1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2config CC_VERSION_TEXT 3 string 4 default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 5 help 6 This is used in unclear ways: 7 8 - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 9 The 'default' property references the environment variable, 10 CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 11 When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 12 13 - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14 include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 15 line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16 auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17 will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 18 19config CC_IS_GCC 20 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21 22config GCC_VERSION 23 int 24 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25 default 0 26 27config CC_IS_CLANG 28 def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29 30config CLANG_VERSION 31 int 32 default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33 default 0 34 35config AS_IS_GNU 36 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37 38config AS_IS_LLVM 39 def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40 41config AS_VERSION 42 int 43 # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44 default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45 default $(as-version) 46 47config LD_IS_BFD 48 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 49 50config LD_VERSION 51 int 52 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 53 default 0 54 55config LD_IS_LLD 56 def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57 58config LLD_VERSION 59 int 60 default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 61 default 0 62 63config RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 64 def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 65 help 66 This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 67 68 Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 69 to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 70 71 In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 72 why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 73 74config CC_CAN_LINK 75 bool 76 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 77 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 78 79config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC 80 bool 81 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT 82 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static) 83 84config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 85 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 86 87config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 88 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 89 # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 90 def_bool $(success,echo 'int foo(int *x) { asm goto (".long (%l[bar]) - .": "+m"(*x) ::: bar); return *x; bar: return 0; }' | $CC -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 91 92config GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_WORKAROUND 93 bool 94 depends on CC_IS_GCC && CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 95 # Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 96 # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 97 default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 98 default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 99 default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 100 101config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 102 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 103 104config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 105 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 106 107config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 108 def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 109 110config CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 111 # TODO: when gcc 15 is released remove the build test and add 112 # a gcc version check 113 def_bool $(success,echo 'struct flex { int count; int array[] __attribute__((__counted_by__(count))); };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 114 # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 115 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 116 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 117 depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103) 118 119config PAHOLE_VERSION 120 int 121 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 122 123config CONSTRUCTORS 124 bool 125 126config IRQ_WORK 127 bool 128 129config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 130 bool 131 132config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 133 bool 134 help 135 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 136 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 137 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 138 139 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 140 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 141 142menu "General setup" 143 144config BROKEN 145 bool 146 147config BROKEN_ON_SMP 148 bool 149 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 150 default y 151 152config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 153 int 154 default 32 if !UML 155 default 128 if UML 156 help 157 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 158 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 159 160config COMPILE_TEST 161 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 162 depends on HAS_IOMEM 163 help 164 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 165 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 166 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 167 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 168 drivers to compile-test them. 169 170 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 171 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 172 drivers to be distributed. 173 174config WERROR 175 bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 176 default COMPILE_TEST 177 help 178 A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 179 enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 180 to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 181 such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 182 well. 183 184 However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 185 and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 186 you may need to disable this config option in order to 187 successfully build the kernel. 188 189 If in doubt, say Y. 190 191config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 192 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 193 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 194 help 195 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 196 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 197 198 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 199 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 200 201config LOCALVERSION 202 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 203 help 204 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 205 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 206 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 207 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 208 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 209 be a maximum of 64 characters. 210 211config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 212 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 213 default y 214 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 215 help 216 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 217 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 218 top of tree revision. 219 220 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 221 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 222 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 223 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 224 225 (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 226 by running the command: 227 228 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 229 230 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 231 232config BUILD_SALT 233 string "Build ID Salt" 234 default "" 235 help 236 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 237 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 238 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 239 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 240 241config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 242 bool 243 244config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 245 bool 246 247config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 248 bool 249 250config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 251 bool 252 253config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 254 bool 255 256config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 257 bool 258 259config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 260 bool 261 262config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 263 bool 264 265choice 266 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 267 default KERNEL_GZIP 268 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 269 help 270 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 271 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 272 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 273 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 274 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 275 276 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 277 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 278 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 279 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 280 281 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 282 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 283 size matters less. 284 285 