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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT
128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	string
138b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)"
148b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	help
158b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  This is used in unclear ways:
168b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
178b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated
188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    The 'default' property references the environment variable,
198b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd.
208b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked.
218b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
228b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  - Ensure full rebuild when the compier is updated
238b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    include/linux/kconfig.h contains this option in the comment line so
248b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the auto-generated
258b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig will touch it
268b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    and then every file will be rebuilt.
278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
29e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q gcc)
30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
33fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
369553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION
379553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap	int
389553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap	default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh)
399553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap
40469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
41e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q clang)
42469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
43b744b43fSSami Tolvanenconfig LD_IS_LLD
44b744b43fSSami Tolvanen	def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD)
45b744b43fSSami Tolvanen
46469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
47469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
48469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
49469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
50d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION
51d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	int
52d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/lld-version.sh $(LD))
53d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor
541a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
559371f86eSMasahiro Yamada	bool
56b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
57b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag))
581a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
59b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
60b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	bool
61b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
62b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static)
63c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
64e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
65e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
66e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
67587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
68587f1701SNick Desaulniers	depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
69587f1701SNick Desaulniers	def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
70587f1701SNick Desaulniers
715cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
722d122942SWill Deacon	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
735cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
74eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
75eb111869SRasmus Villemoes	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
76eb111869SRasmus Villemoes
77b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
78b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
79b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
80e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
81e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
82e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
8310916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
841dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
851dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
86c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
87c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
88c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
89c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
90c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
91c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
92c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
93c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
94c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
95c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
96ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
108dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
109dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
11234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1144bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
1154bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
116334ef6edSHeiko Carstens	depends on !UML && !S390
1174bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
1184bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
1194bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
1204bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
1214bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
1224bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
1234bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1244bb16672SJiri Slaby
1254bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1264bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1274bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1284bb16672SJiri Slaby
129d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
131fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
132d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
133d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
134d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
136d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
137d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
138d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
149aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
150aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
151aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
152ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
153aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
154aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1556e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
157aaebf433SRyan Anderson
158aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1596e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
160aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
162aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1636e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1656e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1666e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1676e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1686e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
169aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1709afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1719afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1729afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1739afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1749afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1759afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1769afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1779afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1789afb719eSLaura Abbott
1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1883ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1893ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1903ebe1243SLasse Collin
1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
19748f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
19848f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool
19948f7ddf7SNick Terrell
200f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
201f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
202f16466afSVasily Gorbik
20330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
20648f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2297dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2342e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
23530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2370a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
24230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
24330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
24530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2460a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2470a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2480a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2503ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2513ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2523ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2533ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2543ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2553ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2563ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2573ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2583ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2593ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2603ebe1243SLasse Collin
2613ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2623ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2633ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2643ebe1243SLasse Collin
2657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2687dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2690a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
270681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
275e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
276e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
280e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
281e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
282e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
283e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
28548f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD
28648f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool "ZSTD"
28748f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
28848f7ddf7SNick Terrell	help
28948f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression
29048f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and
29148f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You
29248f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command
29348f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  line tool is required for compression.
29448f7ddf7SNick Terrell
295f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
296f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
297f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
298f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
299f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
300f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
301f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
302f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
303f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
304f16466afSVasily Gorbik
30530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
30630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
307ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT
308ada4ab7aSChris Down	string "Default init path"
309ada4ab7aSChris Down	default ""
310ada4ab7aSChris Down	help
311ada4ab7aSChris Down	  This option determines the default init for the system if no init=
312ada4ab7aSChris Down	  option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is
313ada4ab7aSChris Down	  not present, we will still then move on to attempting further
314ada4ab7aSChris Down	  locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use
315ada4ab7aSChris Down	  the fallback list when init= is not passed.
