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 2356