1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 3face4374SRoman Zippel string 4b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 5face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 647f38ae0SRob Landley default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config" 7face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 847f38ae0SRob Landley default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)" 92a86f661SMasahiro Yamada default "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)" 10face4374SRoman Zippel 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 138b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 148b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 158b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 168b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 178b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 198b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 208b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 218b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 228b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Ensure full rebuild when the compier is updated 238b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/kconfig.h contains this option in the comment line so 248b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada fixdep adds include/config/cc/version/text.h into the auto-generated 258b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig will touch it 268b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada and then every file will be rebuilt. 278b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 28a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 29e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q gcc) 30a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 31a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 32a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 33fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC 34a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 35a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 369553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhapconfig LD_VERSION 379553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap int 389553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap default $(shell,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) 399553d16fSAmit Daniel Kachhap 40469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 41e33ae3edSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,echo "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" | grep -q clang) 42469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 43b744b43fSSami Tolvanenconfig LD_IS_LLD 44b744b43fSSami Tolvanen def_bool $(success,$(LD) -v | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD) 45b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 46469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 47469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 48469cb737SMasahiro Yamada default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC)) 49469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 50d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 51d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 52d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/lld-version.sh $(LD)) 53d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 541a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 559371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 56b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 57b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 581a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 59b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 60b1183b6dSMasahiro Yamada bool 61b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 62b816b3dbSMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 63c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 64e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 65e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) 66e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada 67587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 68587f1701SNick Desaulniers depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 69587f1701SNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 70587f1701SNick Desaulniers 715cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 722d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 735cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 74eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 75eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 76eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 77b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 78b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 7987c9366eSJohannes Berg depends on !UML 80b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 81e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 82e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 83e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 8410916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 851dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 861dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 87c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 88c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 89c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 90c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 91c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 92c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 93c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 94c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 95c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 96c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 97ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 109dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 110dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 11334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1154bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1164bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 117334ef6edSHeiko Carstens depends on !UML && !S390 1184bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 1194bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1204bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1214bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1224bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1234bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1244bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1254bb16672SJiri Slaby 1264bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1274bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1284bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1294bb16672SJiri Slaby 130d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 131d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 132fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 133d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 134d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 135d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 136d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 137d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 138d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 139d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 1401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 150aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 151aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 152aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 153ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 154aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 155aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1576e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 158aaebf433SRyan Anderson 159aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1606e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 161aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1626e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 163aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1646e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1656e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1666e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1676e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1686e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1696e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 170aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1719afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 1729afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 1739afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 1749afb719eSLaura Abbott help 1759afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 1769afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 1779afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 1789afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 1799afb719eSLaura Abbott 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1862e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1872e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1882e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1893ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin 1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1947dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 195e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 196e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 197e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 19848f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 19948f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 20048f7ddf7SNick Terrell 201f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 202f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 203f16466afSVasily Gorbik 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 20748f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 20930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 21430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 21530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 21630d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 21730d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 21830d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 21930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22030d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 22130d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 22230d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 22330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 22530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 22630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 22730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 2282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 22930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 2317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 23230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 23330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 23430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 2352e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 23630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 23730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 2380a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 2392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 2402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 2412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 24230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 24330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 24430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 2452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 24630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 2470a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 2480a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 2490a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 25030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2513ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 2523ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 2533ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2543ebe1243SLasse Collin help 2553ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 2563ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 2573ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 2583ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 2593ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 2603ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 2613ebe1243SLasse Collin 2623ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 2633ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2643ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2653ebe1243SLasse Collin 2667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2677dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2687dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2700a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 271681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 274e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 275e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 276e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 277e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 278e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 279e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 280e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 281e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 282e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 283e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 285e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 28648f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 28748f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 28848f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 28948f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 29048f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 29148f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 29248f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 29348f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 29448f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 29548f7ddf7SNick Terrell 296f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 297f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 298f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 299f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 300f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 301f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 302f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 303f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 