1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 2face4374SRoman Zippel string 3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 4face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 547f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 6face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 747f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC 17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 26b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 27b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 28b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 29b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 31e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 32e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 331dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 341dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 351dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 36c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 37c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 38c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 39c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 40c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 41c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 42c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 43c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 44c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 45c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 46ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 58dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 59dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 6234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 644bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 654bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 66bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 674bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 684bb16672SJiri Slaby help 694bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 704bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 714bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 724bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 734bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 744bb16672SJiri Slaby 754bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 764bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 774bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 784bb16672SJiri Slaby 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 92ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 97aaebf433SRyan Anderson 98aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1109afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1119afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1129afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1139afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1149afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1159afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1169afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1179afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1189afb719eSLaura Abbott 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1283ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1293ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1303ebe1243SLasse Collin 1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 134e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 135e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 136e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 137f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 138f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 139f16466afSVasily Gorbik 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 143f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1830a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1850a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1873ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1963ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1973ebe1243SLasse Collin 1983ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1993ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2003ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2013ebe1243SLasse Collin 2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2060a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 207681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 212e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 213e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 214e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 215e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 216e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 217e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 218e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 219e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 220e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 221e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 222f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 223f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 224f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 225f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 226f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 227f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 228f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 229f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 230f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 231f16466afSVasily Gorbik 23230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 234bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 235bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 236bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 237bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 238bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 239bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 240bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 241bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 242bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 24317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 24417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 24517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 24617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 24717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 24817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 24917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 25217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 275a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 276a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 277a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 278a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 279a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 280a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 28319c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 289b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 297bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 298bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 299bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 300bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 301bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 302bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 303226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 304226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 305226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 306226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 307226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 308226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 309226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 310a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 311226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 312226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 31369369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 31469369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 315b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 31669369a70SJosh Triplett help 31769369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 31869369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 31969369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 32069369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 32169369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 32269369a70SJosh Triplett 3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 325804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 329cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 330cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3327a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3337a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3347a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 336cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3377a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 339939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 340939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 341939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 342939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 34474c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 34574c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 34663c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 34728a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 34874c3cbe3SAl Viro 349d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 350764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 35187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 352d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 359fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 360fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 36102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 364fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 366c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 371fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 376c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 389ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 390554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 392abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 393abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 394abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 395abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 396abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 399abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 400abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 401abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 405b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 406b58c3584SRik van Riel 407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 409b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 410fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 415fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 41811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 41911d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 42011d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 42111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 42211d4afd4SVincent Guittot 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4252813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4443903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 45019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4522813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 46419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 466f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 47619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 48519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 493*eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 494*eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 495*eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 496*eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 497*eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 498*eb414681SJohannes Weiner 499*eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 500*eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 501*eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 502*eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 503*eb414681SJohannes Weiner 504*eb414681SJohannes Weiner For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt. 505*eb414681SJohannes Weiner 506*eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 507*eb414681SJohannes Weiner 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 509391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5105c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5115c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 512414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5132c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5145c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5155c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5165c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5172c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5182c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5192c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5202c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5215c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5220af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 523c903ff83SMike Travis 524de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 525de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 526de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 527de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 529f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 530de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 548794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 549794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 550fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 551f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 552361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 553794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 55423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 55523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 55623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 55723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 55823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 559f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 560f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 561f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 562f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 563f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 564794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 565794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 566794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 56723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 56823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 5692240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 57023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 57123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 57223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 573361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 57423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 57523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 57623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 57723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 57823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 57923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 58023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 58123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 58223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 58323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 58423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 58523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 58623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 58723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 58823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 58923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 59023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 59123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 5925e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 5935e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 59423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 59523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 59623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 59723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 59823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 59923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 60023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 60223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 603f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 604f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 605427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 606427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 607f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 608427934b8SPetr Mladek help 609f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 610f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 611f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 612f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 613f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 614427934b8SPetr Mladek 615f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 616427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 617427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 618427934b8SPetr Mladek 619427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 620427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 621427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 622427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 623427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 624427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 625427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 626427934b8SPetr Mladek 6275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 63338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 63438ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 63538ff87f7SStephen Boyd 636be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 637be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 638be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 639be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 640be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 641be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 642be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 643be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 64472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 64572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 64672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 64772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 64872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 64972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 65072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 65172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 65272b252aeSMel Gorman 65372b252aeSMel Gorman# 654be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 655be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 656be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 657be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 658be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 659be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 660be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 661be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 662be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 663be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 664be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 665be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 666be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 667be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 668be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 669be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 670be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 671be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 672be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 6736d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 674be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 675be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 676be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 6776f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 6786f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 6796f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 6806f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 6816f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 6826f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 6836f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 6846f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 68523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 6866341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 6872bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 688ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 68923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 6949991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 