316ada4ab7aSChris Down
317bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
318bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
319bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
320bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
321bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
322bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
323bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
324bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
325bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
32617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
32717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
32817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
32917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
33017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
33117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
33217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
33517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
345a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
358a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
359a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
360a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
361a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
362a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
363a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
36619c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
367a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
372b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
380bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
381bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
382bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
383bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
384bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
385bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
386c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE
387c73be61cSDavid Howells	bool "General notification queue"
388c73be61cSDavid Howells	default n
389c73be61cSDavid Howells	help
390c73be61cSDavid Howells
391c73be61cSDavid Howells	  This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
392c73be61cSDavid Howells	  userspace by splicing them into pipes.  It can be used in conjunction
393c73be61cSDavid Howells	  with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
394c73be61cSDavid Howells	  notifications.
395c73be61cSDavid Howells
396c73be61cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
397c73be61cSDavid Howells
398226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
399226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
400226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
401226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
402226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
403226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
404226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
405a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
406226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
407226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
40869369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
40969369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
410b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
41169369a70SJosh Triplett	help
41269369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
41369369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
41469369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
41569369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
41669369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
41769369a70SJosh Triplett
4181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
420804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
424cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
425cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4277a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
4287a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
4297a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
4301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
431cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
4327a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
43328a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
43474c3cbe3SAl Viro
435d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
436764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
43787a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
438d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
441abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
442abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
443abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
444fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
44702fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
448fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
449fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
452c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
453fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
460abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
462c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
463abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
473abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
474abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
475ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
476554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
477041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
478abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
479abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
480abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
481abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
482abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
483abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
487abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
488abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
490abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
492b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
493b58c3584SRik van Riel
494fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
495fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
496b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
497fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
498fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
499fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
501fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
502fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
504fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
50511d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
50611d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
50711d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
50811d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
50911d4afd4SVincent Guittot
51076504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
51198eb401dSValentin Schneider	bool
512fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
513fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM64
51476504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
51598eb401dSValentin Schneider	depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL
51698eb401dSValentin Schneider	help
51798eb401dSValentin Schneider	  Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the
51898eb401dSValentin Schneider	  scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler
51998eb401dSValentin Schneider	  that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from
52098eb401dSValentin Schneider	  thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of
52198eb401dSValentin Schneider	  a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures.
52298eb401dSValentin Schneider
52398eb401dSValentin Schneider	  If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly,
52498eb401dSValentin Schneider	  i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones.
52598eb401dSValentin Schneider
52698eb401dSValentin Schneider	  This requires the architecture to implement
527432900f8SYue Hu	  arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure().
52876504793SThara Gopinath
529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
5312813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
5503903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
55619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
5582813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
57019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
572f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
58219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
59119c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
599eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
600eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
601eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
602eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
603eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
604eb414681SJohannes Weiner
605eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
606eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
607eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
608eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
609eb414681SJohannes Weiner
6102ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
6112ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
6122ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
6132ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
614c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
615eb414681SJohannes Weiner
616eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
617eb414681SJohannes Weiner
618e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
619e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
620e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
621e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
622e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
623e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
624428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
625428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
626e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
6277b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
6287b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
6297b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
6307b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
6317b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
6327b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
6347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
6357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
6377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
638391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
6405c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
6415c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
642414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
6432c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
6445c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6455c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
6465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
6472c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
6482c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
6492c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
6502c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
6515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
6520af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
653c903ff83SMike Travis
654de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
655de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
656de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
657de5b56baSVivek Goyal
6581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
659f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
660a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
673a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
677f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
678f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
679f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
68043d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
681f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
682f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
683f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
684f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
68543d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
686794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
687794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
688550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 25 if !H8300
689550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 19 if H8300
690f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
691361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
692794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
69323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
69423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
69523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
69623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
69723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
698f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
699f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
700f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
701f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
702f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
703794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
704794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
705794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
70623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
70723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
7082240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
70923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
71023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
71123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
712361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
71323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
71423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
71523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
71623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
71823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
7250f7636e1SPaul Menzel	  so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
7315e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
7325e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
742f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
743f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
744427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
745427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
746f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
747427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
748f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
749f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
750f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
751f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
752f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
753427934b8SPetr Mladek
754f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
755427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
756427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
757427934b8SPetr Mladek
758427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
759427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
760427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
761427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
762427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
763427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
764427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
765427934b8SPetr Mladek
7665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
77238ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
77338ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
77438ff87f7SStephen Boyd
77569842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
77669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
77769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
77869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
77969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
78069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
78169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
78269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
78369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
78469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
78569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
828be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
829be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
830be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
831be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
832be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
833be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
835be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
83672b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
83772b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
83872b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
83972b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
84072b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
