1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 10104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 11face4374SRoman Zippel 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 17fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 26469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 271a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 281a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC)) 291a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 30e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 31e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 32e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized) 35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC >= 4.7 supports this option. 37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada bool 40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9 42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition. 44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases. 45b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 46b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed 47b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings. 48b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 49b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 50b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 51b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 52b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 53e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 54e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 55e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 561dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 571dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 581dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 62c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 63c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 64c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 65c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 66c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 67c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 68c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 69ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 81dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 82dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 874bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 884bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 89bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 904bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 914bb16672SJiri Slaby help 924bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 934bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 944bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 954bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 964bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 974bb16672SJiri Slaby 984bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 994bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1004bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1014bb16672SJiri Slaby 102e846f0dcSJani Nikulaconfig HEADER_TEST 103e846f0dcSJani Nikula bool "Compile test headers that should be standalone compilable" 104e846f0dcSJani Nikula help 105e846f0dcSJani Nikula Compile test headers listed in header-test-y target to ensure they are 106e846f0dcSJani Nikula self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 107e846f0dcSJani Nikula 108e846f0dcSJani Nikula If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested 109e846f0dcSJani Nikula headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 110e846f0dcSJani Nikula 11143c78d88SMasahiro Yamadaconfig KERNEL_HEADER_TEST 11243c78d88SMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test kernel headers" 11343c78d88SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADER_TEST 11443c78d88SMasahiro Yamada help 11543c78d88SMasahiro Yamada Headers in include/ are used to build external moduls. 11643c78d88SMasahiro Yamada Compile test them to ensure they are self-contained, i.e. 11743c78d88SMasahiro Yamada compilable as standalone units. 11843c78d88SMasahiro Yamada 11943c78d88SMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the headers 12043c78d88SMasahiro Yamada in include/ are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 12143c78d88SMasahiro Yamada 122d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 123d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 124d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADER_TEST && HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 125d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 126d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 127d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 128d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 129d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 131d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 142aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 143aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 144aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 145ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 146aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 147aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1486e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 150aaebf433SRyan Anderson 151aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 153aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1546e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 155aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1586e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1596e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1616e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 162aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1639afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1649afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1659afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1669afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1679afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1689afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1699afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1709afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1719afb719eSLaura Abbott 1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1813ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin 1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 187e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 188e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 189e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 190f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 191f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 192f16466afSVasily Gorbik 19330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 19430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 19530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 196f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 20030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 20230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 20330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2197dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2207dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 22630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2270a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 23130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 23230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 23330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2342e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 23530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2360a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2370a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2380a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 23930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2403ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2413ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2423ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2433ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2443ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2453ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2463ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2473ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2483ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2493ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2503ebe1243SLasse Collin 2513ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2523ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2533ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2543ebe1243SLasse Collin 2557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2590a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 260681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 263e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 264e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 265e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 266e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 267e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 268e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 269e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 270e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 271e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 272e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 273e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 275f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 276f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 277f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 278f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 279f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 280f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 281f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 282f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 283f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 284f16466afSVasily Gorbik 28530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 28630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 287bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 288bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 289bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 290bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 291bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 292bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 293bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 294bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 295bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 29617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 29717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 29817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 29917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 30017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 30117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 30217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 30517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 328a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 329a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 330a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 331a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 332a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 333a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 33619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 342b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 350bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 351bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 352bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 353bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 354bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 355bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 356226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 357226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 358226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 359226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 360226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 361226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 362226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 363a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 364226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 365226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 36669369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 36769369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 368b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 36969369a70SJosh Triplett help 37069369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 37169369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 37269369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 37369369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 37469369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 37569369a70SJosh Triplett 3761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 378804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 382cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 383cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3857a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3867a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3877a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 389cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3907a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 39128a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 39274c3cbe3SAl Viro 393d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 394764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 39587a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 396d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 397391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 398391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 399abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 400abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 401abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 403fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 404fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 40502fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 406fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 407fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 408fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 409fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 410c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 411fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 412fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 413fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 414fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 415fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 416fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 418abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 420c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 421abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 430391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 431abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 432abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 433ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 434554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 435041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 436abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 437abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 438abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 439abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 440abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 441abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 442abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 443abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 444abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 445abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 446abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 447abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 448abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 449abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 450b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 451b58c3584SRik van Riel 452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 453fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 454b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 461fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 462fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 46311d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 46411d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 46511d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 46611d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 46711d4afd4SVincent Guittot 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4702813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4893903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 49519c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4972813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 504391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 505391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 508391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 50919c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 510391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 511f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 512391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 513391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 514391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 515391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 516391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 517391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 518391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 519391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 520391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 52119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 522391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 523391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 524391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 525391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 526391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 528391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 529391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 53019c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 538eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 539eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 540eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 541eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 542eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 543eb414681SJohannes Weiner 544eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 545eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 546eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 547eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 548eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5492ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5502ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5512ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5522ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 553c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 554eb414681SJohannes Weiner 555eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 556eb414681SJohannes Weiner 557e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 558e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 559e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 560e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 561e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 562e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 563428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 