1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 632f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 642f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 662f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 69eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 741a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 759371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 76f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 77f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 781a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 79b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 80b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 81f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 82f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 83c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 84587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85587f1701SNick 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) 86587f1701SNick Desaulniers 871aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 881aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 891aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 90534bd703SAlexandre Belloni def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 911aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 925cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 932d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 945cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 95eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 96eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 97eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 9851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 9951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 10051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 101613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 102613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 103613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 104613fe169SNathan Chancellor 105b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 106b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 107b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 108e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 109e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 110e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 11110916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1121dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1131dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 114c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 115c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 116c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 117c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 118c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 119c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 120c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 121c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 122c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 123c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 124ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 136dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 137dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 14034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1424bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1434bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 144ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1454bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1464bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1474bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1484bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1494bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1504bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1514bb16672SJiri Slaby 1524bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1534bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1544bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1554bb16672SJiri Slaby 1563fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1573fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 158b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1593fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1603fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1612f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 162e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 163e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 164e1789d7cSXin Li well. 1653fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 166e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 167e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1683fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1693fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1703fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1713fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1723fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 173d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 174d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 175fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 176d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 177d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 178d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 179d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 180d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 181d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 182d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 193aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 194aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 195aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 196ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 197aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 198aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 201aaebf433SRyan Anderson 202aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 204aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 206aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2070f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 213aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2149afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2159afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2169afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2179afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2189afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2199afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2209afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2219afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2229afb719eSLaura Abbott 2232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2323ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2333ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2343ebe1243SLasse Collin 2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2377dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 24148f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 24248f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 24348f7ddf7SNick Terrell 244f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 245f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 246f16466afSVasily Gorbik 24730d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 24830d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 25048f7ddf7SNick 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 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 25430d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 25530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 25630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 25730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 25930d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 26130d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26330d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 26430d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 26830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 27230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 28030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2810a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 28730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 28930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2900a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2910a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2920a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2943ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2953ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2963ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2973ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2983ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2993ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3003ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3013ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3023ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 3033ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 3043ebe1243SLasse Collin 3053ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3063ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3073ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3083ebe1243SLasse Collin 3097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3107dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3117dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3130a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 314681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3157dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3167dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 317e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 318e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 319e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 320e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 321e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 322e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 323e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 324e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 325e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 326e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 327e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 328e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 32948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 33048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 33148f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 33248f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 33348f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 33448f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 33548f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 33648f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 33748f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 33848f7ddf7SNick Terrell 339f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 340f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 341f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 342f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 343f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 344f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 345f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 346f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 347f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 348f16466afSVasily Gorbik 34930d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 35030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 351ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 352ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 353ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 354ada4ab7aSChris Down help 355ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 356ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 357ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 358ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 359ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 360ada4ab7aSChris Down 361bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 362bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 363bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 364bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 365bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 366bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 367bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 368bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 369bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 372a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 385a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 386a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 387a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 388a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 389a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 390a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3910cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 3920cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 3930cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 3940cbed0eeSGuo Ren 3951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 39719c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 398a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 403b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 412bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 413bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 414bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 415bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 416bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 417c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 418c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 419c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 420c73be61cSDavid Howells help 421c73be61cSDavid Howells 422c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 423c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 424c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 425c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 426c73be61cSDavid Howells 427c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 428c73be61cSDavid Howells 429226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 430226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 431226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 432226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 433226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 434226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 435226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 436a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 437226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 438226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 43969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4407374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4417374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 44269369a70SJosh Triplett help 44369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 44469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 44569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 44669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 44769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 44869369a70SJosh Triplett 4491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 451804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 455cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 456cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4587a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4597a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4607a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 462cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4637a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 46428a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 46574c3cbe3SAl Viro 466d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 467764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 468b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 46987a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 470d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 473abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 474abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 475abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 476fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 477fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 47802382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 479fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 480fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 481fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 482fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 483c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 484fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 485fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 486fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 487fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 488fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 489fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 490fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 493c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 504abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 505abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 50624a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 507554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 508041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 51024a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 511abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 514abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 515abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 516abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 517abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 518abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 519abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 520abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 521abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 522abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 523b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 524b58c3584SRik van Riel 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 527b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 528fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 529fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 530fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 531fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 532fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 533fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 534fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 535fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 53611d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 53711d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 53811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 53911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 54011d4afd4SVincent Guittot 54176504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 54298eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 543fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 544fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 54576504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 