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)" 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 11face4374SRoman Zippel 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 271a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 281a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 291a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 30e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 31e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 32e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 335cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 342d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 355cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 36eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 37eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 38eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized) 41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC >= 4.7 supports this option. 43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada bool 46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9 48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 49b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition. 50b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases. 51b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 52b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed 53b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings. 54b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 55b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 56b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 57b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 58e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 59e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 60e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 611dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 621dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 631dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 66c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 67c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 68c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 69c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 70c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 71c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 72c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 73c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 74ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 86dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 87dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 9034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 924bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 934bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 94bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 954bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 964bb16672SJiri Slaby help 974bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 984bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 994bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1004bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1014bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1024bb16672SJiri Slaby 1034bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1044bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1054bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1064bb16672SJiri Slaby 107e846f0dcSJani Nikulaconfig HEADER_TEST 108e846f0dcSJani Nikula bool "Compile test headers that should be standalone compilable" 109e846f0dcSJani Nikula help 110e846f0dcSJani Nikula Compile test headers listed in header-test-y target to ensure they are 111e846f0dcSJani Nikula self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 112e846f0dcSJani Nikula 113e846f0dcSJani Nikula If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested 114e846f0dcSJani Nikula headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 115e846f0dcSJani Nikula 11643c78d88SMasahiro Yamadaconfig KERNEL_HEADER_TEST 11743c78d88SMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test kernel headers" 11843c78d88SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADER_TEST 11943c78d88SMasahiro Yamada help 12043c78d88SMasahiro Yamada Headers in include/ are used to build external moduls. 12143c78d88SMasahiro Yamada Compile test them to ensure they are self-contained, i.e. 12243c78d88SMasahiro Yamada compilable as standalone units. 12343c78d88SMasahiro Yamada 12443c78d88SMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the headers 12543c78d88SMasahiro Yamada in include/ are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 12643c78d88SMasahiro Yamada 127d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 128d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 129d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADER_TEST && HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 131d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 132d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 133d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 134d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 136d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 147aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 148aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 149aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 150ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 151aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 152aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1546e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 155aaebf433SRyan Anderson 156aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 158aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1596e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 160aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1626e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1636e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1656e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1666e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 167aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1689afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1699afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1709afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1719afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1729afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1739afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1749afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1759afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1769afb719eSLaura Abbott 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1863ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin 1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 192e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 193e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 194e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 195f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 196f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 197f16466afSVasily Gorbik 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 201f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 22830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 23030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2320a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2332e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2342e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2352e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 23730d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 24030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2410a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2420a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2430a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2453ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2463ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2473ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2483ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2493ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2503ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2513ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2523ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2533ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2543ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2553ebe1243SLasse Collin 2563ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2573ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2583ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2593ebe1243SLasse Collin 2607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 265681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 268e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 269e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 270e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 271e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 272e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 275e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 276e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 280f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 281f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 282f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 283f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 284f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 285f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 286f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 287f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 288f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 289f16466afSVasily Gorbik 29030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 292bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 293bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 294bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 295bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 296bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 297bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 298bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 299bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 300bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 30117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 30217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 30317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 30417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 30517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 30617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 30717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 31017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 333a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 334a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 335a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 336a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 337a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 338a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 34119c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 347b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 355bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 356bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 357bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 358bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 359bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 360bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 361226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 362226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 363226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 364226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 365226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 366226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 367226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 368a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 369226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 370226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 37169369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 37269369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 373b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 37469369a70SJosh Triplett help 37569369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 37669369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 37769369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 37869369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 37969369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 38069369a70SJosh Triplett 3811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 383804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 387cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 388cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3907a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3917a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3927a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 394cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3957a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 39628a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 39774c3cbe3SAl Viro 398d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 399764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 40087a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 401d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 41002fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 415c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 418fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 419fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 420fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 421fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 422fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 423abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 425c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 436abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 437abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 438ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 439554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 440041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 441abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 442abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 443abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 444abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 445abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 446abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 448abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 450abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 451abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 452abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 453abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 454abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 455b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 456b58c3584SRik van Riel 457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 459b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 463fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 464fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 465fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 466fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 467fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 46811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 46911d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 47011d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 47111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 47211d4afd4SVincent Guittot 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4752813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4943903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 50019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5022813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 51419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 516f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 52619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 53519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 543eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 544eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 545eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 546eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 547eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 548eb414681SJohannes Weiner 549eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 550eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 551eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 552eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 553eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5542ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5552ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5562ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5572ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 558c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 559eb414681SJohannes Weiner 560eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 561eb414681SJohannes Weiner 562e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 563e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 564e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 565e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 566e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 567e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 568428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 569428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 570e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5737b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5747b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5757b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5767b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5777b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5787b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5797b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5807b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5817b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5845c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5855c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 586414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5872c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5885c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5895c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5905c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5912c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5922c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5932c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5942c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5955c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5960af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 597c903ff83SMike Travis 598de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 599de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 600de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 601de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 603f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 621f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 622f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 623f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 62443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 625f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 626f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 627f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 628f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 62943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 630794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 631794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 632fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 633f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 634361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 635794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 641f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 642f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 643f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 644f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 645f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 646794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 647794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 648794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6512240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 655361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 66923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 67023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 67123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 67223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 67323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6745e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6755e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 67623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 67723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 67823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 67923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 68023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 68123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 68223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 68323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 68423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 685f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 686f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 687427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 688427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 689f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 690427934b8SPetr Mladek help 691f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 692f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 693f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 694f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 695f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 696427934b8SPetr Mladek 697f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 698427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 699427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 700427934b8SPetr Mladek 701427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 702427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 703427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 704427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 705427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 706427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 707427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 708427934b8SPetr Mladek 7095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 71538ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 71638ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 71738ff87f7SStephen Boyd 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 75669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 75769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 75869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 75969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 76169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 76269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 76369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 76469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 76569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 76669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 76869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 77069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 773be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 774be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 775be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 776be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 777be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 778be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 77972b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 78072b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 78172b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 78272b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 78372b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 78472b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 78572b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 78672b252aeSMel Gorman bool 78772b252aeSMel Gorman 788*c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 789*c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel def_bool y 790*c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel depends on !