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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT
128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	string
138b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)"
148b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	help
158b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  This is used in unclear ways:
168b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
178b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	  - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated
188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    The 'default' property references the environment variable,
198b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd.
208b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada	    When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked.
218b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
22f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury	  - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated
23ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment
24ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    line so fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the
25ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig
26ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada	    will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt.
278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada
28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
29aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC)
30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC
34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
36469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
37aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang)
38b744b43fSSami Tolvanen
39469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
40469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
41aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG
42aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada	default 0
43469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
44*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU
45*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU)
46*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada
47*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM
48*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM)
49*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada
50*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION
51*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	int
52*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	# Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler
53*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM
54*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada	default $(as-version)
55*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada
5602aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD
5702aff859SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD)
5802aff859SMasahiro Yamada
5902aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION
6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada	int
6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD
6202aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
6302aff859SMasahiro Yamada
6402aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD
6502aff859SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD)
66c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
67d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION
68d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	int
6902aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD
7002aff859SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
71d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor
721a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
739371f86eSMasahiro Yamada	bool
74b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
75b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag))
761a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
77b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
78b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada	bool
79b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
80b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada	default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static)
81c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
82e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
83e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
84e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
85587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
86587f1701SNick Desaulniers	depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
87587f1701SNick 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)
88587f1701SNick Desaulniers
895cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
902d122942SWill Deacon	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
915cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
92eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
93eb111869SRasmus Villemoes	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
94eb111869SRasmus Villemoes
95b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
96b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
97b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
98e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
99e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
100e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
10110916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
1021dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
1031dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
104c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
105c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
106c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
107c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
108c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
109c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
110c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
111c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
112c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
113c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
114ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
126dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
127dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
13034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1324bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
1334bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
134ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada	depends on HAS_IOMEM
1354bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
1364bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
1374bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
1384bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
1394bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
1404bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
1414bb16672SJiri Slaby
1424bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
1434bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
1444bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
1454bb16672SJiri Slaby
146d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
147d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
148fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
149d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
150d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
151d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
152d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
153d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
154d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
155d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
166aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
167aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
168aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
169ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
170aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
171aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1726e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1736e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
174aaebf433SRyan Anderson
175aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1766e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
177aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1786e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
179aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1806e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1816e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1826e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1836e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1846e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1856e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
186aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1879afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1889afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1899afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1909afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1919afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1929afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1939afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1949afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1959afb719eSLaura Abbott
1962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1982e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1992e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
2002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
2012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
2022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
2032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
2042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
2053ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2063ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
2073ebe1243SLasse Collin
2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
2107dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
212e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
213e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
21448f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
21548f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool
21648f7ddf7SNick Terrell
217f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
218f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
219f16466afSVasily Gorbik
22030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
22348f7ddf7SNick 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
22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
23530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
24030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
24230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
24330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
2442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
24530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2467dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
2477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
24830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
24930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
25030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
2512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2540a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
25830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
25930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2630a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2650a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
26630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2673ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2683ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2693ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2703ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2713ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2723ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2733ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2743ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2753ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2763ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2773ebe1243SLasse Collin
2783ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2793ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2803ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2813ebe1243SLasse Collin
2827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2860a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
287681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
290e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
291e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
292e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
293e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
294e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
295e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
296e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
297e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
298e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
299e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
300e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
301e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
30248f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD
30348f7ddf7SNick Terrell	bool "ZSTD"
30448f7ddf7SNick Terrell	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
30548f7ddf7SNick Terrell	help
30648f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression
30748f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and
30848f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You
30948f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command
31048f7ddf7SNick Terrell	  line tool is required for compression.
31148f7ddf7SNick Terrell
312f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
313f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
314f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
315f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
316f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
317f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
318f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
319f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
320f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
321f16466afSVasily Gorbik
32230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
32330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
324ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT
325ada4ab7aSChris Down	string "Default init path"
326ada4ab7aSChris Down	default ""
327ada4ab7aSChris Down	help
328ada4ab7aSChris Down	  This option determines the default init for the system if no init=
329ada4ab7aSChris Down	  option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is
330ada4ab7aSChris Down	  not present, we will still then move on to attempting further
331ada4ab7aSChris Down	  locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use
332ada4ab7aSChris Down	  the fallback list when init= is not passed.