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 286 287config KERNEL_GZIP 288 bool "Gzip" 289 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 290 help 291 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 292 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 293 294config KERNEL_BZIP2 295 bool "Bzip2" 296 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 297 help 298 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 299 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 300 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 301 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 302 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 303 304config KERNEL_LZMA 305 bool "LZMA" 306 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 307 help 308 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 309 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 310 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 311 312config KERNEL_XZ 313 bool "XZ" 314 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 315 help 316 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 317 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 318 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 319 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 320 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 321 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 322 323 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 324 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 325 and LZO. Compression is slow. 326 327config KERNEL_LZO 328 bool "LZO" 329 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 330 help 331 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 332 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 333 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 334 335config KERNEL_LZ4 336 bool "LZ4" 337 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 338 help 339 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 340 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 341 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 342 343 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 344 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 345 faster than LZO. 346 347config KERNEL_ZSTD 348 bool "ZSTD" 349 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 350 help 351 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 352 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 353 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 354 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 355 line tool is required for compression. 356 357config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 358 bool "None" 359 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 360 help 361 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 362 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 363 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 364 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 365 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 366 367endchoice 368 369config DEFAULT_INIT 370 string "Default init path" 371 default "" 372 help 373 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 374 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 375 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 376 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 377 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 378 379config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 380 string "Default hostname" 381 default "(none)" 382 help 383 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 384 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 385 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 386 system more usable with less configuration. 387 388config SYSVIPC 389 bool "System V IPC" 390 help 391 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 392 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 393 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 394 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 395 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 396 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 397 you'll need to say Y here. 398 399 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 400 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 401 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 402 403config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 404 bool 405 depends on SYSVIPC 406 depends on SYSCTL 407 default y 408 409config SYSVIPC_COMPAT 410 def_bool y 411 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 412 413config POSIX_MQUEUE 414 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 415 depends on NET 416 help 417 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 418 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 419 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 420 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 421 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 422 423 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 424 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 425 operations on message queues. 426 427 If unsure, say Y. 428 429config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 430 bool 431 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 432 depends on SYSCTL 433 default y 434 435config WATCH_QUEUE 436 bool "General notification queue" 437 default n 438 help 439 440 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 441 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 442 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 443 notifications. 444 445 See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 446 447config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 448 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 449 depends on MMU 450 default y 451 help 452 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 453 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 454 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 455 See the man page for more details. 456 457config USELIB 458 bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 459 default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 460 help 461 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 462 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 463 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 464 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 465 running glibc can safely disable this. 466 467config AUDIT 468 bool "Auditing support" 469 depends on NET 470 help 471 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 472 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 473 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 474 on architectures which support it. 475 476config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 477 bool 478 479config AUDITSYSCALL 480 def_bool y 481 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 482 select FSNOTIFY 483 484source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 485source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 486source "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 487source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 488 489menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 490 491config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 492 bool 493 494choice 495 prompt "Cputime accounting" 496 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 497 498# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 499config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 500 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 501 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 502 help 503 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 504 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 505 granularity. 506 507 If unsure, say Y. 508 509config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 510 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 511 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 512 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 513 help 514 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 515 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 516 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 517 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 518 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 519 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 520 systems. 521 522config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 523 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 524 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 525 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 526 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 527 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 528 select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 529 help 530 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 531 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 532 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 533 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 534 overhead. 535 536 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 537 dynticks subsystem development. 538 539 If unsure, say N. 540 541endchoice 542 543config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 544 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 545 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 546 help 547 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 548 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 549 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 550 small performance impact. 