1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 2face4374SRoman Zippel string 3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 4face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 547f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 6face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 747f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC 17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 26*e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 27*e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 28*e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 29b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 30b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 31b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 32b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 33e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 34e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 35e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 361dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 371dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 381dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 39c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 40c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 41c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 42c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 43c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 44c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 45c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 46c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 47c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 48c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 49ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 61dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 62dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 6534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 674bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 684bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 69bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 704bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 714bb16672SJiri Slaby help 724bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 734bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 744bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 754bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 764bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 774bb16672SJiri Slaby 784bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 794bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 804bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 814bb16672SJiri Slaby 821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 92aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 95ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 97aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 112aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1139afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1149afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1159afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1169afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1179afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1189afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1199afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1209afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1219afb719eSLaura Abbott 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1313ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1323ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1333ebe1243SLasse Collin 1347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 137e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 138e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 139e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 140f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 141f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 142f16466afSVasily Gorbik 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 146f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1770a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1860a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1870a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1880a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1903ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1963ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1973ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1983ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1993ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2003ebe1243SLasse Collin 2013ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2023ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2033ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2043ebe1243SLasse Collin 2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2067dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2077dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2090a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 210681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2117dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2127dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 213e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 214e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 215e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 216e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 217e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 218e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 219e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 220e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 221e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 222e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 223e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 224e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 225f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 226f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 227f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 228f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 229f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 230f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 231f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 232f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 233f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 234f16466afSVasily Gorbik 23530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 237bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 238bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 239bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 240bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 241bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 242bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 243bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 244bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 245bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 24617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 24717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 24817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 24917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 25017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 25117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 25217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 25517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 278a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 279a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 280a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 281a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 282a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 283a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 28619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 292b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 300bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 301bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 302bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 303bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 304bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 305bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 306226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 307226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 308226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 309226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 310226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 311226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 312226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 313a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 314226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 315226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 31669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 31769369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 318b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 31969369a70SJosh Triplett help 32069369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 32169369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 32269369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 32369369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 32469369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 32569369a70SJosh Triplett 3261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 328804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 332cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 333cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3357a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3367a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3377a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 339cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3407a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 34128a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 34274c3cbe3SAl Viro 343d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 344764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 34587a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 346d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 347391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 348391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 349abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 351abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 35502fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 356fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 359fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 360c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 361fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 364fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 366fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 368abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 370c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 372391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 373391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 374391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 376391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 377391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 382abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 383ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 384554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 389abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 390abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 392abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 393abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 394abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 395abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 396abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 399b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 400b58c3584SRik van Riel 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 403b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 404fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 405fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 410fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 41211d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 41311d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 41411d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 41511d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 41611d4afd4SVincent Guittot 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4192813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4383903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 44419c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4462813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 45819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 460f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 47019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 47919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 487eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 488eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 489eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 490eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 491eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 492eb414681SJohannes Weiner 493eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 494eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 495eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 496eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 497eb414681SJohannes Weiner 4982ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 4992ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5002ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5012ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 502eb414681SJohannes Weiner For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt. 503eb414681SJohannes Weiner 504eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 505eb414681SJohannes Weiner 506e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 507e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 508e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 509e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 510e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 511e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 512428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 513428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 514e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5175c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5185c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 519414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5202c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5215c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5225c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5235c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5242c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5252c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5262c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5272c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5285c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5290af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 530c903ff83SMike Travis 531de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 532de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 533de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 534de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 536f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 537de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 555794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 556794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 557fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 558f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 559361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 560794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 56123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 56223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 56323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 56423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 56523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 566f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 567f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 568f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 569f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 570f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 571794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 572794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 573794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 57423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 57523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 5762240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 57723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 57823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 57923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 580361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 58123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 58223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 58323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 58423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 58523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 58623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 58723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 58823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 58923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 59023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 59123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 59223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 59323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 59423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 59523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 59623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 59723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 59823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 5995e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6005e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 60223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 60323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 60423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 60523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 60623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 60723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 60823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 60923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 610f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 611f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 612427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 613427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 614f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 615427934b8SPetr Mladek help 616f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 617f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 618f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 619f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 620f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 621427934b8SPetr Mladek 622f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 623427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 624427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 625427934b8SPetr Mladek 626427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 627427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 628427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 629427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 630427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 631427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 632427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 633427934b8SPetr Mladek 6345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 64038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 64138ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 64238ff87f7SStephen Boyd 643be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 644be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 645be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 646be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 647be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 648be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 649be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 650be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 65172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 65272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 65372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 65472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 65572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 65672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 65772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 65872b252aeSMel Gorman bool 65972b252aeSMel Gorman 66072b252aeSMel Gorman# 661be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 662be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 663be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 664be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 665be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 666be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 667be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 668be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 669be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 670be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 671be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 672be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 673be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 674be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 