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1face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
2face4374SRoman Zippel	string
3b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
4face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
547f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
6face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
747f38ae0SRob Landley	default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
8104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
9104daea1SMasahiro Yamada	default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
10face4374SRoman Zippel
11a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC
12a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
14a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION
15a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	int
16*fa7295abSMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC)) if CC_IS_GCC
17a4353898SMasahiro Yamada	default 0
18a4353898SMasahiro Yamada
19469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG
20469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
21469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
22469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION
23469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	int
24469cb737SMasahiro Yamada	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
25469cb737SMasahiro Yamada
26e9666d10SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
27e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
28e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada
29b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
30b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
31b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
32b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
33b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
34b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
35b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	bool
36b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
37b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900  # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
38b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	help
39b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
40b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
41b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
42b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
43b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	  to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
44b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada
45b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
46b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
47b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
48b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
49e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
50e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
51e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
521dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
531dbdc6f1SDavid Daney	bool
541dbdc6f1SDavid Daney
55c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
56c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	bool
57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	help
58c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct.  To
59c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
60c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski	  except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
61c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski
62c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
63c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski	  and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
64c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski
65ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
77dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
78dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
8134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
834bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST
844bb16672SJiri Slaby	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
85bc083a64SRichard Weinberger	depends on !UML
864bb16672SJiri Slaby	default n
874bb16672SJiri Slaby	help
884bb16672SJiri Slaby	  Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
894bb16672SJiri Slaby	  intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
904bb16672SJiri Slaby	  when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
914bb16672SJiri Slaby	  developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
924bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to compile-test them.
934bb16672SJiri Slaby
944bb16672SJiri Slaby	  If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
954bb16672SJiri Slaby	  here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
964bb16672SJiri Slaby	  drivers to be distributed.
974bb16672SJiri Slaby
981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
108aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
110aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
111ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
112aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
113aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
116aaebf433SRyan Anderson
117aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
119aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
121aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1236e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1246e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1256e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1266e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1276e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
128aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1299afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT
1309afb719eSLaura Abbott       string "Build ID Salt"
1319afb719eSLaura Abbott       default ""
1329afb719eSLaura Abbott       help
1339afb719eSLaura Abbott          The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
1349afb719eSLaura Abbott          this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
1359afb719eSLaura Abbott          This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
1369afb719eSLaura Abbott          build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
1379afb719eSLaura Abbott
1382e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1392e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1402e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1412e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1473ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1483ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1493ebe1243SLasse Collin
1507dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1517dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1527dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
153e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
154e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool
155e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
156f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
157f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool
158f16466afSVasily Gorbik
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
162f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1832e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
18430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
18730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
18830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
18930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1902e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
19130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
19230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1930a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
1942e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1952e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1962e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
19730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
19830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
19930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
2002e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
20130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
2020a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
2030a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
2040a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
2063ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
2073ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
2083ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
2093ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
2103ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
2113ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
2123ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
2133ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
2143ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
2153ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
2163ebe1243SLasse Collin
2173ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
2183ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
2193ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
2203ebe1243SLasse Collin
2217dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
2227dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
2237dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2250a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
226681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
229e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4
230e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	bool "LZ4"
231e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
232e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	help
233e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
234e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
235e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
236e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
237e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
238e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
239e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee	  faster than LZO.
240e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee
241f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
242f16466afSVasily Gorbik	bool "None"
243f16466afSVasily Gorbik	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
244f16466afSVasily Gorbik	help
245f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
246f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
247f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
248f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
249f16466afSVasily Gorbik	  and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
250f16466afSVasily Gorbik
25130d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
25230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
253bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
254bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
255bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
256bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
257bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
258bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
259bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
260bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
261bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
26217c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
26317c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n.  Hopefully we can
26417c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
26517c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig#
26617c46a6aSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_SWAP
26717c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	bool
26817c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig
2691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
27117c46a6aSChristoph Hellwig	depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
294a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
295a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
296a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
297a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
298a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
299a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
3001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
30219c92399SKees Cook	depends on NET
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
308b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
316bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
317bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
318bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
319bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
320bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
321bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
322226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
323226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
324226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	depends on MMU
325226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	default y
326226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	help
327226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
328226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
329a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven	  to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
330226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov	  See the man page for more details.