551 552 If in doubt, say N here. 553 554config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 555 def_bool y 556 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 557 depends on SMP 558 559config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 560 bool 561 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 562 default y if ARM64 563 depends on SMP 564 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 565 help 566 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 567 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 568 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 569 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 570 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 571 572 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 573 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 574 575 This requires the architecture to implement 576 arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 577 578config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 579 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 580 depends on MULTIUSER 581 help 582 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 583 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 584 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 585 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 586 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 587 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 588 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 589 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 590 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 591 592config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 593 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 594 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 595 default n 596 help 597 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 598 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 599 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 600 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 601 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 602 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 603 604config TASKSTATS 605 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 606 depends on NET 607 depends on MULTIUSER 608 default n 609 help 610 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 611 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 612 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 613 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 614 space on task exit. 615 616 Say N if unsure. 617 618config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 619 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 620 depends on TASKSTATS 621 select SCHED_INFO 622 help 623 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 624 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 625 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 626 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 627 628 Say N if unsure. 629 630config TASK_XACCT 631 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 632 depends on TASKSTATS 633 help 634 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 635 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 636 637 Say N if unsure. 638 639config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 640 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 641 depends on TASK_XACCT 642 help 643 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 644 task has caused. 645 646 Say N if unsure. 647 648config PSI 649 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 650 select KERNFS 651 help 652 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 653 and IO capacity are in the system. 654 655 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 656 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 657 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 658 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 659 660 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 661 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 662 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 663 664 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 665 666 Say N if unsure. 667 668config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 669 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 670 default n 671 depends on PSI 672 help 673 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 674 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 675 kernel commandline during boot. 676 677 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 678 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 679 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 680 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 681 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 682 683 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 684 used for, say Y. 685 686 Say N if unsure. 687 688endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 689 690config CPU_ISOLATION 691 bool "CPU isolation" 692 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 693 default y 694 help 695 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 696 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 697 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 698 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 699 700 Say Y if unsure. 701 702source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 703 704config IKCONFIG 705 tristate "Kernel .config support" 706 help 707 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 708 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 709 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 710 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 711 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 712 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 713 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 714 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 715 716config IKCONFIG_PROC 717 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 718 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 719 help 720 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 721 through /proc/config.gz. 722 723config IKHEADERS 724 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 725 depends on SYSFS 726 help 727 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 728 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 729 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 730 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 731 732config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 733 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 734 range 12 25 735 default 17 736 depends on PRINTK 737 help 738 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 739 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 740 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 741 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 742 743 Examples: 744 17 => 128 KB 745 16 => 64 KB 746 15 => 32 KB 747 14 => 16 KB 748 13 => 8 KB 749 12 => 4 KB 750 751config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 752 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 753 depends on SMP 754 range 0 21 755 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 756 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 757 depends on PRINTK 758 help 759 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 760 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 761 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 762 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 763 e.g. backtraces. 764 765 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 766 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 767 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 768 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 769 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 770 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 771 772 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 773 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 774 775 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 776 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 777 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 778 779 Examples shift values and their meaning: 780 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 781 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 782 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 783 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 784 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 785 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 786 787config PRINTK_INDEX 788 bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 789 depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 790 help 791 Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 792 at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 793 794 This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 795 /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 796 kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 797 changed or no longer present. 798 799 There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 800 801# 802# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 803# 804config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 805 bool 806 807config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 808 bool 809 810menu "Scheduler features" 811 812config UCLAMP_TASK 813 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 814 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 815 help 816 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 817 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 818 819 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 820 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 821 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 822 defines the minimum frequency it should use. 823 824 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 825 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 826 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 827 828 If in doubt, say N. 829 830config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 831 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 832 range 5 20 833 default 5 834 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 835 help 836 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 837 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 838 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 839 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 840 841 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 842 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 843 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 844 effective value to 25%. 