304f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 305f16466afSVasily Gorbik 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 308ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 309ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 310ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 311ada4ab7aSChris Down help 312ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 313ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 314ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 315ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 316ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 317ada4ab7aSChris Down 318bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 319bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 320bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 321bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 322bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 323bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 324bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 325bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 326bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 32717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 32817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can 32917c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove. 33017c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# 33117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP 33217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig bool 33317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig 3341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 33617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 346a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 359a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 360a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 361a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 362a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 363a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 364a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 3651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 36719c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 368a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 373b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 381bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 382bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 383bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 384bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 385bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 386bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 387c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 388c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 389c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 390c73be61cSDavid Howells help 391c73be61cSDavid Howells 392c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 393c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 394c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 395c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 396c73be61cSDavid Howells 397c73be61cSDavid Howells See Documentation/watch_queue.rst 398c73be61cSDavid Howells 399226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 400226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 401226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 402226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 403226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 404226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 405226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 406a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 407226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 408226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 40969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 41069369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 411b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 41269369a70SJosh Triplett help 41369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 41469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 41569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 41669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 41769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 41869369a70SJosh Triplett 4191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 421804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 425cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 426cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4287a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4297a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4307a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 432cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4337a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 43428a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 43574c3cbe3SAl Viro 436d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 437764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 43887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 439d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 442abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 443abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 444abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 445fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 446fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 447fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 44802fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 449fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 453c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 455fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 456fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 457fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 458fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 459fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 460fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 461abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 463c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 464abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 474abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 475abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 476ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 477554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 478041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 479abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 480abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 481abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 482abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 483abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 484abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 485abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 486abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 487abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 488abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 489abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 490abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 491abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 492abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 493b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 494b58c3584SRik van Riel 495fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 496fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 497b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 498fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 499fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 500fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 501fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 502fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 503fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 504fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 505fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 50611d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 50711d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 50811d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 50911d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 51011d4afd4SVincent Guittot 51176504793SThara Gopinathconfig SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 51298eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 513fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 514fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 51576504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 51698eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 51798eb401dSValentin Schneider help 51898eb401dSValentin Schneider Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 51998eb401dSValentin Schneider scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 52098eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 52198eb401dSValentin Schneider thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 52298eb401dSValentin Schneider a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 52398eb401dSValentin Schneider 52498eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 52598eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 52698eb401dSValentin Schneider 52798eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 52898eb401dSValentin Schneider arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_get_thermal_pressure(). 52976504793SThara Gopinath 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5322813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 539391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 540391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 541391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 542391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 543391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 544391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 545391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 546391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 547391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 548391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 549391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 550391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 5513903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 552391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 553391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 554391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 555391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 556391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 55719c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 558391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 5592813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 560391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 561391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 562391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 563391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 564391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 565391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 566391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 567391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 568391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 569391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 570391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 57119c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 572391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 573f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 574391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 575391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 576391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 577391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 578391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 579391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 580391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 581391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 582391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 58319c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 584391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 585391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 586391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 587391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 588391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 589391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 590391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 591391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 59219c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 593391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 594391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 597391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 600eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 601eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 602eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 603eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 604eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 605eb414681SJohannes Weiner 606eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 607eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 608eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 609eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 610eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6112ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6122ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6132ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6142ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 615c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 616eb414681SJohannes Weiner 617eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 618eb414681SJohannes Weiner 619e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 620e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 621e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 622e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 623e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 624e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 625428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 626428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 627e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6287b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6297b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6307b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6317b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6327b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6337b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6347b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 