1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 2face4374SRoman Zippel string 3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 4face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 52972666aSMasahiro Yamada default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname --release)/.config" 6face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 72972666aSMasahiro Yamada default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname --release)" 8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC 17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 26b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 27b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 28b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 29b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 31e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 32e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 331dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 341dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 351dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 36c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 37c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 38c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 39c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 40c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 41c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 42c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 43c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 44c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 45c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 46ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 58dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 59dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 6234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 644bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 654bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 66bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 674bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 684bb16672SJiri Slaby help 694bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 704bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 714bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 724bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 734bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 744bb16672SJiri Slaby 754bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 764bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 774bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 784bb16672SJiri Slaby 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 92ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 97aaebf433SRyan Anderson 98aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1193ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1203ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1213ebe1243SLasse Collin 1227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 125e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 126e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 127e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1312d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1620a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1710a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1720a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1730a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1753ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1803ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1813ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin 1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1940a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 195681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 203e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 204e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 205e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 206e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 207e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 208e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 209e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 213bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 215bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 216bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 217bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 218bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 219bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 220bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2239361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 246a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 247a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 248a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 249a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 250a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 251a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 25419c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 260b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 268bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 269bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 270bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 271bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 272bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 273bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 274226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 275226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 276226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 277226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 278226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 279226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 280226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 281a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 282226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 283226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 28469369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 28569369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 286b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 28769369a70SJosh Triplett help 28869369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 28969369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 29069369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 29169369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 29269369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 29369369a70SJosh Triplett 2941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 296804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 300cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 301cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3037a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3047a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3057a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 307cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3087a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 310939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 311939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 312939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 313939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 31574c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 31674c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 31763c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 31828a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 31974c3cbe3SAl Viro 320d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 321764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 322d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 323391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 324391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 325abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 326abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 327abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 328fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 329fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 330fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 33102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 334fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 336c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 337fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 338fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 339fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 340fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 344abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 345391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 346c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 347abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 349391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 350391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 351391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 352391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 355391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 356391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 358abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 359ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 360554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 363abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 369abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 375b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 376b58c3584SRik van Riel 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 379b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 384fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 385fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 386fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 3902813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 41519c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4172813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 42919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 431f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 44119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 45019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 4605c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 4615c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 462414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 4632c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 4645c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 4655c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 4665c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 4672c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 4682c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 4692c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 4702c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 4715c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 4720af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 473c903ff83SMike Travis 474de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 475de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 476de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 477de5b56baSVivek Goyal 4781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 479f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 480de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 498794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 499794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 500fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 501f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 502361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 503794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 50423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 50523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 50623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 50723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 50823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 509f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 510f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 511f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 512f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 513f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 514794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 515794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 516794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 51723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 51823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 5192240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 52023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 52123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 52223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 523361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 52423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 52523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 52623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 52723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 52823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 52923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 53023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 53123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 53223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 53323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 53423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 53523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 53623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 53723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 53823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 53923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 54023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 54123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 5425e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 5435e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 54423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 54523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 54623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 54723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 54823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 54923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 55023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 55123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 55223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 553f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 554f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 555427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 556427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 557f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 558427934b8SPetr Mladek help 559f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 560f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 561f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 562f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 563f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 564427934b8SPetr Mladek 565f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 566427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 567427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 568427934b8SPetr Mladek 569427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 570427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 571427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 572427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 573427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 574427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 575427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 576427934b8SPetr Mladek 5775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 58338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 58438ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 58538ff87f7SStephen Boyd 586be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 587be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 588be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 589be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 590be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 591be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 592be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 593be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 59472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 59572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 59672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 59772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 59872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 59972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 60072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 60172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 60272b252aeSMel Gorman 60372b252aeSMel Gorman# 604be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 605be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 606be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 607be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 608be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 609be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 610be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 611be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 612be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 613be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 614be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 615be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 616be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 617be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 618be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 619be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 620be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 621be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 622be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 6236d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 624be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 625be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 626be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 6276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 6286f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 6296f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 6306f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 6316f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 6326f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 6336f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 6346f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 63523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 6366341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 6372bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 638ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 63923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 6449991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 64545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 646ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 647ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 648ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 64923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 65023964d2dSLi Zefan 6513e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 6523e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 6533e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 654c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 655a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 6563e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 65779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 65800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 659a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 66000f0b825SBalbir Singh 661c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 662a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 663c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 664c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 665a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 666a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 667c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 668a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 669c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 670a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 671a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 672a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 673a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 67443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 67507555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 676a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 677a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 678a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 67900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 680c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 6826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 6836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 6842bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 6856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 6866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 6876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 