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1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
2face4374SRoman Zippel	string
3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
4face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
547f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
6face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
747f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/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
16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC
17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
26b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
27b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
28b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
29b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
31e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
32e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
331dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
341dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
351dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
36c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
37c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
38c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
39c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
40c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
41c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
42c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
43c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
44c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
45c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
46ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
58dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
59dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
6234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
644bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
654bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
66bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
694bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
704bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
714bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
724bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
734bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
744bb16672SJiri Slaby
754bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
764bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
774bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
784bb16672SJiri Slaby
791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
92ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
93aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
94aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
97aaebf433SRyan Anderson
98aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
100aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
102aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1109afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1119afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1129afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1139afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1149afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1159afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1169afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1179afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1189afb719eSLaura Abbott
1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1283ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1293ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1303ebe1243SLasse Collin
1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
134e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
135e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
136e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
137f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
138f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
139f16466afSVasily Gorbik
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
143f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1830a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1850a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1873ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1883ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1893ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1903ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1913ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1923ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1933ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1943ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1953ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1963ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1973ebe1243SLasse Collin
1983ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1993ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2003ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2013ebe1243SLasse Collin
2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2060a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
207681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
212e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
213e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
214e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
215e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
216e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
217e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
218e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
219e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
220e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
221e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
222f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
223f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
224f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
225f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
226f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
227f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
228f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
229f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
230f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
231f16466afSVasily Gorbik
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
234bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
235bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
236bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
237bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
238bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
239bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
240bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
241bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
242bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
24317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
24417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
24517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
24617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
24717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
24817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
24917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
25217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
275a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
276a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
277a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
278a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
279a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
280a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
28319c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
289b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
297bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
298bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
299bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
300bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
301bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
302bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
303226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
304226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
305226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
306226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
307226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
308226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
309226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
310a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
311226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
312226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
31369369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
31469369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
315b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
31669369a70SJosh Triplett	help
31769369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
31869369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
31969369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
32069369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
32169369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
32269369a70SJosh Triplett
3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
325804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
329cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
330cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3327a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3337a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3347a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
336cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3377a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
339939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
340939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
341939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
342939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
34474c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
34574c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
34663c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
34728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
34874c3cbe3SAl Viro
349d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
350764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
35187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
352d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
359fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
360fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
36102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
364fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
366c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
371fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
376c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
389ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
390554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
392abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
393abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
394abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
395abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
396abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
399abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
400abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
401abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
405b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
406b58c3584SRik van Riel
407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
409b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
410fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
415fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
41811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
41911d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
42011d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
42111d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
42211d4afd4SVincent Guittot
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4252813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4443903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
45019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4522813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
46419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
466f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
47619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
48519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
493eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
494eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
495eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
496eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
497eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
498eb414681SJohannes Weiner
499eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
500eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
501eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
502eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
503eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5042ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5052ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5062ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5072ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
508eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
509eb414681SJohannes Weiner
510eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
511eb414681SJohannes Weiner
512*e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
513*e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
514*e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
515*e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
516*e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
517*e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
518*e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi_enable=1
519*e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  on the kernel commandline during boot.
520*e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
521391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5235c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5245c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
525414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5262c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5275c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5285c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5295c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5302c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5312c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5322c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5332c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5345c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5350af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
536c903ff83SMike Travis
537de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
538de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
539de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
540de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
542f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
543de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
561794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
562794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
563fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
564f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
565361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
566794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
56723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
56823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
56923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
57023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
57123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
572f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
573f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
574f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
575f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
576f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
577794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
578794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
579794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
58023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
58123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
5822240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
58323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
58423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
58523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
586361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
58723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
58823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
58923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
59023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
59123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
59223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
59323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
59423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
59523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
59623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
59723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
59823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
59923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
60023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
60223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
60323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
60423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6055e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6065e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
60723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
60823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
60923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
61023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
61123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
61323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
61423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
61523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
616f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
617f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
618427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
619427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
620f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
621427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
622f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
623f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
624f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
625f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
626f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
627427934b8SPetr Mladek
628f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
629427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
630427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
631427934b8SPetr Mladek
632427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
633427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
634427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
635427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
636427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
637427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
638427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
639427934b8SPetr Mladek
6405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
6425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
6445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
6455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
64638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
64738ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
64838ff87f7SStephen Boyd
649be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
650be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
651be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
652be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
653be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
654be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
655be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
656be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
65772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
65872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
65972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
66072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
66172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
66272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
66372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
66472b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
66572b252aeSMel Gorman
66672b252aeSMel Gorman#
667be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
668be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
669be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
670be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
671be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
672be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
673be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
674be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
675be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
676be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
677be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
678be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
679be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
680be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
681be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
682be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
