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 11*a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12*a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 13*a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14*a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15*a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16*a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC 17*a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18*a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 30c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 31c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 32c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 33c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 34c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 35c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 36c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 37c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 38c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 39ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 51dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 52dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 5534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 574bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 584bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 59bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 604bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 614bb16672SJiri Slaby help 624bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 634bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 644bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 654bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 664bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 674bb16672SJiri Slaby 684bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 694bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 704bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 714bb16672SJiri Slaby 721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 82aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 83aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 85ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 95aaebf433SRyan Anderson 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1123ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1133ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1143ebe1243SLasse Collin 1157dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1167dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1177dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 118e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 119e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 120e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 12130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1242d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1487dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1550a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1650a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1660a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1683ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1693ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1703ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1713ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1723ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1733ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1743ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1753ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1763ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1773ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1803ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1813ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1870a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 188681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 191e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 198e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 20330d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 205bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 211bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 213bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2169361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 242a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 243a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 244a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 24719c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 253b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 265bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 266bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 267226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 268226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 269226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 270226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 271226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 272226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 273226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 274a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 275226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 276226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 27769369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 27869369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 279b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 28069369a70SJosh Triplett help 28169369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 28269369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 28369369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 28469369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 28569369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 28669369a70SJosh Triplett 2871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 289804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 293cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 294cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2967a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 2977a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 2987a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 2991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 300cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3017a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 303939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 304939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 305939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 306939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30974c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 31063c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 31128a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 31274c3cbe3SAl Viro 313d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 314764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 315d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 316391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 317391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 318abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 319abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 320abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 321fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 322fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 323fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 32402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 325fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 326fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 327fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 328fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 329c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 330fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 331fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 332fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 333fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 334fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 335fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 336fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 337abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 339c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 341391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 342391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 343391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 344391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 345391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 346391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 347391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 349391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 352ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 353554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 354abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 358abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 361abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 363abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 364abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 368b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 369b58c3584SRik van Riel 370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 371fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 372b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 374fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 376fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 3832813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 387391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 399391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 400391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 40819c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4102813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 42219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 424f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 43419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 44319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 4535c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 4545c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 455414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 4562c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 4575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 4585c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 4595c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 4602c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 4612c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 4622c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 4632c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 4645c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 4650af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 466c903ff83SMike Travis 467de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 468de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 469de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 470de5b56baSVivek Goyal 4711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 472f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 473de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 491794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 492794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 493fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 494f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 495361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 496794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 49723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 49823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 49923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 50023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 50123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 502f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 503f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 504f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 505f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 506f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 507794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 508794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 509794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 51023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 51123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 5122240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 51323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 51423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 51523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 516361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 51723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 51823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 51923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 52023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 52123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 52223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 52323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 52423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 52523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 52623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 52723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 52823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 52923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 53023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 53123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 53223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 53323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 53423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 5355e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 5365e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 53723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 53823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 53923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 54023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 54123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 54223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 54323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 54423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 54523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 546f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 547f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 548427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 549427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 550f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 551427934b8SPetr Mladek help 552f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 553f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 554f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 555f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 556f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 557427934b8SPetr Mladek 558f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 559427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 560427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 561427934b8SPetr Mladek 562427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 563427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 564427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 565427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 566427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 567427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 568427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 569427934b8SPetr Mladek 5705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 57638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 57738ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 57838ff87f7SStephen Boyd 579be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 580be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 581be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 582be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 583be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 584be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 585be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 586be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 58772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 58872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 58972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 59072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 59172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 59272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 59372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 59472b252aeSMel Gorman bool 59572b252aeSMel Gorman 59672b252aeSMel Gorman# 597be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 598be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 599be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 600be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 601be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 602be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 603be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 604be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 605be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 606be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 607be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 608be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 609be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 610be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 611be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 612be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 613be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 614be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 615be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 6166d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 617be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 618be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 619be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 6206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 6216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 6226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 6236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 6246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 6256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 6266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 6276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 62823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 6296341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 6302bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 631ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 63223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 6379991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 63845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 639ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 640ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 641ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 64223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 64323964d2dSLi Zefan 6443e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 6453e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 6463e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 647c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 648a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 6493e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 65079bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 65100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 652a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 65300f0b825SBalbir Singh 654c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 655a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 656c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 657c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 658a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 659a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 660c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 661a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 662c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 663a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 664a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 665a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 666a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 66743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 66807555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 669a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 670a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 671a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 67200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 673c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6746bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 6756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 6766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 6772bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 