6357b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 6367b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 6377b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 6387b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 6415c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 6425c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 643414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 6442c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 6455c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 6465c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 6475c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 6482c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 6492c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 6502c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 6512c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 6525c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 6530af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 654c903ff83SMike Travis 655de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 656de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 657de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 658de5b56baSVivek Goyal 6591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 660f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 661a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 674a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 678f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 679f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 680f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 68143d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 682f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 683f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 684f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 685f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 68643d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 687794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 688794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 689550c10d2SJohn Ogness range 12 25 if !H8300 690550c10d2SJohn Ogness range 12 19 if H8300 691f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 692361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 693794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 69423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 69523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 69623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 69723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 69823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 699f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 700f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 701f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 702f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 703f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 704794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 705794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 706794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 70723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 70823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7092240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 71023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 71123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 71223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 713361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 71423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 71523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 71623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 71723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 71823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 71923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 72023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 72123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 72223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 72323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 72423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 72523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7260f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 72723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 72823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 72923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 73023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 73123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7325e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7335e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 73423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 73523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 73623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 73723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 73823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 73923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 74023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 74123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 74223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 743f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 744f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 745427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 746427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 747f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky depends on PRINTK 748427934b8SPetr Mladek help 749f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 750f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 751f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 752f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 753f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky The value defines the size as a power of 2. 754427934b8SPetr Mladek 755f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 756427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 757427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 758427934b8SPetr Mladek 759427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 760427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 761427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 762427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 763427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 764427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 765427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 766427934b8SPetr Mladek 7675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 7695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 7705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 7715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 7725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 77338ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 77438ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 77538ff87f7SStephen Boyd 77669842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 77769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 77869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 77969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 78069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 78169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 78269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 78369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 78469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 78569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 78669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 78769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 78869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 78969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 79169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 79269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 79369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 79569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 79669842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 79769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 79869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 79969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 80069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 80169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 80269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 80369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 80469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 80569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 80669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 80769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 80869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 80969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 81069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 81169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 81269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 81369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 81469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 81569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 81669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 81769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 81869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 81969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 82069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 82169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 82269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 82369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 82469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 82669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 829be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 830be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 831be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 832be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 833be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 834be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 835be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 836be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 83772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 83872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 83972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 84072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 84172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 84272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 84372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 84472b252aeSMel Gorman bool 84572b252aeSMel Gorman 846c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8473a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 848c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 84972b252aeSMel Gorman# 850be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 851be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 852be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 853be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 854be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 855be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 856be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 857be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 858be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 859be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 860be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 861be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 862be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 863be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 864be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 865be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 866be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 867be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 868be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 8696d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 870be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 871be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 872be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 8736f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 8746f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 8756f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 8766f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 8776f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 8786f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 8796f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 8806f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 88123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 8826341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 8832bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 884ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 88523964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 8865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 8875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 8885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 889d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 890da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 89145ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 892ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 893ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 894ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 89523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 89623964d2dSLi Zefan 8973e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 8983e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 8993e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 900c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 901a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9023e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 90379bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 90400f0b825SBalbir Singh help 905a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 90600f0b825SBalbir Singh 907c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 9082d1c4980SJohannes Weiner bool 909c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 910a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 911c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 91284c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM 91384c07d11SKirill Tkhai bool 91484c07d11SKirill Tkhai depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 91584c07d11SKirill Tkhai default y 