6886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 6892bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 6906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 6916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 6926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 6936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 694e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 6956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 6966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 6976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 6986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 6996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 7006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7019991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 7026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 7046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 7056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 7066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 7076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 7096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 7106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 7126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 7136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 7146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 715e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7167c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 717a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 7187c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7197c941438SDhaval Giani help 7207c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7217c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7227c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7237c941438SDhaval Giani 7247c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7257c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7267c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7277c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7287c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7297c941438SDhaval Giani 730ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 731ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 732ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 733ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 734ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 735ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 736ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 737ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 738ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 739cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 740ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7417c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7427c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7437c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7447c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7457c941438SDhaval Giani help 7467c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 74732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7487c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7497c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7507c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7517c941438SDhaval Giani 7527c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7537c941438SDhaval Giani 7546bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 7556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 7566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 7586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 7596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 7606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 7616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 7626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 7636cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 7646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 7666cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 7676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 7696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 77039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 77139d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 77239d3e758SParav Pandit help 77339d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 77439d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 77539d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 77639d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 77739d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 77839d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 77939d3e758SParav Pandit 7806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 7816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 7826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 7846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 786489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 787489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 788489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 789489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 790489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 7916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 7926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 7936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 7946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 795afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 7986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 7996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 8016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 8026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 806afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8076bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 8086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 809e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 815afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 817afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8186bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 8206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 82189e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 82289e9b9e0STejun Heo 8236bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 8286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8296bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 8316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 8416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 8426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 8446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 84530070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 84630070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 847483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 848483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 84930070984SDaniel Mack help 85030070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 85130070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 85230070984SDaniel Mack 85330070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 85430070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 85530070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 85630070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 85730070984SDaniel Mack 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 85923b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 86123b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 86423b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 86523b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 86623b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 87073b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 87173b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 87273b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 87373b35147SArnd Bergmann 87423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 875c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 8768dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 8776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 8782813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 8796a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 880c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 881c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 882c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 883c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 884c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 885c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 8868dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 8878dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 88858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 88958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 89017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 89158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 89258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 89358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 89458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 895ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 896ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 8978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 89817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 899ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 900ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 901614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 902ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 903aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 90419c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 9055673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 906aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 907aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 908aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 909e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 910e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 911d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 912d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 913d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 914e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 915aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 916aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 91774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 9189bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 91917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 92074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 92112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 922692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 92374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 92474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 925d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 926d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 9278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 92817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 929d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 930d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 931d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 932d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 9338dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 9348dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 9355091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 9365091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 9375091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 9385091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 9395091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9405091faa4SMike Galbraith help 9415091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 9425091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 9435091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 9445091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 9455091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 9465091faa4SMike Galbraith 9477af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9485d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 9497af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9507af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9517af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9527af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 9537af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 9547af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 9557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9567af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 9577af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 9587af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9597af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 9607af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 9617af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 9627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9637af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 9647af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 9657af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 9667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9677af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9687af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 9697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9707af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 9715d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 9727af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9737af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9747af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9757af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9767af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 9777af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9787af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 9797af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 9807af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9817af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9827af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 9837af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 9847af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9857af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 9867af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 98726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 9887af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9897af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 9907af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 9917af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 9927af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 9937af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 9947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9957af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 9967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 997f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 998f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 999f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1000f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1001f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1002f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1003f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 10048c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1005f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1006f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1007f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1008f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1009f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1010f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1011f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1012c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1013c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1014dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1015dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1016c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1017c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1018877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1019877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 10202cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1021877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1022877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1023877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1024877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1025877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1026877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1027877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1028877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1029c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 103096fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1031c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 103231a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 103331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1034c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 10353a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1036c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1037877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1038877417e6SArnd Bergmann 10395d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 10415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 10425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 10435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 10445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 10455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 10465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 10475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 10485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10495d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 10535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 1054*8b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1055*8b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1056*8b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 10575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 10595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 10605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 10615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 10625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 10635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 10645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10650847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 10660847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 10670847062aSRandy Dunlap 1068b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1069b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1070b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1071657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1072657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1073657a5209SMike Frysinger 1074657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1075657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1076657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1077657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1078657a5209SMike Frysinger 1079657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1080657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1081657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1082657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1083657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1084657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1085657a5209SMike Frysinger 1086657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1087657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1088657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1089657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1090657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1091657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1092657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1093657a5209SMike Frysinger 1094657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1095657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1096657a5209SMike Frysinger 1097f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1098f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1099f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1100f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 11016a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 11026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1103f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1104f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1111ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 11126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 11132813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1114ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1115ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1116ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1117ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11182813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 11192813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 11202813893fSIulia Manda default y 11212813893fSIulia Manda help 11222813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 11232813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 11242813893fSIulia Manda 11252813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 