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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
22f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury	  - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated
23ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment
24ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    line so fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the
25ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig
26ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt.
278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
29aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC)
30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC
34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
36469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
37aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang)
38b744b43fSSami Tolvanen
39469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
40469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
41aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG
42aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default 0
43469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
4402aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD
4502aff859SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD)
4602aff859SMasahiro Yamada
4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION
4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada	int
4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD
5002aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada
5202aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD
5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD)
54c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
55d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION
56d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	int
5702aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD
5802aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor
601a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
619371f86eSMasahiro Yamada	bool
62b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
63b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag))
641a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
65b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
66b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	bool
67b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
68b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static)
69c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
70e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
71e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
72e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
73587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
74587f1701SNick Desaulniers	depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
75587f1701SNick Desaulniers	def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
76587f1701SNick Desaulniers
775cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
782d122942SWill Deacon	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
795cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
80eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
81eb111869SRasmus Villemoes	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
82eb111869SRasmus Villemoes
83b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
84b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
85b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
86e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
87e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
88e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
8910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
901dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
911dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
92c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
93c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
94c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
95c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
96c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
97c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
98c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
99c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
100c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
101c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
102ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
114dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
115dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
11834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1204bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
1214bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
122ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada	depends on HAS_IOMEM
1234bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
1244bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
1254bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
1264bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
1274bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
1284bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1294bb16672SJiri Slaby
1304bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1314bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1324bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1334bb16672SJiri Slaby
134d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
136fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
137d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
138d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
139d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
140d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
141d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
142d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
143d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
154aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
155aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
156aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
157ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
158aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
159aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
162aaebf433SRyan Anderson
163aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
165aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1666e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
167aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1686e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1696e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1706e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1716e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1736e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
174aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1759afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1769afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1779afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1789afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1799afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1809afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1819afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1829afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1839afb719eSLaura Abbott
1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1892e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1912e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1922e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1933ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1943ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1953ebe1243SLasse Collin
1967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
199e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
20248f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
20348f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool
20448f7ddf7SNick Terrell
205f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
206f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
207f16466afSVasily Gorbik
20830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
21148f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
24030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2420a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
24730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
24830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
25030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2510a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2520a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2530a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
25430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2553ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2563ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2573ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2583ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2593ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2603ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2613ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2623ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2633ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2643ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2653ebe1243SLasse Collin
2663ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2673ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2683ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2693ebe1243SLasse Collin
2707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
275681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2767dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
280e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
281e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
282e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
283e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
285e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
286e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
287e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
288e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
289e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
29048f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD
29148f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool "ZSTD"
29248f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
29348f7ddf7SNick Terrell	help
29448f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression
29548f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and
29648f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You
29748f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command
29848f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  line tool is required for compression.
29948f7ddf7SNick Terrell
300f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
301f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
302f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
303f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
304f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
305f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
306f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
307f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
308f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
309f16466afSVasily Gorbik
31030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
312ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT
313ada4ab7aSChris Down	string "Default init path"
314ada4ab7aSChris Down	default ""
315ada4ab7aSChris Down	help
316ada4ab7aSChris Down	  This option determines the default init for the system if no init=
317ada4ab7aSChris Down	  option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is
318ada4ab7aSChris Down	  not present, we will still then move on to attempting further
319ada4ab7aSChris Down	  locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use
320ada4ab7aSChris Down	  the fallback list when init= is not passed.
321ada4ab7aSChris Down
322bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
323bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
324bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
325bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
326bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
327bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
328bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
329bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
330bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
33117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
33217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
33317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
33417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
33517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
33617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
33717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
34017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
350a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
363a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
364a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
365a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
366a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
367a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
368a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
37119c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
372a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
377b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
385bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
386bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
387bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
388bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
389bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
390bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
391c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE
392c73be61cSDavid Howells	bool "General notification queue"
393c73be61cSDavid Howells	default n
394c73be61cSDavid Howells	help
395c73be61cSDavid Howells
396c73be61cSDavid Howells	  This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
397c73be61cSDavid Howells	  userspace by splicing them into pipes.  It can be used in conjunction
398c73be61cSDavid Howells	  with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
399c73be61cSDavid Howells	  notifications.