333ada4ab7aSChris Down
334bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
335bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
336bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
337bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
338bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
339bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
340bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
341bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
342bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
34317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
34417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
34517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
34617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
34717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
34817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
34917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
3501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
35217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
362a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
375a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
376a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
377a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
378a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
379a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
380a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
38319c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
384a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
389b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
397bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
398bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
399bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
400bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
401bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
402bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
403c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE
404c73be61cSDavid Howells	bool "General notification queue"
405c73be61cSDavid Howells	default n
406c73be61cSDavid Howells	help
407c73be61cSDavid Howells
408c73be61cSDavid Howells	  This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
409c73be61cSDavid Howells	  userspace by splicing them into pipes.  It can be used in conjunction
410c73be61cSDavid Howells	  with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
411c73be61cSDavid Howells	  notifications.
412c73be61cSDavid Howells
413c73be61cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
414c73be61cSDavid Howells
415226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
416226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
417226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
418226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
419226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
420226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
421226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
422a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
423226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
424226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
42569369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
42669369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
427b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
42869369a70SJosh Triplett	help
42969369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
43069369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
43169369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
43269369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
43369369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
43469369a70SJosh Triplett
4351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
437804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
441cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
442cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4447a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
4457a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
4467a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
4471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
448cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
4497a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
45028a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
45174c3cbe3SAl Viro
452d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
453764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
45487a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
455d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
458abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
459abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
460abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
46402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
466fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
467fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
468fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
469c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
470fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
471fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
472fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
473fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
474fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
475fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
476fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
477abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
479c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
480abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
490abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
492ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
493554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
494041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
495abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
497abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
498abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
499abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
500abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
501abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
502abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
503abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
504abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
505abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
506abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
507abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
508abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
509b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
510b58c3584SRik van Riel
511fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
512fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
513b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
514fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
515fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
516fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
518fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
519fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
521fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
52211d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
52311d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
52411d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
52511d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
52611d4afd4SVincent Guittot
52776504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
52898eb401dSValentin Schneider	bool
529fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
530fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider	default y if ARM64
53176504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
53298eb401dSValentin Schneider	depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL
53398eb401dSValentin Schneider	help
53498eb401dSValentin Schneider	  Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the
53598eb401dSValentin Schneider	  scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler
53698eb401dSValentin Schneider	  that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from
53798eb401dSValentin Schneider	  thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of
53898eb401dSValentin Schneider	  a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures.
53998eb401dSValentin Schneider
54098eb401dSValentin Schneider	  If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly,
54198eb401dSValentin Schneider	  i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones.
54298eb401dSValentin Schneider
54398eb401dSValentin Schneider	  This requires the architecture to implement
544432900f8SYue Hu	  arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure().
54576504793SThara Gopinath
546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
5482813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
5673903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
57319c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
5752813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
58719c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
589f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
592391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
59919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
60819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
616eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
617eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
618eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
619eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
620eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
621eb414681SJohannes Weiner
622eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
623eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
624eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
625eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
626eb414681SJohannes Weiner
6272ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
6282ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
6292ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
6302ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
631c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
632eb414681SJohannes Weiner
633eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
634eb414681SJohannes Weiner
635e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
636e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
637e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
638e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
639e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
640e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
641428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
642428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
643e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
6447b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
6457b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
6467b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
6477b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
6487b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
6497b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6507b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
6517b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
6527b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
6537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
6547b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
6575c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
6585c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
659414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
6602c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
6615c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6625c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
6635c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
6642c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
6652c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
6662c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
6672c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
6685c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
6690af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
670c903ff83SMike Travis
671de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
672de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
673de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
674de5b56baSVivek Goyal
6751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
676f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
677a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
690a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
694f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
695f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
696f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
69743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
698f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
699f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
700f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
701f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
70243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
703794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
704794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
705550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 25 if !H8300
706550c10d2SJohn Ogness	range 12 19 if H8300
707f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
708361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
709794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
71023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
71123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
71223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
71323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
71423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
715f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
716f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
717f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
718f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
719f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
720794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
721794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
722794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
7252240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
72623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
729361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
73323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
7420f7636e1SPaul Menzel	  so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
74623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
7485e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
7495e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
75223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
75323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
759f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
760f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
761427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
762427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
763f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
764427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
765f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
766f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
767f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
768f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
769f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
770427934b8SPetr Mladek
771f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
772427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
773427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
774427934b8SPetr Mladek
775427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
776427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
777427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
778427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
779427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
780427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
781427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
782427934b8SPetr Mladek
7835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
7855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
7865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
7875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
7885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
78938ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
79038ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
79138ff87f7SStephen Boyd
79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
845be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
846be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
847be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
848be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
849be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
850be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
851be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
852be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
85372b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
85472b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
85572b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
85672b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
85772b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
85872b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
85972b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
86072b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
86172b252aeSMel Gorman
862c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
8633a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
864c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
86572b252aeSMel Gorman#
866be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
867be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
868be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
869be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
870be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
873be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
874be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
875be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
876be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
877be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
878be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
879be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
880be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
881be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
882be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
883be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
8856d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
887be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
