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 2062