1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 631a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 649371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 65f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 66f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 671a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 68b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 69b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 70f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 71f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 72c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 73e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 74e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 75e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 76587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 77587f1701SNick Desaulniers depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 78587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 79587f1701SNick Desaulniers 801aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 811aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 821aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 831aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .\n": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 841aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 855cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 862d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 875cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 88eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 89eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 90eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 9151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 9251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 9351c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 94613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 95613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 96613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 97613fe169SNathan Chancellor 98b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 99b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 100b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 101e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 102e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 103e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 10410916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1051dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1061dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 107c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 108c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 109c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 110c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 111c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 112c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 113c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 114c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 115c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 116c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 117ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 129dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 130dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 13334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1354bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1364bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 137ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1384bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1394bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1404bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1414bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1424bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1434bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1444bb16672SJiri Slaby 1454bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1464bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1474bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1484bb16672SJiri Slaby 1493fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 1503fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 151b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 1523fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 1533fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 1543fe617ccSLinus Torvalds enables the '-Werror' flag to enforce that rule by default. 1553fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1563fe617ccSLinus Torvalds However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and 1573fe617ccSLinus Torvalds unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 1583fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 1593fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 1603fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 1613fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 1623fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 163d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 164d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 165fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 166d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 167d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 168d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 169d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 170d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 171d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 172d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 183aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 184aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 185aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 186ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 187aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 188aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 191aaebf433SRyan Anderson 192aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 194aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 196aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 203aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2049afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2059afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2069afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2079afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2089afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2099afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2109afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2119afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2129afb719eSLaura Abbott 2132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2223ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2233ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2243ebe1243SLasse Collin 2257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 228e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 229e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 230e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 23148f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 23248f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 23348f7ddf7SNick Terrell 234f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 235f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 236f16466afSVasily Gorbik 23730d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 23830d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 24048f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 24130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 24330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 24530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 24730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 24930d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 25030d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25330d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 25430d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 25530d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 25630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 25830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 25930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 26030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 26230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2647dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 26530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 26630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 26730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 26930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 27030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2710a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 27530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 27630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 27730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 27930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2800a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2810a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2820a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 28330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2843ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2853ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2863ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2873ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2883ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2893ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2903ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2913ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2923ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2933ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2943ebe1243SLasse Collin 2953ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2963ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2973ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2983ebe1243SLasse Collin 2997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3017dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 304681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3067dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 307e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 308e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 309e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 310e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 311e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 312e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 313e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 314e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 315e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 316e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 317e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 318e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 31948f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 32048f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 32148f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 32248f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 32348f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 32448f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 32548f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 32648f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 32748f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 32848f7ddf7SNick Terrell 329f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 330f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 331f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 332f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 333f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 334f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 335f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 336f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 337f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 338f16466afSVasily Gorbik 33930d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 34030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 341ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 342ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 343ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 344ada4ab7aSChris Down help 345ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 346ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 347ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 348ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 349ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 350ada4ab7aSChris Down 351bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 352bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 353bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 354bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 355bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 356bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 357bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 358bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 359bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 3601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 362a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 375a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 376a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 377a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 378a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 379a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 380a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3810cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 3820cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 3830cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 3840cbed0eeSGuo Ren 3851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 38719c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 388a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 393b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 401bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 402bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 403bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 404bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 405bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 406bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 407c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 408c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 409c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 410c73be61cSDavid Howells help 411c73be61cSDavid Howells 412c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 413c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 414c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 415c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 416c73be61cSDavid Howells 417c73be61cSDavid Howells See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 418c73be61cSDavid Howells 419226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 420226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 421226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 422226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 423226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 424226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 425226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 426a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 427226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 428226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 42969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 4307374fa33SKees Cook bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 4317374fa33SKees Cook default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 43269369a70SJosh Triplett help 43369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 43469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 43569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 