888be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
8896f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8906f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8916f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8926f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8936f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8946f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8956f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8966f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
89723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8986341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8992bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
900ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
90123964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
9025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
9035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
9045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
905d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
906da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
90745ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
908ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
909ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
910ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
91123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
91223964d2dSLi Zefan
9133e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
9143e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
9153e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
916c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
917a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
9183e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
91979bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
92000f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
921a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
92200f0b825SBalbir Singh
923c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
9242d1c4980SJohannes Weiner	bool
925c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
926a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
927c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
92884c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
92984c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
93084c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
93184c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
93284c07d11SKirill Tkhai
9336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
9362bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
937a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
9412bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
946e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
9507baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
9516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
953da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
9546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9556bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
959e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
9607c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
961a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
9627c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9637c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9647c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9657c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
9667c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
9677c941438SDhaval Giani
9687c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
9697c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
9707c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
9717c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9727c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
9737c941438SDhaval Giani
974ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
975ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
976ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
977ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
978ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
979ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
980ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
981ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
982ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
983d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
984ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9857c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9867c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9877c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9887c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9897c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9907c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
99132bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9927c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9937c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
994d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9957c941438SDhaval Giani
9967c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9977c941438SDhaval Giani
9982480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
10002480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
10012480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
10022480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
10032480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
10042480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
10052480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
10062480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10072480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
10082480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
10092480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
10102480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
10112480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
10122480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10132480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
10142480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
10152480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
10162480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
10172480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10182480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
10192480c093SPatrick Bellasi
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
10266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
10296cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
103298076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
103639d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
103739d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
103839d3e758SParav Pandit	help
103939d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
104039d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
104139d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
104239d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
104339d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
104439d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
104539d3e758SParav Pandit
10466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
1052489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1053489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1054489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
1055489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1056489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
10576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
1061afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1072afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1075e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1081afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1083afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
108789e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
108889e9b9e0STejun Heo
10896bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
11066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
11076546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
11086546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
111230070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
111330070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1114483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1115483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
111630070984SDaniel Mack	help
111730070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
111830070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
111930070984SDaniel Mack
112030070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
112130070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
112230070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
112330070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
112430070984SDaniel Mack
11256bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
112623b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
112823b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
113123b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
113223b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
113323b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
113773b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
113873b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
113973b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
114073b35147SArnd Bergmann
114123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1142c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
11438dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
11446a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
11452813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
11466a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1147c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1148c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1149c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1150c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1151c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1152c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
11538dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
11548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
115558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
115658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
115717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
115858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
115958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
116058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
116158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1162769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1163769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1164660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1165769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1166769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1167769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1168769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1169769071acSAndrei Vagin
1170ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1171ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
11728dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
117317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1174ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1175ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1176614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1177ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1178aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
117919c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11805673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1181aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1182aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1183aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1184e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1185e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1186d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1187d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1188d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1189e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1190aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1191aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
119274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11939bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
119417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
119574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
119612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1197692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
119874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
119974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1200d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1201d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
12028dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
120317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1204d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1205d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1206d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1207d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
12088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
12098dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
12105cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
12115cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
12125cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
1213bfe3911aSChris Wilson	select KCMP
12145cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
12155cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
12165cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
12175cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
12185cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
12195cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
12205cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12215cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
12225cb366bbSAdrian Reber
12235091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
12245091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
12255091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
12265091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
12275091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
12285091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
12295091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
12305091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
12315091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
12325091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
12335091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
12345091faa4SMike Galbraith
12357af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12365d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
12417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
12427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12587af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
12595d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12737af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
127526b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1285f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1286f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1287f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1288f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1289f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1290f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1291f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
12928c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1293f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1294f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1295f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1296f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1297f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1298f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1299f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1300c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1301c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1302dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1303dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1304c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1305c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
130676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
130776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
13082910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
130976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
131076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
131176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
13120947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
131385c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
13140947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
131576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
131676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
131776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1318877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1319877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
13202cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1321877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1322877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
132315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1324877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1325877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1326877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1327877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1328877417e6SArnd Bergmann
132915f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
133015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
133115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1332c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
133315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
133415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1335c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
13365d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
133715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
1338c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1339ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1340ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1341c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1342877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1343877417e6SArnd Bergmann
13445d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
13465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
13485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
13495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
13505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
13515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