564428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 565e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5667b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5677b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5687b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5697b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5707b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5717b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5727b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5737b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5747b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5757b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5767b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5795c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5805c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 581414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5822c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5835c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5845c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5855c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5862c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5872c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5882c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5892c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5905c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5910af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 592c903ff83SMike Travis 593de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 594de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 595de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 596de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 598f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 616f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 617f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 618f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 61943d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 620f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 621f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 622f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 623f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 62443d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 625794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 626794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 627fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 628f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 629361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 630794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 63523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 636f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 637f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 638f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 639f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 640f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 641794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 642794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 643794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6462240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 64723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 64823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 64923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 650361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 65123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 65223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 65323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 65423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 65523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 65623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 65723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 65823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 65923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 66023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 66123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 66223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 66323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 66423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 66623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 66723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 66823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6695e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6705e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 67123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 67223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 67323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 67423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 67523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 67623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 67723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 67823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 67923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 680f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 681f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 682427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 683427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 684f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 685427934b8SPetr Mladek help 686f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 687f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 688f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 689f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 690f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 691427934b8SPetr Mladek 692f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 693427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 694427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 695427934b8SPetr Mladek 696427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 697427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 698427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 699427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 700427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 701427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 702427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 703427934b8SPetr Mladek 7045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 71038ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 71138ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 71238ff87f7SStephen Boyd 71369842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 71469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 71569842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 71669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 71769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 71869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 71969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 72069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 72169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 72369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 72469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 72569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 72669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 72769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 72869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 72969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 73069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 73269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 73369842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 73469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 73569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 73669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 73769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 73869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 73969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 74069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 74169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 74269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 74369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 74469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 74569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 74669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 74769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 74869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 74969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 75069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 75169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 75269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 75369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 75469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 75569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 75669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 75769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 75869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 75969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 76069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 76169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 76369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 76469842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 76569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 766be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 767be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 768be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 769be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 770be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 771be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 772be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 773be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 77472b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 77572b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 77672b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 77772b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 77872b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 77972b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 78072b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 78172b252aeSMel Gorman bool 78272b252aeSMel Gorman 78372b252aeSMel Gorman# 784be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 785be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 786be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 787be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 788be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 789be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 790be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 791be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 792be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 793be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 794be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 795be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 796be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 797be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 798be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 799be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 800be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 801be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 802be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8036d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 804be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 805be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 806be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8076f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8086f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8096f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8106f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8116f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8126f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8136f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8146f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 81523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8166341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8172bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 818ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 81923964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 823d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 824da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 82545ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 826ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 827ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 828ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 82923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 83023964d2dSLi Zefan 8313e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8323e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8333e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 834c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 835a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 8363e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 83779bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 83800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 839a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 84000f0b825SBalbir Singh 841c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 842a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 843c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 844c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 845a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 846a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 847c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 848a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 849c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 850a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 851a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 852a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 853a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 85443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 85507555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 856a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 857a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 858a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 85900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 860c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 86184c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 86284c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 86384c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 86484c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 86584c07d11SKirill Tkhai 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 8686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 8692bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 8742bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 879e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 8846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 8856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 886da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 8876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8886bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 892e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8937c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 894a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8957c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8967c941438SDhaval Giani help 8977c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8987c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8997c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9007c941438SDhaval Giani 9017c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9027c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9037c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9047c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9057c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9067c941438SDhaval Giani 907ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 908ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 909ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 910ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 911ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 912ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 913ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 914ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 915ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 916d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 917ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9187c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9197c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9207c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9217c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9227c941438SDhaval Giani help 9237c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 92432bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9257c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9267c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 927d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9287c941438SDhaval Giani 9297c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9307c941438SDhaval Giani 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 9406cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 94398076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 9446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 94739d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 94839d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 94939d3e758SParav Pandit help 95039d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 95139d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 95239d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 95339d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 95439d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 95539d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 95639d3e758SParav Pandit 9576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 9596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 9626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 963489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 964489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 965489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 966489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 967489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 9686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 9696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 9706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 9716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 972afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 9736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 9756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 9766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 9776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 9786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 983afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9846bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 986e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 992afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 994afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 99889e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 99989e9b9e0STejun Heo 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 102230070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 102330070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1024483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1025483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 102630070984SDaniel Mack help 102730070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 102830070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 