331226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov
33269369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB
33369369a70SJosh Triplett	bool "uselib syscall"
334b2113a41SRiku Voipio	def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
33569369a70SJosh Triplett	help
33669369a70SJosh Triplett	  This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
33769369a70SJosh Triplett	  dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this
33869369a70SJosh Triplett	  system call.  If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
33969369a70SJosh Triplett	  earlier, you may need to enable this syscall.  Current systems
34069369a70SJosh Triplett	  running glibc can safely disable this.
34169369a70SJosh Triplett
3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
344804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
348cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  logging of avc messages output).  System call auditing is included
349cb74ed27SPaul Moore	  on architectures which support it.
3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3517a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
3527a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	bool
3537a017721SAKASHI Takahiro
3541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
355cb74ed27SPaul Moore	def_bool y
3567a017721SAKASHI Takahiro	depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
35728a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
35874c3cbe3SAl Viro
359d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
360764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig"
36187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
362d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
365abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
366abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
367abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
368fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice
369fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	prompt "Cputime accounting"
370fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
37102fc8d37SStephen Rothwell	default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
372fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
373fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
374fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
375fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
376c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
377fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
378fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
379fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
380fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  granularity.
381fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
382fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say Y.
383fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
385391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
386c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
388391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
389391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
390391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
391391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
392391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
393391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.  In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
394391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
395391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  systems.
396391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
397abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
398abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
399ff3fb254SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
400554b0004SKevin Hilman	depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
401abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
402abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
403abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	help
404abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
405abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
406abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
407abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
408abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  overhead.
409abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
410abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
411abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  dynticks subsystem development.
412abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
413abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
414abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker
415b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice
416b58c3584SRik van Riel
417fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
418fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
419b58c3584SRik van Riel	depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
420fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	help
421fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
422fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
423fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
424fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  small performance impact.
425fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
426fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker	  If in doubt, say N here.
427fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker
42811d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
42911d4afd4SVincent Guittot	def_bool y
43011d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
43111d4afd4SVincent Guittot	depends on SMP
43211d4afd4SVincent Guittot
433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
4352813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
444391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
446391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
4543903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
456391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS
46019c92399SKees Cook	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on NET
4622813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	default n
464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
465391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  space on task exit.
470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
47419c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
475391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
476f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao	select SCHED_INFO
477391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
478391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
479391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
480391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
481391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
482391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
483391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
484391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
485391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT
48619c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
487391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASKSTATS
488391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
489391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
490391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
491391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
492391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
493391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
494391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
49519c92399SKees Cook	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
496391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on TASK_XACCT
497391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	help
498391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
499391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  task has caused.
500391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
501391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say N if unsure.
502391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
503eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI
504eb414681SJohannes Weiner	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
505eb414681SJohannes Weiner	help
506eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
507eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  and IO capacity are in the system.
508eb414681SJohannes Weiner
509eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
510eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
511eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
512eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
513eb414681SJohannes Weiner
5142ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
5152ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
5162ce7135aSJohannes Weiner	  which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
5172ce7135aSJohannes Weiner
518eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
519eb414681SJohannes Weiner
520eb414681SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
521eb414681SJohannes Weiner
522e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
523e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking"
524e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	default n
525e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	depends on PSI
526e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	help
527e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	  If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled
528428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
529428a1cb4SBaruch Siach	  kernel commandline during boot.
530e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker
5335c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION
5345c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	bool "CPU isolation"
535414a2dc1SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
5362c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	default y
5375c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5385c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
5395c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker	  any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
5402c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
5412c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
5422c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker
5432c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y if unsure.
5445c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker
5450af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
546c903ff83SMike Travis
547de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C
548de5b56baSVivek Goyal	bool
549de5b56baSVivek Goyal	default n
550de5b56baSVivek Goyal
5511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
552f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
553de5b56baSVivek Goyal	select BUILD_BIN2C
5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
571794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
572794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
573fb39f98dSIngo Molnar	range 12 25
574f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
575361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
576794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
57723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
57823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
57923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
58023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
58123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
582f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
583f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     17 => 128 KB
584f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
585f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     15 => 32 KB
586f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     14 => 16 KB
587794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
588794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
589794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
59023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
59123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
5922240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on SMP
59323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	range 0 21
59423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
59523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	default 0 if BASE_SMALL
596361e9dfbSJosh Triplett	depends on PRINTK
59723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	help
59823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
59923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
60023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
60123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
60223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  e.g. backtraces.
