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 16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) 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 26e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 27e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 28e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 29b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 30b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized) 31b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 32b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC >= 4.7 supports this option. 33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada bool 36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9 38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition. 40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases. 41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed 43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings. 44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 45b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 46b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 47b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 48b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 49e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 50e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 51e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 521dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 531dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 541dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 55c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 62c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 63c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 64c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 65ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 77dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 78dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 834bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 844bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 85bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 864bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 874bb16672SJiri Slaby help 884bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 894bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 904bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 914bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 924bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 934bb16672SJiri Slaby 944bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 954bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 964bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 974bb16672SJiri Slaby 981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 108aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 110aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 111ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 112aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 113aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson 117aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 119aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 121aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1236e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1246e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1266e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 128aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1299afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1309afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1319afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1329afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1339afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1349afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1359afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1369afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1379afb719eSLaura Abbott 1382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1473ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1483ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1493ebe1243SLasse Collin 1507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1527dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 153e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 154e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 155e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 156f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 157f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 158f16466afSVasily Gorbik 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 162f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1930a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2020a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2040a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2063ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2073ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2083ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2093ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2103ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2113ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2123ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2133ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2143ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2153ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2163ebe1243SLasse Collin 2173ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2183ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2193ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2203ebe1243SLasse Collin 2217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2250a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 226681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 229e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 230e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 231e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 232e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 233e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 234e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 235e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 241f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 242f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 243f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 244f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 245f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 246f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 247f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 248f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 249f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 250f16466afSVasily Gorbik 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 253bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 254bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 255bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 256bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 257bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 258bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 259bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 260bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 261bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 26217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 26317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 26417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 26517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 26617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 26717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 26817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 27117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 294a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 295a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 296a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 297a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 298a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 299a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 30219c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 308b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 316bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 317bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 318bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 319bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 320bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 321bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 322226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 323226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 324226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 325226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 326226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 327226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 328226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 329a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 330226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 331226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 33269369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 33369369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 334b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 33569369a70SJosh Triplett help 33669369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 33769369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 33869369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 33969369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 34069369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 34169369a70SJosh Triplett 3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 344804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 348cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 349cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3517a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3527a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3537a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 355cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3567a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 35728a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 35874c3cbe3SAl Viro 359d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 360764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 36187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 362d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 37102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 374fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 376c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 386c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 399ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 400554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 401041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 407abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 408abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 409abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 412abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 413abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 414abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 415abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 416b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 417b58c3584SRik van Riel 418fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 419fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 420b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 421fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 422fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 423fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 424fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 425fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 426fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 427fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 428fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 42911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 43011d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 43111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 43211d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 43311d4afd4SVincent Guittot 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4362813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4553903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 46119c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4632813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 47519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 477f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 48719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 49619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 504eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 505eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 506eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 507eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 508eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 509eb414681SJohannes Weiner 510eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 511eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 512eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 513eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 514eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5152ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5162ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5172ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5182ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 519eb414681SJohannes Weiner For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt. 520eb414681SJohannes Weiner 521eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 522eb414681SJohannes Weiner 523e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 524e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 525e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 526e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 527e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 528e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 529428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 530428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 531e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5327b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5455c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 547414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5482c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5495c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5505c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5522c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5532c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5565c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5570af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 558c903ff83SMike Travis 559de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 560de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 561de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 562de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 564f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 58243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS_PROC 58343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel header artifacts through /proc/kheaders.tar.xz" 58443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on PROC_FS 58543d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 58643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the kernel header and other artifacts that 58743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) are generated during the build process. These can be used to build eBPF 58843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) tracing programs, or similar programs. If you build the headers as a 58943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) module, a module called kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand 59043d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) to get access to the headers. 59143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 592794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 593794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 594fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 595f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 596361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 597794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 59823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 59923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 60023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 60223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 603f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 604f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 605f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 606f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 607f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 608794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 609794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 610794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 61123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6132240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 61423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 61523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 61623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 617361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 61823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 61923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 62623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 62723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6365e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6375e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 64623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 647f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 648f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 649427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 650427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 651f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 652427934b8SPetr Mladek help 653f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 654f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 655f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 656f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 657f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 658427934b8SPetr Mladek 659f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 660427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 661427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 662427934b8SPetr Mladek 663427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 664427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 665427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 666427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 667427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 668427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 669427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 670427934b8SPetr Mladek 6715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 67738ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 67838ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 67938ff87f7SStephen Boyd 680be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 681be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 682be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 683be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 684be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 685be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 686be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 687be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 68872b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 68972b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 69072b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 69172b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 69272b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 69372b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 69472b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 69572b252aeSMel Gorman bool 69672b252aeSMel Gorman 69772b252aeSMel Gorman# 698be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 699be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 700be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 701be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 702be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 703be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 704be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 705be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 706be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 707be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 708be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 709be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 710be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 711be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 712be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 713be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 714be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 715be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 716be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 7176d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 718be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 