13525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
13535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13545d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
13565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
13575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
1358e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1359e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
13605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
13618b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
13628b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
13638b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
13645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
13655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
13665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
13675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
13685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
13695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
13705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
13715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
137259612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN
137359612b24SNathan Chancellor	def_bool y
137459612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1375d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor	depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000
137659612b24SNathan Chancellor	depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
137759612b24SNathan Chancellor
13780847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
13790847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
13800847062aSRandy Dunlap
1381657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1382657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1383657a5209SMike Frysinger
1384657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1385657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1386657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1387657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1388657a5209SMike Frysinger
1389657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1390657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1391657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1392657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1393657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1394657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1395657a5209SMike Frysinger
1396657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1397657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1398657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1399657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1400657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1401657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1402657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1403657a5209SMike Frysinger
1404657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1405657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1406657a5209SMike Frysinger
1407f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1408f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1409f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1410f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
14116a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
14126a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1413f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1414f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1421ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
14226a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
14232813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1424ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1425ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1426ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1427ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
14282813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
14292813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
14302813893fSIulia Manda	default y
14312813893fSIulia Manda	help
14322813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
14332813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
14342813893fSIulia Manda
14352813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
14362813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
14372813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
14382813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
14392813893fSIulia Manda
14402813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
14412813893fSIulia Manda
1442f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1443f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1444a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1445a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
1446f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1447f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1448f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1449f6187769SFabian Frederick
1450f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1451f6187769SFabian Frederick
14526af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
14536af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
14546af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
1455a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
14566af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
14576af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
14586af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
14596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
14606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
14616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1462d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1463d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1464d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1465d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1466d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1475baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1476baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1477baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1478baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1479baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1480baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1481baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1482baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1483baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1484baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1485baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1486baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1487baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1488baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1489baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1490baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1491baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1492d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1493d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
149574876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1496d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1497d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1498d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1499d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1500d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1501d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1502d59745ceSMatt Mackall
150342a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
150442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
150542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
150642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
150742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1508c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
15096a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1510c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1511c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1512c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1513c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1514c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1515c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1516c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1517c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1518708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1519046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1520708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
15216a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1522708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1523708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1524708e9a79SMatt Mackall
15258761f1abSRalf Baechle
1526e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15276a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
15288761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
152915f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1530e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1531e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1532e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1533e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1534e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
15351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
15446a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1546bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1552bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1553bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1554bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1555bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1556bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
155703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
155803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
155962b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
156003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
156103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
156203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
156303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
156403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
15651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
15666a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1572fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
15736a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1574fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1575fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1576fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1577fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1578fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1579fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1580fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1581b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1583b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1584b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1585b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1586b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1587b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1588b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1589b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1590e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15916a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1592e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1593e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1594e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1595e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1596e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1597e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1598e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
15991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
16006a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1610ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
16116a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1612ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1613ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1614ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1615ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1616ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1617ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
16182b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
16192b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1620561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
16212b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
16222b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
16232b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
16242b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
16252b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
16262b188cc1SJens Axboe
1627d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1628d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1629d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1630d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1631d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1632d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1633d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1634d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1635d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1636d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
16375a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
16385a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
16395a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
16405a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
16415a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
16425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
16435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
16445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
16455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
16465b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
16475b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
16485b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
16495b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
16505b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
16515b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
16525b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
16535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1658d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1659d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1660d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1662d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1670d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1687a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1688d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1689d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1690d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1691d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1692d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1693d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1694d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1695d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1696d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1697d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1698d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1699d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1700d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1705fc611f47SKP Singh
1706fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM
1707fc611f47SKP Singh	bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
17084edf16b7SKP Singh	depends on BPF_EVENTS
1709fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1710fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on SECURITY
1711fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_JIT
1712fc611f47SKP Singh	help
1713fc611f47SKP Singh	  Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1714fc611f47SKP Singh	  implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1715fc611f47SKP Singh
1716fc611f47SKP Singh	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1717fc611f47SKP Singh
1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1720d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1721bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
17221e6c62a8SAlexei Starovoitov	select TASKS_TRACE_RCU
1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1724d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1725d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1726d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1727d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
172881c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
172981c22041SDaniel Borkmann	bool
173081c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1731290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1732290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1733290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1734290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1735290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1736290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1737290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
173881c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
173981c22041SDaniel Borkmann	def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
174081c22041SDaniel Borkmann	depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
174181c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1742d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitovsource "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig"
1743d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitov
1744d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1745d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1746d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1747d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1748d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1749d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1750d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
17513ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
17523ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
17533ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
175470216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
175570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
175670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1757bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP
1758bfe3911aSChris Wilson	bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT
1759bfe3911aSChris Wilson	help
1760bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides
1761bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they
1762bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual
1763bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  memory space.