69545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 696ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 697ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 698ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 69923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 70023964d2dSLi Zefan 7013e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 7023e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 7033e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 704c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 705a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 7063e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 70779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 70800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 709a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 71000f0b825SBalbir Singh 711c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 712a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 713c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 714c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 715a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 716a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 717c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 718a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 719c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 720a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 721a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 722a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 723a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 72443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 72507555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 726a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 727a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 728a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 72900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 730c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 73184c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 73284c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 73384c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 73484c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 73584c07d11SKirill Tkhai 7366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 7376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 7386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 7392bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 7406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 7426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 7436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 7442bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 7456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 7466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 7476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 7486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 749e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 7516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 7526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 7536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 7546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 7556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7569991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 7576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 7596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 7606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 7616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 7626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 7646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 7656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 7676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 7696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 770e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7717c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 772a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 7737c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7747c941438SDhaval Giani help 7757c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7767c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7777c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7787c941438SDhaval Giani 7797c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7807c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7817c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7827c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7837c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7847c941438SDhaval Giani 785ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 786ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 787ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 788ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 789ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 790ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 791ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 792ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 793ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 794cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 795ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7967c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7977c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7987c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7997c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8007c941438SDhaval Giani help 8017c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 80232bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 8037c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 8047c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 8057c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 8067c941438SDhaval Giani 8077c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 8087c941438SDhaval Giani 8096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 8146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 8156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 8186cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 8196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 8216cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 8226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 82539d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 82639d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 82739d3e758SParav Pandit help 82839d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 82939d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 83039d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 83139d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 83239d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 83339d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 83439d3e758SParav Pandit 8356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 841489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 842489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 843489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 844489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 845489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 8466bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 8486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 850afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 8516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 861afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 864e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 870afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 872afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 87689e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 87789e9b9e0STejun Heo 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 8936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 90030070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 90130070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 902483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 903483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 90430070984SDaniel Mack help 90530070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 90630070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 90730070984SDaniel Mack 90830070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 90930070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 91030070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 91130070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 91230070984SDaniel Mack 9136bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 91423b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 9156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 91623b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 9176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 91923b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 92023b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 92123b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 92573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 92673b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 92773b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 92873b35147SArnd Bergmann 92923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 930c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9318dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 9326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 9332813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 9346a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 935c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 936c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 937c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 938c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 939c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 940c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 9418dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 9428dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 94358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 94458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 94517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 94658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 94758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 94858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 94958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 950ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 951ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 9528dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 95317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 954ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 955ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 956614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 957ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 958aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 95919c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 9605673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 961aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 962aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 963aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 964e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 965e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 966d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 967d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 968d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 969e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 970aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 971aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 97274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 9739bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 97417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 97574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 97612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 977692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 97874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 97974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 980d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 981d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 9828dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 98317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 984d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 985d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 986d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 987d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 9888dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 9898dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 9905cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 9915cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 9925cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 9935cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 9945cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 9955cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 9965cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 9975cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 9985cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 9995cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10005cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 10015cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10025091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 10035091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 10045091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 10055091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 10065091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10075091faa4SMike Galbraith help 10085091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 10095091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 10105091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 10115091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 10125091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 10135091faa4SMike Galbraith 10147af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10155d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 10167af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10177af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10187af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10197af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 10207af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 10217af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 10227af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10237af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 10247af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 10257af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10267af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 10277af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 10287af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 10297af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10307af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 10317af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 10327af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 10337af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10347af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10357af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 10367af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10377af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 10385d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 10397af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10407af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10417af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10427af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10437af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 10447af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10457af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 10467af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 10477af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10487af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10497af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 10507af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 10517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10527af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 10537af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 105426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 10557af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10567af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 10577af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 10587af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 10597af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 10607af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 10617af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10627af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 10637af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1064f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1065f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1066f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1067f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1068f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1069f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1070f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 10718c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1072f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1073f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1074f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1075f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1076f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1077f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1078f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1079c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1080c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1081dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1082dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1083c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1084c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1085877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1086877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 10872cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1088877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1089877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1090877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1091877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1092877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1093877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1094877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1095877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1096c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 109796fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1098c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 109931a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 110031a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1101c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 11023a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1103c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1104877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1105877417e6SArnd Bergmann 11065d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11075d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 11085d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11095d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 11105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 11115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 11125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 11135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 11145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 11155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11165d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1120e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1121e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 11225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11238b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 11248b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 11258b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 11265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11275d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 11285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 11295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 11305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 11315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 11325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 11335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11340847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 11350847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 11360847062aSRandy Dunlap 1137b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1138b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1139b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1140657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1141657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1142657a5209SMike Frysinger 1143657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1144657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1145657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1146657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1147657a5209SMike