675be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 676be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 677be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 678be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 679be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 6806d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 681be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 682be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 683be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 6846f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 6856f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 6866f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 6876f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 6886f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 6896f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 6906f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 6916f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 69223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 6936341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 6942bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 695ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 69623964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 7005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 7019991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 70245ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 703ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 704ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 705ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 70623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 70723964d2dSLi Zefan 7083e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 7093e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 7103e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 711c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 712a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 7133e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 71479bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 71500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 716a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 71700f0b825SBalbir Singh 718c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 719a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 720c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 721c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 722a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 723a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 724c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 725a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 726c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 727a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 728a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 729a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 730a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 73143d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 73207555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 733a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 734a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 735a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 73600a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 737c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 73884c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 73984c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 74084c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 74184c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 74284c07d11SKirill Tkhai 7436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 7446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 7456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 7462bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 7476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 7496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 7506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 7512bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 7526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 7536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 7546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 7556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 756e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 7586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 7596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 7606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 7616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 7626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7639991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 7646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7656bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 7666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 7676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 7696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 7716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 7726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 7746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 7756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 7766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 777e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7787c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 779a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 7807c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7817c941438SDhaval Giani help 7827c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7837c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7847c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7857c941438SDhaval Giani 7867c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7877c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7887c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7897c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7907c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7917c941438SDhaval Giani 792ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 793ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 794ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 795ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 796ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 797ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 798ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 799ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 800ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 801cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 802ab84d31eSPaul Turner 8037c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 8047c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 8057c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8067c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8077c941438SDhaval Giani help 8087c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 80932bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 8107c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 8117c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 8127c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 8137c941438SDhaval Giani 8147c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 8157c941438SDhaval Giani 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 8206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 8216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 8226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 8256cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 8266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 8286cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 8306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 8316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 83239d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 83339d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 83439d3e758SParav Pandit help 83539d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 83639d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 83739d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 83839d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 83939d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 84039d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 84139d3e758SParav Pandit 8426bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 8446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 8466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 848489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 849489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 850489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 851489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 852489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 857afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 8646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 868afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 871e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 877afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 879afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 88389e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 88489e9b9e0STejun Heo 8856bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8916bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8976bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 9026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 9066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 90730070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 90830070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 909483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 910483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 91130070984SDaniel Mack help 91230070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 91330070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 91430070984SDaniel Mack 91530070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 91630070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 91730070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 91830070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 91930070984SDaniel Mack 9206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 92123b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 92323b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 92623b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 92723b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 92823b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 93273b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 93373b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 93473b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 93573b35147SArnd Bergmann 93623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 937c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9388dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 9396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 9402813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 9416a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 942c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 943c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 944c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 945c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 946c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 947c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 9488dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 9498dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 95058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 95158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 95217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 95358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 95458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 95558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 95658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 957ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 958ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 9598dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 96017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 961ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 962ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 963614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 964ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 965aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 96619c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 9675673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 968aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 969aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 970aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 971e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 972e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 973d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 974d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 975d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 976e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 977aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 978aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 97974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 9809bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 98117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 98274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 98312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 984692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 98574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 98674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 987d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 988d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 9898dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 99017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 991d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 992d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 993d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 994d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 9958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 9968dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 9975cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 9985cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 9995cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 10005cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 10015cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 10025cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 10035cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 10045cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 10055cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 10065cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10075cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 10085cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10095091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 10105091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 10115091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 10125091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 10135091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10145091faa4SMike Galbraith help 10155091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 10165091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 10175091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 10185091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 10195091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 10205091faa4SMike Galbraith 10217af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10225d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 10237af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10247af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10257af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10267af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 10277af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 10287af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 10297af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10307af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 10317af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 10327af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10337af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 10347af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 10357af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 10367af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10377af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 10387af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 10397af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 10407af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10417af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10427af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 10437af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10447af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 10455d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 10467af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10477af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10487af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10497af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10507af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 10517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10527af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 10537af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 10547af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10557af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10567af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 10577af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 10587af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10597af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 10607af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 106126b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 10627af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10637af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 10647af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 10657af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 10667af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 10677af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 10687af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10697af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 10707af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1071f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1072f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1073f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1074f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1075f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1076f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1077f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 10788c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1079f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1080f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1081f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1082f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1083f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1084f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1085f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1086c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1087c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1088dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1089dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1090c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1091c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1092877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1093877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 10942cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1095877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1096877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1097877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1098877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1099877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1100877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1101877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1102877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1103c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 110496fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1105c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 110631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 110731a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1108c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 11093a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1110c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1111877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1112877417e6SArnd Bergmann 11135d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 11155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 11175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 11185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 11195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 11205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 11215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 11225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11235d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11245d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1127e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1128e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 11295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11308b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 11318b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 11328b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 11335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 