1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 138b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 148b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 158b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 168b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 178b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 198b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 208b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 218b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 228b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Ensure full rebuild when the compier is updated 238b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/kconfig.h contains this option in the comment line so 248b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the auto-generated 258b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig will touch it 268b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada and then every file will be rebuilt. 278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 29e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q gcc) 30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 33fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 369553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION 379553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap int 389553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 399553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap 40469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 41e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q clang) 42469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 43469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 44469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 45469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 46469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 471a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 489371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 499371f86eSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 509371f86eSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(m32-flag)) 511a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 52*b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 53*b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 54*b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) -static $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 55*b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) -static $(m32-flag)) 56*b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada 57e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 58e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 59e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 605cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 612d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 625cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 63eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 64eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 65eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 66b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 67b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 6887c9366eSJohannes Berg depends on !UML 69b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 70e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 71e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 72e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 7310916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 741dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 751dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 76c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 77c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 78c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 79c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 80c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 81c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 82c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 83c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 84c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 85c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 86ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 98dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 99dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 10234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1044bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1054bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 106bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 1074bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 1084bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1094bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1104bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1114bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1124bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1134bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1144bb16672SJiri Slaby 1154bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1164bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1174bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1184bb16672SJiri Slaby 119d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 120d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 121fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 122d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 123d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 124d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 125d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 126d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 127d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 128d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 139aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 140aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 141aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 142ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 143aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 144aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1456e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1466e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 147aaebf433SRyan Anderson 148aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 150aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1516e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 152aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1546e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1556e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1586e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 159aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1609afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1619afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1629afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1639afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1649afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1659afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1669afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1679afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1689afb719eSLaura Abbott 1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1783ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1803ebe1243SLasse Collin 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 184e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 185e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 186e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 187f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 188f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 189f16466afSVasily Gorbik 19030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 193f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2167dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2177dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2240a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2330a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2340a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2350a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2373ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2383ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2393ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2403ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2413ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2423ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2433ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2443ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2453ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2463ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2473ebe1243SLasse Collin 2483ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2493ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2503ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2513ebe1243SLasse Collin 2527dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2537dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2560a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 257681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 260e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 261e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 262e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 263e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 264e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 265e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 266e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 267e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 268e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 269e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 270e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 271e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 272f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 273f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 274f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 275f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 276f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 277f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 278f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 279f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 280f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 281f16466afSVasily Gorbik 28230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 28330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 284bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 285bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 286bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 287bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 288bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 289bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 290bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 291bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 292bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 29317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 29417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 29517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 29617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 29717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 29817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 29917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 30217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 325a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 326a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 327a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 328a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 329a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 330a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 33319c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 339b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 347bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 348bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 349bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 350bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 351bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 352bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 353226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 354226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 355226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 356226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 357226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 358226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 359226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 360a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 361226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 362226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 36369369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 36469369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 365b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 36669369a70SJosh Triplett help 36769369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 36869369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 36969369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 37069369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 37169369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 37269369a70SJosh Triplett 3731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 375804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 379cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 380cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3827a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3837a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3847a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 386cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3877a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 38828a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 38974c3cbe3SAl Viro 390d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 391764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 39287a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 393d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 396abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 40202fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 403fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 404fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 405fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 407c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 410fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 415abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 417c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 418abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 429abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 430ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 431554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 432041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 433abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 435abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 436abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 437abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 438abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 439abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 440abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 441abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 442abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 443abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 444abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 445abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 446abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 447b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 448b58c3584SRik van Riel 449fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 451b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 453fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 46011d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 46111d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 46211d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 46311d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 46411d4afd4SVincent Guittot 46576504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 46676504793SThara Gopinath bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure" 46776504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 46876504793SThara Gopinath 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4712813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4903903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 49619c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4982813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 51019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 512f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 52219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 53119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 539eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 540eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 541eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 542eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 543eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 544eb414681SJohannes Weiner 545eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 546eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 547eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 548eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 549eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5502ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5512ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5522ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5532ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 554c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 555eb414681SJohannes Weiner 556eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 557eb414681SJohannes Weiner 558e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 559e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 560e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 561e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 562e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 563e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 564428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 565428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 566e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5677b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5737b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5747b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5757b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5767b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5777b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5805c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5815c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 582414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5832c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5845c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5855c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5865c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5872c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5882c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5892c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5902c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5915c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5920af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 593c903ff83SMike Travis 594de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 595de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 596de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 597de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 599f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 617f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 618f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 619f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 62043d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 621f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 622f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 623f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 624f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 62543d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 626794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 627794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 628fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 629f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 630361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 631794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 637f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 638f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 639f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 640f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 641f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 642794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 643794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 644794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6472240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 651361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6705e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6715e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 67223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 67323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 67423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 67523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 67623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 67723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 67823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 67923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 68023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 681f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 682f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 683427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 684427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 685f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 686427934b8SPetr Mladek help 687f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 688f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 689f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 690f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 691f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 692427934b8SPetr Mladek 693f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 694427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 695427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 696427934b8SPetr Mladek 697427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 698427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 699427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 700427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 701427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 702427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 703427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 704427934b8SPetr Mladek 7055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 71138ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 71238ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 71338ff87f7SStephen Boyd 71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 75669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 75769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 75869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 75969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 76069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 76169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 76269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 76469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 76669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 767be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 768be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 769be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 770be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 774be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 77572b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 77672b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 77772b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 77872b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 77972b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 78072b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 78172b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 78272b252aeSMel Gorman bool 78372b252aeSMel Gorman 784c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 7853a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 786c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 78772b252aeSMel Gorman# 788be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 789be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 790be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 791be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 792be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 804be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 805be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 806be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8076d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 808be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 809be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 810be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8116f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8126f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8136f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8146f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 81923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8206341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8212bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 822ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 82323964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 827d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 828da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 82945ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 830ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 831ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 832ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 83323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 83423964d2dSLi Zefan 8353e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8363e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8373e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 838c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 839a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8403e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 84179bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 84200f0b825SBalbir Singh help 843a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 84400f0b825SBalbir Singh 845c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 846a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 847c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 848c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 849a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 850a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 851c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 852a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 853c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 854a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 855a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 856a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 857a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 85843d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 85907555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 860a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 861a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 862a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 86300a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 864c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 86584c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 86684c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 86784c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 86884c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 86984c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8706bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8732bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8782bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 883e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8877baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 890da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8926bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 896e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8977c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 898a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8997c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9007c941438SDhaval Giani help 9017c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9027c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9037c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9047c941438SDhaval Giani 9057c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9067c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9077c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9087c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9097c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9107c941438SDhaval Giani 911ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 912ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 913ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 914ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 915ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 916ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 917ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 918ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 919ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 920d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 921ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9227c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9237c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9247c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9257c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9267c941438SDhaval Giani help 9277c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 92832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9297c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9307c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 931d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9327c941438SDhaval Giani 9337c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9347c941438SDhaval Giani 9352480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9362480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9372480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9382480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9392480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9402480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9412480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9422480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9432480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9442480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9452480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9462480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9472480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9482480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9492480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9502480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9512480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9522480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9532480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9542480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9552480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9562480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9666cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 96998076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 97339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 97439d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 97539d3e758SParav Pandit help 97639d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 97739d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 97839d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 97939d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 98039d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 98139d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 98239d3e758SParav Pandit 9836bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 989489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 990489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 991489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 992489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 993489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 998afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1009afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1012e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1018afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1020afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 102489e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 102589e9b9e0STejun Heo 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10446546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 10456546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 104930070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 105030070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1051483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1052483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 105330070984SDaniel Mack help 105430070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 105530070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 105630070984SDaniel Mack 105730070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 105830070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 105930070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 106030070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 106130070984SDaniel Mack 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 106323b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 106523b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 106823b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 106923b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 107023b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 107473b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 107573b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 107673b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 107773b35147SArnd Bergmann 107823964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1079c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10808dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10822813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10836a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1084c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1085c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1086c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1087c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1088c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1089c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10908dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 109258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 