43669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 43769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 43869369a70SJosh Triplett 4391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 441804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 445cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 446cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4487a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4497a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4507a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 452cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4537a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 45428a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 45574c3cbe3SAl Viro 456d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 457764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 458b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 45987a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 460d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 463abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 464abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 465abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 466fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 467fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 468fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 46902fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 470fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 471fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 472fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 473fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 474c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 475fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 476fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 477fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 478fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 479fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 480fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 481fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 482abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 484c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 495abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 496abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 497ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 498554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 499041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 500abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 501abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 502abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 503abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 504abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 505abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 506abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 507abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 508abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 510abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 511abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 512abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 513abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 514b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 515b58c3584SRik van Riel 516fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 518b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 519fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 521fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 524fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 526fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 52711d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 52811d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 52911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 53011d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 53111d4afd4SVincent Guittot 53276504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 53398eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 534fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 535fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 53676504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 53798eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 53898eb401dSValentin Schneider help 53998eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 54098eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 54198eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 54298eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 54398eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 54498eb401dSValentin Schneider 54598eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 54698eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 54798eb401dSValentin Schneider 54898eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 5497e97b3dcSLukasz Luba arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 55076504793SThara Gopinath 551391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5532813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 557391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 559391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 571391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5723903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 573391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 57819c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5802813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 583391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 59219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 594f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 60419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 61319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 616391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 621eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 622eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 623eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 624eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 625eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 626eb414681SJohannes Weiner 627eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 628eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 629eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 630eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 631eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6322ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6332ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6342ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6352ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 636c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 637eb414681SJohannes Weiner 638eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 639eb414681SJohannes Weiner 640e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 641e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 642e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 643e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 644e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 645e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 646428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 647428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 648e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6497b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6507b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6517b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6527b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6537b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6547b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6557b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6567b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6577b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6587b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6597b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6625c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6635c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 664414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6652c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6665c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6675c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6685c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6692c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6702c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6712c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6722c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6735c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6740af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 675c903ff83SMike Travis 676de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 677de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 678de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 679de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 681f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 682a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 695a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 699f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 700f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 701f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 70243d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 703f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 704f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 705f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 706f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 70743d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 708794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 709794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7101c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 711f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 712361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 713794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 71423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 71523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 71623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 71823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 719f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 720f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 721f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 722f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 723f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 724794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 725794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 726794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7292240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 73223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 733361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 74323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 74423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 74523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7460f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 74723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 74823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 74923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 75023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7525e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7535e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 75423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 76023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 76123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 76223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 763f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 764f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 765427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 766427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 767f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 768427934b8SPetr Mladek help 769f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 770f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 771f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 772f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 773f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 774427934b8SPetr Mladek 775f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 776427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 777427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 778427934b8SPetr Mladek 779427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 780427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 781427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 782427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 783427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 784427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 785427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 786427934b8SPetr Mladek 78733701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 78833701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 78933701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 79033701557SChris Down help 79133701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 79233701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 79333701557SChris Down 79433701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 79533701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 79633701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 79733701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 79833701557SChris Down 79933701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 80033701557SChris Down 8015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 80738ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 80838ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 80938ff87f7SStephen Boyd 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 869be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 870be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 87172b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 87272b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 87372b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 87472b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 87572b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 87672b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 87772b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 87872b252aeSMel Gorman bool 87972b252aeSMel Gorman 880c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8813a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 882c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 883dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 884dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 885158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 886dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 887dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 88872b252aeSMel Gorman# 889be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 890be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 891be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 892be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 893be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 894be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 895be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 902be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 903be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 904554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 905be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 906be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 907be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9086d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 909be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 910be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 