11355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 11365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 11375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 11385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 11395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 11405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11410847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 11420847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 11430847062aSRandy Dunlap 1144b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1145b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1146b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1147657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1148657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1149657a5209SMike Frysinger 1150657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1151657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1152657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1153657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1154657a5209SMike Frysinger 1155657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1156657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1157657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1158657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1159657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1160657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1161657a5209SMike Frysinger 1162657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1163657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1164657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1165657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1166657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1167657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1168657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1169657a5209SMike Frysinger 1170657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1171657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1172657a5209SMike Frysinger 1173f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1174f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1175f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1176f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 11776a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 11786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1179f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1180f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1187ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 11886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 11892813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1190ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1191ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1192ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1193ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11942813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 11952813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 11962813893fSIulia Manda default y 11972813893fSIulia Manda help 11982813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 11992813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 12002813893fSIulia Manda 12012813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 12022813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 12032813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 12042813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 12052813893fSIulia Manda 12062813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 12072813893fSIulia Manda 1208f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1209f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1210a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1211f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1212f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1213f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1214f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1215f6187769SFabian Frederick 1216f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1217f6187769SFabian Frederick 12186af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 12196af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 12206af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 12216af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 12226af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 12236af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 12246af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 12256af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 12266af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 12276af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1228b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 12296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 123026a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1231c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1232b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1233b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 123413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 123513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 123613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 123713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1238b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 123913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 124013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 124113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1242b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1243c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1244ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1245d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1246d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1247d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1248d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1249d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1250d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1251d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1252d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1253d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1254d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1255d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1256d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1257d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1258baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1259baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1260baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1261baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1262baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1263baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1264baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1265baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1266baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1267baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1268baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1269baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1270baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1271baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1272baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1273baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1274baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1275d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1276d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 12776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 127874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1279d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1280d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1281d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1282d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1283d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1284d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1285d59745ceSMatt Mackall 128642a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 128742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 128842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 128942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 129042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1291c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1293c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1294c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1295c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1296c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1297c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1298c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1299c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1300c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1301708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1302046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1303708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1305708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1306708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1307708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13088761f1abSRalf Baechle 1309e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13118761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 131215f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1313e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1314e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1315e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1316e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1317e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1329bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1335bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1336bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1337bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1338bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1339bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 134003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 134103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 134262b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 134303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 134403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 134503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 134603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 134703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 13481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 13496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1351448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1356fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 13576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1358448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1359fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1360fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1361fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1362fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1363fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1364fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1365fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1366b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 13676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1368448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1369b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1370b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1371b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1372b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1373b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1374b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1375b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1376e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1378448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1379e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1380e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1381e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1382e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1383e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1384e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1385e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 13861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1397ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1399ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1400ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1401ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1402ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1403ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1404ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1405d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1406d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1407d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1408d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1409d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1410d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1411d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1412d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1413d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1414d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 14155b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 14165b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 14175b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 14185b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 14195b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 14205b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 14215b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 14225b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 14235b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 14245b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 14255b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 14265b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1427d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1428d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1429d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1430d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1431d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1432d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1433d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1434d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1435d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1436d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1437d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1438d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1439d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1440d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1441d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1442d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1443d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1444d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1453d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1458d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1459d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1460a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1461d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1462d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1463d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1464d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1465d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1466d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1481d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1482bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1483d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1484d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1485d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1486d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1487d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1488290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1489290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1490290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1491290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1492290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1493290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1494290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1496d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1497d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1498d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1499d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1500d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 15033ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 15043ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 15053ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 150670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 150770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 150870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1509d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1510d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1511d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1512d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1513d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1514d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1515d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1516d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1517d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1518d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1519d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1520d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1521d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1522d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1523d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1524d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1525d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1526d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1527d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1528d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1529d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1530d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1531d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 15326befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 15336befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 15345d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 15356befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 15366befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 15376befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 15386befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 15396befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 15406befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1541cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15420793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1543018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1544018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 15450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1546906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1547906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1548906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1549906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1550906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1551ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1552424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1553ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1554ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1555ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1556ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1557ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 155857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 15590793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1560cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 156157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1562392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1563cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15644c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1565e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 156683fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 15670793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 156857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 156957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15700793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1571dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 157257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 157357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 157457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 157557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15760793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15770793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15780793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15790793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15800793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15810793a61dSThomas Gleixner 158257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1583dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 158457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15850793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15860793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15870793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15880793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15890793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1590906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1591906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1592906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1593cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1594906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1595906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1596906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1597906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1598906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1599906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1600906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1601906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1602906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 