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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
3face4374SRoman Zippel	string
4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
5face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
647f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
7face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
847f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
199553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION
209553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap	int
219553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap	default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh)
229553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
26469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
27469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
28469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
29469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
301a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK
311a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
321a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada
33e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
34e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
35e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
365cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
372d122942SWill Deacon	def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh)
385cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne
39eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
40eb111869SRasmus Villemoes	def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
41eb111869SRasmus Villemoes
42b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
43b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
4487c9366eSJohannes Berg	depends on !UML
45b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
46e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
47e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
48e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
4910916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
501dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
511dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
52c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
53c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
54c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
55c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
59c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
60c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
61c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
62ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
74dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
75dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
804bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
814bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
82bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
834bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
844bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
854bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
864bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
874bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
884bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
894bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
904bb16672SJiri Slaby
914bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
924bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
934bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
944bb16672SJiri Slaby
95d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST
96d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Compile test UAPI headers"
97fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada	depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK
98d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	help
99d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are
100d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units.
101d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
102d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported
103d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
104d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada
1051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
115aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
116aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
117aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
118ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
119aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
120aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
123aaebf433SRyan Anderson
124aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
126aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
128aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1296e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1306e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1316e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1326e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1336e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1346e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
135aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1369afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1379afb719eSLaura Abbott	string "Build ID Salt"
1389afb719eSLaura Abbott	default ""
1399afb719eSLaura Abbott	help
1409afb719eSLaura Abbott	  The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1419afb719eSLaura Abbott	  this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1429afb719eSLaura Abbott	  This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1439afb719eSLaura Abbott	  build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1449afb719eSLaura Abbott
1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1543ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1553ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1563ebe1243SLasse Collin
1577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
160e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
161e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
162e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
163f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
164f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
165f16466afSVasily Gorbik
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
169f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
19530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
19630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1972e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
2000a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
2012e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
2022e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
2032e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2090a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2100a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2110a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2133ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2143ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2153ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2163ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2173ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2183ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2193ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2203ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2213ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2223ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2233ebe1243SLasse Collin
2243ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2253ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2263ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2273ebe1243SLasse Collin
2287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2297dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2320a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
233681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
241e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
242e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
243e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
244e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
245e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
246e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
247e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
248f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
249f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
250f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
251f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
252f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
253f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
254f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
255f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
256f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
257f16466afSVasily Gorbik
25830d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
25930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
260bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
261bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
262bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
263bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
264bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
265bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
266bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
267bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
268bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
26917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
27017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
27117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
27217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
27317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
27417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
27517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
27817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds
301a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
302a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
303a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
304a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
305a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
306a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
30919c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
315b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
323bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
324bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
325bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
326bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
327bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
328bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
329*c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE
330*c73be61cSDavid Howells	bool "General notification queue"
331*c73be61cSDavid Howells	default n
332*c73be61cSDavid Howells	help
333*c73be61cSDavid Howells
334*c73be61cSDavid Howells	  This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to
335*c73be61cSDavid Howells	  userspace by splicing them into pipes.  It can be used in conjunction
336*c73be61cSDavid Howells	  with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device
337*c73be61cSDavid Howells	  notifications.
338*c73be61cSDavid Howells
339*c73be61cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/watch_queue.rst
340*c73be61cSDavid Howells
341226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
342226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
343226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
344226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
345226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
346226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
347226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
348a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
349226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
350226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
35169369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
35269369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
353b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
35469369a70SJosh Triplett	help
35569369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
35669369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
35769369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
35869369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
35969369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
36069369a70SJosh Triplett
3611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
363804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
367cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
368cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3707a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3717a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3727a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
374cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3757a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
37628a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
37774c3cbe3SAl Viro
378d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
379764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
38087a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
381d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
387fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
388fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
389fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
39002fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
395c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
405c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
416abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
417abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
418ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
419554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
420041a1574SArnd Bergmann	depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
422abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
423abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
424abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
425abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
426abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
427abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
428abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
429abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
430abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
433abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
434abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
435b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
436b58c3584SRik van Riel
437fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
438fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
439b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
440fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
441fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
442fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
443fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
444fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
44811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
44911d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
45011d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
45111d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
45211d4afd4SVincent Guittot
45376504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
45476504793SThara Gopinath	bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure"
45576504793SThara Gopinath	depends on SMP
45676504793SThara Gopinath
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4592813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4783903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
48419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4862813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
49819c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
500f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
51019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
511391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
51919c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
527eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
528eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
529eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
530eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
531eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
532eb414681SJohannes Weiner
533eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
534eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
535eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
536eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
537eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5382ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5392ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5402ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5412ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
542c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst.