911be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9126f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9136f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9146f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9156f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9166f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9176f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9186f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9196f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 92023964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9216341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9222bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 923ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 92423964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 928d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 929da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 93045ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 931ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 932ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 933ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 93423964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 93523964d2dSLi Zefan 9363e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9373e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9383e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 939c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 940a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9413e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 94279bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 94300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 944a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 94500f0b825SBalbir Singh 946c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 9472d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 948c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 949a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 950c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 95184c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 95284c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 95384c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 95484c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 95584c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9592bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 960a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9642bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 969e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9737baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 976da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 982e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9837c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 984a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9857c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9867c941438SDhaval Giani help 9877c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9887c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9897c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9907c941438SDhaval Giani 9917c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9927c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9937c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9947c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9957c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9967c941438SDhaval Giani 997ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 998ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 999ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1000ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1001ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1002ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1003ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1004ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1005ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1006d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1007ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10087c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10097c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10107c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10117c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10127c941438SDhaval Giani help 10137c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 101432bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10157c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10167c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1017d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10187c941438SDhaval Giani 10197c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10207c941438SDhaval Giani 10212480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 10222480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 10232480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10242480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 10252480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 10262480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 10272480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 10282480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 10292480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10302480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 10312480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 10322480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 10332480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 10342480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 10352480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10362480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 10372480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 10382480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10392480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10402480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10412480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10422480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10526cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 105598076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 105939d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 106039d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 106139d3e758SParav Pandit help 106239d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 106339d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 106439d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 106539d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 106639d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 106739d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 106839d3e758SParav Pandit 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1075489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1076489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1077489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1078489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1079489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1084afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1095afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1098e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1104afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1106afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 111089e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 111189e9b9e0STejun Heo 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11306546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 11316546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 113530070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 113630070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1137483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1138483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 113930070984SDaniel Mack help 114030070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 114130070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 114230070984SDaniel Mack 114330070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 114430070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 114530070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 114630070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 114730070984SDaniel Mack 1148a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1149a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1150a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1151a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1152a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1153a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1154a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1155a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1156a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1157a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1158a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1159a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1160a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1161a72232eaSVipin Sharma 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 116323b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 116523b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 116823b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 116923b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 117023b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 117473b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 117573b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 117673b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 117773b35147SArnd Bergmann 117823964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1179c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11808dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11822813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11836a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1184c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1185c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1186c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1187c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1188c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1189c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11908dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11918dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 119258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 119358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 119417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 119558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 119658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 119758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 119858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1199769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1200769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1201660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1202769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1203769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1204769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1205769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1206769071acSAndrei Vagin 1207ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1208ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12098dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 121017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1211ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1212ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1213614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1214ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1215aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 121619c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12175673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1218aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1219aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1220aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1221e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1222e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1223d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1224d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1225d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1226e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1227aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1228aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 122974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12309bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 123117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 123274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 123312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1234692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 123574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 123674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1237d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1238d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12398dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 124017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1241d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1242d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1243d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1244d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12458dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12468dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12475cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 12485cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 12495cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1250bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 12515cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 12525cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 12535cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12545cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12555cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12565cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12575cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12585cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12595cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12605091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12615091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12625091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12635091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12645091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12655091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12665091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12675091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12685091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12695091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12705091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12715091faa4SMike Galbraith 12727af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12735d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12777af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12787af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12927af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12937af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12965d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 13047af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 13057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13067af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 13077af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 13087af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 13097af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13107af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13117af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 131226b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13137af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 