845 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 846 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 847 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 848 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 849 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 850 that bucket. 851 852 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 853 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 854 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 855 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 856 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 857 precision. 858 859 If in doubt, use the default value. 860 861endmenu 862 863# 864# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 865# balancing logic: 866# 867config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 868 bool 869 870# 871# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 872# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 873# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 874# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 875# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 876# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 877config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 878 bool 879 880config CC_HAS_INT128 881 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 882 883config CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 884 string 885 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 886 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 887 888# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 889# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 890config GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 891 def_bool y 892 893config CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 894 bool 895 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 100000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 896 897# 898# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 899# 900config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 901 bool 902 903# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 904# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 905# 906config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 907 bool 908 909config NUMA_BALANCING 910 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 911 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 912 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 913 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 914 help 915 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 916 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 917 it has references to the node the task is running on. 918 919 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 920 921config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 922 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 923 default y 924 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 925 help 926 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 927 machine. 928 929menuconfig CGROUPS 930 bool "Control Group support" 931 select KERNFS 932 help 933 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 934 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 935 controls or device isolation. 936 See 937 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 938 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 939 and resource control) 940 941 Say N if unsure. 942 943if CGROUPS 944 945config PAGE_COUNTER 946 bool 947 948config CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 949 bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 950 help 951 This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 952 which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 953 as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 954 hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 955 956 Say N if unsure. 957 958config MEMCG 959 bool "Memory controller" 960 select PAGE_COUNTER 961 select EVENTFD 962 help 963 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 964 965config MEMCG_KMEM 966 bool 967 depends on MEMCG 968 default y 969 970config BLK_CGROUP 971 bool "IO controller" 972 depends on BLOCK 973 default n 974 help 975 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 976 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 977 policies. 978 979 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 980 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 981 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 982 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 983 984 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 985 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 986 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 987 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 988 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 989 990 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 991 992config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 993 bool 994 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 995 default y 996 997menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 998 bool "CPU controller" 999 default n 1000 help 1001 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1002 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1003 tasks. 1004 1005if CGROUP_SCHED 1006config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1007 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1008 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1009 default CGROUP_SCHED 1010 1011config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1012 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1013 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1014 default n 1015 help 1016 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1017 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1018 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1019 restriction. 1020 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1021 1022config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1023 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1024 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1025 default n 1026 help 1027 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1028 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1029 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1030 realtime bandwidth for them. 1031 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1032 1033endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1034 1035config SCHED_MM_CID 1036 def_bool y 1037 depends on SMP && RSEQ 1038 1039config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1040 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1041 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1042 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1043 default n 1044 help 1045 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1046 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1047 1048 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1049 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1050 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1051 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1052 frequency a task will always use. 1053 1054 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1055 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1056 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1057 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1058 1059 If in doubt, say N. 1060 1061config CGROUP_PIDS 1062 bool "PIDs controller" 1063 help 1064 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1065 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1066 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1067 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1068 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1069 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1070 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1071 1072 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1073 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1074 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1075 attach to a cgroup. 1076 1077config CGROUP_RDMA 1078 bool "RDMA controller" 1079 help 1080 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1081 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1082 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1083 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1084 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1085 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1086 1087config CGROUP_FREEZER 1088 bool "Freezer controller" 1089 help 1090 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1091 cgroup. 1092 1093 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1094 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1095 1096 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1097 1098config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1099 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1100 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1101 select PAGE_COUNTER 1102 default n 1103 help 1104 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1105 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1106 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1107 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1108 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1109 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1110 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1111 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1112 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1113 1114config CPUSETS 1115 bool "Cpuset controller" 1116 depends on SMP 1117 help 1118 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1119 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1120 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1121 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1122 1123 Say N if unsure. 