1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 2face4374SRoman Zippel string 3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 4face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 52972666aSMasahiro Yamada default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname --release)/.config" 6face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 72972666aSMasahiro Yamada default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname --release)" 8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC 17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang) 21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 26b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 27b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 28b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 29b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 31e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 32e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 331dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 341dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 351dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 36c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 37c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 38c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 39c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 40c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 41c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 42c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 43c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 44c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 45c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 46ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 58dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 59dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 6234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 644bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 654bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 66bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 674bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 684bb16672SJiri Slaby help 694bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 704bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 714bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 724bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 734bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 744bb16672SJiri Slaby 754bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 764bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 774bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 784bb16672SJiri Slaby 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 92ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 97aaebf433SRyan Anderson 98aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1193ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1203ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1213ebe1243SLasse Collin 1227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 125e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 126e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 127e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 128*f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 129*f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 130*f16466afSVasily Gorbik 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 134*f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1587dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1650a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1760a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1783ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1803ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1813ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1947dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1970a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 198681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 203e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 204e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 205e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 206e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 207e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 208e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 209e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 212e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 213*f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 214*f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 215*f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 216*f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 217*f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 218*f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 219*f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 220*f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 221*f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 222*f16466afSVasily Gorbik 22330d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 225bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 226bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 227bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 228bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 229bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 230bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 231bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 232bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 233bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2369361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 259a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 260a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 261a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 262a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 263a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 264a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 26719c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 273b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 281bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 282bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 283bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 284bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 285bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 286bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 287226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 288226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 289226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 290226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 291226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 292226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 293226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 294a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 295226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 296226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 29769369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 29869369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 299b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 30069369a70SJosh Triplett help 30169369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 30269369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 30369369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 30469369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 30569369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 30669369a70SJosh Triplett 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 309804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 313cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 314cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3167a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3177a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3187a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 320cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3217a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 323939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 324939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 325939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 326939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 32874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 32974c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33063c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 33128a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 33274c3cbe3SAl Viro 333d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 334764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 335d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 336391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 337391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 338abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 339abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 341fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 342fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 34402fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 346fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 349c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 351fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 356fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 357abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 358391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 359c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 360abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 361391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 362391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 370abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 371abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 372ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 373554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 374abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 375abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 382abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 383abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 388b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 389b58c3584SRik van Riel 390fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 391fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 392b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 394fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 401391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 402391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4032813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 405391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 42819c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4302813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 432391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 44219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 444f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 45419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 46319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 4735c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 4745c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 475414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 4762c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 4775c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 4785c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 4795c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 4802c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 4812c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 4822c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 4832c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 4845c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 4850af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 486c903ff83SMike Travis 487de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 488de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 489de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 490de5b56baSVivek Goyal 4911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 492f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 493de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 512794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 513fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 514f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 515361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 516794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 51723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 51823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 51923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 52023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 52123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 522f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 523f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 524f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 525f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 526f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 527794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 528794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 529794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 53023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 53123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 5322240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 53323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 53423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 53523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 536361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 53723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 53823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 53923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 54023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 54123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 54223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 54323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 54423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 54523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 54623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 54723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 54823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 54923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 55023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 55123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 55223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 55323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 55423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 5555e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 5565e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 55723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 55823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 55923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 56023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 56123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 56223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 56323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 56423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 56523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 566f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 567f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 568427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 569427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 570f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 571427934b8SPetr Mladek help 572f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 573f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 574f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 575f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 576f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 577427934b8SPetr Mladek 578f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 579427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 580427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 581427934b8SPetr Mladek 582427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 583427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 584427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 585427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 586427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 587427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 588427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 589427934b8SPetr Mladek 5905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 59638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 59738ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 59838ff87f7SStephen Boyd 599be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 600be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 601be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 602be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 603be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 604be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 605be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 606be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 60772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 60872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 60972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 61072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 61172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 61272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 61372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 61472b252aeSMel Gorman bool 61572b252aeSMel Gorman 61672b252aeSMel Gorman# 617be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 618be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 619be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 620be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 621be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 622be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 623be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 624be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 625be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 626be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 627be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 628be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 629be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 630be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 631be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 632be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 633be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 634be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 635be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 6366d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 637be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 638be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 639be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 6406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 6416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 6426f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 6436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 6446f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 6456f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 6466f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 6476f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 64823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 6496341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 6502bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 651ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 65223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 6579991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 65845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 659ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 660ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 661ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 66223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 66323964d2dSLi Zefan 6643e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 6653e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 6663e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 667c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 668a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 6693e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 67079bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 67100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 672a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 67300f0b825SBalbir Singh 674c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 675a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 676c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 677c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 678a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 679a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 680c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 681a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 682c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 683a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 684a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 685a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 686a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 68743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 68807555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 689a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 690a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 691a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 