400c73be61cSDavid Howells
401c73be61cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
402c73be61cSDavid Howells
403226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
404226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
405226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
406226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
407226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
408226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
409226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
410a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
411226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
412226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
41369369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
41469369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
415b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
41669369a70SJosh Triplett	help
41769369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
41869369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
41969369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
42069369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
42169369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
42269369a70SJosh Triplett
4231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
425804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
429cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
430cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4327a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
4337a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
4347a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
4351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
436cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
4377a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
43828a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
43974c3cbe3SAl Viro
440d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
441764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
442*b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig"
44387a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
444d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
448abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
45302fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
458c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
466abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
468c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
469abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
479abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
480abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
481ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
482554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
483041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
487abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
488abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
490abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
493abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
494abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
495abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
497abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
498b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
499b58c3584SRik van Riel
500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
501fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
502b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
504fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
506fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
507fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
508fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
509fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
510fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
51111d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
51211d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
51311d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
51411d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
51511d4afd4SVincent Guittot
51676504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
51798eb401dSValentin Schneider	bool
518fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
519fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM64
52076504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
52198eb401dSValentin Schneider	depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL
52298eb401dSValentin Schneider	help
52398eb401dSValentin Schneider	  Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the
52498eb401dSValentin Schneider	  scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler
52598eb401dSValentin Schneider	  that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from
52698eb401dSValentin Schneider	  thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of
52798eb401dSValentin Schneider	  a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures.
52898eb401dSValentin Schneider
52998eb401dSValentin Schneider	  If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly,
53098eb401dSValentin Schneider	  i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones.
53198eb401dSValentin Schneider
53298eb401dSValentin Schneider	  This requires the architecture to implement
533432900f8SYue Hu	  arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure().
53476504793SThara Gopinath
535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
5372813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
5563903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
56219c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
5642813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
57619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
578f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
58819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
59719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
605eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
606eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
607eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
608eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
609eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
610eb414681SJohannes Weiner
611eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
612eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
613eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
614eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
615eb414681SJohannes Weiner
6162ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
6172ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
6182ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
6192ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
620c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
621eb414681SJohannes Weiner
622eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
623eb414681SJohannes Weiner
624e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
625e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
626e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
627e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
628e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
629e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
630428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
631428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
632e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
6337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
6347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
6357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
6367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
6377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
6387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
6407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
6417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
6437b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
6465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
6475c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
648414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
6492c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
6505c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
6525c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
6532c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
6542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
6552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
6562c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
6575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
6580af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
659c903ff83SMike Travis
660de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
661de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
662de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
663de5b56baSVivek Goyal
6641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
665f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
666a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
679a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
683f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
684f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
685f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
68643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
687f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
688f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
689f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
690f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
69143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
692794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
693794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
694550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 25 if !H8300
695550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 19 if H8300
696f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
697361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
698794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
69923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
70023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
70123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
70223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
70323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
704f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
705f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
706f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
707f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
708f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
709794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
710794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
711794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
71223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
71323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
7142240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
71523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
71623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
718361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
72523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
7310f7636e1SPaul Menzel	  so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
7375e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
7385e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
748f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
749f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
750427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
751427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
752f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
753427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
754f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