$(cc-option,-D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) 791*c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 79272b252aeSMel Gorman# 793be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 794be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 795be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 796be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 797be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 803be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 804be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 805be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 806be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 807be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 808be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 809be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 810be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 811be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8126d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 813be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 814be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 815be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 82423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8256341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8262bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 827ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 82823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 832d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 833da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 83445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 835ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 836ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 837ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 83823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 83923964d2dSLi Zefan 8403e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8413e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8423e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 843c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 844a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8453e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 84679bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 84700f0b825SBalbir Singh help 848a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 84900f0b825SBalbir Singh 850c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 851a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 852c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 853c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 854a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 855a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 856c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 857a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 858c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 859a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 860a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 861a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 862a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 86343d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 86407555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 865a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 866a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 867a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 86800a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 869c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 87084c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 87184c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 87284c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 87384c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 87484c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8782bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8832bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 888e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 895da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8976bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 901e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9027c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 903a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9047c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9057c941438SDhaval Giani help 9067c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9077c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9087c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9097c941438SDhaval Giani 9107c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9117c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9127c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9137c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9147c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9157c941438SDhaval Giani 916ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 917ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 918ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 919ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 920ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 921ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 922ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 923ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 924ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 925d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 926ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9277c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9287c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9297c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9307c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9317c941438SDhaval Giani help 9327c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 93332bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9347c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9357c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 936d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9377c941438SDhaval Giani 9387c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9397c941438SDhaval Giani 9402480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9412480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9422480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9432480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9442480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9452480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9462480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9472480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9482480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9492480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9502480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9512480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9522480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9532480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9542480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9552480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9562480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9572480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 9582480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 9592480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9602480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 9612480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9716cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 97498076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 97839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 97939d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 98039d3e758SParav Pandit help 98139d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 98239d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 98339d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 98439d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 98539d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 98639d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 98739d3e758SParav Pandit 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 994489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 995489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 996489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 997489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 998489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1003afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1014afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1017e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1023afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1025afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 102989e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 103089e9b9e0STejun Heo 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 105330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 105430070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1055483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1056483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 105730070984SDaniel Mack help 105830070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 105930070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 106030070984SDaniel Mack 106130070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 106230070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 106330070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 106430070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 106530070984SDaniel Mack 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 106723b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 106923b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 107223b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 107323b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 107423b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 107873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 107973b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 108073b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 108173b35147SArnd Bergmann 108223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1083c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10862813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10876a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1088c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1089c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1090c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1091c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1092c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1093c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10948dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 109658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 109758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 109817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 109958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 110058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 110158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 110258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1103ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1104ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11058dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 110617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1107ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1108ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1109614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1110ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1111aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 111219c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11135673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1114aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1115aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1116aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1117e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1118e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1119d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1120d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1121d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1122e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1123aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1124aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 112574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11269bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 112717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 112874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 112912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1130692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 113174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 113274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1133d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1134d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11358dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 113617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1137d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1138d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1139d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1140d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11418dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11428dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11435cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11445cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11455cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11465cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11475cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11485cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11495cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11505cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11515cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11525cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11535cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11545cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11555091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11565091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11575091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11585091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11595091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11605091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11615091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11625091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11635091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11645091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11655091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11665091faa4SMike Galbraith 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11685d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11907af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11915d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11977af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11997af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12057af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 120726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12097af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12107af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12117af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12127af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12137af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12147af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12157af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12167af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1219f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1220f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1221f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1222f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1223f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12248c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1225f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1226f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1227f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1228f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1229f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1230f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1231f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1232c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1233c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1234dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1235dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1236c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1237c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1238877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1239877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12402cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1241877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1242877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 124315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1244877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1245877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1246877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1247877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1248877417e6SArnd Bergmann 124915f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 125015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 125115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1252b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 1253c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 125415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 125515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1256c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12575d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 125815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 12595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 12605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 1261ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1262ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1263c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1264877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1265877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12665d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12765d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 