60323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
60423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
60523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
60623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
60723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
60823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
60923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
61023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
61123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
61223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
61323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
61423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
6155e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
6165e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven	  scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
61723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
61823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez	  Examples shift values and their meaning:
61923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
62023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
62123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
62223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
62323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
62423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
62523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez
626f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatskyconfig PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
627f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
628427934b8SPetr Mladek	range 10 21
629427934b8SPetr Mladek	default 13
630f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	depends on PRINTK
631427934b8SPetr Mladek	help
632f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
633f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
634f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
635f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
636f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  The value defines the size as a power of 2.
637427934b8SPetr Mladek
638f92bac3bSSergey Senozhatsky	  Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
639427934b8SPetr Mladek	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
640427934b8SPetr Mladek	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
641427934b8SPetr Mladek
642427934b8SPetr Mladek	  Examples:
643427934b8SPetr Mladek		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
644427934b8SPetr Mladek		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
645427934b8SPetr Mladek		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
646427934b8SPetr Mladek		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
647427934b8SPetr Mladek		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
648427934b8SPetr Mladek		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
649427934b8SPetr Mladek
6505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
6525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
6535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
6545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
6555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
65638ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
65738ff87f7SStephen Boyd	bool
65838ff87f7SStephen Boyd
659be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
660be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
661be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic:
662be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
663be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
664be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
665be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
666be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
66772b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
66872b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
66972b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
67072b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
67172b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
67272b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
67372b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
67472b252aeSMel Gorman	bool
67572b252aeSMel Gorman
67672b252aeSMel Gorman#
677be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
678be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra#
679be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
680be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra	bool
681be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra
682be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
683be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
684be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli#
685be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
686be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool
687be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
688be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING
689be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
690be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
691be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
692be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
693be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	help
694be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
695be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6966d56a410SPaul Gortmaker	  it has references to the node the task is running on.
697be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
698be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli	  This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
699be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli
7006f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
7016f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
7026f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	default y
7036f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	depends on NUMA_BALANCING
7046f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	help
7056f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
7066f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V	  machine.
7076f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V
70823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
7096341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool "Control Group support"
7102bd59d48STejun Heo	select KERNFS
711ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
71223964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
7135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
7145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
7155cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
7165cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
7179991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon		- Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
71845ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
719ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
720ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
721ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
72223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
72323964d2dSLi Zefan
7243e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER
7253e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner       bool
7263e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner
727c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG
728a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Memory controller"
7293e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
73079bd9814STejun Heo	select EVENTFD
73100f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
732a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
73300f0b825SBalbir Singh
734c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP
735a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller"
736c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG && SWAP
737c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
738a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	  Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
739a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner
740c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
741a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
742c255a458SAndrew Morton	depends on MEMCG_SWAP
743a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
744a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
745a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
746a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
74743d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
74807555ac1SMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
749a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
750a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
751a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
75200a66d29SWANG Cong	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
753c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
75484c07d11SKirill Tkhaiconfig MEMCG_KMEM
75584c07d11SKirill Tkhai	bool
75684c07d11SKirill Tkhai	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
75784c07d11SKirill Tkhai	default y
75884c07d11SKirill Tkhai
7596bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP
7606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller"
7616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLOCK
7622bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V	default n
7636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
7656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
7666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	policies.
7672bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V
7686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
7696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
7706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
7716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
772e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
7746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
7756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
7766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
7776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
7786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7799991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon	See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
7806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7816bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
7826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "IO controller debugging"
7836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on BLK_CGROUP
7846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
7856bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	---help---
7866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
7876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
7886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
7896bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK
7906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool
7916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
7926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default y
793e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7947c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
795a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner	bool "CPU controller"
7967c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
7977c941438SDhaval Giani	help
7987c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
7997c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
8007c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
8017c941438SDhaval Giani
8027c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
8037c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
8047c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
8057c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8067c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
8077c941438SDhaval Giani
808ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH
809ab84d31eSPaul Turner	bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
810ab84d31eSPaul Turner	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
811ab84d31eSPaul Turner	default n
812ab84d31eSPaul Turner	help
813ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
814ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  tasks running within the fair group scheduler.  Groups with no limit
815ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
816ab84d31eSPaul Turner	  restriction.
817cd33d880SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
818ab84d31eSPaul Turner
8197c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
8207c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
8217c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
8227c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
8237c941438SDhaval Giani	help
8247c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
82532bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
8267c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
8277c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
8287c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
8297c941438SDhaval Giani
8307c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
8317c941438SDhaval Giani
8326bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS
8336bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "PIDs controller"
8346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
8366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
8376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
8386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
8396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
8406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
8416cc578dfSParav Pandit	  PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
8426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
8436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
8446cc578dfSParav Pandit	  to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
8456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
8466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  attach to a cgroup.
