1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 199553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION 209553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap int 219553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 229553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 26b744b43fSSami Tolvanenconfig LD_IS_LLD 27b744b43fSSami Tolvanen def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD) 28b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 29469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 32469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 331a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 341a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 351a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 36e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 37e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 38e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 395cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 402d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 415cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 42eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 43eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 44eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 45b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 46b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 4787c9366eSJohannes Berg depends on !UML 48b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 49e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 50e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 51e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 5210916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 531dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 541dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 55c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 62c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 63c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 64c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 65ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 77dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 78dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 834bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 844bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 85bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 864bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 874bb16672SJiri Slaby help 884bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 894bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 904bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 914bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 924bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 934bb16672SJiri Slaby 944bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 954bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 964bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 974bb16672SJiri Slaby 98d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 99d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 100fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 101d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 102d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 103d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 104d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 105d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 106d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 107d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 118aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 119aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 120aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 121ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 122aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1246e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 126aaebf433SRyan Anderson 127aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1286e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 129aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1306e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 131aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1326e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1336e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1356e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1366e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1376e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 138aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1399afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1409afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1419afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1429afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1439afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1449afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1459afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1469afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1479afb719eSLaura Abbott 1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1573ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1583ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1593ebe1243SLasse Collin 1607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 163e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 164e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 165e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 166f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 167f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 168f16466afSVasily Gorbik 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 172f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 19030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1932e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2120a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2130a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2140a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2163ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2173ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2183ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2193ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2203ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2213ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2223ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2233ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2243ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2253ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2263ebe1243SLasse Collin 2273ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2283ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2293ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2303ebe1243SLasse Collin 2317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2350a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 236681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2377dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2387dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 241e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 242e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 243e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 244e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 245e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 246e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 247e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 248e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 249e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 250e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 251f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 252f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 253f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 254f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 255f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 256f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 257f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 258f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 259f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 260f16466afSVasily Gorbik 26130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 263*ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 264*ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 265*ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 266*ada4ab7aSChris Down help 267*ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 268*ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 269*ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 270*ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 271*ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 272*ada4ab7aSChris Down 273bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 274bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 275bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 276bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 277bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 278bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 279bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 280bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 281bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 28217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 28317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 28417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 28517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 28617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 28717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 28817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 29117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 314a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 315a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 316a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 317a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 318a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 319a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 32219c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 328b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 336bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 337bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 338bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 339bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 340bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 341bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 342226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 343226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 344226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 345226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 346226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 347226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 348226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 349a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 350226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 351226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 35269369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 35369369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 354b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 35569369a70SJosh Triplett help 35669369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 35769369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 35869369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 35969369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 36069369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 36169369a70SJosh Triplett 3621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 364804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 368cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 369cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3717a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3727a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3737a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 375cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3767a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 37728a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 37874c3cbe3SAl Viro 379d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 380764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 38187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 382d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 39102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 396c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 403fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 406c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 407abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 417abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 418abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 419ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 420554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 421041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 422abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 423abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 424abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 425abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 427abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 429abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 430abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 433abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 435abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 436b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 437b58c3584SRik van Riel 438fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 439fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 440b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 441fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 442fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 443fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 444fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 448fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 44911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 45011d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 45111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 45211d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 45311d4afd4SVincent Guittot 45476504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 45576504793SThara Gopinath bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure" 45676504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 45776504793SThara Gopinath 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4602813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4793903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 48519c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4872813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 49919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 501f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 51119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 52019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 528eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 529eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 530eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 531eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 532eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 533eb414681SJohannes Weiner 534eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 535eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 536eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 537eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 538eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5392ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5402ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5412ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5422ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 543c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 544eb414681SJohannes Weiner 545eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 546eb414681SJohannes Weiner 547e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 548e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 549e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 550e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 551e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 552e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 553428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 554428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 555e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5567b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5577b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5695c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5705c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 571414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5722c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5735c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5745c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5755c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5762c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5772c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5782c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5792c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5805c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5810af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 582c903ff83SMike Travis 583de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 584de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 585de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 586de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 588f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 606f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 607f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 608f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 60943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 610f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 611f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 612f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 613f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 61443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 615794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 616794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 617fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 618f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 619361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 620794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 626f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 627f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 628f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 629f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 630f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 631794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 632794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 633794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6362240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 640361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6595e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6605e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 66923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 670f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 671f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 672427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 673427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 674f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 675427934b8SPetr Mladek help 676f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 677f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 678f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 679f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 680f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 681427934b8SPetr Mladek 682f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 683427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 684427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 685427934b8SPetr Mladek 686427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 687427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 688427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 689427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 690427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 691427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 692427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 693427934b8SPetr Mladek 6945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 70038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 70138ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 70238ff87f7SStephen Boyd 70369842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 