109358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 109417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 109558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 109658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 109758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 109858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1099769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1100769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1101660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1102769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1103769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1104769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1105769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1106769071acSAndrei Vagin 1107ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1108ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11098dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 111017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1111ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1112ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1113614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1114ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1115aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 111619c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11175673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1118aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1119aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1120aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1121e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1122e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1123d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1124d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1125d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1126e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1127aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1128aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 112974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11309bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 113117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 113274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 113312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1134692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 113574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 113674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1137d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1138d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11398dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 114017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1141d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1142d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1143d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1144d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11458dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11468dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11475cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11485cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11495cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11505cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11515cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11525cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11535cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11545cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11555cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11565cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11575cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11585cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11595091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11605091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11615091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11625091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11635091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11645091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11655091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11665091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11675091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11685091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11695091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11705091faa4SMike Galbraith 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11725d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11955d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12097af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 121126b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12137af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12177af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12197af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1221f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1222f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1223f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1224f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1225f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1226f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1227f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12288c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1229f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1230f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1231f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1232f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1233f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1234f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1235f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1236c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1237c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1238dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1239dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1240c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1241c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 124276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 124376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12442910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 124576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 124676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 124776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 12480947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 124985c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 12500947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 125176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 125276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 125376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1254877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1255877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12562cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1257877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1258877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 125915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1260877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1261877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1262877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1263877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1264877417e6SArnd Bergmann 126515f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 126615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 126715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1268c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 126915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 127015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1271c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12725d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 127315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1274c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1275ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1276ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1277c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1278877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1279877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12805d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12825d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12845d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12865d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12905d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 129416fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1295e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1296e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12975d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12988b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12998b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 13008b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 13015d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13025d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 13035d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 13045d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 13055d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 13065d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 13075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 13085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13090847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13100847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13110847062aSRandy Dunlap 1312657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1313657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1314657a5209SMike Frysinger 1315657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1316657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1317657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1318657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1319657a5209SMike Frysinger 1320657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1321657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1322657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1323657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1324657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1325657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1326657a5209SMike Frysinger 1327657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1328657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1329657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1330657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1331657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1332657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1333657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1334657a5209SMike Frysinger 1335657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1336657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1337657a5209SMike Frysinger 1338f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1339f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1340f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1341f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13426a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1344f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1345f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1352ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13542813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1355ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1356ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1357ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1358ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13592813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13602813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13612813893fSIulia Manda default y 13622813893fSIulia Manda help 13632813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13642813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13652813893fSIulia Manda 13662813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13672813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13682813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13692813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13702813893fSIulia Manda 13712813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13722813893fSIulia Manda 1373f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1374f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1375a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1376f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1377f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1378f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1379f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1380f6187769SFabian Frederick 1381f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1382f6187769SFabian Frederick 13836af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13846af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13856af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13866af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13876af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13886af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13896af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13906af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13916af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13926af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1394d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1395d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1396d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1397d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1398d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1399d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1400d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1401d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1402d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1403d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1404d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1405d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1406baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1407baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1408baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1409baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1410baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1411baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1412baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1413baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1414baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1415baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1416baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1417baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1418baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1419baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1420baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1421baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1422baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1423d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1424d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 142674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1427d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1428d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1429d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1430d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1431d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1432d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1433d59745ceSMatt Mackall 143442a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 143542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 143642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 143742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 143842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1439c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1441c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1442c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1443c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1444c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1445c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1446c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1447c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1448c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1449708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1450046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1451708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1453708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1454708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1455708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14568761f1abSRalf Baechle 1457e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14598761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 146015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1461e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1462e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1463e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1464e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1465e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1477bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1483bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1484bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1485bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1486bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1487bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 148803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 148903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 149062b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 