Frysinger 1148657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1149657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1150657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1151657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1152657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1153657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1154657a5209SMike Frysinger 1155657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1156657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1157657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1158657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1159657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1160657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1161657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1162657a5209SMike Frysinger 1163657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1164657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1165657a5209SMike Frysinger 1166f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1167f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1168f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1169f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 11706a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 11716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1172f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1173f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1180ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 11816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 11822813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1183ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1184ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1185ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1186ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11872813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 11882813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 11892813893fSIulia Manda default y 11902813893fSIulia Manda help 11912813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 11922813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 11932813893fSIulia Manda 11942813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 11952813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 11962813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 11972813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 11982813893fSIulia Manda 11992813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 12002813893fSIulia Manda 1201f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1202f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1203a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1204f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1205f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1206f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1207f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1208f6187769SFabian Frederick 1209f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1210f6187769SFabian Frederick 12116af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 12126af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 12136af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 12146af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 12156af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 12166af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 12176af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 12186af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 12196af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 12206af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1221b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 12226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 122326a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1224c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1225b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1226b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 122713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 122813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 122913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 123013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1231b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 123213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 123313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 123413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1235b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1236c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1237ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1238d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1239d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1240d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1241d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1242d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1243d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1244d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1245d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1246d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1247d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1248d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1249d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1250d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1251baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1252baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1253baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1254baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1255baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1256baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1257baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1258baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1259baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1260baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1261baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1262baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1263baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1264baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1265baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1266baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1267baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1268d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1269d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 12706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 127174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1272d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1273d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1274d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1275d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1276d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1277d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1278d59745ceSMatt Mackall 127942a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 128042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 128142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 128242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 128342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1284c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1286c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1287c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1288c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1289c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1290c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1291c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1292c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1293c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1294708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1295046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1296708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 12976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1298708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1299708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1300708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13018761f1abSRalf Baechle 1302e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13048761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 130515f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1306e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1307e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1308e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1309e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1310e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1322bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1328bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1329bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1330bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1331bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1332bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 133303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 133403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 133562b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 133603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 133703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 133803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 133903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 134003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 13411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 13426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1344448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1349fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 13506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1351448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1352fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1353fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1354fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1355fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1356fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1357fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1358fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1359b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 13606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1361448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1362b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1363b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1364b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1365b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1366b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1367b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1368b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1369e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1371448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1372e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1373e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1374e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1375e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1376e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1377e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1378e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 13791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1390ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1392ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1393ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1394ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1395ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1396ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1397ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1398d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1399d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1400d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1401d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1402d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1403d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1404d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1405d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1406d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1407d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 14085b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 14095b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 14105b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 14115b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 14125b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 14135b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 14145b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 14155b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 14165b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 14175b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 14185b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 14195b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1420d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1421d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1422d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1423d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1424d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1425d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1426d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1427d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1428d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1429d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1430d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1431d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1432d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1433d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1434d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1435d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1436d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1437d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1438d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1439d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1440d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1441d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1442d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1443d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1444d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1453a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1458d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1459d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1460d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1461d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1462d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1463d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1464d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1465d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1466d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1475bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1481290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1482290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1483290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1484290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1485290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1486290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1487290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1488d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1489d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1494d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 14963ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 14973ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 14983ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 149970216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 150070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 150170216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1502d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1503d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1504d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1505d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1506d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1507d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1508d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1509d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1510d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1511d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1512d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1513d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1514d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1515d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1516d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1517d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1518d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1519d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1520d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1521d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1522d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1523d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1524d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 15256befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 15266befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 15275d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 15286befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 15296befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 15306befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 15316befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 15326befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 15336befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1534cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15350793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1536018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1537018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 15380793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1539906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1540906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1541906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1542906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1543906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1544ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1545424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1546ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1547ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1548ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1549ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1550ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 155157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 15520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1553cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 155457c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1555392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1556cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15574c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1558e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 155983fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 15600793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 156157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 156257c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15630793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1564dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 156557c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 156657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 156757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 156857c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15690793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15700793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15710793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15720793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15730793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15740793a61dSThomas Gleixner 157557c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1576dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 157757c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15780793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15790793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15800793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15810793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15820793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1583906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1584906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1585906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1586cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1587906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1588906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1589906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1590906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1591906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1592906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1593906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1594906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1595906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15960793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15970793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1598f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1599f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1601f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16022aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16032aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16046a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16052aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1606f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 