1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 2face4374SRoman Zippel string 3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 4face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 547f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 6face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 747f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default ARCH_DEFCONFIG 9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc) 13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 16fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) 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 26e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 27e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 28e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 29b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 30b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized) 31b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 32b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC >= 4.7 supports this option. 33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada bool 36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED 37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9 38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada help 39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition. 40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases. 41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed 43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings. 44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada 45b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 46b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 47b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 48b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 49e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 50e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 51e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 521dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 531dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 541dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 55c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 62c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 63c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 64c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 65ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 77dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 78dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 834bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 844bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 85bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 864bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 874bb16672SJiri Slaby help 884bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 894bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 904bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 914bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 924bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 934bb16672SJiri Slaby 944bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 954bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 964bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 974bb16672SJiri Slaby 981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 108aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 110aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 111ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 112aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 113aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson 117aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 119aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 121aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1236e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1246e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1266e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 128aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1299afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1309afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1319afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1329afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1339afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1349afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1359afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1369afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1379afb719eSLaura Abbott 1382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1473ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1483ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1493ebe1243SLasse Collin 1507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1527dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 153e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 154e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 155e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 156f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 157f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 158f16466afSVasily Gorbik 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 162f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 18830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1930a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 19830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2020a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2040a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2063ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2073ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2083ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2093ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2103ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2113ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2123ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2133ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2143ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2153ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2163ebe1243SLasse Collin 2173ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2183ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2193ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2203ebe1243SLasse Collin 2217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2250a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 226681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 229e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 230e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 231e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 232e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 233e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 234e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 235e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 241f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 242f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 243f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 244f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 245f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 246f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 247f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 248f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 249f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 250f16466afSVasily Gorbik 25130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 253bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 254bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 255bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 256bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 257bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 258bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 259bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 260bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 261bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 26217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 26317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 26417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 26517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 26617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 26717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 26817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 2691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 27117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 294a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 295a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 296a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 297a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 298a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 299a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 30219c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 308b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 316bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 317bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 318bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 319bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 320bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 321bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 322226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 323226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 324226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 325226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 326226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 327226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 328226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 329a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 330226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 331226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 33269369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 33369369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 334b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 33569369a70SJosh Triplett help 33669369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 33769369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 33869369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 33969369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 34069369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 34169369a70SJosh Triplett 3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 344804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 348cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 349cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3517a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3527a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3537a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 355cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3567a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 35728a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 35874c3cbe3SAl Viro 359d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 360764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 36187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 362d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 37102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 374fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 376c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 386c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 399ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 400554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 401041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 407abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 408abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 409abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 412abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 413abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 414abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 415abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 416b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 417b58c3584SRik van Riel 418fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 419fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 420b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 421fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 422fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 423fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 424fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 425fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 426fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 427fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 428fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 42911d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 43011d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 43111d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 43211d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 43311d4afd4SVincent Guittot 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4362813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 4553903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 46119c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4632813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 47519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 476391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 477f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 486391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 48719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 495391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 49619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 503391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 504eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 505eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 506eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 507eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 508eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 509eb414681SJohannes Weiner 510eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 511eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 512eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 513eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 514eb414681SJohannes Weiner 5152ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 5162ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 5172ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 5182ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 519eb414681SJohannes Weiner For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt. 520eb414681SJohannes Weiner 521eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 522eb414681SJohannes Weiner 523e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 524e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 525e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 526e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 527e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 528e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 529428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 530428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 531e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 5327b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 5337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 5347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 5357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 5367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 5377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 5397b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 5407b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 5417b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 5427b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 5455c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 5465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 547414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 5482c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 5495c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 5505c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 5515c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 5522c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 5532c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 5542c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 5552c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 5565c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 5570af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 558c903ff83SMike Travis 559de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 560de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 561de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 562de5b56baSVivek Goyal 5631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 564f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 582*f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 583*f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 584*f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 58543d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 586*f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 587*f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 588*f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 589*f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 59043d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 591794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 592794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 593fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 594f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 595361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 596794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 59723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 59823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 59923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 60023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 602f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 603f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 604f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 605f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 606f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 607794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 608794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 