719be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 720be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 7246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 7256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 7266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 7276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 7286f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 72923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 7306341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 7312bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 732ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 73323964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 7345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 7355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 7365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 7375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 7389991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 73945ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 740ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 741ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 742ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 74323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 74423964d2dSLi Zefan 7453e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 7463e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 7473e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 748c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 749a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 7503e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 75179bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 75200f0b825SBalbir Singh help 753a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 75400f0b825SBalbir Singh 755c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 756a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 757c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 758c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 759a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 760a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 761c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 762a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 763c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 764a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 765a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 766a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 767a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 76843d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 76907555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 770a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 771a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 772a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 77300a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 774c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 77584c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 77684c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 77784c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 77884c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 77984c07d11SKirill Tkhai 7806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 7816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 7826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 7832bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 7846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 7866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 7876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 7882bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 7896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 7906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 7916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 7926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 793e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 7986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 7996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8009991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 8016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8026bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 8066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 8086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 8096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 814e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8157c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 816a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8177c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8187c941438SDhaval Giani help 8197c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8207c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8217c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8227c941438SDhaval Giani 8237c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8247c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8257c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8267c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8277c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8287c941438SDhaval Giani 829ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 830ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 831ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 832ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 833ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 834ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 835ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 836ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 837ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 838cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 839ab84d31eSPaul Turner 8407c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 8417c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 8427c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8437c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8447c941438SDhaval Giani help 8457c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 84632bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 8477c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 8487c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 8497c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 8507c941438SDhaval Giani 8517c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 8527c941438SDhaval Giani 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 8626cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 86598076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 86939d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 87039d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 87139d3e758SParav Pandit help 87239d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 87339d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 87439d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 87539d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 87639d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 87739d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 87839d3e758SParav Pandit 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 885489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 886489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 887489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 888489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 889489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 8906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 894afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 905afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9066bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 908e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 914afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 916afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 9186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 92089e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 92189e9b9e0STejun Heo 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9286bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9346bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 9436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 94430070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 94530070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 946483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 947483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 94830070984SDaniel Mack help 94930070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 95030070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 95130070984SDaniel Mack 95230070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 95330070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 95430070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 95530070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 95630070984SDaniel Mack 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 95823b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 96023b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 96323b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 96423b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 96523b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 96973b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 97073b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 97173b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 97273b35147SArnd Bergmann 97323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 974c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 9766a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 9772813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 9786a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 979c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 980c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 981c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 982c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 983c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 984c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 9858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 9868dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 98758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 98858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 98917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 99058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 99158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 99258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 99358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 994ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 995ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 9968dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 99717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 998ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 999ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1000614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1001ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1002aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 100319c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 10045673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1005aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1006aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1007aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1008e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1009e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1010d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1011d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1012d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1013e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1014aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1015aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 101674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 10179bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 101817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 101974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 102012d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1021692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 102274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 102374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1024d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1025d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 10268dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 102717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1028d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1029d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1030d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1031d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 10328dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 10338dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 10345cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 10355cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 10365cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 10375cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 10385cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 10395cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 10405cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 10415cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 10425cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 10435cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10445cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 10455cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10465091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 10475091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 10485091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 10495091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 10505091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10515091faa4SMike Galbraith help 10525091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 10535091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 10545091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 10555091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 10565091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 10575091faa4SMike Galbraith 10587af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10595d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 10607af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10617af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10627af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10637af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 10647af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 10657af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 10667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10677af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 10687af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 10697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10707af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 10717af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 10727af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 10737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10747af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 10757af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 10767af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 10777af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10787af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10797af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 10807af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10817af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 10825d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 10837af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10847af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10857af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10867af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10877af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 10887af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10897af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 10907af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 10917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10927af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10937af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 10947af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 10957af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10967af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 10977af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 109826b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 10997af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11007af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11017af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11027af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11037af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11047af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11067af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1108f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1109f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1110f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1111f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1112f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1113f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1114f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 11158c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1116f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1117f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1118f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1119f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1120f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1121f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1122f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1123c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1124c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1125dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1126dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1127c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1128c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1129877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1130877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 11312cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1132877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1133877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1134877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1135877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1136877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1137877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1138877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1139877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1140c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 114196fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1142b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 1143c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 114431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 114531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1146c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 11473a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1148c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1149877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1150877417e6SArnd Bergmann 11515d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 11535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 11555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 11565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 11575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 11585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 11595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 11605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11615d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 116516fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1166e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1167e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 11685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11698b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 11708b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 11718b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 11725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 11745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 11755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 11765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 11775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 11785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 11795d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11800847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 11810847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 11820847062aSRandy Dunlap 1183657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1184657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1185657a5209SMike Frysinger 1186657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1187657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1188657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1189657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1190657a5209SMike Frysinger 