84172b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
84272b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
84372b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
84472b252aeSMel Gorman
845c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
8463a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
847c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
84872b252aeSMel Gorman#
849be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
850be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
851be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
852be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
853be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
854be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
855be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
858be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
859be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8686d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8726f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8736f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8746f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8756f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8766f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8776f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8786f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8796f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
88023964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8816341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8822bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
883ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
88423964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
888d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
889da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
89045ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
891ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
892ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
893ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
89423964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
89523964d2dSLi Zefan
8963e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
8973e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
8983e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
899c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
900a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9013e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
90279bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
90300f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
904a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
90500f0b825SBalbir Singh
906c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
9072d1c4980SJohannes Weiner	bool
908c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
909a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
910c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
91184c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
91284c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
91384c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
91484c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
91584c07d11SKirill Tkhai
9166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
9176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
9186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
9192bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
920a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
9216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
9242bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
929e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
9337baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
936da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
942e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9437c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
944a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
9457c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9467c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9477c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9487c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9497c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9507c941438SDhaval Giani
9517c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9527c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9537c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9547c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9557c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9567c941438SDhaval Giani
957ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
958ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
959ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
960ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
961ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
962ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
963ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
964ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
965ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
966d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
967ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9687c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9697c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9707c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9717c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9727c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9737c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
97432bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9757c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9767c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
977d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9787c941438SDhaval Giani
9797c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9807c941438SDhaval Giani
9812480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9822480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
9832480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9842480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
9852480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
9862480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
9872480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
9882480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
9892480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9902480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
9912480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
9922480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
9932480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
9942480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
9952480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9962480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
9972480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
9982480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
10002480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10012480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
10022480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10126cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
101598076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
101939d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
102039d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
102139d3e758SParav Pandit	help
102239d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
102339d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
102439d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
102539d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
102639d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
102739d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
102839d3e758SParav Pandit
10296bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1035489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1036489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1037489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1038489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1039489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10406bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1044afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1055afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1058e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1064afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1066afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
107089e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
107189e9b9e0STejun Heo
10726bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
10906546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
10916546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
109530070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
109630070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1097483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1098483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
109930070984SDaniel Mack	help
110030070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
110130070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
110230070984SDaniel Mack
110330070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
110430070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
110530070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
110630070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
110730070984SDaniel Mack
11086bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
110923b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
111123b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
111423b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
111523b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
111623b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
112073b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
112173b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
112273b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
112373b35147SArnd Bergmann
112423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1125c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
11268dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11276a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11282813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11296a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1130c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1131c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1132c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1133c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1134c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1135c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11368dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11378dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
113858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
113958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
114017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
114158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
114258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
114358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
114458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1145769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1146769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1147660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1148769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1149769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1150769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1151769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1152769071acSAndrei Vagin
1153ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1154ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11558dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
115617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1157ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1158ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1159614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1160ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1161aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
116219c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11635673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1164aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1165aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1166aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1167e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1168e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1169d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1170d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1171d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1172e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1173aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1174aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
117574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11769bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
117717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
117874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
117912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1180692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
118174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
118274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1183d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1184d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
118617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1187d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1188d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1189d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1190d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
11935cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
11945cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
11955cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
11965cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
11975cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
11985cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
11995cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
12005cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
12015cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
12025cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12035cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
12045cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12055091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12065091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12075091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12085091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12095091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12105091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12115091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12125091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12135091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12145091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12155091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12165091faa4SMike Galbraith
12177af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12185d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12415d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
125726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1267f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1268f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1269f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1270f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1271f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1272f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1273f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
12748c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1275f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1276f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1277f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1278f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1279f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1280f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1281f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1282c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1283c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1284dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1285dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1286c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1287c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
128876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
128976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
12902910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
129176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
129276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
129376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
12940947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
129585c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
12960947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
129776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
129876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
129976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1300877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1301877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