609794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 61023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 61123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 6122240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 61323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 61423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 61523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 616361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 61723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 61823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 61923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 62623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 62723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 62823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 62923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 63023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 63223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 63323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 6355e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 6365e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 63723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 63823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 63923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 64023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 64123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 64223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 64323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 64423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 64523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 646f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 647f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 648427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 649427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 650f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 651427934b8SPetr Mladek help 652f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 653f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 654f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 655f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 656f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 657427934b8SPetr Mladek 658f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 659427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 660427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 661427934b8SPetr Mladek 662427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 663427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 664427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 665427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 666427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 667427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 668427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 669427934b8SPetr Mladek 6705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 67638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 67738ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 67838ff87f7SStephen Boyd 679be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 680be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 681be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 682be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 683be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 684be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 685be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 686be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 68772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 68872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 68972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 69072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 69172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 69272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 69372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 69472b252aeSMel Gorman bool 69572b252aeSMel Gorman 69672b252aeSMel Gorman# 697be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 698be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 699be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 700be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 701be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 702be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 703be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 704be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 705be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 706be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 707be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 708be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 709be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 710be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 711be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 712be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 713be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 714be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 715be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 7166d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 717be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 718be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 719be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 7206f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 7216f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 7226f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 7236f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 7246f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 7256f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 7266f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 7276f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 72823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 7296341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 7302bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 731ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 73223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 7335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 7345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 7355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 7365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 7379991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 73845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 739ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 740ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 741ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 74223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 74323964d2dSLi Zefan 7443e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 7453e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 7463e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 747c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 748a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 7493e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 75079bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 75100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 752a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 75300f0b825SBalbir Singh 754c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 755a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 756c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 757c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 758a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 759a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 760c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 761a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 762c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 763a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 764a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 765a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 766a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 76743d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 76807555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 769a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 770a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 771a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 77200a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 773c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 77484c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 77584c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 77684c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 77784c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 77884c07d11SKirill Tkhai 7796bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 7806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 7816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 7822bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 7836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 7846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 7866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 7872bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 7886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 7896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 7906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 7916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 792e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 7946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 7956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 7966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 7976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 7986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 7999991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 8006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 8026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 8036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 8046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 8056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 8066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 8076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 8086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 8106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 8116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 8126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 813e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 8147c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 815a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 8167c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8177c941438SDhaval Giani help 8187c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 8197c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 8207c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 8217c941438SDhaval Giani 8227c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 8237c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8247c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 8257c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8267c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 8277c941438SDhaval Giani 828ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 829ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 830ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 831ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 832ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 833ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 834ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 835ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 836ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 837cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 838ab84d31eSPaul Turner 8397c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 8407c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 8417c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 8427c941438SDhaval Giani default n 8437c941438SDhaval Giani help 8447c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 84532bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 8467c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 8477c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 8487c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 8497c941438SDhaval Giani 8507c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 8517c941438SDhaval Giani 8526bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 8536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 8546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 8566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 8576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 8586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 8616cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 86498076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 8656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 8666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 8676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 86839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 86939d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 87039d3e758SParav Pandit help 87139d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 87239d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 87339d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 87439d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 87539d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 87639d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 87739d3e758SParav Pandit 8786bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 884489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 885489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 886489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 887489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 888489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 8896bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 893afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 8956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 8966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 8996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 9006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 9016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 9026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 904afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9056bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 9066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 907e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 9086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 9116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 9126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 913afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 915afc24d49SVivek Goyal 9166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 9176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 9186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 91989e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 92089e9b9e0STejun Heo 9216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 9256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 9346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 9396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 94330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 94430070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 945483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 946483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 94730070984SDaniel Mack help 94830070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 94930070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 95030070984SDaniel Mack 95130070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 95230070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 95330070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 95430070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 95530070984SDaniel Mack 9566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 95723b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 9586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 95923b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 9606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 9616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 96223b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 96323b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 96423b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 9656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 9676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 96873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 96973b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 97073b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 97173b35147SArnd Bergmann 97223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 973c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9748dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 9756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 9762813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 9776a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 978c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 979c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 980c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 981c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 982c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 983c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 9848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 9858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 98658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 98758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 98817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 98958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 99058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 99158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 99258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 993ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 994ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 9958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 99617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 997ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 998ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 