149103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 149203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 149303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 149403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 149503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1503fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1505fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1506fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1507fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1508fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1509fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1510fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1511fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1512b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1514b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1515b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1516b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1517b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1518b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1519b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1520b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1521e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1523e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1524e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1525e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1526e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1527e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1528e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1529e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1541ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1543ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1544ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1545ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1546ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1547ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1548ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15492b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15502b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1551561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 15522b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15532b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15542b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15552b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15562b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15572b188cc1SJens Axboe 1558d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1559d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1560d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1561d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1562d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1563d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1564d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1565d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1566d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1567d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15685a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 15695a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 15705a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 15715a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 15725a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 15735b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15745b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1618a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1634d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1635d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1636fc611f47SKP Singh 1637fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1638fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 16394edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1640fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1641fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1642fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1643fc611f47SKP Singh help 1644fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1645fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1646fc611f47SKP Singh 1647fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1648fc611f47SKP Singh 1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1652bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 165881c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 165981c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 166081c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1661290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1662290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1663290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1664290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1665290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1666290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1667290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 166881c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 166981c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 167081c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 167181c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16793ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16803ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16813ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 168270216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 168370216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 168470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1685d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1686d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1687d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1688d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1689d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1690d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1691d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1692d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1693d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1694d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1695d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1696d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1697d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1698d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1699d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1700d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1701d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1702d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1703d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1704d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1705d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1706d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1707d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 17086befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17096befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17105d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 17116befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17126befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17136befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17146befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 17156befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 17166befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1717cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17180793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1719018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1720018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17210793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1722906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1723906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1724906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1725906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1726906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1727ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1728424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1729ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1730ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1731ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1732ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1733ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 173457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17350793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1736cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 173757c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1738392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1739cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1740e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 174183fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17420793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 174357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 174457c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1746dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 174757c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 174857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 174957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 175057c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17510793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17520793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17530793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17540793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17550793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17560793a61dSThomas Gleixner 175757c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1758dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 175957c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17600793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17610793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17630793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1765906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1766906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1767906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1768cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1769906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1770906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1771906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1772906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1773906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1774906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1775906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1776906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1777906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17780793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17790793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1780f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1781f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1783f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17842aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17852aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17866a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17872aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1788f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 178941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 179041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1792f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 179341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 179441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 179541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 179641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 179741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 179841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17991663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 18001663f26dSTejun Heo default n 18011663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 18021663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 18031663f26dSTejun Heo help 18041663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 18051663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 18061663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 18071663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 18081663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 18091663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 18101663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 18111663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 18121663f26dSTejun Heo 1813b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1814b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1815b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1816b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1817b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1818b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1819b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1820692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1821b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1822b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1823b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1824b943c460SRandy Dunlap 182581819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 182681819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1827a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 182881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 182981819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 183081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 183281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 183304385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 183481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 183581819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 183634013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 183702f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 183881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 184081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1841ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 184281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 184381819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 184481819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 184581819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 184681819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 184702f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 184802f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 184981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 185081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18516a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 185281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 185381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 185437291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 185537291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 185637291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 185781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 185881819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 185981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18607660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18617660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18627660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18637660a6fdSKees Cook help 18647660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18657660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18667660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18677660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18687660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18697660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18707660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18717660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18727660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18737660a6fdSKees Cook 1874c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1875c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1876210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1877c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1878c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1879210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1880c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1881c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1882c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18832482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18842482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18852482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18862482ddecSKees Cook help 18872482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18882482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 188992bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18902482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18912482ddecSKees Cook 1892e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1893e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1894e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1895e900a918SDan Williams help 1896e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1897e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1898e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1899e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1900e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1901e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1902e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1903e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1904e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1905e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1906e900a918SDan Williams 