13022cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1303877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1304877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
130515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1306877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1307877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1308877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1309877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1310877417e6SArnd Bergmann
131115f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
131215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
131315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1314c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
131515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
131615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1317c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13185d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
131915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
1320c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1321ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1322ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1323c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1324877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1325877417e6SArnd Bergmann
13265d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
13285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
13305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
13315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
13325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
13335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
13345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
13355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13365d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
13385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
1340e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1341e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
13425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13438b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
13448b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
13458b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
13465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
13485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
13495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
13505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
13515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
13525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
13535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
135459612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN
135559612b24SNathan Chancellor	def_bool y
135659612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1357d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000
135859612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
135959612b24SNathan Chancellor
13600847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13610847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13620847062aSRandy Dunlap
1363657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1364657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1365657a5209SMike Frysinger
1366657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1367657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1368657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1369657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1370657a5209SMike Frysinger
1371657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1372657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1373657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1374657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1375657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1376657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1377657a5209SMike Frysinger
1378657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1379657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1380657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1381657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1382657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1383657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1384657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1385657a5209SMike Frysinger
1386657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1387657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1388657a5209SMike Frysinger
1389f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1390f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1391f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1392f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13936a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1395f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1396f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1403ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
14046a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
14052813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1406ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1407ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1408ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1409ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14102813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
14112813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
14122813893fSIulia Manda	default y
14132813893fSIulia Manda	help
14142813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
14152813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
14162813893fSIulia Manda
14172813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
14182813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
14192813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
14202813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
14212813893fSIulia Manda
14222813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
14232813893fSIulia Manda
1424f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1425f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1426a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1427a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
1428f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1429f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1430f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1431f6187769SFabian Frederick
1432f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1433f6187769SFabian Frederick
14346af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
14356af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
14366af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
1437a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
14386af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14396af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14406af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14436af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1444d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1453d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1457baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1458baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1459baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1460baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1461baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1462baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1463baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1464baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1465baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1466baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1467baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1468baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1469baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1470baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1471baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1472baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1473baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1474d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1475d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14766a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
147774876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1478d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1479d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1480d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1481d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1482d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1483d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1484d59745ceSMatt Mackall
148542a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
148642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
148742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
148842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
148942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1490c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14916a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1492c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1493c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1494c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1495c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1496c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1497c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1498c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1499c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1500708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1501046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1502708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
15036a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1504708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1505708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1506708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15078761f1abSRalf Baechle
1508e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15108761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
151115f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1512e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1513e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1514e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1515e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1516e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15196a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15266a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1528bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1534bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1535bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1536bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1537bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1538bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
153903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
154003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
154162b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
154203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
154303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
154403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
154503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
154603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15486a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1554fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15556a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1556fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1557fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1558fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1559fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1560fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1561fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1562fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1563b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15646a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1565b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1566b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1567b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1568b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1569b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1570b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1571b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1572e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15736a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1574e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1575e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1576e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1577e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1578e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1579e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1580e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
15811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1592ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15936a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1594ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1595ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1596ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1597ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1598ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1599ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
16002b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
16012b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1602561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
16032b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
16042b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
16052b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
16062b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
16072b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
16082b188cc1SJens Axboe
1609d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1610d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1611d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1612d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1613d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1614d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1615d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1616d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1617d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1618d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
16195a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
16205a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
16215a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
16225a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
16235a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
16245b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16255b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16265b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16275b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16285b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16295b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16305b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16315b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16325b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16335b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1636d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1640d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1641d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1642d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1643d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1644d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1645d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1658d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1659d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1660d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1662d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1669a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1687fc611f47SKP Singh
1688fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM
1689fc611f47SKP Singh	bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
16904edf16b7SKP Singh	depends on BPF_EVENTS
1691fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1692fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on SECURITY
1693fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_JIT
1694fc611f47SKP Singh	help
1695fc611f47SKP Singh	  Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1696fc611f47SKP Singh	  implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1697fc611f47SKP Singh
1698fc611f47SKP Singh	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1699fc611f47SKP Singh
1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1703bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
17041e6c62a8SAlexei Starovoitov	select TASKS_TRACE_RCU
1705*88759609SCong Wang	select NET_SOCK_MSG if INET
1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
171181c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
171281c22041SDaniel Borkmann	bool