70469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 70569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 70669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 70769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 70869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 70969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 71069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 71169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 756be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 757be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 758be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 759be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 760be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 761be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 762be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 763be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 76472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 76572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 76672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 76772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 76872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 76972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 77072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 77172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 77272b252aeSMel Gorman 773c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 7743a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 775c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 77672b252aeSMel Gorman# 777be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 778be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 779be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 780be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 781be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 787be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 7966d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8006f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8016f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8026f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8036f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8046f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8056f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8066f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8076f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 80823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8096341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8102bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 811ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 81223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8155cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 816d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 817da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 81845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 819ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 820ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 821ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 82223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 82323964d2dSLi Zefan 8243e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8253e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8263e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 827c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 828a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8293e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 83079bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 83100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 832a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 83300f0b825SBalbir Singh 834c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 8352d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 836c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 837a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 838c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 83984c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 84084c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 84184c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 84284c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 84384c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8472bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8522bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 857e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8617baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 864da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 870e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8717c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 872a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8737c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8747c941438SDhaval Giani help 8757c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8767c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8777c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8787c941438SDhaval Giani 8797c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8807c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8817c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8827c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8837c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8847c941438SDhaval Giani 885ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 886ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 887ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 888ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 889ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 890ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 891ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 892ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 893ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 894d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 895ab84d31eSPaul Turner 8967c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 8977c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 8987c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8997c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9007c941438SDhaval Giani help 9017c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 90232bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9037c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9047c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 905d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9067c941438SDhaval Giani 9077c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9087c941438SDhaval Giani 9092480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9102480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9112480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9122480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9132480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9142480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9152480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9162480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9172480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9182480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9192480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9202480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9212480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9222480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9232480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9242480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9252480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9262480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9272480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9282480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9292480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9302480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9406cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 94398076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 94739d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 94839d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 94939d3e758SParav Pandit help 95039d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 95139d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 95239d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 95339d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 95439d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 95539d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 95639d3e758SParav Pandit 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 963489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 964489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 965489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 966489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 967489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 972afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 983afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 986e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 992afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 994afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 99889e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 99989e9b9e0STejun Heo 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10186546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 10196546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 102330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 102430070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1025483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1026483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 102730070984SDaniel Mack help 102830070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 102930070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 103030070984SDaniel Mack 103130070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 103230070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 103330070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 103430070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 103530070984SDaniel Mack 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 103723b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 103923b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 104223b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 104323b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 104423b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 104873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 104973b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 105073b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 105173b35147SArnd Bergmann 105223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1053c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10562813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10576a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1058c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1059c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1060c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1061c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1062c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1063c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 106658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 106758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 106817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 106958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 107058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 107158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 107258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1073769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1074769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1075660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1076769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1077769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1078769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1079769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1080769071acSAndrei Vagin 1081ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1082ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10838dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 108417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1085ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1086ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1087614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1088ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1089aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 109019c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 10915673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1092aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1093aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1094aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1095e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1096e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1097d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1098d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1099d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1100e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1101aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1102aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 110374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11049bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 110517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 110674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 110712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1108692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 110974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 111074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1111d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1112d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 111417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1115d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1116d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1117d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1118d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11198dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11208dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11215cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11225cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11235cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11245cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11255cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11265cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11275cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11285cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11295cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11305cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11315cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11325cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11335091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11345091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11355091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11365091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11375091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11385091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11395091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11405091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11415091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11425091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11435091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11445091faa4SMike Galbraith 11457af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11465d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11477af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11487af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11497af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11607af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11695d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 118526b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1195f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1196f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1197f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1198f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1199f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1200f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1201f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12028c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1203f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1204f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1205f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1206f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1207f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1208f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1209f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1210c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1211c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1212dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1213dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1214c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1215c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 121676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 121776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12182910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 121976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 122076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 122176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 12220947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 122385c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 12240947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 122576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 122676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 122776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1228877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1229877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12302cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1231877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1232877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 123315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1234877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1235877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1236877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1237877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1238877417e6SArnd Bergmann 123915f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 124015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 124115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1242c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 124315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 124415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1245c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12465d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 124715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1248c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1249ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1250ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1251c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1252877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1253877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12545d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12645d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 126816fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1269e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1270e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12728b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12738b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12748b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12830847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12840847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12850847062aSRandy Dunlap 1286657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1287657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1288657a5209SMike Frysinger 1289657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1290657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1291657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1292657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1293657a5209SMike Frysinger 1294657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1295657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1296657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1297657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1298657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1299657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1300657a5209SMike