755f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
756f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
757f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
758f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
759427934b8SPetr Mladek
760f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
761427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
762427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
763427934b8SPetr Mladek
764427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
765427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
766427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
767427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
768427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
769427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
770427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
771427934b8SPetr Mladek
7725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
77838ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
77938ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
78038ff87f7SStephen Boyd
78169842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
78269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
78369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
78469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
78569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
836be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
837be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
838be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
839be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
840be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
841be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
84272b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
84372b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
84472b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
84572b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
84672b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
84772b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
84872b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
84972b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
85072b252aeSMel Gorman
851c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
8523a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
853c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
85472b252aeSMel Gorman#
855be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
856be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
857be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
858be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
859be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8746d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8786f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8796f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8806f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8816f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8826f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8836f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8846f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8856f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
88623964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8876341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8882bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
889ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
89023964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
894d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
895da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
89645ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
897ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
898ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
899ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
90023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
90123964d2dSLi Zefan
9023e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9033e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
9043e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
905c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
906a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9073e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
90879bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
90900f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
910a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
91100f0b825SBalbir Singh
912c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
9132d1c4980SJohannes Weiner	bool
914c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
915a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
916c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
91784c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
91884c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
91984c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
92084c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
92184c07d11SKirill Tkhai
9226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
9252bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
926a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
9302bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
935e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
9397baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
942da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9446bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
948e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9497c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
950a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
9517c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9527c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9537c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9547c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9557c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9567c941438SDhaval Giani
9577c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9587c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9597c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9607c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9617c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9627c941438SDhaval Giani
963ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
964ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
965ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
966ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
967ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
968ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
969ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
970ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
971ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
972d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
973ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9747c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9757c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9767c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9777c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9787c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9797c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
98032bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9817c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9827c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
983d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9847c941438SDhaval Giani
9857c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9867c941438SDhaval Giani
9872480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9882480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
9892480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9902480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
9912480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
9922480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
9932480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
9942480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
9952480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9962480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
9972480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
9982480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
10002480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
10012480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10022480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
10032480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
10042480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
10052480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
10062480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10072480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
10082480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10186cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
102198076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
102539d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
102639d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
102739d3e758SParav Pandit	help
102839d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
102939d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
103039d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
103139d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
103239d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
103339d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
103439d3e758SParav Pandit
10356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1041489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1042489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1043489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1044489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1045489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1050afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1064e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1070afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1072afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
107689e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
107789e9b9e0STejun Heo
10786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
10966546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
10976546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
110130070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
110230070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1103483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1104483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
110530070984SDaniel Mack	help
110630070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
110730070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
110830070984SDaniel Mack
110930070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
111030070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
111130070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
111230070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
111330070984SDaniel Mack
1114a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC
1115a72232eaSVipin Sharma	bool "Misc resource controller"
1116a72232eaSVipin Sharma	default n
1117a72232eaSVipin Sharma	help
1118a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host.
1119a72232eaSVipin Sharma
1120a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system
1121a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller
1122a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process
1123a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  attached to a cgroup hierarchy.
1124a72232eaSVipin Sharma
1125a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  For more information, please check misc cgroup section in
1126a72232eaSVipin Sharma	  /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst.
