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
179291e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
179391e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1794826e4506SLinus Torvalds
17951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1800f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1801f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
180519c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
18140d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
182356067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
182456067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
182556067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
182656067812SArd Biesheuvel
18271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1838106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1839106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1840106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1841091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1842106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1843106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1844106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1845cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
1846106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1847228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1848228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1849228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1850228c37ffSDavid Howells
1851ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1852ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1853ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1854ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1855ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1856106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1857106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1858106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1859106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1860106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1861106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1862ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1863d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1864d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1865d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1866d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1867d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1868d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1869d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1870d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1871d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1872d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1873d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1874ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1875ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1876ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1877ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1878ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1879ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1880ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1881ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1882ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1883ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1884ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1885ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1886ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1887ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1888ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1889ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1890ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1891ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1892ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1893ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1894ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1895ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1896ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1897ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1898ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1899ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1900ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1901ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1902ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1903ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1904ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1905ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
190622753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
190722753674SMichal Marek	string
190822753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
190922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
191022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
191122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
191222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
191322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
191422753674SMichal Marek
1915beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
1916beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
1917beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
1918beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1919beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1920b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1921b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
1922beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1923b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
1924beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1925b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1926b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
1927beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1928b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1929b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
1930beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1931b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1932b6c09b51SRusty Russell
1933b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
1934beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1935beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
1936beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
1937beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1938beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1939beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1940beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1941beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
1942beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1943beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1944beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1945beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1946beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
1947beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1948beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1949beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
1950beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1951beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
1952beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1953dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
1954dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
1955dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
1956dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
1957dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
1958dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
1959dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
1960dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
1961dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
1962dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
1963dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
1964dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
1965dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
1966dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
1967f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
1968dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
19690b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
19700b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
19716c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
19726c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
19736c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
19746c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
197598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
197698a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
197798a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
19785f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
19795f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
198098a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
198198a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1982692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
198398a79d6aSRusty Russell
19843a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1985e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1986e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1987e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1988e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
198916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
199016295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
199116295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
199216295becSSteffen Klassert
19934520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
19944520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
19954520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
19964520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
19974520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
19984520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
19994520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20004520c6a4SDavid Howells
20016beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2002e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2003e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2004e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
20051bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
20061bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
20077303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
20087303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
20097303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
20107303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
20117303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
20127303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
20131bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
20141bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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