16030793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 16040793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1605f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1606f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16076a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1608f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16092aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16102aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16116a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16122aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1613f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 161441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 161541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1617f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 161841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 161941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 162041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 162141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 162241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 162341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 16241663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 16251663f26dSTejun Heo default n 16261663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 16271663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 16281663f26dSTejun Heo help 16291663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 16301663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 16311663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 16321663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 16331663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 16341663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 16351663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 16361663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 16371663f26dSTejun Heo 1638b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1639b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1640b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1641b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1642b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1643b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1644b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1645692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1646b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1647b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1648b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1649b943c460SRandy Dunlap 165081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 165181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1652a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 165381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 165481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 165581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 165681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 165781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 165804385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 165981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 166081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 166134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 166202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 166381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 166481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 166581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1666ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 166781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 166881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 166981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 167081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 167181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 167202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 167302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 167481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 167581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 16766a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 167781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 167881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 167937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 168037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 168137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 168281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 168381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 168481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 16857660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 16867660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 16877660a6fdSKees Cook default y 16887660a6fdSKees Cook help 16897660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 16907660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 16917660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 16927660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 16937660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 16947660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 16957660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 16967660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 16977660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 16987660a6fdSKees Cook 1699c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1700c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1701210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1702c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1703c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1704210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1705c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1706c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1707c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 17082482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 17092482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 17102482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 17112482ddecSKees Cook help 17122482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 17132482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 17142482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 17152482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 17162482ddecSKees Cook 1717345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1718345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1719b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1720345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1721345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1722345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1723345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1724345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1725345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1726345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1727345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1728ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1729ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 17306a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1731ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1732ea637639SJie Zhang help 1733ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 17343903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1735ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1736ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1737ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1738ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1739ea637639SJie Zhang 1740ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1741ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1742ea637639SJie Zhang 1743ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1744ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1745ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1746ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1747ea637639SJie Zhang 1748ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1749ea637639SJie Zhang 1750091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1751091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1752091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1753091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1754091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1755d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1756091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1757091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1758091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1759091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1760091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1761091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 176282c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1763091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1764091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1765091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1766091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 176782c04ff8SPeter Foley 1768125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1769b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1770125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1771125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1772125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1773125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 17745f87f112SIngo Molnar# 17755f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 17765f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 17775f87f112SIngo Molnar# 177897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 17795f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 178097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 17811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17831572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 17841572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1785ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 17866341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1787ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 17881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 179366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 179511097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18140b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 18150b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1816826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1817826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1818826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1819826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 182091e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 182191e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 182291e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1823826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1829f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1830f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 183419c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 18430d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 185256067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 185356067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 185456067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 185556067812SArd Biesheuvel 18561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1867106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1868106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1869106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1870091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1871106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1872106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1873106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1874cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1875106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1876228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1877228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1878228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1879228c37ffSDavid Howells 1880ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1881ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1882ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1883ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1884ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1885106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1886106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1887106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1888106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1889106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1890106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1891ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1892d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1893d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1894d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1895d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1896d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1897d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1898d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1899d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1900d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1901d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1902d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1903ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1904ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1905ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1906ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1907ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1908ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1909ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1910ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1911ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1912ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1913ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1914ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1915ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1916ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1917ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1918ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1919ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1920ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1921ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1922ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1923ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1924ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1925ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1926ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1928ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1929ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1930ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1931ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1932ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1933ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1934ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 193522753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 193622753674SMichal Marek string 193722753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 193822753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 193922753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 194022753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 194122753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 194222753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 194322753674SMichal Marek 1944beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1945beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1946beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1947beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1948beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1949b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1950b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1951beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1952b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1953beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1954b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1955b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1956beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1957b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1958b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1959beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1960b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1961b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1962b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1963beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1964beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1965beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1966beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1967beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1968beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1969beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1970beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1971beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1972beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1973beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1974beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1975beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1976beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1977beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1978beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1979beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1980beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1981beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1982dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1983dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1984dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1985dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 1986dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1987dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1988dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1989dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1990dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1991dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1992dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1993dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1994dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1995dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1996f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1997dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 19980b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 19990b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 20006c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 20016c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 20026c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 20036c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 200498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 200598a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 200698a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20075f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20085f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 200998a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 201098a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2011692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 201298a79d6aSRusty Russell 20133a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2014e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2015e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2016e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2017e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 201816295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 201916295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 202016295becSSteffen Klassert bool 202116295becSSteffen Klassert 20224520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20234520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20244520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20254520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20264520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20274520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20284520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20294520c6a4SDavid Howells 20306beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2031e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2032e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2033e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20341bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20351bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20367303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20377303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20387303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20397303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20407303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20417303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20421bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20431bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2044