Frysinger 1301657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1302657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1303657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1304657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1305657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1306657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1307657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1308657a5209SMike Frysinger 1309657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1310657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1311657a5209SMike Frysinger 1312f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1313f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1314f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1315f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13166a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13176a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1318f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1319f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1326ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13282813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1329ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1330ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1331ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1332ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13332813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13342813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13352813893fSIulia Manda default y 13362813893fSIulia Manda help 13372813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13382813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13392813893fSIulia Manda 13402813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13412813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13422813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13432813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13442813893fSIulia Manda 13452813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13462813893fSIulia Manda 1347f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1348f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1349a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1350f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1351f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1352f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1353f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1354f6187769SFabian Frederick 1355f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1356f6187769SFabian Frederick 13576af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13586af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13666af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1367d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1368d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1375d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1376d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1377d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1378d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1379d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1380baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1381baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1382baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1383baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1384baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1385baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1386baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1387baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1388baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1389baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1390baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1391baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1392baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1393baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1394baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1395baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1396baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1397d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1398d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 140074876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1401d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1402d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1403d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1404d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1405d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1406d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1407d59745ceSMatt Mackall 140842a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 140942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 141042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 141142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 141242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1413c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1415c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1416c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1417c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1418c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1419c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1420c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1421c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1422c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1423708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1424046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1425708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1427708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1428708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1429708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14308761f1abSRalf Baechle 1431e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14338761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 143415f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1435e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1436e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1437e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1438e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1439e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1451bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1457bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1458bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1459bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1460bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1461bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 146203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 146303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 146462b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 146503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 146603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 146703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 146803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 146903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1477fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1479fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1480fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1481fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1482fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1483fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1484fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1485fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1486b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1488b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1489b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1490b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1491b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1492b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1493b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1494b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1495e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1497e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1498e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1499e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1500e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1501e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1502e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1503e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1515ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1517ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1518ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1519ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1520ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1521ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1522ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15232b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15242b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1525561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15262b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15272b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15282b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15292b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15302b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15312b188cc1SJens Axboe 1532d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1533d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1534d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1535d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1536d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1537d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1538d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1539d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1540d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1541d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15425a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 15435a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 15445a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 15455a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 15465a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 15475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1559d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1560d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1561d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1562d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1564d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1565d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1566d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1567d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1592a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1610fc611f47SKP Singh 1611fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1612fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 16134edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1614fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1615fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1616fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1617fc611f47SKP Singh help 1618fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1619fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1620fc611f47SKP Singh 1621fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1622fc611f47SKP Singh 1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1626bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 163281c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 163381c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 163481c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1635290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1636290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1637290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1638290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1639290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1640290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1641290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 164281c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 164381c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 164481c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 164581c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16533ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16543ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16553ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 165670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 165770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 165870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1659d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1660d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1661d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1662d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1663d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1664d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1665d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1666d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1667d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1668d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1669d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1670d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1671d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1672d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1673d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1674d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1675d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1676d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1677d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1678d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1679d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1680d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1681d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16826befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16836befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16845d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16856befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1691cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16920793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1693018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1694018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16950793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1696906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1697906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1698906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1699906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1700906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1701ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1702424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1703ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1704ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1705ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1706ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1707ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 170857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17090793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1710cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 171157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1712392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1713cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1714e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 171583fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17160793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 171757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 171857c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1720dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 172157c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 172257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 172357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 172457c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17250793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17260793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17270793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17280793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17290793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17300793a61dSThomas Gleixner 173157c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1732dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 173357c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17340793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17350793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17360793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17370793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17380793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1739906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1740906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1741906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1742cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1743906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1744906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1745906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1746906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1747906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1748906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1749906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1750906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1751906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17520793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17530793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1754f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1755f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17566a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1757f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17582aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17592aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17606a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17612aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1762f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 176341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 176441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1766f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 176741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 176841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 176941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 177041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 177141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 177241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17731663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17741663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17751663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17761663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17771663f26dSTejun Heo help 17781663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17791663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17801663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17811663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17821663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17831663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17841663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17851663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17861663f26dSTejun Heo 1787b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1788b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1789b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1790b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1791b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1792b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1793b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1794692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1795b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1796b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1797b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1798b943c460SRandy Dunlap 179981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 180081819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1801a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 180281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 180381819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 180481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 180581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 180681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 