1124 1125config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1126 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1127 depends on CPUSETS 1128 default y 1129 1130config CGROUP_DEVICE 1131 bool "Device controller" 1132 help 1133 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1134 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1135 1136config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1137 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1138 help 1139 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1140 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1141 1142config CGROUP_PERF 1143 bool "Perf controller" 1144 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1145 help 1146 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1147 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1148 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1149 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1150 1151 Say N if unsure. 1152 1153config CGROUP_BPF 1154 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1155 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1156 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1157 help 1158 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1159 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1160 1161 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1162 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1163 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1164 inet sockets. 1165 1166config CGROUP_MISC 1167 bool "Misc resource controller" 1168 default n 1169 help 1170 Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1171 1172 Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1173 which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1174 tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1175 attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1176 1177 For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1178 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1179 1180config CGROUP_DEBUG 1181 bool "Debug controller" 1182 default n 1183 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1184 help 1185 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1186 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1187 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1188 interfaces are not stable. 1189 1190 Say N. 1191 1192config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1193 bool 1194 default n 1195 1196endif # CGROUPS 1197 1198menuconfig NAMESPACES 1199 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1200 depends on MULTIUSER 1201 default !EXPERT 1202 help 1203 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1204 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1205 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1206 different namespaces. 1207 1208if NAMESPACES 1209 1210config UTS_NS 1211 bool "UTS namespace" 1212 default y 1213 help 1214 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1215 uname() system call 1216 1217config TIME_NS 1218 bool "TIME namespace" 1219 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1220 default y 1221 help 1222 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1223 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1224 1225config IPC_NS 1226 bool "IPC namespace" 1227 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1228 default y 1229 help 1230 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1231 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1232 1233config USER_NS 1234 bool "User namespace" 1235 default n 1236 help 1237 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1238 to provide different user info for different servers. 1239 1240 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1241 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1242 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1243 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1244 1245 If unsure, say N. 1246 1247config PID_NS 1248 bool "PID Namespaces" 1249 default y 1250 help 1251 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1252 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1253 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1254 1255config NET_NS 1256 bool "Network namespace" 1257 depends on NET 1258 default y 1259 help 1260 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1261 of the network stack. 1262 1263endif # NAMESPACES 1264 1265config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1266 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1267 depends on PROC_FS 1268 select PROC_CHILDREN 1269 select KCMP 1270 default n 1271 help 1272 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1273 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1274 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1275 entries. 1276 1277 If unsure, say N here. 1278 1279config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1280 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1281 select CGROUPS 1282 select CGROUP_SCHED 1283 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1284 help 1285 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1286 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1287 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1288 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1289 upon task session. 1290 1291config RELAY 1292 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1293 select IRQ_WORK 1294 help 1295 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1296 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1297 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1298 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1299 user space. 1300 1301 If unsure, say N. 1302 1303config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1304 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1305 help 1306 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1307 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1308 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1309 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1310 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1311 1312 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1313 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1314 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1315 1316 If unsure say Y. 1317 1318if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1319 1320source "usr/Kconfig" 1321 1322endif 1323 1324config BOOT_CONFIG 1325 bool "Boot config support" 1326 select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1327 help 1328 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1329 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1330 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1331 with checksum, size and magic word. 1332 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1333 1334 If unsure, say Y. 1335 1336config BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1337 bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1338 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1339 default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1340 help 1341 With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1342 out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1343 In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1344 make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1345 parameters. 1346 1347 If unsure, say N. 1348 1349config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1350 bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1351 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1352 help 1353 Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1354 kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1355 image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1356 help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1357 1358 If unsure, say N. 1359 1360config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1361 string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1362 depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1363 help 1364 Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1365 This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1366 bootconfig in the initrd. 1367 1368config INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 1369 bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 1370 default y 1371 help 1372 Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 1373 enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 1374 setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 1375 1376 If unsure, say Y. 1377 1378choice 1379 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1380 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1381 1382config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1383 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1384 help 1385 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1386 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1387 helpful compile-time warnings. 1388 1389config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1390 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1391 help 1392 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1393 in a smaller kernel. 