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 2321