160741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 160841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1610f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 161141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 161241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 161341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 161441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 161541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 161641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 16171663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 16181663f26dSTejun Heo default n 16191663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 16201663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 16211663f26dSTejun Heo help 16221663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 16231663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 16241663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 16251663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 16261663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 16271663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 16281663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 16291663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 16301663f26dSTejun Heo 1631b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1632b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1633b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1634b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1635b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1636b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1637b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1638692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1639b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1640b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1641b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1642b943c460SRandy Dunlap 164381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 164481819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1645a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 164681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 164781819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 164881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 164981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 165081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 165104385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 165281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 165381819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 165434013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 165502f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 165681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 165781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 165881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1659ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 166081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 166181819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 166281819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 166381819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 166481819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 166502f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 166602f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 166781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 166881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 16696a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 167081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 167181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 167237291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 167337291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 167437291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 167581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 167681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 167781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 16787660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 16797660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 16807660a6fdSKees Cook default y 16817660a6fdSKees Cook help 16827660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 16837660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 16847660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 16857660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 16867660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 16877660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 16887660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 16897660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 16907660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 16917660a6fdSKees Cook 1692c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1693c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1694210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1695c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1696c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1697210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1698c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1699c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1700c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 17012482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 17022482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 17032482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 17042482ddecSKees Cook help 17052482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 17062482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 17072482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 17082482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 17092482ddecSKees Cook 1710345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1711345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1712b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1713345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1714345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1715345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1716345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1717345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1718345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1719345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1720345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1721ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1722ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 17236a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1724ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1725ea637639SJie Zhang help 1726ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 17273903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1728ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1729ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1730ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1731ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1732ea637639SJie Zhang 1733ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1734ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1735ea637639SJie Zhang 1736ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1737ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1738ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1739ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1740ea637639SJie Zhang 1741ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1742ea637639SJie Zhang 1743091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1744091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1745091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1746091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1747091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1748d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1749091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1750091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1751091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1752091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1753091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1754091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 175582c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1756091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1757091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1758091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1759091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 176082c04ff8SPeter Foley 1761125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1762b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1763125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1764125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1765125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1766125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 17675f87f112SIngo Molnar# 17685f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 17695f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 17705f87f112SIngo Molnar# 177197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 17725f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 177397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 17741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17761572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 17771572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1778ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 17796341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1780ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 17811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 178666da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 178811097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18070b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 18080b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1809826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1810826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1811826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1812826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 181391e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 181491e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 181591e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1816826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1822f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1823f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 182719c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 18360d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 184556067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 184656067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 184756067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 184856067812SArd Biesheuvel 18491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1860106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1861106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1862106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1863091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1864106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1865106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1866106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1867cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1868106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1869228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1870228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1871228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1872228c37ffSDavid Howells 1873ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1874ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1875ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1876ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1877ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1878106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1879106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1880106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1881106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1882106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1883106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1884ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1885d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1886d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1887d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1888d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1889d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1890d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1891d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1892d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1893d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1894d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1895d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1896ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1897ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1898ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1899ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1900ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1901ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1902ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1903ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1904ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1905ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1906ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1907ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1908ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1909ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1910ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1911ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1912ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1913ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1914ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1915ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1916ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1917ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1918ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1919ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1920ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1921ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1922ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1923ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1924ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1925ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1926ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 192822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 192922753674SMichal Marek string 193022753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 193122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 193222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 193322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 193422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 193522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 193622753674SMichal Marek 1937beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1938beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1939beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1940beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1941beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1942b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1943b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1944beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1945b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1946beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1947b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1948b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1949beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1950b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1951b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1952beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1953b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1954b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1955b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1956beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1957beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1958beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1959beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1960beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1961beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1962beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1963beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1964beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1965beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1966beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1967beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1968beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1969beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1970beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1971beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1972beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1973beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1974beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1975dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1976dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1977dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1978dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 1979dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1980dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1981dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1982dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1983dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1984dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1985dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1986dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1987dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1988dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1989f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1990dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 19910b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 19920b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 19936c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 19946c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 19956c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 19966c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 199798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 199898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 199998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20005f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20015f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 200298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 200398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2004692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 200598a79d6aSRusty Russell 20063a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2007e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2008e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2009e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2010e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 201116295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 201216295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 201316295becSSteffen Klassert bool 201416295becSSteffen Klassert 20154520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20164520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20174520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20184520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20194520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20204520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20214520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20224520c6a4SDavid Howells 20236beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2024e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2025e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2026e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20271bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20281bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20297303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20307303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20317303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 20327303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 20337303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 20347303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 20351bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 20361bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2037