69200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 693c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6946bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 6956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 6966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 6972bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 6986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 6996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 7006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 7016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 7022bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 7036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 7046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 7056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 7066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 707e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 7096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 7106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 7116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 7126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 7136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7149991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 7156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 7176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 7186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 7196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 7206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 7226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 7236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7246bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 7256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 7266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 7276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 728e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7297c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 730a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 7317c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7327c941438SDhaval Giani help 7337c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7347c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7357c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7367c941438SDhaval Giani 7377c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7387c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7397c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7407c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7417c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7427c941438SDhaval Giani 743ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 744ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 745ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 746ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 747ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 748ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 749ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 750ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 751ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 752cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 753ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7547c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7557c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7567c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7577c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7587c941438SDhaval Giani help 7597c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 76032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7617c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7627c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7637c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7647c941438SDhaval Giani 7657c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7667c941438SDhaval Giani 7676bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 7696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 7716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 7726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 7736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 7746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 7756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 7766cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 7776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 7796cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 7806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 7816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 7826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 78339d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 78439d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 78539d3e758SParav Pandit help 78639d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 78739d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 78839d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 78939d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 79039d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 79139d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 79239d3e758SParav Pandit 7936bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 7946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 7986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 799489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 800489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 801489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 802489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 803489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 8066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 808afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 8096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 8146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 8156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 8166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 8176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 8186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 819afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 8216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 822e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 8236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 8256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 8266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 8276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 828afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 830afc24d49SVivek Goyal 8316bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 8326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 83489e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 83589e9b9e0STejun Heo 8366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 8416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8426bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 8446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 8466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8486bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 8496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 8506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 8516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 85830070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 85930070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 860483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 861483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 86230070984SDaniel Mack help 86330070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 86430070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 86530070984SDaniel Mack 86630070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 86730070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 86830070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 86930070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 87030070984SDaniel Mack 8716bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 87223b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 8736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 87423b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 87723b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 87823b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 87923b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 88373b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 88473b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 88573b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 88673b35147SArnd Bergmann 88723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 888c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 8898dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 8906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 8912813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 8926a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 893c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 894c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 895c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 896c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 897c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 898c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 8998dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 9008dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 90158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 90258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 90317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 90458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 90558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 90658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 90758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 908ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 909ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 9108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 91117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 912ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 913ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 914614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 915ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 916aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 91719c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 9185673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 919aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 920aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 921aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 922e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 923e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 924d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 925d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 926d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 927e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 928aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 929aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 93074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 9319bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 93217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 93374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 93412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 935692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 93674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 93774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 938d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 939d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 9408dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 94117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 942d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 943d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 944d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 945d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 9468dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 9478dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 9485091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 9495091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 9505091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 9515091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 9525091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9535091faa4SMike Galbraith help 9545091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 9555091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 9565091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 9575091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 9585091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 9595091faa4SMike Galbraith 9607af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9615d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 9627af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9637af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9647af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9657af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 9667af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 9677af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 9687af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9697af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 9707af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 9717af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9727af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 9737af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 9747af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 9757af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9767af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 9777af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 9787af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 9797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9807af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9817af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 9827af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9837af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 9845d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 9857af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9867af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9877af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9887af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9897af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 9907af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9917af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 9927af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 9937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9947af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9957af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 9967af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 9977af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9987af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 9997af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 100026b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 10017af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10027af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 10037af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 10047af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 10057af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 10067af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 10077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10087af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 10097af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1010f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1011f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1012f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1013f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1014f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1015f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1016f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 10178c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1018f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1019f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1020f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1021f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1022f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1023f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1024f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1025c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1026c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1027dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1028dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1029c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1030c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1031877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1032877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 10332cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1034877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1035877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1036877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1037877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1038877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1039877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1040877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1041877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1042c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 104396fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1044c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 104531a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 104631a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1047c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 10483a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1049c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1050877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1051877417e6SArnd Bergmann 10525d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 10545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 10555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 10565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 10575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 10585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 10595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 10605d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 10615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10625d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10645d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 10655d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 10665d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 10675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and 10685d20ee31SNicholas Piggin data elimination with the linker by compiling with 10695d20ee31SNicholas Piggin -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, and linking with 10705d20ee31SNicholas Piggin --gc-sections. 