8476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
84839d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA
84939d3e758SParav Pandit	bool "RDMA controller"
85039d3e758SParav Pandit	help
85139d3e758SParav Pandit	  Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
85239d3e758SParav Pandit	  It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
85339d3e758SParav Pandit	  can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
85439d3e758SParav Pandit	  RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
85539d3e758SParav Pandit	  Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
85639d3e758SParav Pandit	  hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
85739d3e758SParav Pandit
8586bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
8596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Freezer controller"
8606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
8626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  cgroup.
8636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
864489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
865489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
866489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
867489c2a20SJohannes Weiner	  If you're using cgroup2, say N.
868489c2a20SJohannes Weiner
8696bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB
8706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "HugeTLB controller"
8716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
8726bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	select PAGE_COUNTER
873afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
8746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8756bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
8766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
8776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
8786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
8796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
8806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
8816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
8826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
8836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
884afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8856bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS
8866bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Cpuset controller"
887e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre	depends on SMP
8886bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
8896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
8906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
8916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
8926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
893afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
895afc24d49SVivek Goyal
8966bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
8976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
8986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on CPUSETS
89989e9b9e0STejun Heo	default y
90089e9b9e0STejun Heo
9016bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
9026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Device controller"
9036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
9056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
9066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9076bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
9086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
9096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
9116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
9126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9136bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF
9146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	bool "Perf controller"
9156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	depends on PERF_EVENTS
9166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
9186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
9196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  designated cpu.
9206bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N if unsure.
9226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
92330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF
92430070984SDaniel Mack	bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
925483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
926483c4933SAndy Lutomirski	select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
92730070984SDaniel Mack	help
92830070984SDaniel Mack	  Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
92930070984SDaniel Mack	  syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
93030070984SDaniel Mack
93130070984SDaniel Mack	  In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
93230070984SDaniel Mack	  of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
93330070984SDaniel Mack	  BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
93430070984SDaniel Mack	  inet sockets.
93530070984SDaniel Mack
9366bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
93723b0be48SWaiman Long	bool "Debug controller"
9386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	default n
93923b0be48SWaiman Long	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	help
9416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  This option enables a simple controller that exports
94223b0be48SWaiman Long	  debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
94323b0be48SWaiman Long	  controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
94423b0be48SWaiman Long	  interfaces are not stable.
9456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
9466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner	  Say N.
9476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner
94873b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
94973b35147SArnd Bergmann	bool
95073b35147SArnd Bergmann	default n
95173b35147SArnd Bergmann
95223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
953c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
9556a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
9562813893fSIulia Manda	depends on MULTIUSER
9576a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
958c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
959c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
960c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
961c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
962c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
963c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
9648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
9658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
96658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
96758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
96817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
96958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
97058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
97158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
97258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
973ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
974ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
9758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
97617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
977ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
978ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
979614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
980ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
981aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
98219c92399SKees Cook	bool "User namespace"
9835673a94cSEric W. Biederman	default n
984aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
985aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
986aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
987e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
988e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman	  When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
989d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
990d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
991d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner	  of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
992e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman
993aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
994aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
99574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
9969bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
99717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
99874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
99912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
1000692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
100174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
100274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
1003d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
1004d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
10058dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
100617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
1007d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
1008d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1009d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
1010d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
10118dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
10128dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
10135cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
10145cb366bbSAdrian Reber	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
10155cb366bbSAdrian Reber	select PROC_CHILDREN
10165cb366bbSAdrian Reber	default n
10175cb366bbSAdrian Reber	help
10185cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
10195cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
10205cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
10215cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  entries.
10225cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10235cb366bbSAdrian Reber	  If unsure, say N here.