1394 1395endchoice 1396 1397config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1398 bool 1399 help 1400 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1401 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1402 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1403 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1404 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1405 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1406 1407config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1408 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1409 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1410 depends on EXPERT 1411 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1412 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1413 help 1414 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1415 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1416 and linking with --gc-sections. 1417 1418 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1419 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1420 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1421 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1422 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1423 own risk. 1424 1425config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1426 def_bool y 1427 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1428 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1429 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1430 1431config LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1432 string 1433 depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1434 default "error" if WERROR 1435 default "warn" 1436 1437config SYSCTL 1438 bool 1439 1440config HAVE_UID16 1441 bool 1442 1443config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1444 bool 1445 help 1446 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1447 1448config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1449 bool 1450 help 1451 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1452 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1453 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1454 1455config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1456 bool 1457 help 1458 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1459 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1460 the unaligned access emulation. 1461 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1462 1463config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1464 bool 1465 1466# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1467config BPF 1468 bool 1469 select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1470 1471menuconfig EXPERT 1472 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1473 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1474 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1475 help 1476 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1477 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1478 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1479 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1480 1481config UID16 1482 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1483 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1484 default y 1485 help 1486 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1487 1488config MULTIUSER 1489 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1490 default y 1491 help 1492 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1493 capabilities. 1494 1495 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1496 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1497 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1498 setgid, and capset. 1499 1500 If unsure, say Y here. 1501 1502config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1503 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1504 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1505 help 1506 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1507 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1508 architectures. 1509 1510 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1511 1512config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1513 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1514 default y 1515 help 1516 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1517 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1518 compatibility with some systems. 1519 1520 If unsure say Y here. 1521 1522config FHANDLE 1523 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1524 select EXPORTFS 1525 default y 1526 help 1527 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1528 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1529 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1530 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1531 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1532 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1533 syscalls. 1534 1535config POSIX_TIMERS 1536 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1537 default y 1538 help 1539 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1540 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1541 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1542 1543 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1544 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1545 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1546 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1547 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1548 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1549 1550 If unsure say y. 1551 1552config PRINTK 1553 default y 1554 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1555 select IRQ_WORK 1556 help 1557 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1558 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1559 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1560 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1561 strongly discouraged. 1562 1563config BUG 1564 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1565 default y 1566 help 1567 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1568 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1569 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1570 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1571 Just say Y. 1572 1573config ELF_CORE 1574 depends on COREDUMP 1575 default y 1576 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1577 help 1578 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1579 1580 1581config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1582 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1583 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1584 select I8253_LOCK 1585 default y 1586 help 1587 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1588 support, saving some memory. 1589 1590config BASE_FULL 1591 default y 1592 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1593 help 1594 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1595 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1596 but may reduce performance. 1597 1598config FUTEX 1599 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1600 depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 1601 default y 1602 imply RT_MUTEXES 1603 help 1604 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1605 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1606 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1607 1608config FUTEX_PI 1609 bool 1610 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1611 default y 1612 1613config EPOLL 1614 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1615 default y 1616 help 1617 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1618 support for epoll family of system calls. 1619 1620config SIGNALFD 1621 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1622 default y 1623 help 1624 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1625 on a file descriptor. 1626 1627 If unsure, say Y. 1628 1629config TIMERFD 1630 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1631 default y 1632 help 1633 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1634 events on a file descriptor. 1635 1636 If unsure, say Y. 1637 1638config EVENTFD 1639 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1640 default y 1641 help 1642 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1643 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1644 1645 If unsure, say Y. 1646 1647config SHMEM 1648 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1649 default y 1650 depends on MMU 1651 help 1652 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1653 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1654 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1655 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1656 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1657 1658config AIO 1659 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1660 default y 1661 help 1662 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1663 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1664 this option saves about 7k. 1665 1666config IO_URING 1667 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1668 select IO_WQ 1669 default y 1670 help 1671 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1672 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1673 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1674 1675config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1676 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1677 default y 1678 help 1679 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1680 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1681 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1682 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1683 space. 1684 1685config MEMBARRIER 1686 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1687 default y 1688 help 1689 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1690 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1691 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1692 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1693 compiler barrier. 