10715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 10735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 10745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 10755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 10765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 10775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 10785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 10790847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 10800847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 10810847062aSRandy Dunlap 1082b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1083b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1084b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1085657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1086657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1087657a5209SMike Frysinger 1088657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1089657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1090657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1091657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1092657a5209SMike Frysinger 1093657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1094657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1095657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1096657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1097657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1098657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1099657a5209SMike Frysinger 1100657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1101657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1102657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1103657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1104657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1105657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1106657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1107657a5209SMike Frysinger 1108657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1109657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1110657a5209SMike Frysinger 1111f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1112f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1113f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1114f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 11156a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 11166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1117f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1118f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1125ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 11266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 11272813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1128ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1129ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1130ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1131ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11322813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 11332813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 11342813893fSIulia Manda default y 11352813893fSIulia Manda help 11362813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 11372813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 11382813893fSIulia Manda 11392813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 11402813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 11412813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 11422813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 11432813893fSIulia Manda 11442813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 11452813893fSIulia Manda 1146f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1147f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1148a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1149f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1150f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1151f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1152f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1153f6187769SFabian Frederick 1154f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1155f6187769SFabian Frederick 11566af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 11576af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 11586af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 11596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 11606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 11616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 11626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 11636af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 11646af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 11656af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1166b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 11676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 116826a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1169c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1170b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1171b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 117213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 117313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 117413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 117513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1176b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 117713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 117813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 117913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1180b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1181c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1182ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1183d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1184d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1185d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1186d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1187d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1188d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1189d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1190d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1191d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1192d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1193d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1194d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1195d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1196baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1197baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1198baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1199baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1200baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1201baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1202baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1203baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1204baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1205baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1206baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1207baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1208baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1209baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1210baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1211baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1212baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1213d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1214d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 12156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 121674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1217d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1218d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1219d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1220d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1221d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1222d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1223d59745ceSMatt Mackall 122442a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 122542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 122642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 122742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 122842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1229c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 12306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1231c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1232c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1233c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1234c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1235c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1236c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1237c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1238c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1239708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1240046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1241708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 12426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1243708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1244708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1245708e9a79SMatt Mackall 12468761f1abSRalf Baechle 1247e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 12486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 12498761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 125015f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1251e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1252e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1253e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1254e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1255e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 12561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 12656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1267bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1273bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1274bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1275bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1276bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1277bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 127803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 127903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 128062b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 128103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 128203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 128303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 128403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 128503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 12861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 12876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1289448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1294fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 12956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1296448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1297fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1298fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1299fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1300fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1301fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1302fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1303fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1304b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 13056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1306448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1307b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1308b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1309b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1310b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1311b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1312b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1313b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1314e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 13156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1316448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1317e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1318e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1319e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1320e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1321e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1322e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1323e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 13241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 13256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1335ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 13366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1337ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1338ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1339ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1340ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1341ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1342ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1343d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1344d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1345d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1346d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1347d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1348d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1349d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1350d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1351d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1352d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 13535b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 13545b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 13555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 13565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 13575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 13585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 13595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 13605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 13615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 13625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 13635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 13645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1365d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1366d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1367d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select PROC_CHILDREN 1368d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1369d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1370d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1371d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1372d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1373d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap entries. 1374d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1375d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N here. 1376d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1377d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1378d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1379d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1380d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1381d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1382d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1383d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1384d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1385d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1386d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1387d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1388d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1389d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1390d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1391d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1392d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1393d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1394d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1395d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1396d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1397d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1398d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1399d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1400d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1401d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1402d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1403d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1404d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1405d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1406d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1407d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1408d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1409d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1410a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1411d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1412d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1413d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1414d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1415d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1416d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1417d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1418d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1419d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1420d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1421d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1422d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1423d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1424d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1425d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1426d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1427d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1428d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1429d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1430d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1431d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1432bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1433d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1434d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1435d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1436d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1437d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1438290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1439290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1440290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1441290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1442290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1443290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1444290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select ANON_INODES 1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 14533ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 14543ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 14553ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 145670216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 145770216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 145870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1459d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1460d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1461d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1462d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1463d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1464d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1465d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1466d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1467d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1468d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1469d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1470d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1471d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1472d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1473d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1474d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1475d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1476d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1477d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1478d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1479d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1480d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1481d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 14826befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 14836befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 14845d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 14856befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 14866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 14876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 14886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 14896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 14906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1491cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 14920793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1493018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1494018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 14950793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1496906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1497906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1498906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1499906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1500906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1501ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1502424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1503ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1504ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1505ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1506ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1507ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 150857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 15090793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1510cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 151157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1512392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1513cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15144c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1515e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 151683fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 15170793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 151857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 151957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 15200793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1521dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 152257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 152357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 152457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 152557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 15260793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 15270793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 15280793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 15290793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 15300793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 15310793a61dSThomas Gleixner 153257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1533dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 153457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 15350793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 15360793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 15370793a61dSThomas Gleixner 15380793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 15390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1540906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1541906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1542906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1543cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1544906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1545906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1546906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1547906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1548906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1549906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1550906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1551906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1552906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 