54698eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 54798eb401dSValentin Schneider help 54898eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 54998eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 55098eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 55198eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 55298eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 55398eb401dSValentin Schneider 55498eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 55598eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 55698eb401dSValentin Schneider 55798eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5587e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 55976504793SThara Gopinath 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5622813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5813903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 58719c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5892813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 60119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 603f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 61319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 62219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 624391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 630eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 631eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 632eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 633eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 634eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 635eb414681SJohannes Weiner 636eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 637eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 638eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 639eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 640eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6412ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6422ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6432ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6442ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 645c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 646eb414681SJohannes Weiner 647eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 648eb414681SJohannes Weiner 649e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 650e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 651e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 652e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 653e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 654e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 655428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 656428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 657e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6677b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 669391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 670391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6715c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6725c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 673414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6742c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6755c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6765c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6775c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6782c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6792c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6802c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6812c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6825c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6830af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 684c903ff83SMike Travis 6851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 686f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 687a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 700a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 704f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 705f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 706f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 70743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 708f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 709f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 710f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 711f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 71243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 713794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 714794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7151c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 716f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 717361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 718794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 724f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 725f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 726f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 727f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 728f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 729794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 730794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 731794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7342240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 738361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7510f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7575e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7585e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 76323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 76423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 76523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 76623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 76723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 76833701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 76933701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 77033701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 77133701557SChris Down help 77233701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 77333701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 77433701557SChris Down 77533701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 77633701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 77733701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 77833701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 77933701557SChris Down 78033701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 78133701557SChris Down 7825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 78838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 78938ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 79038ff87f7SStephen Boyd 79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 844be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 845be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 846be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 847be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 848be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 849be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 850be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 851be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 85272b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 85372b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 85472b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 85572b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 85672b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 85772b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 85872b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 85972b252aeSMel Gorman bool 86072b252aeSMel Gorman 861c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8623a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 863c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 864dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 865dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 866158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 867dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 868dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 8690da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable gcc-11+ array-bounds globally. 8700da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 8715a41237aSLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 8725a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 8735a41237aSLinus Torvalds 874f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 875f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 8760da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 110000 && GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 877f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 87872b252aeSMel Gorman# 879be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 880be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 881be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 882be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 883be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 885be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 887be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 888be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 889be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 890be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 891be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 892be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 893be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 894554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 895be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8986d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9026f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9036f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9046f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9056f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9066f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9076f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9086f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9096f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 91023964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9116341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9122bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 913ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 91423964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9155cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9165cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9175cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 918d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 919da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 92045ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 921ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 922ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 923ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 92423964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 92523964d2dSLi Zefan 9263e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9273e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9283e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9296a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9306a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9316a010a49STejun Heo help 9326a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9336a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9346a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9356a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9366a010a49STejun Heo 9376a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9386a010a49STejun Heo 939c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 940a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9413e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 94279bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 94300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 944a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 94500f0b825SBalbir Singh 94684c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 94784c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 948c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 94984c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 95084c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9516bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9542bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 955a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 964e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9687baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 971da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 977e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9787c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 979a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9807c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9817c941438SDhaval Giani help 9827c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9837c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9847c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9857c941438SDhaval Giani 9867c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9877c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9887c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9897c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9907c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9917c941438SDhaval Giani 992ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 993ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 994ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 995ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 996ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 997ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 998ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 999ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1000ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1001d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1002ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10037c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10047c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10057c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10067c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10077c941438SDhaval Giani help 10087c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 100932bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10107c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10117c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1012d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10137c941438SDhaval Giani 10147c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10157c941438SDhaval Giani 1016af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1017af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1018af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1019af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 10202480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10212480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10222480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10232480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10242480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10252480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10262480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10272480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10282480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10292480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10302480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10312480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10322480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10332480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10342480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10352480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10362480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10372480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10382480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10392480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10402480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10412480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10516cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 105498076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 105839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 105939d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 106039d3e758SParav Pandit help 106139d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 106239d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 106339d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 106439d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 106539d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 106639d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 106739d3e758SParav Pandit 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1074489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1075489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1076489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1077489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1078489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1083afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1094afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1097e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1103afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1105afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 110989e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 111089e9b9e0STejun Heo 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11296546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11306546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 113430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 113530070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1136483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1137483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 113830070984SDaniel Mack help 113930070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 114030070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 114130070984SDaniel Mack 114230070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 114330070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 114430070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 114530070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 114630070984SDaniel Mack 1147a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1148a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1149a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1150a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1151a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1152a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1153a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1154a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1155a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1156a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1157a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1158a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1159a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1160a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 116223b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 116423b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 