10245cb366bbSAdrian Reber
10255091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
10265091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
10275091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
10285091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
10295091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
10305091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
10315091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
10325091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
10335091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
10345091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
10355091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
10365091faa4SMike Galbraith
10377af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10385d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
10397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10427af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
10437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
10447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
10457af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
10477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
10487af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10497af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
10507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
10517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
10527af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10537af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
10547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
10557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
10567af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10577af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10587af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
10597af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10607af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
10615d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
10627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
10637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
10647af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
10657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
10677af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
10697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
10707af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10717af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
10727af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
10737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
10747af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10757af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
10767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
107726b5679eSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
10787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
10797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
10807af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
10817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
10827af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
10837af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
10847af37becSDaniel Lezcano
10857af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
10867af37becSDaniel Lezcano
1087f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
1088f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1089f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
1090f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1091f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1092f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1093f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
10948c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
1095f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1096f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1097f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1098f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1099f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1100f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
1101f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
1102c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
1103c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1104dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
1105dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
1106c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
1107c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
1108877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice
1109877417e6SArnd Bergmann	prompt "Compiler optimization level"
11102cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson	default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1111877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1112877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1113877417e6SArnd Bergmann	bool "Optimize for performance"
1114877417e6SArnd Bergmann	help
1115877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1116877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1117877417e6SArnd Bergmann	  helpful compile-time warnings.
1118877417e6SArnd Bergmann
1119c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
112096fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
1121b303c6dfSMasahiro Yamada	imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED  # avoid false positives
1122c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
112331a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
112431a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada	  your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1125c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
11263a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov	  If unsure, say N.
1127c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
1128877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice
1129877417e6SArnd Bergmann
11305d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool
11325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
11345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
11355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
11365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
11375d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
11385d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
11395d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11405d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11415d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
11425d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
11435d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	depends on EXPERT
114416fd20aaSPaul Burton	depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
1145e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1146e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
11475d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	help
11488b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
11498b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
11508b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada	  and linking with --gc-sections.
11515d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11525d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
11535d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
11545d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
11555d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
11565d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
11575d20ee31SNicholas Piggin	  own risk.
11585d20ee31SNicholas Piggin
11590847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
11600847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
11610847062aSRandy Dunlap
1162b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
1163b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
1164b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1165657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16
1166657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1167657a5209SMike Frysinger
1168657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1169657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1170657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1171657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1172657a5209SMike Frysinger
1173657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1174657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1175657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1176657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1177657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1178657a5209SMike Frysinger	  about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1179657a5209SMike Frysinger
1180657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1181657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1182657a5209SMike Frysinger	help
1183657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1184657a5209SMike Frysinger	  Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1185657a5209SMike Frysinger	  the unaligned access emulation.
1186657a5209SMike Frysinger	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1187657a5209SMike Frysinger
1188657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1189657a5209SMike Frysinger	bool
1190657a5209SMike Frysinger
1191f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1192f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF
1193f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov	bool
1194f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov
11956a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
11966a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1197f505c553SJosh Triplett	# Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1198f505c553SJosh Triplett	select DEBUG_KERNEL
11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1205ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
12066a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
12072813893fSIulia Manda	depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1208ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
1209ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
1210ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1211ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12122813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER
12132813893fSIulia Manda	bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
12142813893fSIulia Manda	default y
12152813893fSIulia Manda	help
12162813893fSIulia Manda	  This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
12172813893fSIulia Manda	  capabilities.
12182813893fSIulia Manda
12192813893fSIulia Manda	  If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
12202813893fSIulia Manda	  possible capabilities.  Saying N here also compiles out support for
12212813893fSIulia Manda	  system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
12222813893fSIulia Manda	  setgid, and capset.
12232813893fSIulia Manda
12242813893fSIulia Manda	  If unsure, say Y here.
12252813893fSIulia Manda
1226f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1227f6187769SFabian Frederick	bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1228a687a533SArnd Bergmann	def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1229f6187769SFabian Frederick	---help---
1230f6187769SFabian Frederick	  sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1231f6187769SFabian Frederick	  no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1232f6187769SFabian Frederick	  architectures.
1233f6187769SFabian Frederick
1234f6187769SFabian Frederick	  If unsure, leave the default option here.
1235f6187769SFabian Frederick
12366af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL
12376af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
12386af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	default y
12396af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	---help---
12406af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
12416af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
12426af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  compatibility with some systems.
12436af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
12446af9f7bfSFabian Frederick	  If unsure say Y here.
12456af9f7bfSFabian Frederick
1246b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
12476a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
124826a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1249c736de60SWANG Cong	default n
1250b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
1251b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
125213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
125313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
125413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
125513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
1256b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
125713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
125813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
125913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
1260b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
1261c736de60SWANG Cong	  If unsure say N here.
1262ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
1263d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE
1264d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1265d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select EXPORTFS
1266d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default y
1267d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1268d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1269d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1270d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1271d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1272d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1273d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1274d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  syscalls.
1275d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1276baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS
1277baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1278baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	default y
1279baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	help
1280baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1281baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1282baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1283baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1284baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1285baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1286baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1287baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1288baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1289baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1290baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1291baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre	  If unsure say y.