91684c07d11SKirill Tkhai 9176bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9202bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 921a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9252bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 9276bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 9286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 9296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 930e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 9326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 9336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 9347baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 9356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 9366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 937da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 9396bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 9426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 943e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 9447c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 945a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 9467c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9477c941438SDhaval Giani help 9487c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 9497c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 9507c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 9517c941438SDhaval Giani 9527c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 9537c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9547c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 9557c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9567c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 9577c941438SDhaval Giani 958ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 959ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 960ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 961ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 962ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 963ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 964ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 965ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 966ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 967d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 968ab84d31eSPaul Turner 9697c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 9707c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 9717c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9727c941438SDhaval Giani default n 9737c941438SDhaval Giani help 9747c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 97532bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 9767c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 9777c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 978d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 9797c941438SDhaval Giani 9807c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 9817c941438SDhaval Giani 9822480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 9832480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 9842480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 9852480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 9862480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 9872480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 9882480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 9892480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 9902480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9912480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 9922480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 9932480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 9942480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 9952480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 9962480c093SPatrick Bellasi 9972480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 9982480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 9992480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 10002480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 10012480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10022480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 10032480c093SPatrick Bellasi 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10136cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 101698076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 102039d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 102139d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 102239d3e758SParav Pandit help 102339d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 102439d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 102539d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 102639d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 102739d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 102839d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 102939d3e758SParav Pandit 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1036489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1037489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1038489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1039489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1040489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1045afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 10556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1056afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10576bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 10586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1059e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 10606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 10626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 10636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1065afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1067afc24d49SVivek Goyal 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 107189e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 107289e9b9e0STejun Heo 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 10756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10856bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 10866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 10876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 10886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 10916546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 10926546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 109630070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 109730070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1098483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1099483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 110030070984SDaniel Mack help 110130070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 110230070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 110330070984SDaniel Mack 110430070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 110530070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 110630070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 110730070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 110830070984SDaniel Mack 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 111023b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 111223b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 11136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 111523b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 111623b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 111723b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 112173b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 112273b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 112373b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 112473b35147SArnd Bergmann 112523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1126c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 11278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11292813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11306a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1131c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1132c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1133c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1134c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1135c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1136c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11378dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11388dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 113958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 114058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 114117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 114258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 114358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 114458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 114558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1146769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1147769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1148660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1149769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1150769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1151769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1152769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1153769071acSAndrei Vagin 1154ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1155ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 11568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 115717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1158ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1159ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1160614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1161ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1162aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 116319c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 11645673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1165aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1166aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1167aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1168e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1169e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1170d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1171d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1172d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1173e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1174aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1175aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 117674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 11779bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 117817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 117974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 118012d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1181692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 118274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 118374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1184d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1185d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 11868dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 118717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1188d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1189d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1190d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1191d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 11928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 11938dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 11945cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 11955cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 11965cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 11975cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 11985cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 11995cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 12005cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 12015cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 12025cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 12035cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12045cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 12055cb366bbSAdrian Reber 12065091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12075091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12085091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12095091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12105091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12115091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12125091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12135091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12145091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12155091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12165091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12175091faa4SMike Galbraith 12187af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12195d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12207af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12217af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12227af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12237af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12247af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12257af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12267af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12277af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12287af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12297af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12307af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12317af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12327af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12337af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12347af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12357af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12367af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12377af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12387af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12397af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12407af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12417af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12425d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12437af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12447af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12457af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12467af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12477af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12487af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12497af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12507af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12517af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12527af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12537af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12547af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 