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 2050