102930070984SDaniel Mack 103030070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 103130070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 103230070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 103330070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 103430070984SDaniel Mack 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 103623b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 10376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 103823b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 104123b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 104223b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 104323b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 104773b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 104873b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 104973b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 105073b35147SArnd Bergmann 105123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1052c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 10538dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 10546a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 10552813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 10566a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1057c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1058c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1059c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1060c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1061c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1062c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 10638dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 10648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 106558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 106658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 106717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 106858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 106958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 107058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 107158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1072ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1073ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 10748dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 107517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1076ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1077ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1078614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1079ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1080aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 108119c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 10825673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1083aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1084aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1085aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1086e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1087e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1088d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1089d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1090d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1091e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1092aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1093aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 109474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 10959bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 109617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 109774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 109812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1099692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 110074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 110174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1102d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1103d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11048dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 110517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1106d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1107d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1108d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1109d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11125cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11135cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11145cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11155cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11165cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11175cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 11185cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 11195cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 11205cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 11215cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11225cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 11235cb366bbSAdrian Reber 11245091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 11255091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 11265091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 11275091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 11285091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 11295091faa4SMike Galbraith help 11305091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 11315091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 11325091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 11335091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 11345091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 11355091faa4SMike Galbraith 11367af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11375d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 11387af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11397af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11407af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11417af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 11427af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 11437af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 11447af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11457af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 11467af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 11477af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11487af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 11497af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 11507af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 11517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11527af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 11537af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 11547af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 11557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11567af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11577af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 11587af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11597af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 11605d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 11617af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 11627af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 11637af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 11647af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11657af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 11667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11677af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 11687af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 11697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11707af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 11717af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 11727af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 11737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11747af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 11757af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 117626b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11777af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 11787af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11797af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11807af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11817af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11827af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11837af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11847af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11857af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1186f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1187f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1188f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1189f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1190f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1191f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1192f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 11938c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1194f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1195f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1196f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1197f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1198f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1199f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1200f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1201c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1202c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1203dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1204dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1205c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1206c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1207877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1208877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 12092cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1210877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1211877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1212877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1213877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1214877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1215877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1216877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1217877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1218c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 121996fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1220b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 1221c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 122231a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 122331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1224c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 12253a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1226c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1227877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1228877417e6SArnd Bergmann 12295d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 12315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 12335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 12345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 12355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 12365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 12375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 12385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12395d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 12425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 124316fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1244e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1245e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 12465d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 12478b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 12488b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 12498b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 12505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 12525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 12535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 12545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 12555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 12565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 12575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 12580847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 12590847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 12600847062aSRandy Dunlap 1261657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1262657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1263657a5209SMike Frysinger 1264657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1265657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1266657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1267657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1268657a5209SMike Frysinger 1269657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1270657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1271657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1272657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1273657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1274657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1275657a5209SMike Frysinger 1276657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1277657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1278657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1279657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1280657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1281657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1282657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1283657a5209SMike Frysinger 1284657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1285657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1286657a5209SMike Frysinger 1287f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1288f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1289f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1290f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 12916a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1293f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1294f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1301ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13032813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1304ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1305ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1306ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1307ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13082813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 13092813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 13102813893fSIulia Manda default y 13112813893fSIulia Manda help 13122813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 13132813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 13142813893fSIulia Manda 13152813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 13162813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 13172813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 13182813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 13192813893fSIulia Manda 13202813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 13212813893fSIulia Manda 1322f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1323f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1324a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1325f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1326f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1327f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1328f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1329f6187769SFabian Frederick 1330f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1331f6187769SFabian Frederick 13326af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 13336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 13346af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 13356af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 13366af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 13376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 13386af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 13396af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 13406af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 13416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1342b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 13436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 134426a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1345c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1346b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1347b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 134813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 134913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 135013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 135113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1352b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 135313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 135413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 135513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1356b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1357c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1358ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1359d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1360d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1361d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1362d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1363d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1364d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1365d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1366d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1367d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1368d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1372baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1373baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1374baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1375baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1376baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1377baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1378baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1379baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1380baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1381baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1382baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1383baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1384baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1385baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1386baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1387baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1388baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1389d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1390d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 139274876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1393d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1394d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1395d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1396d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1397d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1398d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1399d59745ceSMatt Mackall 140042a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 140142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 140242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 140342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 