125826b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1268f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1269f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1270f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1271f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1272f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1273f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1274f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 12758c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1276f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1277f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1278f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1279f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1280f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1281f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1282f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1283c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1284c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1285dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1286dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1287c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1288c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 128976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 129076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 12912910b5aaSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD 129276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 129376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 129476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 12950947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 129685c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 12970947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 129876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 129976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 130076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1301877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1302877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 13032cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1304877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1305877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 130615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1307877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1308877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1309877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1310877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1311877417e6SArnd Bergmann 131215f5db60SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 131315f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)" 131415f5db60SMasahiro Yamada depends on ARC 1315c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 131615f5db60SMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize 131715f5db60SMasahiro Yamada the kernel yet more for performance. 1318c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13195d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 132015f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1321c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1322ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1323ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1324c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1325877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1326877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13275d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13285d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 13295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 13315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 13325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 13335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 13345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 13355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 13365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13375d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 13405d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1341e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1342e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 13435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 13448b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 13458b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 13468b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 13475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 13485d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 13495d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 13505d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 13515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 13525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 13535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 13545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 135559612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 135659612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 135759612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1358d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000 135959612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 136059612b24SNathan Chancellor 13610847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13620847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13630847062aSRandy Dunlap 1364657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1365657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1366657a5209SMike Frysinger 1367657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1368657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1369657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1370657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1371657a5209SMike Frysinger 1372657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1373657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1374657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1375657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1376657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1377657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1378657a5209SMike Frysinger 1379657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1380657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1381657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1382657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1383657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1384657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1385657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1386657a5209SMike Frysinger 1387657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1388657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1389657a5209SMike Frysinger 1390f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1391f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1392f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1393f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13946a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1396f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1397f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1404ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 14056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 14062813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1407ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1408ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1409ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1410ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14112813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14122813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14132813893fSIulia Manda default y 14142813893fSIulia Manda help 14152813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14162813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14172813893fSIulia Manda 14182813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14192813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14202813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14212813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14222813893fSIulia Manda 14232813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14242813893fSIulia Manda 1425f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1426f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1427a687a533SArnd Bergmann def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1428a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1429f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1430f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1431f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1432f6187769SFabian Frederick 1433f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1434f6187769SFabian Frederick 14356af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14366af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 1438a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 14396af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14406af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 14426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 14436af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 14446af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1453d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1458baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1459baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1460baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1461baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1462baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1463baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1464baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1465baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1466baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1467baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1468baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1469baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1470baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1471baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1472baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1473baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1474baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1475d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1476d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 14776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 147874876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1479d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1480d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1481d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1482d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1483d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1484d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1485d59745ceSMatt Mackall 148642a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 148742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 148842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 148942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 149042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1491c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 14926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1493c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1494c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1495c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1496c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1497c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1498c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1499c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1500c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1501708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1502046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1503708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1505708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1506708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1507708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15088761f1abSRalf Baechle 1509e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15118761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 151215f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1513e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1514e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1515e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1516e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1517e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15206a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1529bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1535bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1536bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1537bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1538bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1539bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 154003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 154103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 154262b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 154303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 154403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 154503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 154603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 154703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 15481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1555fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15566a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1557fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1558fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1559fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1560fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1561fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1562fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1563fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1564b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 