128016fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1281e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1282e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12835d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12848b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12858b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12868b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12875d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12885d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12950847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12960847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12970847062aSRandy Dunlap 1298657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1299657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1300657a5209SMike Frysinger 1301657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1302657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1303657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1304657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1305657a5209SMike Frysinger 1306657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1307657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1308657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1309657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1310657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1311657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1312657a5209SMike Frysinger 1313657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1314657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1315657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1316657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1317657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1318657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1319657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1320657a5209SMike Frysinger 1321657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1322657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1323657a5209SMike Frysinger 1324f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1325f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1326f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1327f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13286a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1330f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1331f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1338ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13402813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1341ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1342ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1343ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1344ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13452813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13462813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13472813893fSIulia Manda default y 13482813893fSIulia Manda help 13492813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13502813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13512813893fSIulia Manda 13522813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13532813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13542813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13552813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13562813893fSIulia Manda 13572813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13582813893fSIulia Manda 1359f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1360f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1361a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1362f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1363f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1364f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1365f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1366f6187769SFabian Frederick 1367f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1368f6187769SFabian Frederick 13696af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13706af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13716af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13736af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13746af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13756af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13766af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13776af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13786af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1379b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 138126a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1382c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1383b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1384b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 138513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 138613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 138713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 138813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1389b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 139013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 139113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 139213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1393b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1394c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1395ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1396d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1397d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1398d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1399d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1400d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1401d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1402d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1403d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1404d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1405d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1406d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1407d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1408d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1409baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1410baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1411baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1412baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1413baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1414baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1415baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1416baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1417baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1418baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1419baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1420baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1421baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1422baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1423baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1424baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1425baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1426d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1427d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 142974876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1430d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1431d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1432d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1433d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1434d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1435d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1436d59745ceSMatt Mackall 143742a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 143842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 143942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 144042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 144142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1442c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1444c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1445c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1446c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1447c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1448c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1449c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1450c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1451c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1452708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1453046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1454708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1456708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1457708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1458708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14598761f1abSRalf Baechle 1460e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14628761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 146315f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1464e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1465e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1466e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1467e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1468e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1480bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1486bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1487bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1488bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1489bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1490bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 149103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 149203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 149362b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 149403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 149503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 149603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 149703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 149803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1506fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15076a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1508fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1509fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1510fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1511fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1512fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1513fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1514fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1515b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1517b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1518b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1519b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1520b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1521b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1522b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1523b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1524e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1526e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1527e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1528e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1529e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1530e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1531e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1532e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1544ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1546ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1547ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1548ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1549ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1550ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1551ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15522b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15532b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 15542b188cc1SJens Axboe select ANON_INODES 15552b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15562b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15572b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15582b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15592b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15602b188cc1SJens Axboe 1561d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1562d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1563d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1564d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1565d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1566d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1567d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1568d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1569d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1570d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15725b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15735b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15745b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15755b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15765b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15775b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1606d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1616a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1624d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1625d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1626d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1627d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1628d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1634d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1635d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1636d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1637bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1640d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1641d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1642d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1643290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1644290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1645290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1646290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1647290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1648290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1649290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16573ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16583ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16593ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 166070216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 166170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 166270216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1663d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1664d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1665d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1666d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1667d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1668d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1669d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1670d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1671d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1672d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1673d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1674d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1675d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1676d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1677d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1678d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1679d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1680d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1681d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1682d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1683d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1684d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1685d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16866befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16885d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16926befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16936befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1695cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16960793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1697018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1698018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16990793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1700906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1701906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1702906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1703906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1704906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1705ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1706424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1707ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1708ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1709ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1710ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1711ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 171257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17130793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1714cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 171557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1716392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1717cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1718e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 171983fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17200793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 172157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 172257c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17230793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1724dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 172557c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 172657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 172757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 172857c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17290793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17300793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17310793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17320793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17330793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 173557c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1736dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 173757c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17380793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17390793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17410793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17420793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1743906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1744906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1745906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1746cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1747906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1748906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1749906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1750906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1751906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1752906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1753906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1754906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1755906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17560793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17570793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1758f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1759f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1761f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17622aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17632aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17646a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17652aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1766f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 176741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 176841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1770f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 177141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 177241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 177341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 177441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 177541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 177641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17771663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17781663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17791663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17801663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17811663f26dSTejun Heo help 17821663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17831663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17841663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17851663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17861663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17871663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17881663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17891663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17901663f26dSTejun Heo 