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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
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