6786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 6796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 6806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 6816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 6822bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 6836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 6846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 6856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 6866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 687e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 6886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 6896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 6906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 6916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 6926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 6936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 6949991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 6956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 6966bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 6976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 6986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 6996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 7006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 7026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 7036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7046bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 7056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 7066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 7076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 708e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7097c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 710a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 7117c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7127c941438SDhaval Giani help 7137c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7147c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7157c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7167c941438SDhaval Giani 7177c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7187c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7197c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7207c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7217c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7227c941438SDhaval Giani 723ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 724ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 725ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 726ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 727ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 728ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 729ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 730ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 731ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 732cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 733ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7347c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7357c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7367c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7377c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7387c941438SDhaval Giani help 7397c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 74032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7417c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7427c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7437c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7447c941438SDhaval Giani 7457c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7467c941438SDhaval Giani 7476bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 7486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 7496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 7516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 7526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 7536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 7546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 7556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 7566cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 7576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 7596cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 7606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 7616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 7626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 76339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 76439d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 76539d3e758SParav Pandit help 76639d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 76739d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 76839d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 76939d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 77039d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 77139d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 77239d3e758SParav Pandit 7736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 7746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 7756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 7776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 7786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 779489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 780489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 781489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 782489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 783489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 7846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 7866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 7876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 788afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 7896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 7916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 7926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 7936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 7946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 7986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 799afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8006bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 8016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 802e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 808afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 810afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 81489e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 81589e9b9e0STejun Heo 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 8206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 8216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 8266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 8316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 83830070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 83930070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 840483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 841483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 84230070984SDaniel Mack help 84330070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 84430070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 84530070984SDaniel Mack 84630070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 84730070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 84830070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 84930070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 85030070984SDaniel Mack 8516bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 85223b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 85423b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 85723b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 85823b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 85923b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 86373b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 86473b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 86573b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 86673b35147SArnd Bergmann 86723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 868c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 8698dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 8706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 8712813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 8726a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 873c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 874c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 875c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 876c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 877c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 878c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 8798dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 8808dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 88158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 88258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 88317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 88458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 88558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 88658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 88758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 888ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 889ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 8908dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 89117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 892ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 893ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 894614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 895ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 896aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 89719c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 8985673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 899aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 900aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 901aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 902e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 903e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 904d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 905d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 906d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 907e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 908aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 909aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 91074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 9119bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 91217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 91374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 91412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 915692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 91674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 91774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 918d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 919d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 9208dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 92117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 922d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 923d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 924d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 925d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 9268dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 9278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 9285091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 9295091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 9305091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 9315091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 9325091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9335091faa4SMike Galbraith help 9345091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 9355091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 9365091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 9375091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 9385091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 9395091faa4SMike Galbraith 9407af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9415d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 9427af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9437af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9447af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9457af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 9467af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 9477af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 9487af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9497af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 9507af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 9517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9527af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 9537af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 9547af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 9557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9567af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 9577af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 9587af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 9597af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9607af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9617af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 9627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9637af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 9645d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 9657af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9667af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9677af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9687af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9697af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 9707af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9717af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 9727af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 9737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9747af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9757af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 9767af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 9777af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9787af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 9797af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 98026b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 9817af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9827af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 9837af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 9847af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 9857af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 9867af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 9877af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9887af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 9897af37becSDaniel Lezcano 990f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 991f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 992f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 993f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 994f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 995f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 996f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 9978c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 998f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 999f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1000f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1001f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1002f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1003f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1004f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1005c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1006c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1007dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1008dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1009c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1010c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1011877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1012877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 10132cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1014877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1015877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1016877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1017877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1018877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1019877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1020877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1021877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1022c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 102396fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1024c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 102531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 102631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1027c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 10283a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1029c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1030877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1031877417e6SArnd Bergmann 10325d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 10345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 10355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 10365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 10375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 10385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 10395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 10405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 10415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10425d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 10465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 10475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and 10485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin data elimination with the linker by compiling with 10495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, and linking with 10505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin --gc-sections. 