999614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1000ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1001aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 100219c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 10035673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1004aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1005aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1006aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1007e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1008e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1009d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1010d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1011d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1012e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1013aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1014aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 101574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 10169bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 101717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 101874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 101912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1020692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 102174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 102274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1023d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1024d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 10258dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 102617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1027d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1028d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1029d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1030d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 10318dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 10328dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 10335cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 10345cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 10355cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 10365cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 10375cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 10385cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 10395cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 10405cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 10415cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 10425cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10435cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 10445cb366bbSAdrian Reber 10455091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 10465091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 10475091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 10485091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 10495091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10505091faa4SMike Galbraith help 10515091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 10525091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 10535091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 10545091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 10555091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 10565091faa4SMike Galbraith 10577af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10585d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 10597af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10607af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10617af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10627af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 10637af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 10647af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 10657af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10667af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 10677af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 10687af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10697af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 10707af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 10717af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 10727af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10737af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 10747af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 10757af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 10767af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10777af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10787af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 10797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10807af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 10815d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 10827af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 10837af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 10847af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 10857af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10867af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 10877af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10887af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 10897af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 10907af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10917af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 10927af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 10937af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 10947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 10957af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 10967af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 109726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 10987af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 10997af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 11007af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 11017af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 11027af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 11037af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 11047af37becSDaniel Lezcano 11057af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 11067af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1107f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1108f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1109f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1110f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1111f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1112f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1113f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 11148c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1115f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1116f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1117f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1118f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1119f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1120f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1121f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1122c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1123c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1124dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1125dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1126c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1127c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1128877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1129877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 11302cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1131877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1132877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1133877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1134877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1135877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1136877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1137877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1138877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1139c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 114096fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1141b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives 1142c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 114331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 114431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1145c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 11463a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1147c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1148877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1149877417e6SArnd Bergmann 11505d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 11525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 11545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 11555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 11565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 11575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 11585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 11595d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11605d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11615d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11625d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 11635d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 116416fd20aaSPaul Burton depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) 1165e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1166e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 11675d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 11688b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 11698b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 11708b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 11715d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11725d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 11735d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 11745d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 11755d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 11765d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 11775d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 11785d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 11790847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 11800847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 11810847062aSRandy Dunlap 1182657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1183657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1184657a5209SMike Frysinger 1185657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1186657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1187657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1188657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1189657a5209SMike Frysinger 1190657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1191657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1192657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1193657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1194657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1195657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1196657a5209SMike Frysinger 1197657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1198657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1199657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1200657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1201657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1202657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1203657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1204657a5209SMike Frysinger 1205657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1206657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1207657a5209SMike Frysinger 1208f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1209f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1210f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1211f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 12126a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 12136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1214f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1215f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1222ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 12236a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 12242813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1225ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1226ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1227ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1228ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12292813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 12302813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 12312813893fSIulia Manda default y 12322813893fSIulia Manda help 12332813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 12342813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 12352813893fSIulia Manda 12362813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 12372813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 12382813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 12392813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 12402813893fSIulia Manda 12412813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 12422813893fSIulia Manda 1243f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1244f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1245a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1246f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1247f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1248f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1249f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1250f6187769SFabian Frederick 1251f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1252f6187769SFabian Frederick 12536af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 12546af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 12556af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 12566af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 12576af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 12586af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 12596af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 12606af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 12616af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 12626af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1263b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 12646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 126526a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1266c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1267b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1268b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 126913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 127013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 127113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 127213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1273b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 127413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 127513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 127613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1277b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1278c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1279ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1280d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1281d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1282d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1283d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1284d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1285d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1286d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1287d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1288d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1289d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1290d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1291d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1292d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1293baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1294baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1295baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1296baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1297baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1298baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1299baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1300baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1301baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1302baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1303baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1304baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1305baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1306baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1307baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1308baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1309baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1310d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1311d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 13126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 131374876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1314d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1315d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1316d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1317d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1318d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1319d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1320d59745ceSMatt Mackall 132142a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 132242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 132342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 132442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 132542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1326c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 13276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1328c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1329c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1330c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1331c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1332c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1333c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1334c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1335c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1336708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1337046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1338708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 