15656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1566b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1567b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1568b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1569b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1570b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1571b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1572b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1573e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 15746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1575e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1576e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1577e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1578e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1579e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1580e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1581e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 15821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 15836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1593ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 15946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1595ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1596ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1597ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1598ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1599ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1600ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 16012b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 16022b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1603561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 16042b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 16052b188cc1SJens Axboe help 16062b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 16072b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 16082b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 16092b188cc1SJens Axboe 1610d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1611d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1612d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1613d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1614d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1615d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1616d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1617d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1618d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1619d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 16205a281062SAndrea Arcangeliconfig HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP 16215a281062SAndrea Arcangeli bool 16225a281062SAndrea Arcangeli help 16235a281062SAndrea Arcangeli Arch has userfaultfd write protection support 16245a281062SAndrea Arcangeli 16255b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16265b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16275b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16285b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16295b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16305b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16315b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16325b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16335b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1640d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1641d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1642d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1643d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1644d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1645d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1646d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1647d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1648d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1649d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1650d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1651d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1652d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1653d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1654d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1655d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1656d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1657d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1658d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1659d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1660d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1661d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1662d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1663d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1664d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1665d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default X86_64 && SMP 1666d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1667d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1668d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool 1669d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 1670a687a533SArnd Bergmann default !IA64 1671d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1672d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1673d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1674d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1675d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1676d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1677d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1678d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap address encountered in the image. 1679d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1680d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1681d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1682d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1683d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1684d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1685d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1686d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1687d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier 1688fc611f47SKP Singh 1689fc611f47SKP Singhconfig BPF_LSM 1690fc611f47SKP Singh bool "LSM Instrumentation with BPF" 16914edf16b7SKP Singh depends on BPF_EVENTS 1692fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1693fc611f47SKP Singh depends on SECURITY 1694fc611f47SKP Singh depends on BPF_JIT 1695fc611f47SKP Singh help 1696fc611f47SKP Singh Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with eBPF programs for 1697fc611f47SKP Singh implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies. 1698fc611f47SKP Singh 1699fc611f47SKP Singh If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1700fc611f47SKP Singh 1701d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1702d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1703d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select BPF 1704bae77c5eSSong Liu select IRQ_WORK 17051e6c62a8SAlexei Starovoitov select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 1706d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default n 1707d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1708d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1709d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap programs and maps via file descriptors. 1710d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 171181c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT 171281c22041SDaniel Borkmann bool 171381c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1714290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 1715290af866SAlexei Starovoitov bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" 1716290af866SAlexei Starovoitov depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 1717290af866SAlexei Starovoitov help 1718290af866SAlexei Starovoitov Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid 1719290af866SAlexei Starovoitov speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter 1720290af866SAlexei Starovoitov 172181c22041SDaniel Borkmannconfig BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON 172281c22041SDaniel Borkmann def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON 172381c22041SDaniel Borkmann depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT 172481c22041SDaniel Borkmann 1725d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitovsource "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig" 1726d71fa5c9SAlexei Starovoitov 1727d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD 1728d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1729d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on MMU 1730d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1731d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1732d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap handle page faults in userland. 1733d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 17343ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 17353ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 17363ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 173770216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 173870216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 173970216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 1740d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ 1741d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1742d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default y 1743d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1744d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers select MEMBARRIER 1745d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1746d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1747d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1748d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1749d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1750d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers per-CPU data. 1751d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1752d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 1753d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1754d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1755d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers default n 1756d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1757d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1758d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 1759d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1760d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 1761d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 1762d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 17636befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 17646befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 17655d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 17666befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 17676befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 17686befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 17696befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 17706befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 17716befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1772cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17730793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1774018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1775018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17760793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1777906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1778906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1779906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1780906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1781906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1782ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1783424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1784ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1785ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1786ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1787ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1788ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 178957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17900793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1791cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 179257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1793392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1794cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1795e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 179683fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17970793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 179857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 179957c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 18000793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1801dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 180257c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 180357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 180457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 180557c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 18060793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 18070793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 18080793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 18090793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 18100793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 18110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 181257c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1813dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 181457c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 18150793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 18160793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 18170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 18180793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 18190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1820906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1821906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1822906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1823cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1824906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1825906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1826906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1827906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1828906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1829906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1830906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1831906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1832906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 