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1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
2face4374SRoman Zippel	string
3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
4face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
547f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
6face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
747f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC
17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
26b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
27b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
28b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
29b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
31e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
32e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
331dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
341dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
351dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
36c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
37c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
38c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
39c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
40c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
41c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
42c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
43c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
44c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
45c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
46ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
58dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
59dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
6234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
644bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
654bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
66bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
674bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
684bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
694bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
704bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
714bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
724bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
734bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
744bb16672SJiri Slaby
754bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
764bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
774bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
784bb16672SJiri Slaby
791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
92ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
93aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
94aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
97aaebf433SRyan Anderson
98aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
100aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
102aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1109afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1119afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1129afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1139afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1149afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1159afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1169afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1179afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1189afb719eSLaura Abbott
1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1283ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1293ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1303ebe1243SLasse Collin
1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
134e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
135e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
136e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
137f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
138f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
139f16466afSVasily Gorbik
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
143f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1830a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
1840a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
1850a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1873ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1883ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1893ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1903ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1913ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1923ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1933ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1943ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1953ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1963ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1973ebe1243SLasse Collin
1983ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1993ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2003ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2013ebe1243SLasse Collin
2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2060a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
207681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
212e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
213e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
214e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
215e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
216e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
217e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
218e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
219e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
220e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
221e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
222f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
223f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
224f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
225f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
226f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
227f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
228f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
229f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
230f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
231f16466afSVasily Gorbik
23230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
234bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
235bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
236bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
237bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
238bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
239bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
240bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
241bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
242bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
24317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
24417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
24517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
24617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
24717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
24817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
24917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
25217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
275a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
276a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
277a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
278a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
279a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
280a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
28319c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
289b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
297bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
298bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
299bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
300bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
301bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
302bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
303226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
304226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
305226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
306226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
307226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
308226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
309226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
310a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
311226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
312226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
31369369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
31469369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
315b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
31669369a70SJosh Triplett	help
31769369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
31869369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
31969369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
32069369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
32169369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
32269369a70SJosh Triplett
3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
325804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
329cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
330cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3327a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3337a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3347a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
336cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3377a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
339939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
340939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
341939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
342939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
34474c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
34574c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
34663c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
34728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
34874c3cbe3SAl Viro
349d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
350764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
35187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
352d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
353391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
354391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
355abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
356abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
359fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
360fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
36102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
362fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
363fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
364fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
365fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
366c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
367fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
371fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
375391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
376c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
378391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
379391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
380391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
381391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
382391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
383391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
384391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
386391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
389ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
390554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
391abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
392abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
393abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
394abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
395abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
396abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
399abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
400abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
401abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
405b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
406b58c3584SRik van Riel
407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
409b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
410fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
415fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
41811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
41911d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
42011d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
42111d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
42211d4afd4SVincent Guittot
423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4252813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4443903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
45019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4522813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
46419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
466f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
47619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
48519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
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
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