13396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1340708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1341708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1342708e9a79SMatt Mackall 13438761f1abSRalf Baechle 1344e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 13456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 13468761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 134715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1348e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1349e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1350e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1351e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1352e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 13531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 13626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1364bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1370bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1371bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1372bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1373bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1374bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 137503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 137603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 137762b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 137803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 137903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 138003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 138103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 138203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 13831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 13846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1390fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 13916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1392fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1393fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1394fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1395fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1396fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1397fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1398fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1399b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 14006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1401b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1402b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1403b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1404b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1405b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1406b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1407b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1408e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 14096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1410e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1411e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1412e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1413e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1414e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1415e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1416e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 14171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 14186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1428ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 14296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1430ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1431ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1432ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1433ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1434ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1435ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 14362b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 14372b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 14382b188cc1SJens Axboe select ANON_INODES 14392b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 14402b188cc1SJens Axboe help 14412b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 14422b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 14432b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 14442b188cc1SJens Axboe 1445d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1446d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1447d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1448d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1449d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1450d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1451d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1452d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1453d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1454d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 14555b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 14565b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 14575b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 14585b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 14595b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 14605b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 14615b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 14625b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 14635b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 14645b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 14655b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 14665b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1478d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1481d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1482d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1483d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1484d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1485d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1486d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1487d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1488d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1489d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1494d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1496d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1497d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1498d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1499d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1500a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1506d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1507d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1508d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1509d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1510d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1511d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1512d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1521bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 1522d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1523d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1524d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1525d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1526d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1527290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1528290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1529290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1530290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1531290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1532290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1533290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 1534d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1535d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1536d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1537d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1538d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1539d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1540d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 15413ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 15423ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 15433ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 154470216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 154570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 154670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1547d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1548d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1549d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1550d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1551d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1552d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1553d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1554d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1555d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1556d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1557d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1558d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1559d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1560d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1561d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1562d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1563d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1564d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1565d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1566d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1567d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1568d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1569d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 15706befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 15716befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 15725d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 15736befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 15746befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 15756befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 15766befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 15776befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 15786befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1579cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 15800793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1581018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1582018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 15830793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1584906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1585906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1586906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1587906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1588906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1589ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1590424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1591ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1592ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1593ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1594ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1595ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 159657c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 15970793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1598cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 159957c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1600392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1601cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1602e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 160383fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 16040793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 160557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 160657c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 16070793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1608dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 160957c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 161057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 161157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 161257c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 16130793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 16140793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 16150793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 16160793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 16170793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 16180793a61dSThomas Gleixner 161957c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1620dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 162157c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 16220793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 16230793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 16240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 16250793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 16260793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1627906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1628906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1629906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1630cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1631906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1632906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1633906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1634906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1635906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1636906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1637906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1638906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1639906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 16400793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 16410793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1642f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1643f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 16446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1645f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 16462aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 16472aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 16486a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 16492aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1650f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 165141ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 165241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 16536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1654f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 165541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 165641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 165741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 165841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 165941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 166041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 16611663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 16621663f26dSTejun Heo default n 16631663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 16641663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 16651663f26dSTejun Heo help 16661663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 16671663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 16681663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 16691663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 16701663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 16711663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 16721663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 16731663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 16741663f26dSTejun Heo 1675b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1676b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1677b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1678b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1679b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1680b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1681b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1682692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1683b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1684b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1685b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1686b943c460SRandy Dunlap 168781819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 168881819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1689a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 169081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 169181819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 169281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 169381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 169481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 169504385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 169681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 169781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 169834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 169902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 170081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 170181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 170281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1703ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 170481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 170581819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 170681819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 170781819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 170881819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 170902f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 171002f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 171181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 171281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 17136a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 171481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 171581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 171637291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 171737291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 171837291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 171981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 172081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 172181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 17227660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 17237660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 17247660a6fdSKees Cook default y 17257660a6fdSKees Cook help 17267660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 17277660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 17287660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 17297660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 17307660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 17317660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 17327660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 17337660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 17347660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 17357660a6fdSKees Cook 1736c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1737c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1738210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1739c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1740c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1741210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1742c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1743c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1744c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 17452482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 17462482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 17472482ddecSKees Cook depends on SLUB 17482482ddecSKees Cook help 17492482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 17502482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 17512482ddecSKees Cook sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 17522482ddecSKees Cook freelist exploit methods. 