1191657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1192657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1193657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1194657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1195657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1196657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1197657a5209SMike Frysinger 1198657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1199657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1200657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1201657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1202657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1203657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1204657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1205657a5209SMike Frysinger 1206657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1207657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1208657a5209SMike Frysinger 1209f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1210f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1211f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1212f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 12136a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1215f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1216f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1223ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 12246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 12252813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1226ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1227ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1228ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1229ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12302813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 12312813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 12322813893fSIulia Manda default y 12332813893fSIulia Manda help 12342813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 12352813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 12362813893fSIulia Manda 12372813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 12382813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 12392813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 12402813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 12412813893fSIulia Manda 12422813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 12432813893fSIulia Manda 1244f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1245f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1246a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1247f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1248f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1249f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1250f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1251f6187769SFabian Frederick 1252f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1253f6187769SFabian Frederick 12546af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 12556af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 12566af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 12576af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 12586af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 12596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 12606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 12616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 12626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 12636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1264b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 12656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 126626a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1267c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1268b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1269b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 127013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 127113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 127213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 127313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1274b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 127513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 127613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 127713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1278b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1279c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1280ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1281d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1282d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1283d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1284d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1285d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1286d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1287d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1288d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1289d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1290d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1291d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1292d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1293d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1294baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1295baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1296baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1297baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1298baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1299baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1300baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1301baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1302baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1303baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1304baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1305baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1306baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1307baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1308baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1309baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1310baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1311d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1312d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 131474876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1315d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1316d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1317d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1318d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1319d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1320d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1321d59745ceSMatt Mackall 132242a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 132342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 132442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 132542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 132642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1327c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1329c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1330c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1331c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1332c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1333c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1334c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1335c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1336c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1337708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1338046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1339708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1341708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1342708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1343708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13448761f1abSRalf Baechle 1345e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13478761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 134815f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1349e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1350e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1351e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1352e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1353e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13566a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13636a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1365bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1371bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1372bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1373bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1374bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1375bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 137603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 137703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 137862b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 137903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 138003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 138103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 138203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 138303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 13841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 13856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1391fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 13926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1393fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1394fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1395fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1396fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1397fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1398fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1399fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1400b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14016a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1402b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1403b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1404b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1405b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1406b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1407b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1408b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1409e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1411e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1412e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1413e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1414e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1415e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1416e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1417e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1429ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1431ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1432ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1433ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1434ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1435ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1436ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 14372b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 14382b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 14392b188cc1SJens Axboe select ANON_INODES 14402b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 14412b188cc1SJens Axboe help 14422b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 14432b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 14442b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 14452b188cc1SJens Axboe 1446d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1447d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1448d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1449d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1450d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1451d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1452d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1453d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1454d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1455d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 14565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 14575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 14585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 14595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 14605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 14615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 14625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 14635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 14645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 14655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 14665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 14675b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1481d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1482d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1483d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1484d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1485d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1486d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1487d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1488d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1489d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1494d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1496d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1497d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1498d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1499d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1500d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1501a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1509d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1510d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1521d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1522bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1527d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1528290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1529290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1530290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1531290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1532290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1533290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1534290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1540d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1541d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 15423ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 15433ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 15443ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 154570216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 154670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 154770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1548d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1549d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1550d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1551d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1552d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1553d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1554d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1555d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1556d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1557d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1558d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1559d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1560d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1561d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1562d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1563d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1564d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1565d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1566d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1567d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1568d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1569d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1570d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 15716befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 15726befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 15735d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 15746befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 15756befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 15766befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 15776befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 15786befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 15796befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1580cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15810793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1582018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1583018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 15840793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1585906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1586906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1587906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1588906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1589906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1590ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1591424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1592ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1593ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1594ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1595ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1596ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 159757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 15980793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1599cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 160057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1601392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1602cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1603e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 160483fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16050793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 160657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 160757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16080793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1609dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 161057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 161157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 161257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 161357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 16140793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 16150793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16160793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16170793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16180793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 162057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1621dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 162257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 16230793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 16240793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 16250793a61dSThomas Gleixner 16260793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 16270793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1628906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1629906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1630906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1631cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1632906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1633906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1634906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1635906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1636906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1637906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1638906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1639906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1640906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 16410793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 16420793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1643f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1644f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1646f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16472aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16482aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16496a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16502aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1651f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 165241ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 165341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1655f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 165641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 165741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 165841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 165941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 166041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 166141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 