13147af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 13157af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 13167af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 13177af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13187af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13197af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13207af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13217af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1322f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1323f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1324f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1325f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1326f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1327f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1328f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13298c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1330f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1331f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1332f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1333f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1334f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1335f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1336f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1337c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1338c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1339dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1340dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1341c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1342c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 134376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 134476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1345a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 134676db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 134776db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 134876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 13490947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 135085c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 13510947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 135276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 135376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 135476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1355a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1356a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1357a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1358a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1359a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1360a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1361a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1362a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1363a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1364a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1365a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1366a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1367a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1368a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1369a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1370a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1371a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1372a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1373a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 13741274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 13751274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 13761274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 13771274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 13781274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 13791274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 13801274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 13811274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 13821274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 13831274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 1384877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1385877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13862cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1387877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1388877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 138915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1390877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1391877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1392877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1393877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1394877417e6SArnd Bergmann 139515f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 139615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 139715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1398c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 139915f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 140015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1401c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 14025d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 140315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1404c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1405ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1406ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1407c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1408877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1409877417e6SArnd Bergmann 14105d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 14125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 14145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 14155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 14165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 14175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 14185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 14195d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14205d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 14235d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1424e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1425e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 14265d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 14278b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 14288b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 14298b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 14305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 14315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 14325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 14335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 14345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 14355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 14365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 14375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 143859612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 143959612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 144059612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 144159612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 144259612b24SNathan Chancellor 14430847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 14440847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 14450847062aSRandy Dunlap 1446657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1447657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1448657a5209SMike Frysinger 1449657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1450657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1451657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1452657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1453657a5209SMike Frysinger 1454657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1455657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1456657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1457657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1458657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1459657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1460657a5209SMike Frysinger 1461657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1462657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1463657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1464657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1465657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1466657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1467657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1468657a5209SMike Frysinger 1469657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1470657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1471657a5209SMike Frysinger 1472f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1473f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1474f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1475*ec8f7f48SEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1476f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 14776a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 14786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1479f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1480f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1487ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14892813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1490ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1491ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1492ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1493ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14942813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14952813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14962813893fSIulia Manda default y 14972813893fSIulia Manda help 14982813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14992813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 15002813893fSIulia Manda 15012813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 15022813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 15032813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 15042813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 15052813893fSIulia Manda 15062813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 15072813893fSIulia Manda 1508f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1509f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1510a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1511a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1512f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1513f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1514f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1515f6187769SFabian Frederick 1516f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1517f6187769SFabian Frederick 15186af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 15196af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 15206af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1521a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15226af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 15236af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 15246af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 15256af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 15266af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 15276af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1528d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1529d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1530d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1531d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1532d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1533d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1534d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1540d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1541baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1542baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1543baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1544baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1545baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1546baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1547baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1548baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1549baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1550baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1551baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1552baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1553baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1554baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1555baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1556baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1557baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1558d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1559d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 156174876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1562d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1563d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1564d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1565d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1566d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1567d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1568d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1569c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1571c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1572c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1573c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1574c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1575c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1576c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1577c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1578c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1579708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1580046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1581708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1583708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1584708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1585708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15868761f1abSRalf Baechle 1587e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15898761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 159015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1591e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1592e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1593e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1594e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1595e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15986a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 16056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 16063f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1608bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1614bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1615bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1616bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1617bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1618bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 16191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 16206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1626fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 