543eb414681SJohannes Weiner
544eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
545eb414681SJohannes Weiner
546e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
547e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
548e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
549e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
550e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
551e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
552428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
553428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
554e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
5557b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
5567b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
5577b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
5587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
5597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
5607b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5617b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
5627b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  used for, say Y.
5637b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
5647b2489d3SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
5657b2489d3SJohannes Weiner
566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5685c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5695c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
570414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5712c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5725c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5735c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5745c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5752c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5762c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5772c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5782c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5795c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5800af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
581c903ff83SMike Travis
582de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
583de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
584de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
585de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
587f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
605f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS
606f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz"
607f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on SYSFS
60843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
609f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during
610f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs,
611f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  or similar programs.  If you build the headers as a module, a module called
612f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers.
61343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)
614794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
615794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
616fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
617f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
618361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
619794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
625f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
626f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
627f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
628f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
629f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
630794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
631794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
632794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
6352240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
63623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
639361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
65023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6585e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6595e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
669f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
670f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
671427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
672427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
673f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
674427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
675f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
676f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
677f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
678f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
679f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
680427934b8SPetr Mladek
681f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
682427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
683427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
684427934b8SPetr Mladek
685427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
686427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
687427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
688427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
689427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
690427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
691427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
692427934b8SPetr Mladek
6935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
6955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
6975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
6985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
69938ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
70038ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
70138ff87f7SStephen Boyd
70269842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features"
70369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
70469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK
70569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks"
70669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
70769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
70869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
70969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU.
71069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
71169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU
71269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines
71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization
71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  defines the minimum frequency it should use.
71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler,
71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not
71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks.
71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT
72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets"
72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	range 5 20
72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	default 5
72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	help
72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket
72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the
73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher
73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time.
73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5
73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will
73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp
73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  effective value to 25%.
73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU,
73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and
73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%.
74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value
74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in
74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  that bucket.
74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the
74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the
74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems,
74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of
74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking
74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  precision.
75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, use the default value.
75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu
75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi
755be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
756be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
757be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
758be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
759be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
760be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
761be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
762be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
76372b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
76472b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
76572b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
76672b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
76772b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
76872b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
76972b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
77072b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
77172b252aeSMel Gorman
772c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128
7733a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
774c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel
77572b252aeSMel Gorman#
776be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
777be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
778be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
779be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
780be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
781be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
782be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
783be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
784be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
785be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
786be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
787be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
788be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
7956d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
7996f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
8006f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
8016f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
8026f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
8036f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
8046f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
8056f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
8066f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
80723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
8086341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
8092bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
810ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
81123964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
8125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
8135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
8145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
815d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst	(CFS)
816da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab		- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
81745ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
818ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
819ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
820ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
82123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
82223964d2dSLi Zefan
8233e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
8243e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	bool
8253e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
826c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
827a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
8283e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
82979bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
83000f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
831a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
83200f0b825SBalbir Singh
833c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
834a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
835c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
836c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
837a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
838a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
839c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
840a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
841c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
842a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
843a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
844a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
845a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
84643d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
84707555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
848a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
849a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
850a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
85100a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
852c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
85384c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
85484c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
85584c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
85684c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
85784c07d11SKirill Tkhai
8586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
8612bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
8662bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
871e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
8757baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski	CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
878da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab	See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information.
8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
884e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
8857c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
886a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
8877c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8887c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8897c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
8907c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
8917c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
8927c941438SDhaval Giani
8937c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
8947c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
8957c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
8967c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8977c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
8987c941438SDhaval Giani
899ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
900ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
901ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
902ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
903ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
904ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
905ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
906ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
907ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
908d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
909ab84d31eSPaul Turner
9107c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
9117c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
9127c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9137c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
9147c941438SDhaval Giani	help
9157c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
91632bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
9177c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
9187c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
919d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information.
9207c941438SDhaval Giani
9217c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
9227c941438SDhaval Giani
9232480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP
9242480c093SPatrick Bellasi	bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks"
9252480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
9262480c093SPatrick Bellasi	depends on UCLAMP_TASK
9272480c093SPatrick Bellasi	default n
9282480c093SPatrick Bellasi	help
9292480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization
9302480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU.