18330793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 18340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1835f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1836f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 18376a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1838f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 18392aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 18402aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 18416a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 18422aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1843f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 184441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 184541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 18466a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1847f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 184841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 184941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 185041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 185141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 185241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 185341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 18541663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 18551663f26dSTejun Heo default n 18561663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 18571663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 18581663f26dSTejun Heo help 18591663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 18601663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 18611663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 18621663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 18631663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 18641663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 18651663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 18661663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 18671663f26dSTejun Heo 1868b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1869b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1870b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1871b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1872b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1873b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1874b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1875692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1876b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1877b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1878b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1879b943c460SRandy Dunlap 188081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 188181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1882a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 188381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 188481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 188581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 188681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 188781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 188804385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 188981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 189081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 189134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 189202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 189381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 189481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 189581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1896ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 189781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 189881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 189981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 190081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 190181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 190202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 190302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 190481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 190581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 19066a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 190781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 190881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 190937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 191037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 191137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 191281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 191381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 191481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 19157660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 19167660a6fdSKees Cook bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 19177660a6fdSKees Cook default y 19187660a6fdSKees Cook help 19197660a6fdSKees Cook For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 19207660a6fdSKees Cook merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 19217660a6fdSKees Cook This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 19227660a6fdSKees Cook overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 19237660a6fdSKees Cook cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 19247660a6fdSKees Cook by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 19257660a6fdSKees Cook can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 19267660a6fdSKees Cook merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 19277660a6fdSKees Cook command line. 19287660a6fdSKees Cook 1929c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 19303404be67SKees Cook bool "Randomize slab freelist" 1931210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1932c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1933210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1934c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1935c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1936c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 19372482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 19382482ddecSKees Cook bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 19393404be67SKees Cook depends on SLAB || SLUB 19402482ddecSKees Cook help 19412482ddecSKees Cook Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 19422482ddecSKees Cook other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 194392bae787SKees Cook sacrifices to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 19443404be67SKees Cook freelist exploit methods. Some slab implementations have more 19453404be67SKees Cook sanity-checking than others. This option is most effective with 19463404be67SKees Cook CONFIG_SLUB. 19472482ddecSKees Cook 1948e900a918SDan Williamsconfig SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR 1949e900a918SDan Williams bool "Page allocator randomization" 1950e900a918SDan Williams default SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM && ACPI_NUMA 1951e900a918SDan Williams help 1952e900a918SDan Williams Randomization of the page allocator improves the average 1953e900a918SDan Williams utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. See section 1954e900a918SDan Williams 5.2.27 Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) in the ACPI 1955e900a918SDan Williams 6.2a specification for an example of how a platform advertises 1956e900a918SDan Williams the presence of a memory-side-cache. There are also incidental 1957e900a918SDan Williams security benefits as it reduces the predictability of page 1958e900a918SDan Williams allocations to compliment SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, but the 1959e900a918SDan Williams default granularity of shuffling on the "MAX_ORDER - 1" i.e, 1960e900a918SDan Williams 10th order of pages is selected based on cache utilization 1961e900a918SDan Williams benefits on x86. 1962e900a918SDan Williams 1963e900a918SDan Williams While the randomization improves cache utilization it may 1964e900a918SDan Williams negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For 1965e900a918SDan Williams this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only 1966e900a918SDan Williams after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. 1967e900a918SDan Williams Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the 1968e900a918SDan Williams 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter. 1969e900a918SDan Williams 1970e900a918SDan Williams Say Y if unsure. 1971e900a918SDan Williams 1972345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1973345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1974b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1975345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1976345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 197792bae787SKees Cook Per cpu partial caches accelerate objects allocation and freeing 1978345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1979345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1980345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1981345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1982345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1983ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1984ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 19856a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1986ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1987ea637639SJie Zhang help 1988ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 19893903bf94SRandy Dunlap from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to 1990ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1991ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1992ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1993ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1994ea637639SJie Zhang 1995ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1996ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1997ea637639SJie Zhang 1998ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1999ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 2000ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 2001ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 2002ea637639SJie Zhang 2003dd19d293SStephen Kitt See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst for more information. 2004ea637639SJie Zhang 2005091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2006091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2007091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2008091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2009091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2010d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2011091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2012091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2013091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2014091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2015091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2016091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 201782c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2018091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2019091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2020091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2021091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 202282c04ff8SPeter Foley 2023125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2024b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2025125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2026125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2027*f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2028125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20295f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20305f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20315f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20325f87f112SIngo Molnar# 203397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20345f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 203597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 20361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20381572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20391572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2040ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20416341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2042ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 20431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2048c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2049c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2050c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2051c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 205266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 205411097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20730b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 20740b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 2075826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 2076826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 2077826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 2078826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 207991e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 208091e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 208191e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 2082826e4506SLinus Torvalds 20831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 2088f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 2089f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 20921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 209319c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 20961da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 21020d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 21031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 21051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 21061da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 21071da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21112ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig ASM_MODVERSIONS 21122ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 21132ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada default HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS && MODVERSIONS 21142ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 21152ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This enables module versioning for exported symbols also from 21162ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture 21172ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada supports it. 21182ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 211956067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 212056067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 212156067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 212256067812SArd Biesheuvel 21231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 21241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 21251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 21271da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 21281da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 21291da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 21301da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 21311da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 21321da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 21331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2134106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2135106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2136c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2137106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2138106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2139106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2140cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 2141106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2142228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2143228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2144228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2145228c37ffSDavid Howells 214649fcf732SDavid Howells You should enable this option if you wish to use either 214749fcf732SDavid Howells CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM or lockdown functionality imposed via 214849fcf732SDavid Howells another LSM - otherwise unsigned modules will be loadable regardless 214949fcf732SDavid Howells of the lockdown policy. 