1127a72232eaSVipin Sharma
11286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
112923b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
113123b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
113423b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
113523b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
113623b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
114073b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
114173b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
114273b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
114373b35147SArnd Bergmann
114423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1145c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
11468dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11482813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11496a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1150c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1151c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1152c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1153c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1154c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1155c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
115858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
115958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
116017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
116158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
116258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
116358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
116458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1165769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1166769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1167660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1168769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1169769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1170769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1171769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1172769071acSAndrei Vagin
1173ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1174ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
117617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1177ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1178ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1179614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1180ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1181aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
118219c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11835673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1184aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1185aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1186aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1187e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1188e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1189d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1190d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1191d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1192e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1193aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1194aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
119574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11969bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
119717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
119874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
119912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1200692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
120174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
120274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1203d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1204d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12058dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
120617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1207d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1208d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1209d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1210d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12128dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12135cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
12145cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
12155cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
1216bfe3911aSChris Wilson	select KCMP
12175cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
12185cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
12195cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
12205cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
12215cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
12225cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
12235cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12245cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
12255cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12265091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12275091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12285091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12295091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12305091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12315091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12325091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12335091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12345091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12355091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12365091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12375091faa4SMike Galbraith
12387af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12395d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12625d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
127826b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1292f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
12958c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1300f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1301f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1302f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1303c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1304c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1305dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1306dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1307c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1308c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
130976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
131076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
13112910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
131276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
131376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
131476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
13150947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
131685c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
13170947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
131876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
131976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
132076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1321877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1322877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
13232cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1324877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1325877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
132615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1327877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1328877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1329877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1330877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1331877417e6SArnd Bergmann
133215f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
133315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
133415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1335c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
133615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
133715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1338c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13395d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
134015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
1341c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1342ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1343ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1344c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1345877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1346877417e6SArnd Bergmann
13475d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
13495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
13515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
13525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
13535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
13545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
13555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
13565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13575d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
13595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
1361e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1362e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
13635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13648b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
13658b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
13668b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
13675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
13695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
13705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
13715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
13725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
13735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
13745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
137559612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN
137659612b24SNathan Chancellor	def_bool y
137759612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1378d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000
137959612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
138059612b24SNathan Chancellor
13810847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13820847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13830847062aSRandy Dunlap
1384657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1385657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1386657a5209SMike Frysinger
1387657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1388657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1389657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1390657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1391657a5209SMike Frysinger
1392657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1393657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1394657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1395657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1396657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1397657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1398657a5209SMike Frysinger
1399657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1400657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1401657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1402657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1403657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1404657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1405657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1406657a5209SMike Frysinger
1407657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1408657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1409657a5209SMike Frysinger
1410f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1411f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1412f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1413f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
14146a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
14156a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1416f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1417f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1424ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
14256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
14262813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1427ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1428ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1429ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1430ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14312813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
14322813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
14332813893fSIulia Manda	default y
14342813893fSIulia Manda	help
14352813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
14362813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
14372813893fSIulia Manda
14382813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
14392813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
14402813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
14412813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
14422813893fSIulia Manda
14432813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
14442813893fSIulia Manda
1445f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1446f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1447a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1448a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
1449f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1450f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1451f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1452f6187769SFabian Frederick
1453f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1454f6187769SFabian Frederick
14556af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
14566af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
14576af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
1458a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
14596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1465d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1466d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1478baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1479baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1480baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1481baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1482baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1483baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1484baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1485baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1486baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1487baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1488baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1489baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1490baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1491baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1492baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1493baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1494baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1495d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1496d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14976a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
149874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1499d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1500d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1501d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1502d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1503d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1504d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1505d59745ceSMatt Mackall
150642a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
150742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
150842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
150942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
151042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1511c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
15126a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1513c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1514c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1515c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1516c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1517c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1518c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1519c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1520c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1521708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1522046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1523708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
15246a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1525708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1526708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1527708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15288761f1abSRalf Baechle
1529e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15306a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15318761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
153215f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1533e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1534e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1535e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1536e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1537e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15406a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1549bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1555bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1556bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1557bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1558bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1559bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
156003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
156103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
156262b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
156303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
156403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
156503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
156603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
156703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1575fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15766a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1577fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1578fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1579fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1580fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1581fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1582fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1583fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1584b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1586b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1587b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1588b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1589b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1590b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1591b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1592b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1593e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1595e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1596e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1597e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1598e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1599e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1600e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1601e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
16021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
16036a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1613ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
16146a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1615ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1616ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1617ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1618ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1619ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1620ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
16212b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
16222b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1623561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
16242b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
16252b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
16262b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
16272b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
16282b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
16292b188cc1SJens Axboe
1630d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1631d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1632d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1633d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1634d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1635d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1636d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1637d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1638d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1639d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
16405a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
16415a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
16425a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
16435a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
16445a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
16455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16465b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1658d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1659d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1660d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1662d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1689d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1690a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1693d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1694d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1695d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1696d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1697d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1698d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1705d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1708fc611f47SKP Singh
1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1711d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1715d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
17163ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
17173ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
17183ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
171970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
172070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
172170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1722bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP
1723bfe3911aSChris Wilson	bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT
1724bfe3911aSChris Wilson	help
1725bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides
1726bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they
1727bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual
1728bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  memory space.