9312480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9322480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max
9332480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group.
9342480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task
9352480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum
9362480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  frequency a task will always use.
9372480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9382480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually
9392480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup
9402480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot
9412480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level.
9422480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9432480c093SPatrick Bellasi	  If in doubt, say N.
9442480c093SPatrick Bellasi
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
9496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
9506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
9516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
9526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
9536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
9546cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
9556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
95798076833SJonathan Neuschäfer	  to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller,
9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
96139d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
96239d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
96339d3e758SParav Pandit	help
96439d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
96539d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
96639d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
96739d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
96839d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
96939d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
97039d3e758SParav Pandit
9716bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
977489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
978489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
979489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
980489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
981489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
9826bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
9836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
9846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
986afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
997afc24d49SVivek Goyal
9986bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
1000e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
1006afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
1008afc24d49SVivek Goyal
10096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
101289e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
101389e9b9e0STejun Heo
10146bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
10246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
10256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
10276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
10286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
10296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
10326546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  designated cpu.  Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples
10336546b19fSNamhyung Kim	  so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups.
10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
103730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
103830070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
1039483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1040483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
104130070984SDaniel Mack	help
104230070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
104330070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
104430070984SDaniel Mack
104530070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
104630070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
104730070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
104830070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
104930070984SDaniel Mack
10506bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
105123b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
105323b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
105623b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
105723b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
105823b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
10596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
106273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
106373b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
106473b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
106573b35147SArnd Bergmann
106623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
1067c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
10688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
10696a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
10702813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
10716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
1072c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
1073c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1074c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1075c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1076c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
1077c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
10788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
10798dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
108058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
108158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
108217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
108358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
108458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
108558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
108658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
1087769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS
1088769071acSAndrei Vagin	bool "TIME namespace"
1089660fd04fSThomas Gleixner	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
1090769071acSAndrei Vagin	default y
1091769071acSAndrei Vagin	help
1092769071acSAndrei Vagin	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
1093769071acSAndrei Vagin	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
1094769071acSAndrei Vagin
1095ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
1096ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
10978dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
109817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1099ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
1100ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1101614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1102ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
1103aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
110419c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
11055673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
1106aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
1107aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1108aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
1109e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1110e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1111d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1112d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1113d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
1114e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
1115aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
1116aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
111774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
11189bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
111917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
112074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
112112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1122692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
112374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
112474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1125d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1126d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
11278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
112817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1129d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1130d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1131d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1132d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
11338dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
11348dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
11355cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
11365cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
11375cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
11385cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
11395cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
11405cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
11415cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
11425cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
11435cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
11445cb366bbSAdrian Reber
11455cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
11465cb366bbSAdrian Reber
11475091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
11485091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
11495091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
11505091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
11515091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
11525091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
11535091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
11545091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
11555091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
11565091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
11575091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
11585091faa4SMike Galbraith
11597af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11605d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
11747af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
11767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11827af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
11835d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
11867af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
11877af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
11887af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
11897af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11907af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
11917af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
11927af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11937af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
11947af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
11957af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
11967af37becSDaniel Lezcano
11977af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
11987af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
119926b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
12007af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
12017af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
12027af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
12037af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
12047af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
12057af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
12067af37becSDaniel Lezcano
12077af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
12087af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1209f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1210f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1211f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1212f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1213f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1214f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1215f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
12168c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1217f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1218f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1219f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1220f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1221f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1222f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1223f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1224c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1225c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1226dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1227dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1228c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1229c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
123076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG
123176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Boot config support"
12322910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu	select BLK_DEV_INITRD
123376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	help
123476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as
123576db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting.
12360947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs
123785c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu	  with checksum, size and magic word.
12380947db01SMasami Hiramatsu	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details.
123976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
124076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say Y.
124176db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu
1242877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1243877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
12442cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1245877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1246877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
124715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)"
1248877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1249877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1250877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1251877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1252877417e6SArnd Bergmann
125315f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
125415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
125515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	depends on ARC
1256c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
125715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
125815f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	  the kernel yet more for performance.
1259c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
12605d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
126115f5db60SMasahiro Yamada	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
1262c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
1263ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting
1264ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada	  in a smaller kernel.
