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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
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