1292baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre
1293d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
1294d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
12956a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
129674876a98SFrederic Weisbecker	select IRQ_WORK
1297d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
1298d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1299d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1300d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1301d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1302d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
1303d59745ceSMatt Mackall
130442a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI
130542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	def_bool y
130642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on PRINTK
130742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek	depends on HAVE_NMI
130842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek
1309c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
13106a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1311c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
1312c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
1313c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1314c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1315c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1316c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1317c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1318c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1319708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1320046d662fSAlex Kelly	depends on COREDUMP
1321708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
13226a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1323708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1324708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1325708e9a79SMatt Mackall
13268761f1abSRalf Baechle
1327e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
13286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
13298761f1abSRalf Baechle	depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
133015f304b6SRalf Baechle	select I8253_LOCK
1331e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1332e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1333e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1334e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1335e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
13361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13386a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
13456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1347bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	imply RT_MUTEXES
13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1353bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI
1354bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	bool
1355bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1356bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre	default y
1357bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre
135803b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
135903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	bool
136062b4d204SJosh Triplett	depends on FUTEX
136103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	help
136203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
136303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
136403b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens	  checks.
136503b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens
13661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
13676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1369448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1374fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
13756a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1376448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1377fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1378fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1379fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1380fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1381fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1382fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1383fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1384b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
13856a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1386448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1387b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1388b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1389b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1390b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1391b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1392b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1393b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1394e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
13956a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1396448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1397e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1398e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1399e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1400e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1401e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1402e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1403e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
14041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
14056a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1415ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
14166a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1417ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1418ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1419ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1420ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1421ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  this option saves about 7k.
1422ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1423d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1424d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1425d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	default y
1426d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	help
1427d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1428d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1429d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1430d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1431d3ac21caSJosh Triplett	  space.
1432d3ac21caSJosh Triplett
14335b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER
14345b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
14355b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
14365b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	help
14375b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
14385b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
14395b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
14405b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
14415b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  compiler barrier.
14425b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
14435b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
14445b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers
1445d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS
1446d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1447d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 default y
1448d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	 help
1449d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1450d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1451d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1452d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1453d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
1454d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1455d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1456d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1457d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1458d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1459d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1460d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1461d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1462d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1463d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1464d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1465d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1466d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   something like this).
1467d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1468d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1469d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1470d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1471d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1472d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1473d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default X86_64 && SMP
1474d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1475d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1476d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool
1477d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on KALLSYMS
1478a687a533SArnd Bergmann	default !IA64
1479d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1480d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1481d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1482d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1483d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1484d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1485d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1486d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  address encountered in the image.
1487d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1488d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1489d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1490d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1491d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1492d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1493d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1494d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1495d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# syscall, maps, verifier
1496d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig BPF_SYSCALL
1497d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1498d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1499d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select BPF
1500bae77c5eSSong Liu	select IRQ_WORK
1501d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	default n
1502d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1503d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1504d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  programs and maps via file descriptors.
1505d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
1506290af866SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1507290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1508290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1509290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	help
1510290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1511290af866SAlexei Starovoitov	  speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1512290af866SAlexei Starovoitov
1513d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig USERFAULTFD
1514d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1515d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	select ANON_INODES
1516d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	depends on MMU
1517d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	help
1518d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1519d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap	  handle page faults in userland.
1520d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap
15213ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
15223ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers	bool
15233ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers
152470216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
152570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
152670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers
1527d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig RSEQ
1528d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1529d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default y
1530d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1531d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	select MEMBARRIER
1532d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1533d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1534d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1535d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1536d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1537d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  per-CPU data.
1538d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1539d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say Y.
1540d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1541d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig DEBUG_RSEQ
1542d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	default n
1543d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1544d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1545d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	help
1546d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1547d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
1548d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers	  If unsure, say N.
1549d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers
15506befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
15516befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
15525d2acfc7SJosh Triplett	option allnoconfig_y
15536befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
15546befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
15556befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
15566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
15576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
15586befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1559cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15600793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1561018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1562018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
15630793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1564906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1565906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1566906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1567906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1568906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1569ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104
1570424529fbSWilliam Breathitt Gray	bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
1571ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	help
1572ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1573ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1574ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray	  machine has a PC/104 bus.