16621663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 16631663f26dSTejun Heo default n 16641663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 16651663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 16661663f26dSTejun Heo help 16671663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 16681663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 16691663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 16701663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 16711663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 16721663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 16731663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 16741663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 16751663f26dSTejun Heo 1676b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1677b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1678b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1679b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1680b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1681b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1682b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1683692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1684b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1685b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1686b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1687b943c460SRandy Dunlap 168881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 168981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1690a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 169181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 169281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 169381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 169481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 169581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 169604385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 169781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 169881819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 169934013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 170002f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 170181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 170281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 170381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1704ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 170581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 170681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 170781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 170881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 170981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 171002f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 171102f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 171281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 171381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 17146a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 171581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 171681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 171737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 171837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 171937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 172081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 172181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 172281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 17237660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 17247660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 17257660a6fdSKees Cook default y 17267660a6fdSKees Cook help 17277660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 17287660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 17297660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 17307660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 17317660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 17327660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 17337660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 17347660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 17357660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 17367660a6fdSKees Cook 1737c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1738c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1739210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1740c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1741c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1742210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1743c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1744c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1745c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 17462482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 17472482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 17482482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 17492482ddecSKees Cook help 17502482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 17512482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 17522482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 17532482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 17542482ddecSKees Cook 1755*e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1756*e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1757*e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1758*e900a918SDan Williams help 1759*e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1760*e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1761*e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1762*e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1763*e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1764*e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1765*e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1766*e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1767*e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1768*e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1769*e900a918SDan Williams 1770*e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1771*e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1772*e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1773*e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1774*e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1775*e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1776*e900a918SDan Williams 1777*e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1778*e900a918SDan Williams 1779345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1780345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1781b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1782345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1783345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1784345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1785345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1786345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1787345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1788345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1789345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1790ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1791ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 17926a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1793ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1794ea637639SJie Zhang help 1795ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 17963903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1797ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1798ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1799ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1800ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1801ea637639SJie Zhang 1802ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1803ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1804ea637639SJie Zhang 1805ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1806ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1807ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1808ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1809ea637639SJie Zhang 1810ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1811ea637639SJie Zhang 1812091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1813091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1814091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1815091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1816091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1817d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1818091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1819091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1820091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1821091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1822091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1823091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 182482c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1825091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1826091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1827091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1828091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 182982c04ff8SPeter Foley 1830125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1831b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1832125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1833125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1834125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1835125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18365f87f112SIngo Molnar# 18375f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 18385f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 18395f87f112SIngo Molnar# 184097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 18415f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 184297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 18431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18451572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 18461572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1847ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 18486341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1849ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 18501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 185566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 185711097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18760b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 18770b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1878826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1879826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1880826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1881826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 188291e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 188391e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 188491e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1885826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1891f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1892f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 189619c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 19050d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 191456067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 191556067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 191656067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 191756067812SArd Biesheuvel 19181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1929106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1930106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1931106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1932091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1933106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1934106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1935106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1936cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1937106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1938228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1939228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1940228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1941228c37ffSDavid Howells 1942ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1943ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1944ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1945ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1946ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1947106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1948106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1949106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1950106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1951106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1952106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1953ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1954d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1955d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1956d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1957d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1958d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1959d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1960d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1961d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1962d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1963d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1964d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1965ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1966ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1967ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1968ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1969ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1970ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1971ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1972ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1973ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1974ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1975ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1976ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1977ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1978ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1979ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1980ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1981ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1982ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1983ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1984ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1985ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1986ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1987ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1988ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1989ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1990ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1991ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1992ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1993ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1994ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1995ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1996ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 199722753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 199822753674SMichal Marek string 199922753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 200022753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 200122753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 200222753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 200322753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 200422753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 200522753674SMichal Marek 2006beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2007beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2008beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 2009beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2010beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2011b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2012b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2013beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2014b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2015beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2016b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2017b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2018beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2019b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2020b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2021beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2022b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2023b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2024b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2025beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2026beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2027beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2028beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2029beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2030beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2031beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2032beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2033beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2034beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2035beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2036beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2037beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2038beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2039beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2041beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2042beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2043beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2044dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2045dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2046dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2047dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2048dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2049dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2050dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2051dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2052dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2053dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2054dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2055dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2056dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2057dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2058f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2059dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 20600b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 20610b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 20626c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 20636c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 20646c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 20656c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 206698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 206798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 206898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20695f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20705f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 207198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 207298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2073692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 207498a79d6aSRusty Russell 20753a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2076e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2077e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2078e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2079e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 208016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 208116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 208216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 208316295becSSteffen Klassert 20844520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20854520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20864520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20874520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20884520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20894520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20904520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20914520c6a4SDavid Howells 20926beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2093e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2094e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2095e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20961bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20971bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20987303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20997303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21007303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21017303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21027303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21037303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21041bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21051bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2106