180704385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 180881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 180981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 181034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 181102f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 181281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 181481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1815ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 181681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 181981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 182081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 182102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 182202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 182381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 182481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18256a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 182681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 182781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 182837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 182937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 183037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 183181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 183381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18347660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18357660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18367660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18377660a6fdSKees Cook help 18387660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18397660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18407660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18417660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18427660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18437660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18447660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18457660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18467660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18477660a6fdSKees Cook 1848c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1849c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1850210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1851c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1852c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1853210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1854c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1855c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1856c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18572482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18582482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18592482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18602482ddecSKees Cook help 18612482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18622482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 186392bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18642482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18652482ddecSKees Cook 1866e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1867e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1868e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1869e900a918SDan Williams help 1870e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1871e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1872e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1873e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1874e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1875e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1876e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1877e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1878e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1879e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1880e900a918SDan Williams 1881e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1882e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1883e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1884e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1885e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1886e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1887e900a918SDan Williams 1888e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1889e900a918SDan Williams 1890345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1891345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1892b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1893345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1894345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 189592bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1896345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1897345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1898345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1899345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1900345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1901ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1902ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19036a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1904ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1905ea637639SJie Zhang help 1906ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19073903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1908ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1909ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1910ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1911ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1912ea637639SJie Zhang 1913ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1914ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1915ea637639SJie Zhang 1916ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1917ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1918ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1919ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1920ea637639SJie Zhang 1921ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1922ea637639SJie Zhang 1923091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1924091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1925091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1926091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1927091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1928d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1929091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1930091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1931091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1932091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1933091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1934091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 193582c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1936091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1937091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1938091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1939091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 194082c04ff8SPeter Foley 1941125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1942b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1943125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1944125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1945125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1946125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19475f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19485f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19495f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19505f87f112SIngo Molnar# 195197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19525f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 195397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19561572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19571572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1958ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19596341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1960ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1966c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1967c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1968c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1969c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 197066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 197211097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19910b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19920b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1993826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1994826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1995826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1996826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 199791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 199891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 199991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2000826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2006f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2007f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 201119c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20200d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20292ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20302ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20312ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20322ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20332ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20342ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20352ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20362ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 203756067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 203856067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 203956067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 204056067812SArd Biesheuvel 20411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2052106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2053106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2054c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2055106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2056106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2057106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2058cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2059106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2060228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2061228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2062228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2063228c37ffSDavid Howells 206449fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 206549fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 206649fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 206749fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 206849fcf732SDavid Howells 2069ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2070ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2071ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2074106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2075106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2076106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2077106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2078106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2079106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2080ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2081d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2082d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2083d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2084d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2085d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2086d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2087d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2088d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2089d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2090d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2091d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2092ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2093ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2100ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2104ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2105ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2114ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 212422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 212522753674SMichal Marek string 212622753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 212722753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 212822753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 212922753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 213022753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 213122753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 213222753674SMichal Marek 2133beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2134beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2135beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2136beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2137b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2138b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2139beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2140b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2141beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2142b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2143b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2144beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2145b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2146b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2147beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2148b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2149b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2150b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2151beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2152beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2153beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2154beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2155beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2157beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2158beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2159beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2160beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2163beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2164beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2166beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2168beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2169beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21703d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21713d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21723d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21733d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21743d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21753d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21763d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21773d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21783d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21793d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21803d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21813d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21823d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2183efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2184efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2185efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2186efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2187efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2188efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2189efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2190efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2191efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2192efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2193efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2194efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2195efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2196efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2197efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2198efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2199dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2200dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2201d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2202dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2203dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2204dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2205dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2206dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2207dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2208dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2209dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2210dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2211dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2212dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2213f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2214dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22151518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 22161518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 22171518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 22181518c633SQuentin Perret help 22191518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 22201518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 22211518c633SQuentin Perret 22221518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 22231518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 22241518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 22251518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 22261518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 22271518c633SQuentin Perret 22280b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22290b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22306c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22316c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 22326c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 22336c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 223498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 223598a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 223698a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22375f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22385f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 223998a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 224098a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2241692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 224298a79d6aSRusty Russell 22433a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2244e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2245e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2246e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2247e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 224816295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 224916295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 225016295becSSteffen Klassert bool 225116295becSSteffen Klassert 22524520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22534520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22544520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22554520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22564520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22574520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22584520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22594520c6a4SDavid Howells 22606beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2261e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 22620ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 22630ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 22640ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2265e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2266e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22671bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22681bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22697303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22707303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22717303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22727303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22737303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22747303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22751bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22761bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2277