16276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1628fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1629fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1630fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1631fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1632fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1633fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1634fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1635b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1637b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1638b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1639b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1640b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1641b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1642b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1643b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1644e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1646e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1647e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1648e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1649e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1650e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1651e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1652e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 16531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1664ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1666ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1667ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1668ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1669ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1670ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1671ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16722b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16732b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1674561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16752b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16762b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16772b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16782b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16792b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16802b188cc1SJens Axboe 1681d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1682d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1683d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1684d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1685d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1686d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1687d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1688d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1689d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1690d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16915b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16925b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16935b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16945b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16955b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16965b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16975b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16985b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16995b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 17005b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 17015b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 17025b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1704d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1705d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1711d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1712d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1713d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1714d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1715d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1716d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1717d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1718d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1719d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1720d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1721d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1722d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1723d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1724d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1725d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1726d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1727d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1729d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1734d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1735d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1736a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1737d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1738d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1739d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1740d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1741d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1742d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1743d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1744d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1745d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1746d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1747d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1748d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1749d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1750d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1751d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1752d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1753d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1754fc611f47SKP Singh 17553ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17563ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17573ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 175870216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 175970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 176070216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1761bfe3911aSChris Wilsonconfig KCMP 1762bfe3911aSChris Wilson bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1763bfe3911aSChris Wilson help 1764bfe3911aSChris Wilson Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1765bfe3911aSChris Wilson user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1766bfe3911aSChris Wilson share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1767bfe3911aSChris Wilson memory space. 1768bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1769bfe3911aSChris Wilson If unsure, say N. 1770bfe3911aSChris Wilson 1771d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1772d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1773d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1774d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1775d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1776d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1777d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1778d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1779d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1780d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1781d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1782d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1783d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1784d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1785d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1786d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1787d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1788d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1789d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1790d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1791d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1792d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1793d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 17946befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17966befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 18006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 18016befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1802cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18030793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1804018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1805018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 18060793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18072aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 18082aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 18092aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 18102aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1811906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1812906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1813906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1814906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1815906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1816ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1817424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1818ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1819ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1820ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1821ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1822ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 182357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 18240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1825cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 182657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1827392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1828cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1829e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 183083fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 18310793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 183257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 183357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1835dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 183657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 183757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 183857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 183957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18400793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18410793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18420793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18430793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18440793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 184657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1847dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 184857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18490793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18500793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18510793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18520793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18530793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1854906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1855906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1856906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1857cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1858906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1859906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1860906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1861906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1862906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1863906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1864906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1865906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1866906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18670793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18680793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1869091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1870091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1871091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1872091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1873091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1874d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1875091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1876091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1877091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1878091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1879091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1880091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 188182c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1882091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1883091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1884091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1885091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 188682c04ff8SPeter Foley 1887125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1888b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1889125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1890125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1891f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 1892125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18935f87f112SIngo Molnar# 18945f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 18955f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 18965f87f112SIngo Molnar# 189797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 18985f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 189997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19021572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19031572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1904ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19056341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 19061c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 1907ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1913c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1914c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 1915c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1916c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 191766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 19196dd85ff1SMasahiro Yamada modules 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19380b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19390b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1940826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1941826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1942826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1943826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 194491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 194591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 194691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1947826e4506SLinus Torvalds 19481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1953f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1954f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 195819c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 196699bd9956SAaron Tomlinconfig MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING 196799bd9956SAaron Tomlin bool "Tainted module unload tracking" 196899bd9956SAaron Tomlin depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 196999bd9956SAaron Tomlin default n 197099bd9956SAaron Tomlin help 197199bd9956SAaron Tomlin This option allows you to maintain a record of each unloaded 197299bd9956SAaron Tomlin module that tainted the kernel. In addition to displaying a 197399bd9956SAaron Tomlin list of linked (or loaded) modules e.g. on detection of a bad 197499bd9956SAaron Tomlin page (see bad_page()), the aforementioned details are also 197599bd9956SAaron Tomlin shown. If unsure, say N. 197699bd9956SAaron Tomlin 19771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 19780d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19872ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 19882ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 19892ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 