15530793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 15540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1555f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1556f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 15576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1558f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 15592aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 15602aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 15616a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 15622aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1563f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 156441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 156541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 15666a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1567f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 156841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 156941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 157041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 157141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 157241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 157341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 15741663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 15751663f26dSTejun Heo default n 15761663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 15771663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 15781663f26dSTejun Heo help 15791663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 15801663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 15811663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 15821663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 15831663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 15841663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 15851663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 15861663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 15871663f26dSTejun Heo 1588b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1589b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1590b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1591b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1592b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1593b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1594b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1595692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1596b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1597b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1598b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1599b943c460SRandy Dunlap 160081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 160181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1602a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 160381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 160481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 160581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 160681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 160781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 160804385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 160981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 161081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 161134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 161202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 161381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 161481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 161581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1616ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 161781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 161881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 161981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 162081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 162181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 162202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 162302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 162481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 162581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 16266a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 162781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 162881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 162937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 163037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 163137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 163281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 163381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 163481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 16357660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 16367660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 16377660a6fdSKees Cook default y 16387660a6fdSKees Cook help 16397660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 16407660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 16417660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 16427660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 16437660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 16447660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 16457660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 16467660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 16477660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 16487660a6fdSKees Cook 1649c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1650c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1651210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1652c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1653c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1654210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1655c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1656c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1657c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 16582482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 16592482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 16602482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 16612482ddecSKees Cook help 16622482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 16632482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 16642482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 16652482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 16662482ddecSKees Cook 1667345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1668345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1669b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1670345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1671345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1672345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1673345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1674345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1675345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1676345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1677345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1678ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1679ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 16806a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1681ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1682ea637639SJie Zhang help 1683ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1684ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1685ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1686ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1687ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1688ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1689ea637639SJie Zhang 1690ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1691ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1692ea637639SJie Zhang 1693ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1694ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1695ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1696ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1697ea637639SJie Zhang 1698ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1699ea637639SJie Zhang 1700091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1701091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1702091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1703091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1704091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1705d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1706091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1707091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1708091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1709091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1710091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1711091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 171282c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1713091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1714091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1715091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1716091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 171782c04ff8SPeter Foley 1718125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1719b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1720125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1721125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1722125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1723125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 17245f87f112SIngo Molnar# 17255f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 17265f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 17275f87f112SIngo Molnar# 172897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 17295f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 173097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1731fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1732fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 17331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1735ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 17366341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1737ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 17381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 174366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 174511097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17640b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 17650b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1766826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1767826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1768826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1769826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 177091e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 177191e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 177291e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1773826e4506SLinus Torvalds 17741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1779f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1780f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 178419c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 17930d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 180256067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 180356067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 180456067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 180556067812SArd Biesheuvel 18061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1817106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1818106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1819106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1820091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1821106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1822106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1823106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1824cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1825106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1826228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1827228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1828228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1829228c37ffSDavid Howells 1830ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1831ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1832ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1833ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1834ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1835106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1836106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1837106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1838106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1839106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1840106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1841ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1842d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1843d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1844d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1845d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1846d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1847d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1848d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1849d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1850d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1851d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1852d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1853ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1854ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1855ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1856ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1857ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1858ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1859ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1860ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1861ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1862ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1863ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1864ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1865ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1866ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1867ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1868ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1869ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1870ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1871ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1872ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1873ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1874ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1875ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1876ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1877ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1878ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1879ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1880ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1881ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1882ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1883ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1884ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 188522753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 188622753674SMichal Marek string 188722753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 188822753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 188922753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 189022753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 189122753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 189222753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 189322753674SMichal Marek 1894beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 1895beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 1896beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 1897beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1898beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1899b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1900b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1901beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1902b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1903beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1904b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1905b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 1906beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1907b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1908b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1909beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1910b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1911b6c09b51SRusty Russell 1912b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 1913beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1914beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 1915beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 1916beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1917beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1918beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 1919beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1920beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 1921beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1922beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1923beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1924beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1925beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 1926beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1927beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1928beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 1929beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1930beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 1931beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 1932dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1933dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1934dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1935dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 1936dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1937dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1938dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1939dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1940dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1941dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1942dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1943dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1944dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1945dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 1946f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1947dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 19480b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 19490b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 19506c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 19516c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 19526c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 19536c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 195498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 195598a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 195698a79d6aSRusty Russell help 19575f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 19585f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 195998a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 196098a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1961692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 196298a79d6aSRusty Russell 19633a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1964e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1965e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1966e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1967e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 196816295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 196916295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 197016295becSSteffen Klassert bool 197116295becSSteffen Klassert 19724520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 19734520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 19744520c6a4SDavid Howells help 19754520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 19764520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 19774520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 19784520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 19794520c6a4SDavid Howells 19806beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1981e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 1982e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1983e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 19841bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 19851bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 19867303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 19877303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 19887303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 19897303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 19907303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 19917303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 19921bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 19931bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 1994