140442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1405c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1407c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1408c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1409c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1410c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1411c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1412c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1413c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1414c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1415708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1416046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1417708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1419708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1420708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1421708e9a79SMatt Mackall 14228761f1abSRalf Baechle 1423e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 14246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 14258761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 142615f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1427e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1428e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1429e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1430e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1431e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 14321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 14416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1443bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1449bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1450bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1451bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1452bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1453bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 145403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 145503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 145662b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 145703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 145803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 145903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 146003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 146103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 14621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 14636a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1469fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 14706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1471fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1472fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1473fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1474fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1475fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1476fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1477fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1478b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1480b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1481b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1482b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1483b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1484b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1485b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1486b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1487e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1489e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1490e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1491e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1492e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1493e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1494e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1495e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1507ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1509ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1510ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1511ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1512ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1513ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1514ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 15152b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 15162b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 15172b188cc1SJens Axboe select ANON_INODES 15182b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 15192b188cc1SJens Axboe help 15202b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 15212b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 15222b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 15232b188cc1SJens Axboe 1524d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1525d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1526d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1527d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1528d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1529d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1530d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1531d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1532d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1533d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 15345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 15355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 15365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 15375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 15385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 15395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 15405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 15415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 15425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 15435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 15445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 15455b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1546d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1547d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1548d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1549d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1550d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1551d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1552d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1553d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1554d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1555d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1556d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1557d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1558d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1559d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1560d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1561d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1562d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1563d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1564d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1565d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1566d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1567d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1568d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1569d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1570d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1571d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1572d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1573d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1574d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1575d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1576d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1577d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1578d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1579a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1580d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1581d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1582d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1583d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1584d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1585d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1586d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1587d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1588d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1589d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1590d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1591d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1592d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1593d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1594d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1595d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1596d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1597d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1598d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1599d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1600bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1601d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1602d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1603d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1604d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1605d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1606290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1607290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1608290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1609290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1610290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1611290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1612290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1613d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1614d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1615d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1616d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1617d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1618d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1619d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 16203ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 16213ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 16223ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 162370216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 162470216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 162570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1626d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1627d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1628d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1629d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1630d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1631d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1632d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1633d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1634d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1635d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1636d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1637d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1638d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1639d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1640d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1641d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1642d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1643d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1644d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1645d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1646d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1647d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1648d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 16496befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16506befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16515d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16526befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16536befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16546befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16556befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1658cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 16590793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1660018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1661018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 16620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1663906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1664906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1665906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1666906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1667906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1668ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1669424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1670ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1671ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1672ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1673ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1674ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 167557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 16760793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1677cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 167857c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1679392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1680cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1681e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 168283fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16830793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 168457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 168557c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16860793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1687dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 168857c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 168957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 169057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 169157c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 16920793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 16930793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16940793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16950793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16960793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16970793a61dSThomas Gleixner 169857c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1699dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 170057c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17010793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17020793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17030793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17040793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17050793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1706906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1707906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1708906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1709cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1710906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1711906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1712906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1713906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1714906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1715906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1716906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1717906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1718906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17190793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17200793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1721f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1722f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17236a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1724f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17252aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17262aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17276a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17282aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1729f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 173041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 173141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1733f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 173441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 173541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 173641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 173741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 173841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 173941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 17401663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 17411663f26dSTejun Heo default n 17421663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 17431663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 17441663f26dSTejun Heo help 17451663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 17461663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 17471663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 17481663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 17491663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 17501663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 17511663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 17521663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 17531663f26dSTejun Heo 1754b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1755b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1756b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1757b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1758b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1759b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1760b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1761692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1762b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1763b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1764b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1765b943c460SRandy Dunlap 176681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 176781819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1768a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 176981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 177081819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 177181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 177281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 177381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 177404385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 177581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 177681819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 177734013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 177802f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 177981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 178081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 178181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1782ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 178381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 178481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 178581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 178681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 178781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 178802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 178902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 179081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 179181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 17926a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 179381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 