171381c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1714290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1715290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1716290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1717290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1718290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1719290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1720290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
172181c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
172281c22041SDaniel Borkmann	def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
172381c22041SDaniel Borkmann	depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
172481c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1725d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitovsource "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig"
1726d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitov
1727d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1729d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
17343ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
17353ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
17363ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
173770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
173870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
173970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1740d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1741d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1742d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1743d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1744d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1745d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1746d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1747d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1748d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1749d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1750d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1751d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1752d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1753d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1754d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1755d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1756d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1757d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1758d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1759d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1760d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1761d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1762d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
17636befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
17646befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
17655d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
17666befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
17676befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
17686befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
17696befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
17706befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
17716befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1772cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
17730793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1774018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1775018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
17760793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1777906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1778906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1779906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1780906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1781906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1782ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1783424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1784ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1785ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1786ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1787ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1788ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
178957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
17900793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1791cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
179257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1793392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1794cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1795e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
179683fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
17970793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
179857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
179957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
18000793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1801dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
180257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
180357c0c15bSIngo Molnar
180457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
180557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
18060793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
18070793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
18080793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
18090793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
18100793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
18110793a61dSThomas Gleixner
181257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1813dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
181457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
18150793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
18160793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
18170793a61dSThomas Gleixner
18180793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
18190793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1820906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1821906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1822906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1823cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1824906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1825906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1826906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1827906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1828906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1829906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1830906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1831906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1832906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
18330793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1835f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1836f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
18376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1838f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
18392aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
18402aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
18416a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
18422aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1843f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
184441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
184541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
18466a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1847f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
184841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
184941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
185041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
185141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
185241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
185341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
18541663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
18551663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
18561663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
18571663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
18581663f26dSTejun Heo	help
18591663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
18601663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
18611663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
18621663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
18631663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
18641663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
18651663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
18661663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
18671663f26dSTejun Heo
1868b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1869b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1870b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1871b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1872b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1873b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1874b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1875692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1876b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1877b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1878b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1879b943c460SRandy Dunlap
188081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
188181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1882a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
188381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
188481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
188581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
188681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
188781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
188804385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
188981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
189081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
189134013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
189202f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
189381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
189481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
189581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1896ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
189781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
189881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
189981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
190081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
190181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
190202f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
190302f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
190481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
190581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
19066a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
190781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
190881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
190937291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
191037291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
191137291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
191281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
191381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
191481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
19157660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
19167660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
19177660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
19187660a6fdSKees Cook	help
19197660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
19207660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
19217660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
19227660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
19237660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
19247660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
19257660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
19267660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
19277660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
19287660a6fdSKees Cook
1929c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
19303404be67SKees Cook	bool "Randomize slab freelist"
1931210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1932c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1933210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1934c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1935c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1936c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
19372482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
19382482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
19393404be67SKees Cook	depends on SLAB || SLUB
19402482ddecSKees Cook	help
19412482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
19422482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
194392bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
19443404be67SKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
19453404be67SKees Cook	  sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
19463404be67SKees Cook	  CONFIG_SLUB.
19472482ddecSKees Cook
1948e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1949e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1950e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1951e900a918SDan Williams	help
1952e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1953e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1954e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1955e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1956e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1957e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1958e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1959e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1960e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1961e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1962e900a918SDan Williams
1963e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1964e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1965e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1966e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1967e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1968e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1969e900a918SDan Williams
1970e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1971e900a918SDan Williams
1972345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1973345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1974b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1975345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1976345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
197792bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
1978345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1979345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1980345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1981345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1982345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1983ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1984ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
19856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1986ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1987ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1988ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
19893903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1990ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1991ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1992ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1993ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1994ea637639SJie Zhang
1995ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1996ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1997ea637639SJie Zhang
1998ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1999ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
2000ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
2001ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
2002ea637639SJie Zhang
2003dd19d293SStephen Kitt	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
2004ea637639SJie Zhang
2005091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2006091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
2007091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
2008091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
2009091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
2010d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
2011091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
2012091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
2013091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
2014091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
2015091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
2016091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
201782c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
2018091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
2019091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
2020091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
2021091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
202282c04ff8SPeter Foley
2023125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
2024b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
2025125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
2026125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
2027f8408264SViresh Kumar	  by profilers.