1764bfe3911aSChris Wilson
1765bfe3911aSChris Wilson	  If unsure, say N.
1766bfe3911aSChris Wilson
1767d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1768d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1769d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1770d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1771d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1772d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1773d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1774d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1775d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1776d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1777d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1778d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1779d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1780d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1781d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1782d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1783d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1785d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1786d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
17906befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
17916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
17925d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
17936befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
17946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
17956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
17966befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
17976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
17986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1799cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
18000793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1801018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1802018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
18030793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1804906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1805906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1806906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1807906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1808906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1809ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1810424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1811ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1812ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1813ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1814ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1815ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
181657c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
18170793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1818cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
181957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1820392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1821cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1822e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
182383fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
18240793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
182557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
182657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
18270793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1828dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
182957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
183057c0c15bSIngo Molnar
183157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
183257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
18330793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
18350793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
18360793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
18370793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
18380793a61dSThomas Gleixner
183957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1840dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
184157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
18420793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
18430793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner
18450793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
18460793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1847906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1848906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1849906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1850cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1851906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1852906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1853906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1854906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1855906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1856906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1857906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1858906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1859906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
18600793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
18610793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1862f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1863f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
18646a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1865f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
18662aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
18672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
18686a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
18692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1870f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
187141ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
187241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
18736a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1874f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
187541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
187641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
187741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
187841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
187941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
188041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1881b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1882b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1883b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1884b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1885b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1886b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1887b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1888692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1889b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1890b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1891b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1892b943c460SRandy Dunlap
189381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
189481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1895a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
189681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
189781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
189881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
189981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
190081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
190104385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
190281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
190381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
190434013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
190502f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
190681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
190781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
190881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1909ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
191081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
191181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
191281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
191381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
191481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
191502f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
191602f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
191781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
191881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
19196a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
192081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
192181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
192237291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
192337291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
192437291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
192581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
192681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
192781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
19287660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
19297660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
19307660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
19317660a6fdSKees Cook	help
19327660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
19337660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
19347660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
19357660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
19367660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
19377660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
19387660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
19397660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
19407660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
19417660a6fdSKees Cook
1942c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
19433404be67SKees Cook	bool "Randomize slab freelist"
1944210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1945c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1946210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1947c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1948c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1949c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
19502482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
19512482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
19523404be67SKees Cook	depends on SLAB || SLUB
19532482ddecSKees Cook	help
19542482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
19552482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
195692bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
19573404be67SKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more
19583404be67SKees Cook	  sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with
19593404be67SKees Cook	  CONFIG_SLUB.
19602482ddecSKees Cook
1961e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1962e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1963e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1964e900a918SDan Williams	help
1965e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1966e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1967e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1968e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1969e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1970e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1971e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1972e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1973e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1974e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1975e900a918SDan Williams
1976e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1977e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1978e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1979e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1980e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1981e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1982e900a918SDan Williams
1983e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1984e900a918SDan Williams
1985345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1986345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1987b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1988345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1989345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
199092bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
1991345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1992345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1993345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1994345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1995345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1996ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1997ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
19986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1999ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
2000ea637639SJie Zhang	help
2001ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
20023903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
2003ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
2004ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
2005ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
2006ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
2007ea637639SJie Zhang
2008ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
2009ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
2010ea637639SJie Zhang
2011ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
2012ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
2013ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
2014ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
2015ea637639SJie Zhang
2016dd19d293SStephen Kitt	  See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information.