10515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 10535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 10545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 10555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 10565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 10575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 10585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10590847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 10600847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 10610847062aSRandy Dunlap 1062b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1063b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1064b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1065657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1066657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1067657a5209SMike Frysinger 1068657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1069657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1070657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1071657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1072657a5209SMike Frysinger 1073657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1074657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1075657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1076657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1077657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1078657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1079657a5209SMike Frysinger 1080657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1081657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1082657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1083657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1084657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1085657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1086657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1087657a5209SMike Frysinger 1088657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1089657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1090657a5209SMike Frysinger 1091f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1092f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1093f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1094f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 10956a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 10966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1097f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1098f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1105ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 11066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 11072813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1108ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1109ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1110ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1111ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11122813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 11132813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 11142813893fSIulia Manda default y 11152813893fSIulia Manda help 11162813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 11172813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 11182813893fSIulia Manda 11192813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 11202813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 11212813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 11222813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 11232813893fSIulia Manda 11242813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 11252813893fSIulia Manda 1126f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1127f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1128a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1129f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1130f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1131f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1132f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1133f6187769SFabian Frederick 1134f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1135f6187769SFabian Frederick 11366af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 11376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 11386af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 11396af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 11406af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 11416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 11426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 11436af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 11446af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 11456af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1146b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 11476a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 114826a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1149c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1150b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1151b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 115213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 115313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 115413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 115513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1156b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 115713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 115813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 115913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1160b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1161c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1162ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1163d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1164d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1165d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1166d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1167d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1168d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1169d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1170d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1171d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1172d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1173d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1174d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1175d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1176baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1177baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1178baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1179baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1180baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1181baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1182baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1183baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1184baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1185baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1186baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1187baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1188baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1189baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1190baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1191baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1192baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1193d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1194d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 11956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 119674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1197d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1198d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1199d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1200d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1201d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1202d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1203d59745ceSMatt Mackall 120442a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 120542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 120642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 120742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 120842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1209c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1211c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1212c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1213c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1214c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1215c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1216c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1217c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1218c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1219708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1220046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1221708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 12226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1223708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1224708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1225708e9a79SMatt Mackall 12268761f1abSRalf Baechle 1227e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 12286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 12298761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 123015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1231e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1232e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1233e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1234e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1235e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 12361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12386a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 12456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1247bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1253bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1254bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1255bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1256bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1257bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 125803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 125903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 126062b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 126103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 126203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 126303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 126403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 126503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 12661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 12676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1269448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1274fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 12756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1276448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1277fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1278fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1279fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1280fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1281fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1282fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1283fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1284b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 12856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1286448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1287b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1288b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1289b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1290b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1291b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1292b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1293b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1294e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 12956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1296448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1297e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1298e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1299e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1300e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1301e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1302e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1303e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 13041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1315ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1317ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1318ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1319ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1320ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1321ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1322ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1323d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1324d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1325d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1326d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1327d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1328d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1329d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1330d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1331d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1332d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 13335b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 13345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 13355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 13365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 13375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 13385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 13395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 13405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 13415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 13425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 13435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 13445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1345d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1346d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1347d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select PROC_CHILDREN 1348d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1349d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1350d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1351d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1352d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1353d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap entries. 1354d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1355d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N here. 1356d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1357d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1358d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1359d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1360d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1361d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1362d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1363d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1364d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1365d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1366d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1367d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1368d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1375d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1376d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1377d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1378d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1379d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1380d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1381d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1382d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1383d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1384d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1385d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1386d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1387d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1388d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1389d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1390a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1391d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1394d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1395d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1396d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1397d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1398d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1399d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1400d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1401d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1402d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1403d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1404d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1405d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1406d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1407d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1408d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1409d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1410d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1411d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1412bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1413d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1414d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1415d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1416d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1417d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1418290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1419290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1420290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1421290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1422290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1423290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1424290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1425d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1426d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1427d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1428d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1429d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1430d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1431d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1432d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 14333ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 14343ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 14353ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 143670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 143770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 143870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 14396befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14406befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14415d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 14426befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14436befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14446befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14456befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14466befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14476befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1448cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14490793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1450018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1451018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1453906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1454906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1455906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1456906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1457906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1458ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1459424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1460ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1461ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1462ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1463ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1464ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 146557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 14660793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1467cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 146857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1469392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1470cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14714c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1472e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 147383fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 14740793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 147557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 147657c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 14770793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1478dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 147957c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 148057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 148157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 148257c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 14830793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 14840793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 14850793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 14860793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 14870793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 14880793a61dSThomas Gleixner 148957c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1490dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 149157c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 14920793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 14930793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 14940793a61dSThomas Gleixner 14950793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 14960793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1497906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1498906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1499906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1500cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1501906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1502906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1503906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1504906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1505906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1506906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1507906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1508906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1509906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15100793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1512f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1513f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 15146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1515f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 15162aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 15172aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 15186a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 