1575ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray
157657c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
15770793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1578cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
157957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1580392d65a9SRobert Richter	default y if PROFILING
1581cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
15824c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1583e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
158483fe27eaSPranith Kumar	select SRCU
15850793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
158657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
158757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
15880793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1589dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
159057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
159157c0c15bSIngo Molnar
159257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
159357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
15940793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
15950793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
15960793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
15970793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
15980793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
15990793a61dSThomas Gleixner
160057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1601dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
160257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
16030793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
16040793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
16050793a61dSThomas Gleixner
16060793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
16070793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1608906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1609906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1610906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1611cb307113SMichael Ellerman	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1612906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1613906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1614906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1615906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1616906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1617906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1618906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1619906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1620906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
16210793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
16220793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1623f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1624f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
16256a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1626f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
16272aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
16282aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
16296a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
16302aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1631f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
163241ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
163341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
16346a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1635f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
163641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
163741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
163841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
163941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
164041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
164141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
16421663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
16431663f26dSTejun Heo	default n
16441663f26dSTejun Heo	bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
16451663f26dSTejun Heo	depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
16461663f26dSTejun Heo	help
16471663f26dSTejun Heo	  SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
16481663f26dSTejun Heo	  allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
16491663f26dSTejun Heo	  cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
16501663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
16511663f26dSTejun Heo	  caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
16521663f26dSTejun Heo	  to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
16531663f26dSTejun Heo	  controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
16541663f26dSTejun Heo	  config option determines the parameter's default value.
16551663f26dSTejun Heo
1656b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1657b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1658b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1659b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1660b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1661b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1662b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1663692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1664b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1665b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1666b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1667b943c460SRandy Dunlap
166881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
166981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1670a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
167181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
167281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
167381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
167481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
167581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
167604385fc5SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
167781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
167881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
167934013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
168002f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
168181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
168281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
168381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1684ed18adc1SKees Cook	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
168581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
168681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
168781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
168881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
168981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
169002f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
169102f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
169281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
169381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
16946a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
169581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
169681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
169737291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
169837291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
169937291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
170081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
170181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
170281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
17037660a6fdSKees Cookconfig SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
17047660a6fdSKees Cook	bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
17057660a6fdSKees Cook	default y
17067660a6fdSKees Cook	help
17077660a6fdSKees Cook	  For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
17087660a6fdSKees Cook	  merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
17097660a6fdSKees Cook	  This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
17107660a6fdSKees Cook	  overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
17117660a6fdSKees Cook	  cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
17127660a6fdSKees Cook	  by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
17137660a6fdSKees Cook	  can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
17147660a6fdSKees Cook	  merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
17157660a6fdSKees Cook	  command line.
17167660a6fdSKees Cook
1717c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1718c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	default n
1719210e7a43SThomas Garnier	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1720c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1721c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	help
1722210e7a43SThomas Garnier	  Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
1723c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1724c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier	  allocator against heap overflows.
1725c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier
17262482ddecSKees Cookconfig SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
17272482ddecSKees Cook	bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
17282482ddecSKees Cook	depends on SLUB
17292482ddecSKees Cook	help
17302482ddecSKees Cook	  Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
17312482ddecSKees Cook	  other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
17322482ddecSKees Cook	  sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
17332482ddecSKees Cook	  freelist exploit methods.
17342482ddecSKees Cook
1735345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1736345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	default y
1737b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König	depends on SLUB && SMP
1738345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1739345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	help
1740345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1741345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1742345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1743345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1744345c905dSJoonsoo Kim	  Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1745345c905dSJoonsoo Kim
1746ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1747ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
17486a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1749ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1750ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1751ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
17523903bf94SRandy Dunlap	  from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
1753ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1754ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1755ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1756ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1757ea637639SJie Zhang
1758ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1759ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1760ea637639SJie Zhang
1761ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1762ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1763ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1764ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1765ea637639SJie Zhang
1766ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1767ea637639SJie Zhang
1768091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1769091f6e26SDavid Howells	def_bool n
1770091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1771091f6e26SDavid Howells	select KEYS
1772091f6e26SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO
1773d43de6c7SDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_RSA
1774091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1775091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1776091f6e26SDavid Howells	select ASN1
1777091f6e26SDavid Howells	select OID_REGISTRY
1778091f6e26SDavid Howells	select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1779091f6e26SDavid Howells	select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
178082c04ff8SPeter Foley	help
1781091f6e26SDavid Howells	  Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1782091f6e26SDavid Howells	  trusted keyring to provide public keys.  This then can be used for
1783091f6e26SDavid Howells	  module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1784091f6e26SDavid Howells	  verification.