2017ea637639SJie Zhang
2018091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2019091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
2020091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
2021091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
2022091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
2023d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
2024091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
2025091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
2026091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
2027091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
2028091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
2029091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
203082c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
2031091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
2032091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
2033091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
2034091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
203582c04ff8SPeter Foley
2036125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
2037b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
2038125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
2039125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
2040f8408264SViresh Kumar	  by profilers.
2041125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
20425f87f112SIngo Molnar#
20435f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
20445f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
20455f87f112SIngo Molnar#
204697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
20475f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
204897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
20491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20511572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
20521572497cSChristoph Hellwig
2053ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
20546341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
2055ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
20561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2061c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2062c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	def_bool n
2063c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
2064c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann
206566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
206711097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
20751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
20781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
20801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
20811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
20831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20860b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
20870b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
2088826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2089826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
2090826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
2091826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
209291e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
209391e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
209491e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
2095826e4506SLinus Torvalds
20961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
2101f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2102f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
21031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
21051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
210619c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
21071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
21121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
21131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
21150d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
21161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
21181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
21191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
21201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
21211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
21221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
21231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
21242ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS
21252ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	bool
21262ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
21272ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	help
21282ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
21292ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
21302ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  supports it.
21312ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada
213256067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
213356067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
213456067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
213556067812SArd Biesheuvel
21361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
21371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
21381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
21391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
21401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
21411da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
21421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
21431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
21441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
21451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
21461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2147106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2148106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2149c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2150106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2151106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2152106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2153cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2154106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2155228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2156228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2157228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2158228c37ffSDavid Howells
215949fcf732SDavid Howells	  You should enable this option if you wish to use either
216049fcf732SDavid Howells	  CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
216149fcf732SDavid Howells	  another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
216249fcf732SDavid Howells	  of the lockdown policy.
216349fcf732SDavid Howells
2164ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2165ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2166ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2167ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2168ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2169106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2170106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2171106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2172106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2173106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2174106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2175ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2176d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2177d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2178d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2179d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2180d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2181d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2182d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2183d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2184d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2185d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2186d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2187ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2188ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2189ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2190ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2191ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2192ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2193ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2194ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2195ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2196ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2197ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2198ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2199ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2200ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2201ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2202ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2203ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2204ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2205ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2206ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2207ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2208ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2209ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2210ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2211ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2212ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2213ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2214ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2215ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2216ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2217ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2218ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
221922753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
222022753674SMichal Marek	string
222122753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
222222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
222322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
222422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
222522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
222622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
222722753674SMichal Marek
2228beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2229beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2230beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2231beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2232b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2233b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2234beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2235b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2236beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2237b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2238b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2239beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2240b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2241b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2242beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2243b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2244b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2245b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2246beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2247beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2248beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2249beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2250beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2251beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2252beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2253beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2254beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2255beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2256beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2257beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2258beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2259beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2260beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2261beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2262beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2263beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2264beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
22653d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
22663d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
22673d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
22683d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
22693d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
22703d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
22713d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
22723d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
22733d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
22743d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
22753d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
22763d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
22773d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
2278dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2279a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT
2280a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
2281dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2282dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2283dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2284dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2285dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2286dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2287dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2288dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2289dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2290dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2291dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2292f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2293dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
22941518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
22951518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
22961518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
22971518c633SQuentin Perret	help
22981518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
22991518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
23001518c633SQuentin Perret
23011518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
23021518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
23031518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
23041518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
23051518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
23061518c633SQuentin Perret
23070b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
23080b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
23096c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
23106c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
23116c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
23126c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
231398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
231498a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
231598a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
23165f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
23175f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
231898a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
231998a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2320692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
232198a79d6aSRusty Russell
23223a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2323e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2324e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2325e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2326e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
232716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
232816295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
232916295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
233016295becSSteffen Klassert
23314520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
23324520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
23334520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
23344520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
23354520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
23364520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
23374520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
23384520c6a4SDavid Howells
23396beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2340e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
23410ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
23420ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann	bool
23430ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann
2344e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2345e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
23461bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
23471bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
23487303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
23497303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
23507303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
23517303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
23527303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
23537303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
23541bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
23551bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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