1729bfe3911aSChris Wilson
1730bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  If unsure, say N.
1731bfe3911aSChris Wilson
1732d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1733d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1734d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1735d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1736d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1737d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1738d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1739d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1740d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1741d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1742d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1743d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1744d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1745d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1746d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1747d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1748d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1749d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1750d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1751d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1752d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1753d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1754d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
17556befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
17566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
17575d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
17586befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
17596befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
17606befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
17616befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
17626befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
17636befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1764cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
17650793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1766018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1767018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
17680793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1769906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1770906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1771906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1772906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1773906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1774ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1775424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1776ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1777ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1778ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1779ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1780ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
178157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
17820793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1783cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
178457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1785392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1786cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1787e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
178883fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
17890793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
179057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
179157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
17920793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1793dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
179457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
179557c0c15bSIngo Molnar
179657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
179757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
17980793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
17990793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
18000793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
18010793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
18020793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
18030793a61dSThomas Gleixner
180457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1805dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
180657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
18070793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
18080793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
18090793a61dSThomas Gleixner
18100793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
18110793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1812906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1813906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1814906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1815cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1816906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1817906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1818906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1819906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1820906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1821906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1822906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1823906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1824906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
18250793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
18260793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1827f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1828f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
18296a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1830f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
18312aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
18322aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
18336a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
18342aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1835f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
183641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
183741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
18386a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1839f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
184041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
184141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
184241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
184341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
184441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
184541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1846b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1847b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1848b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1849b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1850b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1851b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1852b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1853692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1854b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1855b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1856b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1857b943c460SRandy Dunlap
185881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
185981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1860a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
186181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
186281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
186381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
186481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
186581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
186604385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
186781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
186881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
186934013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
187002f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
187181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
187281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
187381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1874ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
187581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
187681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
187781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
187881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
187981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
188002f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
188102f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
188281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
188381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
18846a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
188581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
188681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
188737291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
188837291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
188937291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
189081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
189181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
189281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
18937660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
18947660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
18957660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
18967660a6fdSKees Cook	help
18977660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
18987660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
18997660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
19007660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
19017660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
19027660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
19037660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
19047660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
19057660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
19067660a6fdSKees Cook
1907c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
19083404be67SKees Cook	bool "Randomize slab freelist"
1909210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1910c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1911210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1912c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1913c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1914c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
19152482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
19162482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
19173404be67SKees Cook	depends on SLAB || SLUB
19182482ddecSKees Cook	help
19192482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
19202482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
192192bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
19223404be67SKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
19233404be67SKees Cook	  sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
19243404be67SKees Cook	  CONFIG_SLUB.
19252482ddecSKees Cook
1926e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1927e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1928e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1929e900a918SDan Williams	help
1930e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1931e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1932e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1933e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1934e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1935e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1936e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1937e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1938e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1939e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1940e900a918SDan Williams
1941e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1942e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1943e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1944e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1945e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1946e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1947e900a918SDan Williams
1948e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1949e900a918SDan Williams
1950345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1951345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1952b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1953345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1954345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
195592bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
1956345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1957345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1958345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1959345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1960345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1961ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1962ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
19636a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1964ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1965ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1966ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
19673903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1968ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1969ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1970ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1971ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1972ea637639SJie Zhang
1973ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1974ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1975ea637639SJie Zhang
1976ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1977ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1978ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1979ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1980ea637639SJie Zhang
1981dd19d293SStephen Kitt	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
1982ea637639SJie Zhang
1983091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1984091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1985091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1986091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1987091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1988d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1989091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1990091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1991091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1992091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1993091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1994091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
199582c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1996091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1997091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1998091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1999091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
200082c04ff8SPeter Foley
2001125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
2002b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
2003125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
2004125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
2005f8408264SViresh Kumar	  by profilers.