1265c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1266877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1267877417e6SArnd Bergmann
12685d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
12705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
12725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
12735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
12745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
12755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
12765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
12775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12785d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
12805d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
12815d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
128216fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1283e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1284e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
12855d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
12868b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
12878b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
12888b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
12895d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12905d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
12915d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
12925d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
12935d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
12945d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
12955d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
12965d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
12970847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
12980847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
12990847062aSRandy Dunlap
1300657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1301657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1302657a5209SMike Frysinger
1303657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1304657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1305657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1306657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1307657a5209SMike Frysinger
1308657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1309657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1310657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1311657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1312657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1313657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1314657a5209SMike Frysinger
1315657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1316657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1317657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1318657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1319657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1320657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1321657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1322657a5209SMike Frysinger
1323657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1324657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1325657a5209SMike Frysinger
1326f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1327f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1328f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1329f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
13306a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
13316a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1332f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1333f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1340ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
13416a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
13422813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1343ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1344ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1345ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1346ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
13472813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
13482813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
13492813893fSIulia Manda	default y
13502813893fSIulia Manda	help
13512813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
13522813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
13532813893fSIulia Manda
13542813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
13552813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
13562813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
13572813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
13582813893fSIulia Manda
13592813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
13602813893fSIulia Manda
1361f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1362f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1363a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1364f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1365f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1366f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1367f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1368f6187769SFabian Frederick
1369f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1370f6187769SFabian Frederick
13716af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
13726af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
13736af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
13746af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
13756af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
13766af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
13776af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
13786af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
13796af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
13806af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1381d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1382d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1383d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1384d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1385d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1386d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1387d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1388d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1389d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1390d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1391d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1394baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1395baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1396baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1397baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1398baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1399baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1400baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1401baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1402baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1403baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1404baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1405baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1406baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1407baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1408baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1409baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1410baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1411d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1412d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
14136a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
141474876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1415d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1416d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1417d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1418d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1419d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1420d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1421d59745ceSMatt Mackall
142242a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
142342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
142442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
142542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
142642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1427c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
14286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1429c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1430c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1431c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1432c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1433c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1434c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1435c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	  Just say Y.
1436c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1437708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1438046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1439708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
14406a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1441708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1442708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1443708e9a79SMatt Mackall
14448761f1abSRalf Baechle
1445e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
14466a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
14478761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
144815f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1449e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1450e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1451e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1452e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	  support, saving some memory.
1453e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
14541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14566a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
14636a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1465bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1471bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1472bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1473bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1474bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1475bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
147603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
147703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
147862b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
147903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
148003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
148103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
148203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
148303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
14841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
14856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1491fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
14926a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1493fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1494fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1495fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1496fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1497fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1498fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1499fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1500b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
15016a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1502b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1503b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1504b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1505b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1506b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1507b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1508b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1509e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
15106a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1511e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1512e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1513e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1514e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1515e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1516e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1517e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
15181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
15196a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1529ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
15306a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1531ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1532ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1533ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1534ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1535ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1536ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
15372b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING
15382b188cc1SJens Axboe	bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT
1539561fb04aSJens Axboe	select IO_WQ
15402b188cc1SJens Axboe	default y
15412b188cc1SJens Axboe	help
15422b188cc1SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling
15432b188cc1SJens Axboe	  applications to submit and complete IO through submission and
15442b188cc1SJens Axboe	  completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application.
15452b188cc1SJens Axboe
1546d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1547d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1548d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1549d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1550d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1551d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1552d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1553d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1554d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1555d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
15565a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
15575a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
15585a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	help
15595a281062SAndrea Arcangeli	  Arch has userfaultfd write protection support
15605a281062SAndrea Arcangeli
15615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
15625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
15635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
15645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
15655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
15665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
15675b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
15685b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
15695b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
15705b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
15715b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
15725b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1579d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  something like this).