11262813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 11272813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 11282813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 11292813893fSIulia Manda 11302813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 11312813893fSIulia Manda 1132f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1133f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1134a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1135f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1136f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1137f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1138f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1139f6187769SFabian Frederick 1140f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1141f6187769SFabian Frederick 11426af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 11436af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 11446af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 11456af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 11466af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 11476af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 11486af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 11496af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 11506af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 11516af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1152b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 11536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 115426a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1155c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1156b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1157b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 115813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 115913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 116013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 116113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1162b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 116313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 116413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 116513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1166b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1167c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1168ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1169d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1170d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1171d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1172d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1173d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1174d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1175d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1176d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1177d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1178d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1179d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1180d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1181d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1182baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1183baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1184baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1185baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1186baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1187baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1188baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1189baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1190baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1191baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1192baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1193baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1194baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1195baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1196baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1197baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1198baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1199d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1200d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 12016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 120274876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1203d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1204d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1205d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1206d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1207d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1208d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1209d59745ceSMatt Mackall 121042a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 121142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 121242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 121342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 121442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1215c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1217c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1218c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1219c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1220c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1221c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1222c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1223c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1224c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1225708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1226046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1227708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 12286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1229708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1230708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1231708e9a79SMatt Mackall 12328761f1abSRalf Baechle 1233e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 12346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 12358761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 123615f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1237e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1238e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1239e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1240e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1241e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 12421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 12516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1253bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1259bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1260bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1261bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1262bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1263bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 126403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 126503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 126662b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 126703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 126803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 126903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 127003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 127103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 12721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 12736a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1275448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1280fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 12816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1282448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1283fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1284fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1285fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1286fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1287fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1288fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1289fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1290b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 12916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1292448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1293b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1294b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1295b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1296b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1297b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1298b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1299b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1300e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1302448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1303e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1304e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1305e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1306e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1307e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1308e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1309e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 13101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1321ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1323ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1324ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1325ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1326ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1327ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1328ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1329d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1330d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1331d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1332d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1333d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1334d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1335d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1336d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1337d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1338d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 13395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 13405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 13415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 13425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 13435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 13445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 13455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 13465b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 13475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 13485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 13495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 13505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1351d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1352d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1353d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select PROC_CHILDREN 1354d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1355d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1356d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1357d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1358d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1359d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap entries. 1360d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1361d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N here. 1362d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1363d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1364d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1365d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1366d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1367d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1368d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1375d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1376d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1377d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1378d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1379d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1380d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1381d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1382d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1383d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1384d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1385d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1386d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1387d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1388d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1389d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1390d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1391d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1394d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1395d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1396a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1397d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1398d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1399d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1400d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1401d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1402d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1403d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1404d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1405d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1406d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1407d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1408d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1409d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1410d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1411d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1412d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1413d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1414d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1415d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1416d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1417d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1418bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1419d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1420d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1421d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1422d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1423d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1424290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1425290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1426290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1427290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1428290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1429290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1430290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1431d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1432d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1433d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1434d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1435d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1436d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1437d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1438d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 14393ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 14403ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 14413ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 144270216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 144370216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 144470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1445d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1446d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1447d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1448d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1449d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1450d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1451d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1452d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1453d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1454d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1455d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1456d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1457d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1458d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1459d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1460d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1461d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1462d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1463d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1464d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1465d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1466d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1467d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 14686befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14696befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14705d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 14716befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14726befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14736befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14746befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14756befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14766befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1477cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14780793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1479018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1480018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14810793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1482906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1483906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1484906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1485906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1486906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1487ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1488424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1489ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1490ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1491ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1492ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1493ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 149457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14950793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1496cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 149757c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1498392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1499cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15004c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1501e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 150283fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 15030793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 150457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 150557c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15060793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1507dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 150857c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 150957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 151057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 151157c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15120793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15130793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15140793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15150793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15160793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 151857c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1519dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 152057c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15210793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15220793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15230793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15240793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15250793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1526906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1527906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1528906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1529cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1530906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1531906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1532906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1533906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1534906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1535906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1536906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1537906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1538906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15390793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1541f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1542f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 