116723b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 116823b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 116923b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 117373b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 117473b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 117573b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 117673b35147SArnd Bergmann 117723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1178c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11798dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11812813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11826a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1183c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1184c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1185c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1186c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1187c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1188c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11898dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11908dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 119158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 119258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 119317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 119458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 119558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 119658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 119758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1198769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1199769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1200660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1201769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1202769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1203769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1204769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1205769071acSAndrei Vagin 1206ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1207ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 120917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1210ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1211ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1212614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1213ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1214aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 121519c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12165673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1217aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1218aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1219aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1220e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1221e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1222d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1223d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1224d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1225e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1226aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1227aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 122874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12299bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 123017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 123174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 123212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1233692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 123474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 123574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1236d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1237d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12388dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 123917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1240d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1241d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1242d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1243d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12448dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12458dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12465cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12475cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 124830341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 12495cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1250bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12515cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12525cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12535cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12545cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12555cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12565cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12575cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12585cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12595cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12605091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12615091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12625091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12635091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12645091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12655091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12665091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12675091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12685091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12695091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12705091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12715091faa4SMike Galbraith 12727af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 127426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1284f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1285f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1286f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12918c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1299c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1300c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1301dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1302dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1303c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1304c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 130576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 130676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1307a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 130876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 130976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 131076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13110947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 131285c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13130947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 131476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 131576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 131676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1317b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1318b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1319b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 13206ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1321b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1322b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1323b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1324b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1325b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1326b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1327b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1328b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1329b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1330a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1331a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1332a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1333a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1334a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1335a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1336a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1337a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1338a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1339a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1340a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1341a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1342a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1343a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1344a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1345a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1346a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1347a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1348a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 13491274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 13501274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 13511274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 13521274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 13531274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 13541274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 13551274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 13561274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 13571274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 13581274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1359877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1360877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13612cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1362877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1363877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 136415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1365877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1366877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1367877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1368877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1369877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1370c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 137115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1372c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1373ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1374ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1375c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1376877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1377877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13785d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 13805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 13825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 13835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 13845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 13855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 13865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 13875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13885d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1392e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1393e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 13945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13958b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 13968b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 13978b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 13985d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13995d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14005d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 140659612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 140759612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 140859612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 140959612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1410e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1411e1789d7cSXin Li 1412e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1413e1789d7cSXin Li string 1414e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1415e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1416e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 141759612b24SNathan Chancellor 14180847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14190847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14200847062aSRandy Dunlap 1421657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1422657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1423657a5209SMike Frysinger 1424657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1425657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1426657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1427657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1428657a5209SMike Frysinger 1429657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1430657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1431657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1432657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1433657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1434657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1435657a5209SMike Frysinger 1436657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1437657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1438657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1439657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1440657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1441657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1442657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1443657a5209SMike Frysinger 1444657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1445657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1446657a5209SMike Frysinger 1447f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1448f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1449f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1450ec8f7f48SEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1451f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14526a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1454f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1455f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1462ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14636a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14642813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1465ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1466ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1467ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1468ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14692813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14702813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14712813893fSIulia Manda default y 14722813893fSIulia Manda help 14732813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14742813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14752813893fSIulia Manda 14762813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14772813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14782813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14792813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14802813893fSIulia Manda 14812813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14822813893fSIulia Manda 1483f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1484f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1485a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1486a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1487f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1488f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1489f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1490f6187769SFabian Frederick 1491f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1492f6187769SFabian Frederick 14936af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14946af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14956af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1496a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 14976af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14986af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14996af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15006af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15016af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15026af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1509d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1510d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1516baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1517baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1518baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1519baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1520baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1521baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1522baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1523baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1524baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1525baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1526baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1527baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1528baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1529baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1530baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1531baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1532baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1533d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1534d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 153674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1537d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1538d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1539d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1540d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1541d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1542d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1543d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1544c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1546c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1547c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1548c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1549c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1550c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1551c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1552c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1553c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1554708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1555046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1556708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1558708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1559708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1560708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15618761f1abSRalf Baechle 1562e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15636a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15648761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 