179481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 179537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 179637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 179737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 179881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 179981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 180081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 18017660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 18027660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 18037660a6fdSKees Cook default y 18047660a6fdSKees Cook help 18057660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 18067660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 18077660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 18087660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 18097660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 18107660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 18117660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 18127660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 18137660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 18147660a6fdSKees Cook 1815c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1816c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1817210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1818c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1819c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1820210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1821c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1822c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1823c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 18242482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 18252482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 18262482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 18272482ddecSKees Cook help 18282482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 18292482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 183092bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 18312482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 18322482ddecSKees Cook 1833e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1834e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1835e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1836e900a918SDan Williams help 1837e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1838e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1839e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1840e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1841e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1842e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1843e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1844e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1845e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1846e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1847e900a918SDan Williams 1848e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1849e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1850e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1851e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1852e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1853e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1854e900a918SDan Williams 1855e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1856e900a918SDan Williams 1857345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1858345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1859b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1860345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1861345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 186292bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1863345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1864345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1865345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1866345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1867345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1868ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1869ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 18706a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1871ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1872ea637639SJie Zhang help 1873ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 18743903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1875ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1876ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1877ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1878ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1879ea637639SJie Zhang 1880ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1881ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1882ea637639SJie Zhang 1883ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1884ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1885ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1886ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1887ea637639SJie Zhang 1888ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1889ea637639SJie Zhang 1890091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1891091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1892091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1893091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1894091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1895d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1896091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1897091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1898091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1899091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1900091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1901091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 190282c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1903091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1904091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1905091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1906091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 190782c04ff8SPeter Foley 1908125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1909b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1910125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1911125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1912125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1913125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19145f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19155f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19165f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19175f87f112SIngo Molnar# 191897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19195f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 192097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 19211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19231572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 19241572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1925ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19266341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1927ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 193366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 193511097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19540b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19550b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1956826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1957826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1958826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1959826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 196091e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 196191e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 196291e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1963826e4506SLinus Torvalds 19641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 19681da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1969f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1970f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 197419c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 19830d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 199256067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 199356067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 199456067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 199556067812SArd Biesheuvel 19961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2007106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2008106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2009091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2010106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2011106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2012106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2013cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2014106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2015228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2016228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2017228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2018228c37ffSDavid Howells 2019ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2020ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2021ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2022ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2023ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2024106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2025106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2026106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2027106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2028106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2029106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2030ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2031d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2032d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2033d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2034d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2035d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2036d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2037d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2038d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2039d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2040d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2041d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2042ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2043ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2044ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2045ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2046ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2047ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2048ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2049ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2050ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2051ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2052ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2053ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2054ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2055ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2056ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2057ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2058ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2059ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2060ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2061ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2062ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2063ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2064ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2065ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2066ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2067ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2068ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2069ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2070ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2071ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 207422753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 207522753674SMichal Marek string 207622753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 207722753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 207822753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 207922753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 208022753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 208122753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 208222753674SMichal Marek 2083beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2084beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2085beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2086beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2087b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2088b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2089beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2090b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2091beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2092b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2093b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2094beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2095b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2096b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2097beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2098b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2099b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2100b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2101beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2102beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2103beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2104beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2105beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2106beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2107beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2108beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2109beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2110beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2111beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2112beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2113beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2114beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2115beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2116beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2117beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2118beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2119beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 21203d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 21213d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 21223d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 21233d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 21243d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 21253d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 21263d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 21273d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 21283d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 21293d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 21303d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 21313d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 21323d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2133*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2134*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2135*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2136*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2137*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2138*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2139*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2140*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2141*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2142*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2143*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2144*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2145*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2146*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2147*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2148*efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2149dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2150dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2151d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2152dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2153dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2154dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2155dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2156dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2157dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2158dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2159dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2160dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2161dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2162dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2163f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2164dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 21650b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 21660b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 21676c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 21686c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 21696c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 21706c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 217198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 217298a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 217398a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21745f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21755f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 217698a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 217798a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2178692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 217998a79d6aSRusty Russell 21803a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2181e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2182e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2183e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2184e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 218516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 218616295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 218716295becSSteffen Klassert bool 218816295becSSteffen Klassert 21894520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21904520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21914520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21924520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21934520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21944520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21954520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21964520c6a4SDavid Howells 21976beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2198e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2199e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2200e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 22011bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 22021bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 22037303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 22047303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 22057303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 22067303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 22077303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 22087303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 22091bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 22101bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2211