15436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1544f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 15452aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 15462aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 15476a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 15482aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1549f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 155041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 155141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1553f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 155441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 155541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 155641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 155741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 155841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 155941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 15601663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 15611663f26dSTejun Heo default n 15621663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 15631663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 15641663f26dSTejun Heo help 15651663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 15661663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 15671663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 15681663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 15691663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 15701663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 15711663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 15721663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 15731663f26dSTejun Heo 1574b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1575b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1576b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1577b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1578b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1579b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1580b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1581692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1582b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1583b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1584b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1585b943c460SRandy Dunlap 158681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 158781819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1588a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 158981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 159081819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 159181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 159281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 159381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 159404385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 159581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 159681819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 159734013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 159802f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 159981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 160081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 160181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1602ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 160381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 160481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 160581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 160681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 160781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 160802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 160902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 161081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 161181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 16126a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 161381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 161481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 161537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 161637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 161737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 161881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 161981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 162081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 16217660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 16227660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 16237660a6fdSKees Cook default y 16247660a6fdSKees Cook help 16257660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 16267660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 16277660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 16287660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 16297660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 16307660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 16317660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 16327660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 16337660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 16347660a6fdSKees Cook 1635c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1636c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1637210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1638c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1639c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1640210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1641c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1642c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1643c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 16442482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 16452482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 16462482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 16472482ddecSKees Cook help 16482482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 16492482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 16502482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 16512482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 16522482ddecSKees Cook 1653345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1654345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1655b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1656345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1657345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1658345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1659345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1660345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1661345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1662345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1663345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1664ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1665ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16666a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1667ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1668ea637639SJie Zhang help 1669ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1670ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1671ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1672ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1673ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1674ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1675ea637639SJie Zhang 1676ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1677ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1678ea637639SJie Zhang 1679ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1680ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1681ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1682ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1683ea637639SJie Zhang 1684ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1685ea637639SJie Zhang 1686091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1687091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1688091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1689091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1690091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1691d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1692091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1693091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1694091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1695091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1696091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1697091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 169882c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1699091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1700091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1701091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1702091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 170382c04ff8SPeter Foley 1704125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1705b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1706125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1707125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1708125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1709125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 17105f87f112SIngo Molnar# 17115f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 17125f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 17135f87f112SIngo Molnar# 171497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 17155f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 171697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1717fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1718fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 17191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1721ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1722ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1723ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1724ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1725ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 17266341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1727ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 17281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 173366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 173511097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17540b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 17550b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1756826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1757826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1758826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1759826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 176091e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 176191e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 176291e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1763826e4506SLinus Torvalds 17641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1769f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1770f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 177419c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17830d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 179256067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 179356067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 179456067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 179556067812SArd Biesheuvel 17961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1807106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1808106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1809106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1810091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1811106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1812106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1813106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1814cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1815106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1816228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1817228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1818228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1819228c37ffSDavid Howells 1820ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1821ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1822ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1823ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1824ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1825106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1826106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1827106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1828106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1829106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1830106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1831ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1832d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1833d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1834d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1835d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1836d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1837d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1838d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1839d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1840d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1841d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1842d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1843ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1844ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1845ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1846ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1847ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1848ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1849ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1850ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1851ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1852ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1853ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1854ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1855ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1856ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1857ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1858ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1859ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1860ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1861ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1862ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1863ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1864ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1865ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1866ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1867ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1868ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1869ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1870ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1871ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1872ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1873ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1874ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 187522753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 187622753674SMichal Marek string 187722753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 187822753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 187922753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 188022753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 188122753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 188222753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 188322753674SMichal Marek 1884beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1885beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1886beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1887beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1888beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1889b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1890b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1891beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1892b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1893beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1894b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1895b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1896beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1897b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1898b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1899beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1900b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1901b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1902b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1903beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1904beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1905beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1906beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1907beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1908beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1909beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1910beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1911beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1912beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1913beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1914beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1915beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1916beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1917beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1918beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1919beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1920beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1921beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1922dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1923dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1924dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1925dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 1926dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1927dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1928dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1929dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1930dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1931dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1932dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1933dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1934dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1935dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1936f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1937dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 19380b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 19390b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 19406c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 19416c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 19426c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 19436c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 194498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 194598a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 194698a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19475f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19485f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 194998a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 195098a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1951692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 195298a79d6aSRusty Russell 19533a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1954e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1955e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1956e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1957e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 195816295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 195916295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 196016295becSSteffen Klassert bool 196116295becSSteffen Klassert 19624520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19634520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19644520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19654520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19664520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19674520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19684520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19694520c6a4SDavid Howells 19706beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1971e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 1972e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1973e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19741bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19751bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19767303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19777303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 19787303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 19797303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 19807303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 19817303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 19821bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 19831bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 1984