156515f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1566e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1567e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1568e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1569e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1570e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15736a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15813f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1583bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1589bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1590bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1591bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1592bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1593bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 15941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1601fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1603fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1604fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1605fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1606fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1607fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1608fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1609fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1610b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1612b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1613b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1614b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1615b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1616b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1617b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1618b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1619e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1621e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1622e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1623e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1624e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1625e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1626e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1627e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1639ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1641ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1642ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1643ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1644ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1645ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1646ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16472b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16482b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1649561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16502b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16512b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16522b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16532b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16542b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16552b188cc1SJens Axboe 1656d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1657d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1658d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1659d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1660d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1661d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1662d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1663d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1664d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1665d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16675b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16685b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16695b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16705b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16725b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16735b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16745b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 168630f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 168730f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 168830f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 168930f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 169030f3bb09SZhen Lei help 169130f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 169230f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 169330f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 169430f3bb09SZhen Lei 169530f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 169630f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 169730f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 169830f3bb09SZhen Lei 1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1705bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1706bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1707bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1708bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1711d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1715bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1716d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1717d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1720d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1721d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1722d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1724d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1725a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1726d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1727d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1729d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1734d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1736d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1740d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1742d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1743fc611f47SKP Singh 17443ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17453ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17463ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 174770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 174870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 174970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1750bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP 1751bfe3911aSChris Wilson bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1752bfe3911aSChris Wilson help 1753bfe3911aSChris Wilson Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1754bfe3911aSChris Wilson user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1755bfe3911aSChris Wilson share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1756bfe3911aSChris Wilson memory space. 1757bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1758bfe3911aSChris Wilson If unsure, say N. 1759bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1760d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1761d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1762d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1763d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1764d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1765d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1766d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1767d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1768d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1769d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1770d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1771d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1772d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1773d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1774cf264e13SNhat Phamconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1775cf264e13SNhat Pham bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1776cf264e13SNhat Pham default y 1777cf264e13SNhat Pham help 1778cf264e13SNhat Pham Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1779cf264e13SNhat Pham statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1780cf264e13SNhat Pham pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1781cf264e13SNhat Pham 1782cf264e13SNhat Pham If unsure say Y here. 1783cf264e13SNhat Pham 1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1785d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1786d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1790d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1791d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1792d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 17936befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17966befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 17996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 18006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1801cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18020793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1803018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1804018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18050793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18062aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18072aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18082aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18092aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1810906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1811906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1812906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1813906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1814906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1815ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1816424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1817ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1818ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1819ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1820ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1821ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 182257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18230793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1824cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 182557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1826392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1827cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1828e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 18290793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 183057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 183157c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18320793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1833dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 183457c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 183557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 183657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 183757c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18380793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18390793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18400793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18410793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18420793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18430793a61dSThomas Gleixner 184457c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1845dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 184657c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18470793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18480793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18490793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18510793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1852906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1853906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1854906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1855cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1856906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1857906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1858906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1859906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1860906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1861906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1862906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1863906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18650793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18660793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1867091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1868091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1869091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1870091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1871091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1872d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1873091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1874091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1875091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1876091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1877091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1878091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 187982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1880091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1881091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1882091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1883091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 188482c04ff8SPeter Foley 1885125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1886b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1887125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1888125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1889f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1890125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18912f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 18922f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 18932f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 18942f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 18952f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !MODVERSIONS 18962f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 18972f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1898c1177979SMartin Rodriguez Reboredo depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 18992f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda select CONSTRUCTORS 19002f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 19012f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 19022f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19032f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 19042f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 19052f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19062f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 19072f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 19082f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19092f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 19102f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19112f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 19122f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19132f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 19142f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19152f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19162f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,command -v $(RUSTC) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(RUSTC) --version || echo n) 19172f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19182f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 19192f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 19202f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 19212f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda default $(shell,command -v $(BINDGEN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(BINDGEN) --version || echo n) 19222f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 19235f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19245f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19255f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19265f87f112SIngo Molnar# 192797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19285f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 192997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1930*89cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 1931*89cde455SEric DeVolder 19321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19341572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19351572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1936ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19376341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19381c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1939ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1945c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1946c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1947c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1948c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 194973b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 19506c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 195198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 195298a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 195398a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19545f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19555f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 195698a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 195798a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1958692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 195998a79d6aSRusty Russell 19603a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1961e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1962e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1963e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1964e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 196516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 196616295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 196716295becSSteffen Klassert bool 196816295becSSteffen Klassert 19694520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19704520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19714520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19724520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19734520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19744520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19754520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19764520c6a4SDavid Howells 19776beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1978e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 19790ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 19800ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 19810ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 1982e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1983e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19841bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19851bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19867303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19877303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 19887303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 19897303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 19907303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 19917303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 19921bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 19931bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 1994