1907e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1908e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1909e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1910e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1911e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1912e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1913e900a918SDan Williams 1914e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1915e900a918SDan Williams 1916345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1917345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1918b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1919345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1920345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 192192bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1922345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1923345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1924345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1925345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1926345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1927ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1928ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19296a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1930ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1931ea637639SJie Zhang help 1932ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19333903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1934ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1935ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1936ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1937ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1938ea637639SJie Zhang 1939ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1940ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1941ea637639SJie Zhang 1942ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1943ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1944ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1945ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1946ea637639SJie Zhang 1947ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1948ea637639SJie Zhang 1949091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1950091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1951091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1952091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1953091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1954d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1955091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1956091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1957091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1958091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1959091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1960091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 196182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1962091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1963091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1964091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1965091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 196682c04ff8SPeter Foley 1967125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1968b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1969125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1970125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1971125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1972125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19735f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19745f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19755f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19765f87f112SIngo Molnar# 197797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19785f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 197997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19821572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19831572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1984ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19856341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1986ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1992c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1993c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1994c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1995c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 199666da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 199811097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20170b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 20180b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 2019826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2020826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 2021826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2022826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 202391e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 202491e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 202591e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2026826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2032f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2033f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 203719c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20401da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20460d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20552ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20562ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20572ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20582ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20592ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20602ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20612ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20622ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 206356067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 206456067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 206556067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 206656067812SArd Biesheuvel 20671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20751da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2078106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2079106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2080c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2081106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2082106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2083106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2084cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2085106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2086228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2087228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2088228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2089228c37ffSDavid Howells 209049fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 209149fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 209249fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 209349fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 209449fcf732SDavid Howells 2095ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2100106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2101106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2102106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2103106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2104106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2105106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2107d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2108d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2109d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2110d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2111d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2112d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2113d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2114d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2115d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2116d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2117d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2124ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2125ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2126ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2127ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2128ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2129ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2130ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2131ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2132ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2133ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2134ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2135ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2136ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2137ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2138ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2139ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2140ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2141ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2142ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2143ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2144ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2145ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2146ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2147ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2148ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2149ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 215022753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 215122753674SMichal Marek string 215222753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 215322753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 215422753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 215522753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 215622753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 215722753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 215822753674SMichal Marek 2159beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2160beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2163b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2164b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2166b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2168b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2169b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2170beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2171b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2172b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2173beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2174b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2175b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2176b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2177beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2178beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2179beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2180beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2181beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2182beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2183beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2184beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2185beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2186beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2187beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2188beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2189beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2190beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2191beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2192beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2193beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2194beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2195beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21963d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21973d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21983d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21993d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 22003d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 22013d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 22023d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 22033d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 22043d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 22053d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 22063d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 22073d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 22083d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2209efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2210efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2211efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2212efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2213efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2214efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2215efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2216efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2217efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2218efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2219efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2220efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2221efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2222efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2223efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2224efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2225dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2226dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2227d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2228dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2229dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2230dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2231dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2232dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2233dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2234dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2235dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2236dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2237dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2238dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2239f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2240dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22411518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 22421518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 22431518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 22441518c633SQuentin Perret help 22451518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 22461518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 22471518c633SQuentin Perret 22481518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 22491518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 22501518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 22511518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 22521518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 22531518c633SQuentin Perret 22540b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22550b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22566c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22576c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 22586c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 22596c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 226098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 226198a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 226298a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22635f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22645f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 226598a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 226698a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2267692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 226898a79d6aSRusty Russell 22693a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2270e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2271e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2272e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2273e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 227416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 227516295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 227616295becSSteffen Klassert bool 227716295becSSteffen Klassert 22784520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22794520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22804520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22814520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22824520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22834520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22844520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22854520c6a4SDavid Howells 22866beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2287e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2288e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2289e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22901bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22911bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22927303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22937303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22947303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22957303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22967303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22977303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22981bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22991bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2300