1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1600d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1606a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1607d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1608d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1609d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1610d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1611d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1612d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1620d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1621d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1622d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1623d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1624fc611f47SKP Singh
1625fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM
1626fc611f47SKP Singh	bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF"
16274edf16b7SKP Singh	depends on BPF_EVENTS
1628fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1629fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on SECURITY
1630fc611f47SKP Singh	depends on BPF_JIT
1631fc611f47SKP Singh	help
1632fc611f47SKP Singh	  Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for
1633fc611f47SKP Singh	  implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
1634fc611f47SKP Singh
1635fc611f47SKP Singh	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1636fc611f47SKP Singh
1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1640bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1641d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1642d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1643d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1644d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1645d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
164681c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
164781c22041SDaniel Borkmann	bool
164881c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1649290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1650290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1651290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1652290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1653290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1654290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1655290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
165681c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
165781c22041SDaniel Borkmann	def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
165881c22041SDaniel Borkmann	depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
165981c22041SDaniel Borkmann
1660d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1662d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
16673ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
16683ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
16693ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
167070216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
167170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
167270216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1673d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1674d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1675d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1676d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1677d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1678d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1679d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1680d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1681d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1682d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1683d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1684d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1685d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1686d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1687d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1688d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1689d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1690d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1691d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1692d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1693d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1694d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1695d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
16966befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
16976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
16985d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
16996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
17006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
17016befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
17026befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
17036befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
17046befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1705cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
17060793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1707018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1708018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
17090793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1710906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1711906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1712906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1713906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1714906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1715ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1716424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1717ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1718ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1719ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1720ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1721ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
172257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
17230793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1724cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
172557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1726392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1727cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1728e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
172983fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
17300793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
173157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
173257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
17330793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1734dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
173557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
173657c0c15bSIngo Molnar
173757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
173857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
17390793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
17400793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
17410793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
17420793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
17430793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
17440793a61dSThomas Gleixner
174557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1746dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
174757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
17480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
17490793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
17500793a61dSThomas Gleixner
17510793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
17520793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1753906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1754906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1755906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1756cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1757906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1758906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1759906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1760906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1761906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1762906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  that don't require it.
1763906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1764906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  Say N if unsure.
1765906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
17660793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
17670793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1768f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1769f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
17706a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1771f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
17722aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
17732aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
17746a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
17752aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1776f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
177741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
177841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
17796a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1780f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
178141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
178241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
178341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
178441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
178541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
178641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
17871663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
17881663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
17891663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
17901663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
17911663f26dSTejun Heo	help
17921663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
17931663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
17941663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
17951663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
17961663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
17971663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
17981663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
17991663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
18001663f26dSTejun Heo
1801b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1802b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1803b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1804b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1805b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1806b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1807b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1808692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1809b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1810b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1811b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1812b943c460SRandy Dunlap
181381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
181481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1815a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
181681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
181781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
181981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
182081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
182104385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
182281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
182381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
182434013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
182502f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
182681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
182781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
182881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1829ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
183081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
183181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
183281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
183381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
183481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
183502f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
183602f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
183781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
183881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
18396a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
184081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
184181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
184237291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
184337291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
184437291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
184581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
184681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
184781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
18487660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
18497660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
18507660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
18517660a6fdSKees Cook	help
18527660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
18537660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
18547660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
18557660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
18567660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
18577660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
18587660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
18597660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
18607660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
18617660a6fdSKees Cook
1862c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1863c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1864210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1865c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1866c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1867210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1868c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1869c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1870c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
18712482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
18722482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
18732482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
18742482ddecSKees Cook	help
18752482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
18762482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
187792bae787SKees Cook	  sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
18782482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
18792482ddecSKees Cook
1880e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
1881e900a918SDan Williams	bool "Page allocator randomization"
1882e900a918SDan Williams	default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA
1883e900a918SDan Williams	help
1884e900a918SDan Williams	  Randomization of the page allocator improves the average
1885e900a918SDan Williams	  utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section
1886e900a918SDan Williams	  5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI
1887e900a918SDan Williams	  6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises
1888e900a918SDan Williams	  the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental
1889e900a918SDan Williams	  security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page
1890e900a918SDan Williams	  allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the
1891e900a918SDan Williams	  default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e,
1892e900a918SDan Williams	  10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization
1893e900a918SDan Williams	  benefits on x86.
1894e900a918SDan Williams
1895e900a918SDan Williams	  While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
1896e900a918SDan Williams	  negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
1897e900a918SDan Williams	  this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
1898e900a918SDan Williams	  after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
1899e900a918SDan Williams	  Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
1900e900a918SDan Williams	  'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
1901e900a918SDan Williams
1902e900a918SDan Williams	  Say Y if unsure.