17532482ddecSKees Cook 1754e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1755e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1756e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1757e900a918SDan Williams help 1758e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1759e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1760e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1761e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1762e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1763e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1764e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1765e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1766e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1767e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1768e900a918SDan Williams 1769e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1770e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1771e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1772e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1773e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1774e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1775e900a918SDan Williams 1776e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1777e900a918SDan Williams 1778345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1779345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1780b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1781345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1782345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1783345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1784345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1785345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1786345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1787345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1788345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1789ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1790ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 17916a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1792ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1793ea637639SJie Zhang help 1794ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 17953903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1796ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1797ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1798ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1799ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1800ea637639SJie Zhang 1801ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1802ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1803ea637639SJie Zhang 1804ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1805ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1806ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1807ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1808ea637639SJie Zhang 1809ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1810ea637639SJie Zhang 1811091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1812091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1813091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1814091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1815091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1816d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1817091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1818091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1819091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1820091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1821091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1822091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 182382c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1824091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1825091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1826091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1827091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 182882c04ff8SPeter Foley 1829125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1830b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1831125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1832125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1833125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1834125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 18355f87f112SIngo Molnar# 18365f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 18375f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 18385f87f112SIngo Molnar# 183997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 18405f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 184197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 18421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18441572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 18451572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1846ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 18476341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1848ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 18491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 185466da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 185611097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18750b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 18760b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1877826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1878826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1879826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1880826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 188191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 188291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 188391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1884826e4506SLinus Torvalds 18851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1890f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1891f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 189519c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 19040d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 191356067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 191456067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 191556067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 191656067812SArd Biesheuvel 19171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1928106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 1929106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 1930106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 1931091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1932106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1933106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1934106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1935cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1936106a4ee2SRusty Russell 1937228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1938228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1939228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 1940228c37ffSDavid Howells 1941ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1942ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1943ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1944ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1945ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1946106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1947106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1948106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 1949106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 1950106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1951106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1952ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1953d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 1954d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1955d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 1956d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 1957d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 1958d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1959d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1960d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1961d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1962d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1963d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 1964ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 1965ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1966ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 1967ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 1968ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1969ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1970ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1971ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1972ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 1973ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1974ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1975ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1976ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 1977ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1978ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1979ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1980ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1981ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1982ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1983ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1984ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 1985ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1986ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1987ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1988ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1989ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1990ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1991ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1992ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 1993ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 1994ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 1995ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 199622753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 199722753674SMichal Marek string 199822753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 199922753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 200022753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 200122753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 200222753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 200322753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 200422753674SMichal Marek 2005beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2006beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2007beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 2008beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2009beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2010b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2011b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2012beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2013b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2014beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2015b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2016b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2017beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2018b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2019b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2020beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2021b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2022b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2023b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2024beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2025beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2026beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2027beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2028beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2029beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2030beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2031beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2032beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2033beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2034beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2035beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2036beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2037beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2038beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2039beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2040beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2041beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2042beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2043dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2044dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2045dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2046dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2047dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2048dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2049dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2050dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2051dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2052dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2053dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2054dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2055dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2056dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2057f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2058dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 20590b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 20600b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 20616c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 20626c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 20636c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 20646c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 206598a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 206698a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 206798a79d6aSRusty Russell help 20685f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 20695f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 207098a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 207198a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2072692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 207398a79d6aSRusty Russell 20743a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2075e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2076e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2077e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2078e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 207916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 208016295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 208116295becSSteffen Klassert bool 208216295becSSteffen Klassert 20834520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 20844520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 20854520c6a4SDavid Howells help 20864520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 20874520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 20884520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 20894520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 20904520c6a4SDavid Howells 20916beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2092e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 2093e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2094e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 20951bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 20961bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 20977303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 20987303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 20997303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21007303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21017303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21027303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21031bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21041bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2105