683be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
684be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
685be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6866d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
687be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
688be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
689be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
6906f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
6916f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
6926f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
6936f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
6946f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
6956f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
6966f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
6976f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
69823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
6996341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
7002bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
701ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
70223964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
7035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
7045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
7055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
7065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
7079991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
70845ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
709ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
710ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
711ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
71223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
71323964d2dSLi Zefan
7143e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
7153e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
7163e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
717c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
718a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
7193e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
72079bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
72100f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
722a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
72300f0b825SBalbir Singh
724c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
725a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
726c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
727c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
728a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
729a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
730c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
731a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
732c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
733a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
734a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
735a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
736a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
73743d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
73807555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
739a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
740a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
741a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
74200a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
743c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
74484c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
74584c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
74684c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
74784c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
74884c07d11SKirill Tkhai
7496bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
7506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
7516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
7522bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
7536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
7556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
7566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
7572bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
7586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
7596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
7606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
7616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
762e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
7646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
7656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
7666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
7676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7699991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
7706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7716bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
7726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
7736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
7746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
7756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
7776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
7786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7796bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
7806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
7816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
7826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
783e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7847c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
785a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
7867c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
7877c941438SDhaval Giani	help
7887c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
7897c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
7907c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
7917c941438SDhaval Giani
7927c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
7937c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
7947c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
7957c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
7967c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
7977c941438SDhaval Giani
798ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
799ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
800ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
801ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
802ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
803ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
804ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
805ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
806ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
807cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
808ab84d31eSPaul Turner
8097c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
8107c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
8117c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8127c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8137c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8147c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
81532bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
8167c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
8177c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
8187c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
8197c941438SDhaval Giani
8207c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
8217c941438SDhaval Giani
8226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
8266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
8286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
8316cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
8346cc578dfSParav Pandit	  to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
83839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
83939d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
84039d3e758SParav Pandit	help
84139d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
84239d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
84339d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
84439d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
84539d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
84639d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
84739d3e758SParav Pandit
8486bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
8506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
854489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
855489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
856489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
857489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
858489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
8596bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
863afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
874afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8756bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
877e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
883afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
885afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8866bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
88989e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
89089e9b9e0STejun Heo
8916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8976bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
9016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
9026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9036bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
9056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
9066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
9086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
9096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
9126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
91330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
91430070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
915483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
916483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
91730070984SDaniel Mack	help
91830070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
91930070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
92030070984SDaniel Mack
92130070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
92230070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
92330070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
92430070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
92530070984SDaniel Mack
9266bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
92723b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
92923b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
93223b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
93323b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
93423b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
93873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
93973b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
94073b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
94173b35147SArnd Bergmann
94223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
943c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9448dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
9456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
9462813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
9476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
948c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
949c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
950c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
951c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
952c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
953c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
9548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
9558dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
95658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
95758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
95817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
95958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
96058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
96158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
96258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
963ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
964ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
9658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
96617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
967ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
968ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
969614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
970ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
971aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
97219c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
9735673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
974aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
975aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
976aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
977e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
978e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
979d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
980d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
981d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
982e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
983aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
984aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
98574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
9869bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
98717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
98874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
98912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
990692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
99174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
99274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
993d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
994d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
9958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
99617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
997d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
998d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
999d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1000d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
10018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
10028dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
10035cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
10045cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
10055cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
10065cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
10075cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
10085cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
10095cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
10105cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
10115cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
10125cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10135cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
10145cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10155091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
10165091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
10175091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
10185091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
10195091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10205091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
10215091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
10225091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
10235091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
10245091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
10255091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
10265091faa4SMike Galbraith
10277af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10285d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
10297af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10307af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10317af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10327af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
10337af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
10347af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
10357af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
10377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
10387af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
10407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
10417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
10427af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
10447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
10457af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
10467af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
10497af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10507af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
10515d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
10527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10567af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
10577af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
10597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
10607af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
10637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
10647af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10657af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
10667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
106726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
10687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
10707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
10717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
10727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
10737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
10747af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
10767af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1077f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1078f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1079f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1080f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1081f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1082f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1083f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
10848c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1085f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1086f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1087f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1088f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1089f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1090f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1091f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1092c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1093c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1094dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1095dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1096c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1097c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1098877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1099877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
11002cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1101877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1102877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1103877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1104877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1105877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1106877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1107877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1108877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1109c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
111096fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1111c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
111231a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
111331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1114c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
11153a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1116c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1117877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1118877417e6SArnd Bergmann
11195d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
11215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
11235d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
11245d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
11255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
11265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
11275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
11285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11295d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
11315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
1133e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1134e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
11355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11368b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
11378b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
11388b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
11395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
11415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
11425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
11435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
11445d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
11455d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