1903e900a918SDan Williams
1904345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1905345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1906b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1907345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1908345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
190992bae787SKees Cook	  Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing
1910345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1911345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1912345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1913345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1914345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1915ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1916ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
19176a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1918ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1919ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1920ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
19213903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1922ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1923ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1924ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1925ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1926ea637639SJie Zhang
1927ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1928ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1929ea637639SJie Zhang
1930ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1931ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1932ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1933ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1934ea637639SJie Zhang
1935ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1936ea637639SJie Zhang
1937091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1938091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1939091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1940091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1941091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1942d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1943091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1944091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1945091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1946091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1947091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1948091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
194982c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1950091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1951091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1952091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1953091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
195482c04ff8SPeter Foley
1955125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1956b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1957125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1958125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1959125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1960125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
19615f87f112SIngo Molnar#
19625f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
19635f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
19645f87f112SIngo Molnar#
196597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
19665f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
196797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
19681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19701572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
19711572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1972ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
19736341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1974ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
19751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1980c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
1981c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	def_bool n
1982c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1983c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann
198466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
198611097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20050b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
20060b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
2007826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2008826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
2009826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
2010826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
201191e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
201291e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
201391e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
2014826e4506SLinus Torvalds
20151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
2020f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2021f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
202519c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
20340d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
20401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
20432ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS
20442ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	bool
20452ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS
20462ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	help
20472ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from
20482ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
20492ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada	  supports it.
20502ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada
205156067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
205256067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
205356067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
205456067812SArd Biesheuvel
20551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2066106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
2067106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
2068c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann	select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT
2069106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2070106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2071106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2072cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
2073106a4ee2SRusty Russell
2074228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2075228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2076228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
2077228c37ffSDavid Howells
207849fcf732SDavid Howells	  You should enable this option if you wish to use either
207949fcf732SDavid Howells	  CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via
208049fcf732SDavid Howells	  another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless
208149fcf732SDavid Howells	  of the lockdown policy.
208249fcf732SDavid Howells
2083ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2084ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
2085ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2086ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2087ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2088106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2089106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2090106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
2091106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
2092106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2093106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
2094ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2095d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
2096d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2097d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
2098d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
2099d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
2100d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2101d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2102d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2103d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2104d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2105d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
2106ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
2107ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2108ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
2109ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
2110ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2111ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2112ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
2113ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2114ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
2115ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2116ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2117ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2118ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
2119ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2120ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2121ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2122ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2123ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2124ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2125ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2126ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
2127ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2128ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2129ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2130ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2131ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2132ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2133ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2134ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
2135ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
2136ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
2137ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
213822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
213922753674SMichal Marek	string
214022753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
214122753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
214222753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
214322753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
214422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
214522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
214622753674SMichal Marek
2147beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
2148beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
2149beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2150beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2151b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2152b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
2153beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2154b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
2155beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2156b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2157b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
2158beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2159b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2160b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
2161beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2162b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2163b6c09b51SRusty Russell
2164b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
2165beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2166beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
2167beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
2168beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2169beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2170beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
2171beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2172beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
2173beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2174beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2175beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2176beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2177beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
2178beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2179beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2180beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
2181beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2182beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
2183beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
21843d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
21853d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
21863d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	help
21873d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in
21883d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a
21893d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
21903d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports,
21913d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and
21923d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this
21933d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module.
21943d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
21953d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich	  If unsure, say N.
21963d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich
2197efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2198efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
2199efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	default y if X86
2200efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	help
2201efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For
2202efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This
2203efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
2204efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
2205efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
2206efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
2207efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
2208efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a
2209efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
2210efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
2211efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada	  your module is.
2212efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada
2213dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2214dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2215d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada	depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2216dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2217dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2218dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2219dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2220dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2221dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2222dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2223dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2224dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2225dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2226dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2227f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2228dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
22291518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
22301518c633SQuentin Perret	string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
22311518c633SQuentin Perret	depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
22321518c633SQuentin Perret	help
22331518c633SQuentin Perret	  By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
22341518c633SQuentin Perret	  build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
22351518c633SQuentin Perret
22361518c633SQuentin Perret	  UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
22371518c633SQuentin Perret	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
22381518c633SQuentin Perret	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
22391518c633SQuentin Perret	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
22401518c633SQuentin Perret	  source tree.
22411518c633SQuentin Perret
22420b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
22430b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
22446c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
22456c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
22466c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
22476c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
224898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
224998a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
225098a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
22515f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
22525f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
225398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
225498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2255692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
225698a79d6aSRusty Russell
22573a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2258e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2259e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2260e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2261e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
226216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
226316295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
226416295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
226516295becSSteffen Klassert
22664520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
22674520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
22684520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
22694520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
22704520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
22714520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
22724520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
22734520c6a4SDavid Howells
22746beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2275e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
22760ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
22770ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann	bool
22780ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann
2279e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2280e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
22811bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
22821bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
22837303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
22847303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
22857303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
22867303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
22877303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
22887303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
22891bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
22901bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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