1791b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1792b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1793b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1794b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1795b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1796b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1797b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1798692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1799b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1800b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1801b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1802b943c460SRandy Dunlap 180381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 180481819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1805a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 180681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 180781819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 180881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 180981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 181081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 181104385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 181281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181381819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 181434013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 181502f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 181681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1819ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 182081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 182181819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 182281819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 182381819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 182481819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 182502f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 182602f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 182781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 182881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18296a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 183081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 183181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 183237291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 183337291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 183437291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 183581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 183781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18387660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18397660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18407660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18417660a6fdSKees Cook help 18427660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18437660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18447660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18457660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18467660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18477660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18487660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18497660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18507660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18517660a6fdSKees Cook 1852c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1853c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1854210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1855c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1856c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1857210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1858c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1859c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1860c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18612482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18622482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18632482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18642482ddecSKees Cook help 18652482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18662482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 186792bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18682482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18692482ddecSKees Cook 1870e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1871e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1872e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1873e900a918SDan Williams help 1874e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1875e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1876e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1877e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1878e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1879e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1880e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1881e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1882e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1883e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1884e900a918SDan Williams 1885e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1886e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1887e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1888e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1889e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1890e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1891e900a918SDan Williams 1892e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1893e900a918SDan Williams 1894345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1895345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1896b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1897345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1898345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 189992bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1900345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1901345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1902345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1903345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1904345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1905ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1906ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19076a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1908ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1909ea637639SJie Zhang help 1910ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19113903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1912ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1913ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1914ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1915ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1916ea637639SJie Zhang 1917ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1918ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1919ea637639SJie Zhang 1920ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1921ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1922ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1923ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1924ea637639SJie Zhang 1925ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1926ea637639SJie Zhang 1927091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1928091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1929091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1930091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1931091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1932d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1933091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1934091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1935091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1936091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1937091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1938091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 193982c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1940091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1941091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1942091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1943091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 194482c04ff8SPeter Foley 1945125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1946b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1947125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1948125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1949125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1950125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19515f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19525f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19535f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19545f87f112SIngo Molnar# 195597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19565f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 195797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19601572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19611572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1962ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19636341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1964ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1970c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1971c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1972c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1973c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 197466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 197611097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19950b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19960b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1997826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1998826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1999826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2000826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 200191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 200291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 200391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2004826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2010f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2011f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 201519c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 20240d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20332ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 20342ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 20352ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 20362ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 20372ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 20382ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 20392ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 20402ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 204156067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 204256067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 204356067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 204456067812SArd Biesheuvel 20451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2056106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2057106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2058c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2059106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2060106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2061106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2062cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2063106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2064228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2065228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2066228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2067228c37ffSDavid Howells 206849fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 206949fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 207049fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 207149fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 207249fcf732SDavid Howells 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2075ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2076ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2077ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2078106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2079106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2080106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2081106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2082106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2083106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2084ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2085d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2086d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2087d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2088d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2089d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2090d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2091d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2092d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2093d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2094d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2095d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2096ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2097ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2098ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2099ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2100ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2101ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2102ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2103ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2104ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2105ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2114ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2124ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2125ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2126ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2127ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 212822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 212922753674SMichal Marek string 213022753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 213122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 213222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 213322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 213422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 213522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 213622753674SMichal Marek 2137beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2138beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2139beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2140beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2141b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2142b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2143beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2144b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2145beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2146b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2147b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2148beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2149b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2150b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2151beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2152b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2153b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2154b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2155beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2156beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2157beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2158beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2159beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2160beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2162beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2163beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2164beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2166beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2168beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2169beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2170beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2171beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2172beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2173beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21743d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21753d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21763d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21773d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21783d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21793d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21803d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21813d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21823d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21833d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21843d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21853d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21863d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2187efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2188efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2189efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2190efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2191efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2192efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2193efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2194efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2195efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2196efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2197efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2198efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2199efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2200efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2201efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2202efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2203dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2204dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2205d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2206dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2207dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2208dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2209dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2210dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2211dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2212dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2213dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2214dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2215dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2216dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2217f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2218dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22190b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22200b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22216c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22226c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 22236c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 22246c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 222598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 222698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 222798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22285f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22295f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 223098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 223198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2232692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 223398a79d6aSRusty Russell 22343a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2235e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2236e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2237e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2238e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 223916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 224016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 224116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 224216295becSSteffen Klassert 22434520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22444520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22454520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22464520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22474520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22484520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22494520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22504520c6a4SDavid Howells 22516beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2252e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2253e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2254e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22551bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22561bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22577303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22587303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22597303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22607303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22617303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22627303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22631bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22641bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2265