2006125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
20075f87f112SIngo Molnar#
20085f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
20095f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
20105f87f112SIngo Molnar#
201197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
20125f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
201397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
20141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20161572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
20171572497cSChristoph Hellwig
2018ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
20196341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
2020ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
20211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2026c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2027c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	def_bool n
2028c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2029c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann
203066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
203211097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
20401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20510b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
20520b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
2053826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2054826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
2055826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
2056826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
205791e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
205891e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
205991e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
2060826e4506SLinus Torvalds
20611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
2066f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2067f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
207119c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
20751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
20781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
20800d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
20811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
20831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
20881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20892ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS
20902ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	bool
20912ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
20922ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	help
20932ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
20942ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
20952ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  supports it.
20962ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada
209756067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
209856067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
209956067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
210056067812SArd Biesheuvel
21011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
21021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
21031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
21051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
21061da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
21071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2112106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2113106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2114c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2115106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2116106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2117106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2118cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2119106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2120228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2121228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2122228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2123228c37ffSDavid Howells
212449fcf732SDavid Howells	  You should enable this option if you wish to use either
212549fcf732SDavid Howells	  CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
212649fcf732SDavid Howells	  another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
212749fcf732SDavid Howells	  of the lockdown policy.
212849fcf732SDavid Howells
2129ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2130ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2131ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2132ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2133ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2134106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2135106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2136106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2137106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2138106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2139106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2140ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2141d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2142d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2143d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2144d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2145d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2146d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2147d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2148d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2149d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2150d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2151d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2152ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2153ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2154ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2155ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2156ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2157ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2158ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2159ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2160ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2161ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2162ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2163ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2164ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2165ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2166ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2167ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2168ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2169ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2170ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2171ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2172ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2173ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2174ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2175ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2176ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2177ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2178ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2179ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2180ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2181ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2182ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2183ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
218422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
218522753674SMichal Marek	string
218622753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
218722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
218822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
218922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
219022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
219122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
219222753674SMichal Marek
2193beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2194beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2195beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2196beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2197b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2198b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2199beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2200b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2201beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2202b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2203b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2204beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2205b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2206b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2207beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2208b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2209b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2210b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2211beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2212beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2213beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2214beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2215beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2216beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2217beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2218beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2219beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2220beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2221beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2222beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2223beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2224beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2225beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2226beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2227beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2228beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2229beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
22303d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
22313d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
22323d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
22333d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
22343d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
22353d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
22363d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
22373d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
22383d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
22393d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
22403d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
22413d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
22423d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
2243dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2244a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT
2245a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
2246dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2247dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2248dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2249dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2250dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2251dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2252dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2253dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2254dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2255dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2256dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2257f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2258dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
22591518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
22601518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
22611518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
22621518c633SQuentin Perret	help
22631518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
22641518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
22651518c633SQuentin Perret
22661518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
22671518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
22681518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
22691518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
22701518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
22711518c633SQuentin Perret
22720b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
22730b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
22746c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
22756c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
2276cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG
22776c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
227898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
227998a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
228098a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
22815f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
22825f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
228398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
228498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2285692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
228698a79d6aSRusty Russell
22873a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2288e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2289e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2290e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2291e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
229216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
229316295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
229416295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
229516295becSSteffen Klassert
22964520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
22974520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
22984520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
22994520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
23004520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
23014520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
23024520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
23034520c6a4SDavid Howells
23046beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2305e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
23060ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
23070ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann	bool
23080ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann
2309e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2310e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
23111bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
23121bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
23137303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
23147303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
23157303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
23167303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
23177303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
23187303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
23191bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
23201bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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