11465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11470847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
11480847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
11490847062aSRandy Dunlap
1150b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1151b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1152b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1153657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1154657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1155657a5209SMike Frysinger
1156657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1157657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1158657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1159657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1160657a5209SMike Frysinger
1161657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1162657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1163657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1164657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1165657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1166657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1167657a5209SMike Frysinger
1168657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1169657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1170657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1171657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1172657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1173657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1174657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1175657a5209SMike Frysinger
1176657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1177657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1178657a5209SMike Frysinger
1179f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1180f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1181f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1182f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
11836a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
11846a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1185f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1186f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1193ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
11946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
11952813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1196ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1197ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1198ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1199ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12002813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
12012813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
12022813893fSIulia Manda	default y
12032813893fSIulia Manda	help
12042813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
12052813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
12062813893fSIulia Manda
12072813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
12082813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
12092813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
12102813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
12112813893fSIulia Manda
12122813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
12132813893fSIulia Manda
1214f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1215f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1216a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1217f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1218f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1219f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1220f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1221f6187769SFabian Frederick
1222f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1223f6187769SFabian Frederick
12246af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
12256af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
12266af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
12276af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
12286af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
12296af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
12306af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
12316af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
12326af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
12336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1234b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12356a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
123626a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1237c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1238b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1239b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
124013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
124113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
124213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
124313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1244b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
124513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
124613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
124713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1248b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1249c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1250ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1251d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1252d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1253d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1254d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1255d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1256d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1257d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1258d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1259d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1260d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1261d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1262d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1263d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1264baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1265baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1266baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1267baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1268baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1269baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1270baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1271baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1272baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1273baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1274baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1275baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1276baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1277baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1278baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1279baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1280baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1281d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1282d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
12836a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
128474876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1285d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1286d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1287d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1288d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1289d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1290d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1291d59745ceSMatt Mackall
129242a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
129342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
129442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
129542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
129642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1297c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
12986a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1299c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1300c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1301c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1302c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1303c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1304c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1305c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1306c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1307708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1308046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1309708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13106a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1311708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1312708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1313708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13148761f1abSRalf Baechle
1315e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13178761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
131815f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1319e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1320e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1321e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1322e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1323e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13266a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13336a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1335bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1341bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1342bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1343bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1344bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1345bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
134603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
134703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
134862b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
134903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
135003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
135103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
135203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
135303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
13541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13556a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1357448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1362fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13636a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1364448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1365fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1366fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1367fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1368fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1369fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1370fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1371fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1372b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
13736a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1374448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1375b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1376b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1377b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1378b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1379b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1380b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1381b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1382e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
13836a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1384448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1385e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1386e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1387e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1388e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1389e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1390e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1391e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
13921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
13936a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1403ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14046a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1405ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1406ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1407ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1408ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1409ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1410ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1411d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1412d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1413d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1414d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1415d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1416d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1417d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1418d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1419d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1420d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
14215b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
14225b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
14235b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
14245b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
14255b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
14265b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
14275b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
14285b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
14295b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
14305b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
14315b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
14325b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1433d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1434d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1435d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1436d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1437d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1438d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1439d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1440d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1441d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1442d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1443d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1444d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1453d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1458d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1459d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1460d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1461d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1462d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1463d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1464d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1465d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1466a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1481d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1482d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1483d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1484d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1485d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1486d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1487d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1488bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1489d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1494290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1495290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1496290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1497290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1498290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1499290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1500290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
15093ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
15103ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
15113ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
151270216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
151370216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
151470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1515d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1516d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1517d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1518d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1519d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1520d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1521d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1522d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1523d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1524d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1525d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1526d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1527d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1528d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1529d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1530d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1531d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1532d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1533d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1534d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1535d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1536d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1537d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
15386befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
15396befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
15405d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
15416befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
15426befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
15436befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
15446befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
15456befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
15466befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1547cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15480793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1549018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1550018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
15510793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1552906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1553906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1554906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1555906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1556906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1557ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1558424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1559ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1560ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1561ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1562ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1563ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
156457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
15650793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1566cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
156757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1568392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1569cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15704c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1571e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
157283fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
15730793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
157457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
157557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
15760793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1577dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
157857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
157957c0c15bSIngo Molnar
158057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
158157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
15820793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
15830793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
15840793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
15850793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
15860793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
15870793a61dSThomas Gleixner
158857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1589dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
159057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
15910793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
15920793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
15930793a61dSThomas Gleixner
15940793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