15192aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1520f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 152141ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 152241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15236a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1524f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 152541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 152641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 152741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 152841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 152941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 153041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 15311663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 15321663f26dSTejun Heo default n 15331663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 15341663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 15351663f26dSTejun Heo help 15361663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 15371663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 15381663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 15391663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 15401663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 15411663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 15421663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 15431663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 15441663f26dSTejun Heo 1545b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1546b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1547b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1548b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1549b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1550b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1551b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1552692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1553b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1554b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1555b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1556b943c460SRandy Dunlap 155781819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 155881819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1559a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 156081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 156181819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 156281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 156381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 156481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 156504385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 156681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 156781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 156834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 156902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 157081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 157181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 157281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1573ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 157481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 157581819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 157681819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 157781819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 157881819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 157902f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 158002f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 158181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 158281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 15836a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 158481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 158581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 158637291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 158737291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 158837291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 158981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 159081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 159181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 15927660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 15937660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 15947660a6fdSKees Cook default y 15957660a6fdSKees Cook help 15967660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 15977660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 15987660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 15997660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 16007660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 16017660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 16027660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 16037660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 16047660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 16057660a6fdSKees Cook 1606c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1607c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1608210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1609c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1610c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1611210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1612c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1613c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1614c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 16152482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 16162482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 16172482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 16182482ddecSKees Cook help 16192482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 16202482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 16212482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 16222482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 16232482ddecSKees Cook 1624345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1625345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1626b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1627345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1628345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1629345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1630345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1631345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1632345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1633345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1634345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1635ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1636ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16376a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1638ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1639ea637639SJie Zhang help 1640ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1641ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1642ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1643ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1644ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1645ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1646ea637639SJie Zhang 1647ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1648ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1649ea637639SJie Zhang 1650ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1651ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1652ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1653ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1654ea637639SJie Zhang 1655ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1656ea637639SJie Zhang 1657091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1658091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1659091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1660091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1661091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1662d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1663091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1664091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1665091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1666091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1667091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1668091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 166982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1670091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1671091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1672091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1673091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 167482c04ff8SPeter Foley 1675125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1676b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1677125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1678125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1679125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1680125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 16815f87f112SIngo Molnar# 16825f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 16835f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 16845f87f112SIngo Molnar# 168597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 16865f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 168797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1688fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1689fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 16901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1692ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1693ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1694ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1695ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1696ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 16976341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1698ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 170466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 170611097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17250b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 17260b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1727826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1728826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1729826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1730826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 173191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 173291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 173391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1734826e4506SLinus Torvalds 17351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1740f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1741f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 174519c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17540d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 176356067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 176456067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 176556067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 176656067812SArd Biesheuvel 17671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1778106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1779106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1780106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1781091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1782106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1783106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1784106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1785cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1786106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1787228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1788228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1789228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1790228c37ffSDavid Howells 1791ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1792ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1793ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1794ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1795ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1796106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1797106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1798106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1799106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1800106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1801106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1802ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1803d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1804d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1805d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1806d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1807d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1808d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1809d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1810d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1811d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1812d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1813d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1814ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1815ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1816ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1817ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1818ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1819ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1820ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1821ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1822ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1823ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1824ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1825ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1826ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1827ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1828ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1829ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1830ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1831ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1832ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1833ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1834ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1835ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1836ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1837ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1838ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1839ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1840ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1841ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1842ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1843ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1844ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1845ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 184622753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 184722753674SMichal Marek string 184822753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 184922753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 185022753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 185122753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 185222753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 185322753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 185422753674SMichal Marek 1855beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1856beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1857beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1858beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1859beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1860b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1861b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1862beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1863b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1864beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1865b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1866b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1867beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1868b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1869b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1870beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1871b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1872b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1873b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1874beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1875beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1876beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1877beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1878beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1879beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1880beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1881beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1882beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1883beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1884beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1885beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1886beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1887beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1888beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1889beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1890beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1891beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1892beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1893dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1894dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1895dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1896dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 1897dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1898dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1899dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1900dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1901dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1902dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1903dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1904dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1905dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1906dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1907f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1908dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 19090b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 19100b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 19116c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 19126c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 19136c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 19146c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 191598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 191698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 191798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19185f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19195f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 192098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 192198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1922692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 192398a79d6aSRusty Russell 19243a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1925e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1926e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1927e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1928e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 192916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 193016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 193116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 193216295becSSteffen Klassert 19334520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19344520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19354520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19364520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19374520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19384520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19394520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19404520c6a4SDavid Howells 19416beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1942e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 1943e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1944e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19451bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19461bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19477303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19487303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 19497303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 19507303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 19517303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 19527303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 19531bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 19541bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 1955