215049fcf732SDavid Howells 2151ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2152ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2153ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2154ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2155ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2156106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2157106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2158106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2159106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2160106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2161106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2162ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2163d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2164d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2165d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2166d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2167d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2168d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2169d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2170d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2171d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2172d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2173d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2174ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2175ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2176ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2177ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2178ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2179ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2180ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2181ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2182ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2183ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2184ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2185ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2186ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2187ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2188ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2189ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2190ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2191ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2192ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2193ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2194ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2195ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2196ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2197ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2198ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2199ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2200ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2201ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2202ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2203ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2204ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2205ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 220622753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 220722753674SMichal Marek string 220822753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 220922753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 221022753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 221122753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 221222753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 221322753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 221422753674SMichal Marek 2215beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2216beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2217beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2218beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2219b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2220b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2221beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2222b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2223beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2224b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2225b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2226beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2227b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2228b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2229beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2230b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2231b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2232b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2233beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2234beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2235beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2236beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2237beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2238beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2239beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2240beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2241beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2242beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2243beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2244beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2245beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2246beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2247beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2248beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2249beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2250beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2251beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 22523d52ec5eSMatthias Maennichconfig MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS 22533d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports" 22543d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich help 22553d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich Symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS*() are considered exported in 22563d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich a namespace. A module that makes use of a symbol exported with such a 22573d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich namespace is required to import the namespace via MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). 22583d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich There is no technical reason to enforce correct namespace imports, 22593d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich but it creates consistency between symbols defining namespaces and 22603d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich users importing namespaces they make use of. This option relaxes this 22613d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich requirement and lifts the enforcement when loading a module. 22623d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 22633d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich If unsure, say N. 22643d52ec5eSMatthias Maennich 2265efd9763dSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2266efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 2267efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada default y if X86 2268efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada help 2269efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 2270efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 2271efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 2272efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 2273efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 2274efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 2275efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 2276efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 2277efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 2278efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 2279efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada your module is. 2280efd9763dSMasahiro Yamada 2281dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2282dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2283d189c2a4SMasahiro Yamada depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2284dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2285dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2286dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2287dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2288dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2289dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2290dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2291dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2292dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2293dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2294dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2295f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2296dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 22971518c633SQuentin Perretconfig UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST 22981518c633SQuentin Perret string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab" 22991518c633SQuentin Perret depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 23001518c633SQuentin Perret help 23011518c633SQuentin Perret By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the 23021518c633SQuentin Perret build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected. 23031518c633SQuentin Perret 23041518c633SQuentin Perret UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept 23051518c633SQuentin Perret exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to 23061518c633SQuentin Perret set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols, 23071518c633SQuentin Perret one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel 23081518c633SQuentin Perret source tree. 23091518c633SQuentin Perret 23100b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 23110b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 23126c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 23136c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 23146c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 23156c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 231698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 231798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 231898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 23195f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 23205f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 232198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 232298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2323692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 232498a79d6aSRusty Russell 23253a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2326e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2327e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2328e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2329e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 233016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 233116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 233216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 233316295becSSteffen Klassert 23344520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 23354520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 23364520c6a4SDavid Howells help 23374520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 23384520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 23394520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 23404520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 23414520c6a4SDavid Howells 23426beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2343e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 23440ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 23450ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 23460ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 2347e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2348e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 23491bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 23501bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 23517303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 23527303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 23537303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 23547303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 23557303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 23567303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 23571bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 23581bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2359