178582c04ff8SPeter Foley
1786125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1787b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1788125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1789125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1790125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1791125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
17925f87f112SIngo Molnar#
17935f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
17945f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
17955f87f112SIngo Molnar#
179697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
17975f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
179897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
17991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18011572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig"
18021572497cSChristoph Hellwig
1803ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
18046341e62bSChristoph Jaeger	bool
1805ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
18061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
181166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
181311097a03SYann E. MORIN	option modules
18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18320b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
18330b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1834826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1835826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1836826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1837826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
183891e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
183991e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
184091e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1841826e4506SLinus Torvalds
18421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1847f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1848f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
185219c92399SKees Cook	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
18610d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
187056067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS
187156067812SArd Biesheuvel	bool
187256067812SArd Biesheuvel	depends on MODVERSIONS
187356067812SArd Biesheuvel
18741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1885106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG
1886106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Module signature verification"
1887106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULES
1888091f6e26SDavid Howells	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1889106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1890106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1891106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1892cbdc8217SNathan Chancellor	  <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
1893106a4ee2SRusty Russell
1894228c37ffSDavid Howells	  Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1895228c37ffSDavid Howells	  kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1896228c37ffSDavid Howells	  library.
1897228c37ffSDavid Howells
1898ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  !!!WARNING!!!  If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1899ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed.  This includes the
1900ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1901ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1902ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1903106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1904106a4ee2SRusty Russell	bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1905106a4ee2SRusty Russell	depends on MODULE_SIG
1906106a4ee2SRusty Russell	help
1907106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1908106a4ee2SRusty Russell	  key.  Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1909ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1910d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL
1911d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1912d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	default y
1913d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
1914d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	help
1915d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1916d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	  modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1917d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1918d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1919d9d8d7edSMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1920d9d8d7edSMichal Marek
1921ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice
1922ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1923ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	depends on MODULE_SIG
1924ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	help
1925ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1926ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  signature generation.  This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1927ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  directly so that signature verification can take place.  It is not
1928ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1929ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	  the signature on that module.
1930ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1931ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1932ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1933ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA1
1934ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1935ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1936ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1937ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1938ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1939ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1940ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1941ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA256
1942ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1943ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1944ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1945ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1946ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1947ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1948ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1949ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells	select CRYPTO_SHA512
1950ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
1951ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice
1952ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells
195322753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH
195422753674SMichal Marek	string
195522753674SMichal Marek	depends on MODULE_SIG
195622753674SMichal Marek	default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
195722753674SMichal Marek	default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
195822753674SMichal Marek	default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
195922753674SMichal Marek	default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
196022753674SMichal Marek	default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
196122753674SMichal Marek
1962beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS
1963beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "Compress modules on installation"
1964beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULES
1965beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1966beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1967b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1968b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
1969beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1970b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
1971beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1972b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1973b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  compressed upon installation.
1974beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1975b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1976b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
1977beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1978b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1979b6c09b51SRusty Russell
1980b6c09b51SRusty Russell	  If in doubt, say N.
1981beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1982beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice
1983beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	prompt "Compression algorithm"
1984beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1985beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1986beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	help
1987beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1988beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  'make modules_install'.
1989beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1990beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	  GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1991beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1992beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1993beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "GZIP"
1994beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1995beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1996beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin	bool "XZ"
1997beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
1998beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice
1999beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin
2000dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2001dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2002dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2003dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	help
2004dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2005dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2006dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2007dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2008dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2009dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2010dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2011dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2012dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre	  binary size.  This might have some security advantages as well.
2013dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
2014f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks	  If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
2015dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre
20160b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
20170b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
20186c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
20196c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	def_bool y
20206c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
20216c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra
202298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
202398a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
202498a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
20255f054e31SRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
20265f054e31SRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
202798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
202898a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2029692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
203098a79d6aSRusty Russell
20313a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
2032e98c3202SAvi Kivity
2033e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2034e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
2035e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
203616295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
203716295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
203816295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
203916295becSSteffen Klassert
20404520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1
20414520c6a4SDavid Howells	tristate
20424520c6a4SDavid Howells	help
20434520c6a4SDavid Howells	  Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
20444520c6a4SDavid Howells	  that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
20454520c6a4SDavid Howells	  inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
20464520c6a4SDavid Howells	  functions to call on what tags.
20474520c6a4SDavid Howells
20486beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
2049e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers
2050e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2051e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers	bool
20521bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski
20531bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
20547303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h>
20557303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
20567303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
20577303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
20587303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
20597303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
20601bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
20611bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski	def_bool n
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