15950793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1596906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1597906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1598906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1599cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1600906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1601906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1602906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1603906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1604906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1605906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1606906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1607906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1608906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16090793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16100793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1611f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1612f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16136a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1614f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16152aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16162aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16176a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16182aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1619f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
162041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
162141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16226a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1623f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
162441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
162541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
162641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
162741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
162841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
162941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
16301663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
16311663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
16321663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
16331663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
16341663f26dSTejun Heo	help
16351663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
16361663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
16371663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
16381663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
16391663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
16401663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
16411663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
16421663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
16431663f26dSTejun Heo
1644b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1645b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1646b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1647b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1648b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1649b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1650b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1651692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1652b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1653b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1654b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1655b943c460SRandy Dunlap
165681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
165781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1658a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
165981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
166081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
166181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
166281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
166381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
166404385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
166581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
166681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
166734013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
166802f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
166981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
167081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
167181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1672ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
167381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
167481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
167581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
167681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
167781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
167802f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
167902f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
168081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
168181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
16826a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
168381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
168481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
168537291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
168637291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
168737291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
168881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
168981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
169081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
16917660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
16927660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
16937660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
16947660a6fdSKees Cook	help
16957660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
16967660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
16977660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
16987660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
16997660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
17007660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
17017660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
17027660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
17037660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
17047660a6fdSKees Cook
1705c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1706c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1707210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1708c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1709c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1710210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1711c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1712c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1713c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
17142482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
17152482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
17162482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
17172482ddecSKees Cook	help
17182482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
17192482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
17202482ddecSKees Cook	  sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
17212482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
17222482ddecSKees Cook
1723345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1724345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1725b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1726345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1727345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1728345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1729345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1730345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1731345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1732345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1733345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1734ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1735ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17366a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1737ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1738ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1739ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
17403903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1741ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1742ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1743ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1744ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1745ea637639SJie Zhang
1746ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1747ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1748ea637639SJie Zhang
1749ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1750ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1751ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1752ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1753ea637639SJie Zhang
1754ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1755ea637639SJie Zhang
1756091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1757091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1758091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1759091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1760091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1761d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1762091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1763091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1764091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1765091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1766091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1767091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
176882c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1769091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1770091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1771091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1772091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
177382c04ff8SPeter Foley
1774125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1775b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1776125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1777125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1778125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1779125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
17805f87f112SIngo Molnar#
17815f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
17825f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
17835f87f112SIngo Molnar#
178497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
17855f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
178697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
17871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17891572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
17901572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1791ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
17926341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1793ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
17941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
179966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
180111097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18200b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
18210b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1822826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1823826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1824826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1825826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
182691e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
182791e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
182891e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1829826e4506SLinus Torvalds
18301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1835f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1836f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
184019c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
18490d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
185856067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
185956067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
186056067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
186156067812SArd Biesheuvel
18621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1873106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1874106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1875106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1876091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1877106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1878106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1879106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1880cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
1881106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1882228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1883228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1884228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1885228c37ffSDavid Howells
1886ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1887ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1888ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1889ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1890ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1891106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1892106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1893106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1894106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1895106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1896106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1897ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1898d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1899d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1900d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1901d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1902d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1903d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1904d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1905d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1906d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1907d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1908d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1909ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1910ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1911ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1912ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1913ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1914ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1915ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1916ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1917ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1918ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1919ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1920ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1921ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1922ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1923ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1924ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1925ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1926ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1928ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1929ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1930ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1931ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1932ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1933ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1934ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1935ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1936ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1937ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1938ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1939ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1940ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
194122753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
194222753674SMichal Marek	string
194322753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
194422753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
194522753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
194622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
194722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
194822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
194922753674SMichal Marek
1950beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
1951beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
1952beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
1953beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1954beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1955b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1956b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
1957beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1958b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
1959beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1960b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1961b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
1962beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1963b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1964b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
1965beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1966b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1967b6c09b51SRusty Russell
1968b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
1969beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1970beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
1971beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
1972beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1973beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1974beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1975beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1976beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
1977beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1978beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1979beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1980beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1981beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
1982beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1983beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1984beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
1985beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1986beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
1987beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1988dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
1989dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
1990dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
1991dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
1992dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
1993dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
1994dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
1995dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
1996dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
1997dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
1998dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
1999dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2000dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2001dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2002f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2003dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
20040b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20050b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20066c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20076c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20086c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20096c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
201098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
201198a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
201298a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20135f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20145f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
201598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
201698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2017692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
201898a79d6aSRusty Russell
20193a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2020e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2021e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2022e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2023e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
202416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
202516295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
202616295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
202716295becSSteffen Klassert
20284520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
20294520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
20304520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
20314520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
20324520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
20334520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
20344520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20354520c6a4SDavid Howells
20366beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2037e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2038e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2039e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
20401bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
20411bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
20427303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
20437303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
20447303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
20457303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
20467303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
20477303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
20481bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
20491bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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