19902ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 19912ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 19922ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 19932ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 19942ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 19951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2006106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2007106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2008c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2009106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2010106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2011106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2012cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2013106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2014228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2015228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2016228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2017228c37ffSDavid Howells 201849fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 201949fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 202049fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 202149fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 202249fcf732SDavid Howells 2023ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2024ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2025ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2026ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2027ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2028106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2029106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2030106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2031106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2032106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2033106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2034ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2035d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2036d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2037d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 20380165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 2039d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2040d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2041d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2042d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2043d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2044d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2045d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2046ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2047ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 20480165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 2049ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2050ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2051ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2052ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2053ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2054ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2055ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2056ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2057ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2058ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2059ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2060ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2061ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2062ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2063ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2064ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2065ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2066ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2067ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2068ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2069ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2070ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2071ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2075ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2076ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2077ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 207822753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 207922753674SMichal Marek string 20800165f4caSNayna Jain depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG 208122753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 208222753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 208322753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 208422753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 208522753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 208622753674SMichal Marek 2087beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2088d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada prompt "Module compression mode" 2089beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2090d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada This option allows you to choose the algorithm which will be used to 2091d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada compress modules when 'make modules_install' is run. (or, you can 2092d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada choose to not compress modules at all.) 2093beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2094d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada External modules will also be compressed in the same way during the 2095d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada installation. 2096d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2097d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada For modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient to 2098d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2099d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2100d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2101d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2102d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Please note that the tool used to load modules needs to support the 2103d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada corresponding algorithm. module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod 2104c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski MAY support gzip, xz and zstd. 2105d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2106d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Your build system needs to provide the appropriate compression tool 2107d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada to compress the modules. 2108d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2109d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada If in doubt, select 'None'. 2110d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada 2111d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamadaconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE 2112d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada bool "None" 2113d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2114d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Do not compress modules. The installed modules are suffixed 2115d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko. 2116beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2117beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2118beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2119d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2120d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Compress modules with GZIP. The installed modules are suffixed 2121d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko.gz. 2122beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2123beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2124beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2125d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada help 2126d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada Compress modules with XZ. The installed modules are suffixed 2127d4bbe942SMasahiro Yamada with .ko.xz. 2128beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2129c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorskiconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD 2130c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski bool "ZSTD" 2131c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski help 2132c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski Compress modules with ZSTD. The installed modules are suffixed 2133c3d7ef37SPiotr Gorski with .ko.zst. 2134beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2135beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2136beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2137b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhovconfig MODULE_DECOMPRESS 2138b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov bool "Support in-kernel module decompression" 2139b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov depends on MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP || MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2140b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov select ZLIB_INFLATE if MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2141b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov select XZ_DEC if MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2142b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov help 2143b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 2144b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov Support for decompressing kernel modules by the kernel itself 2145b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov instead of relying on userspace to perform this task. Useful when 2146b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov load pinning security policy is enabled. 2147b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 2148b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov If unsure, say N. 2149b1ae6dc4SDmitry Torokhov 21503d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21513d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21523d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21533d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21543d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21553d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21563d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21573d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21583d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21593d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21603d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21613d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21623d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 216317652f42SRasmus Villemoesconfig MODPROBE_PATH 216417652f42SRasmus Villemoes string "Path to modprobe binary" 216517652f42SRasmus Villemoes default "/sbin/modprobe" 216617652f42SRasmus Villemoes help 216717652f42SRasmus Villemoes When kernel code requests a module, it does so by calling 216817652f42SRasmus Villemoes the "modprobe" userspace utility. This option allows you to 216917652f42SRasmus Villemoes set the path where that binary is found. This can be changed 217017652f42SRasmus Villemoes at runtime via the sysctl file 217117652f42SRasmus Villemoes /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. Setting this to the empty string 217217652f42SRasmus Villemoes removes the kernel's ability to request modules (but 217317652f42SRasmus Villemoes userspace can still load modules explicitly). 217417652f42SRasmus Villemoes 2175dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2176a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" if EXPERT 2177a555bdd0SLinus Torvalds depends on !COMPILE_TEST 2178dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2179dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2180dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2181dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2182dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2183dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2184dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2185dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2186dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2187dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2188dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2189f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2190dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 21911518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 21921518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 21931518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 21941518c633SQuentin Perret help 21951518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 21961518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 21971518c633SQuentin Perret 21981518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 21991518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 22001518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 22011518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 22021518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 22031518c633SQuentin Perret 22040b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 22050b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 22066c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 22076c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 2208cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING || CFI_CLANG 22096c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 221098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 221198a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 221298a79d6aSRusty Russell help 22135f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 22145f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 221598a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 221698a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2217692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 221898a79d6aSRusty Russell 22193a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2220e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2221e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2222e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2223e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 222416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 222516295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 222616295becSSteffen Klassert bool 222716295becSSteffen Klassert 22284520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 22294520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 22304520c6a4SDavid Howells help 22314520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 22324520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 22334520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 22344520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 22354520c6a4SDavid Howells 22366beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2237e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 22380ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 22390ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 22400ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2241e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2242e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22431bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22441bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22457303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22467303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22477303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22487303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22497303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22507303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22511bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22521bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2253