2028125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
20295f87f112SIngo Molnar#
20305f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
20315f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
20325f87f112SIngo Molnar#
203397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
20345f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
203597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
20361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20381572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
20391572497cSChristoph Hellwig
2040ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
20416341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
2042ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
20431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2048c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2049c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	def_bool n
2050c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2051c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann
205266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
205411097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20730b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
20740b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
2075826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2076826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
2077826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
2078826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
207991e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
208091e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
208191e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
2082826e4506SLinus Torvalds
20831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
2088f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2089f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
20921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
209319c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
20961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
21020d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
21031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
21051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
21061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
21071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21112ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS
21122ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	bool
21132ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
21142ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	help
21152ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
21162ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
21172ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  supports it.
21182ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada
211956067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
212056067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
212156067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
212256067812SArd Biesheuvel
21231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
21241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
21251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
21271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
21281da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
21291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
21301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
21311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
21321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
21331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2134106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2135106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2136c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2137106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2138106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2139106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2140cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2141106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2142228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2143228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2144228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2145228c37ffSDavid Howells
214649fcf732SDavid Howells	  You should enable this option if you wish to use either
214749fcf732SDavid Howells	  CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
214849fcf732SDavid Howells	  another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
214949fcf732SDavid Howells	  of the lockdown policy.
215049fcf732SDavid Howells
2151ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2152ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2153ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2154ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2155ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2156106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2157106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2158106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2159106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2160106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2161106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2162ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2163d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2164d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2165d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2166d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2167d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2168d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2169d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2170d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2171d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2172d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2173d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2174ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2175ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2176ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2177ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2178ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2179ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2180ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2181ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2182ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2183ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2184ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2185ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2186ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2187ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2188ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2189ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2190ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2191ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2192ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2193ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2194ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2195ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2196ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2197ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2198ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2199ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2200ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2201ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2202ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2203ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2204ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2205ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
220622753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
220722753674SMichal Marek	string
220822753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
220922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
221022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
221122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
221222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
221322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
221422753674SMichal Marek
2215beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2216beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2217beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2218beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2219b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2220b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2221beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2222b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2223beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2224b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2225b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2226beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2227b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2228b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2229beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2230b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2231b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2232b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2233beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2234beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2235beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2236beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2237beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2238beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2239beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2240beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2241beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2242beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2243beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2244beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2245beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2246beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2247beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2248beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2249beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2250beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2251beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
22523d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
22533d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
22543d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
22553d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
22563d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
22573d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
22583d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
22593d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
22603d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
22613d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
22623d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
22633d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
22643d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
2265efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2266efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2267efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	default y if X86
2268efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	help
2269efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For
2270efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This
2271efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2272efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2273efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2274efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2275efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2276efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a
2277efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2278efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2279efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  your module is.
2280efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada
2281dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2282dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2283d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada	depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2284dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2285dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2286dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2287dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2288dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2289dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2290dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2291dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2292dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2293dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2294dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2295f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2296dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
22971518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
22981518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
22991518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
23001518c633SQuentin Perret	help
23011518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
23021518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
23031518c633SQuentin Perret
23041518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
23051518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
23061518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
23071518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
23081518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
23091518c633SQuentin Perret
23100b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
23110b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
23126c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
23136c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
23146c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
23156c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
231698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
231798a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
231898a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
23195f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
23205f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
232198a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
232298a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2323692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
232498a79d6aSRusty Russell
23253a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2326e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2327e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2328e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2329e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
233016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
233116295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
233216295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
233316295becSSteffen Klassert
23344520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
23354520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
23364520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
23374520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
23384520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
23394520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
23404520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
23414520c6a4SDavid Howells
23426beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2343e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
23440ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
23450ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann	bool
23460ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann
2347e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2348e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
23491bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
23501bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
23517303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
23527303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
23537303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
23547303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
23557303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
23567303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
23571bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
23581bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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