1694 1695 If unsure, say Y. 1696 1697config KALLSYMS 1698 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1699 default y 1700 help 1701 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1702 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1703 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1704 1705config KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 1706 bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 1707 depends on KALLSYMS 1708 default n 1709 help 1710 Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 1711 kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 1712 kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 1713 1714 Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 1715 "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 1716 displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 1717 1718config KALLSYMS_ALL 1719 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1720 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1721 help 1722 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1723 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1724 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1725 enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1726 when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1727 variables from the data sections, etc). 1728 1729 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1730 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1731 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1732 something like this). 1733 1734 Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1735 1736config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1737 bool 1738 depends on KALLSYMS 1739 default X86_64 && SMP 1740 1741config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1742 bool 1743 depends on KALLSYMS 1744 default !IA64 1745 help 1746 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1747 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1748 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1749 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1750 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1751 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1752 address encountered in the image. 1753 1754 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1755 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1756 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1757 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1758 1759# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1760 1761# syscall, maps, verifier 1762 1763config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1764 bool 1765 1766config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1767 bool 1768 1769config KCMP 1770 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1771 help 1772 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1773 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1774 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1775 memory space. 1776 1777 If unsure, say N. 1778 1779config RSEQ 1780 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1781 default y 1782 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1783 select MEMBARRIER 1784 help 1785 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1786 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1787 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1788 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1789 per-CPU data. 1790 1791 If unsure, say Y. 1792 1793config CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1794 bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1795 default y 1796 help 1797 Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1798 statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1799 pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1800 1801 If unsure say Y here. 1802 1803config DEBUG_RSEQ 1804 default n 1805 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1806 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1807 help 1808 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1809 1810 If unsure, say N. 1811 1812config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1813 bool 1814 help 1815 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1816 1817config GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 1818 bool 1819 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1820 1821config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1822 bool 1823 help 1824 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1825 1826config PC104 1827 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1828 help 1829 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1830 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1831 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1832 1833menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1834 1835config PERF_EVENTS 1836 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1837 default y if PROFILING 1838 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1839 select IRQ_WORK 1840 help 1841 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1842 by software and hardware. 1843 1844 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1845 use of generic tracepoints. 1846 1847 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1848 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1849 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1850 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1851 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1852 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1853 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1854 1855 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1856 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1857 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1858 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1859 capabilities on top of those. 1860 1861 Say Y if unsure. 1862 1863config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1864 default n 1865 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1866 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1867 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1868 help 1869 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1870 1871 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1872 that don't require it. 1873 1874 Say N if unsure. 1875 1876endmenu 1877 1878config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1879 def_bool n 1880 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1881 select KEYS 1882 select CRYPTO 1883 select CRYPTO_RSA 1884 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1885 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1886 select ASN1 1887 select OID_REGISTRY 1888 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1889 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1890 help 1891 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1892 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1893 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1894 verification. 1895 1896config PROFILING 1897 bool "Profiling support" 1898 help 1899 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1900 by profilers. 1901 1902config RUST 1903 bool "Rust support" 1904 depends on HAVE_RUST 1905 depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 1906 depends on !CFI_CLANG 1907 depends on !MODVERSIONS 1908 depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 1909 depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1910 depends on !SHADOW_CALL_STACK 1911 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 1912 help 1913 Enables Rust support in the kernel. 1914 1915 This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 1916 to be selected. 1917 1918 It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 1919 written in Rust. 1920 1921 See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 1922 1923 If unsure, say N. 1924 1925config RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 1926 string 1927 depends on RUST 1928 default "$(shell,$(RUSTC) --version 2>/dev/null)" 1929 1930config BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 1931 string 1932 depends on RUST 1933 # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 1934 # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678). It can be removed when 1935 # the minimum version is upgraded past that (0.69.1 already fixed the issue). 1936 default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 1937 1938# 1939# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1940# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1941# 1942config TRACEPOINTS 1943 bool 1944 1945source "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 1946 1947endmenu # General setup 1948 1949source "arch/Kconfig" 1950 1951config RT_MUTEXES 1952 bool 1953 default y if PREEMPT_RT 1954 1955config BASE_SMALL 1956 int 1957 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1958 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1959 1960config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1961 def_bool n 1962 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1963 1964source "kernel/module/Kconfig" 1965 1966config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1967 bool 1968 help 1969 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1970 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1971 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1972 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1973 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1974 1975source "block/Kconfig" 1976 1977config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1978 bool 1979 1980config PADATA 1981 depends on SMP 1982 bool 1983 1984config ASN1 1985 tristate 1986 help 1987 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 1988 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 1989 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 1990 functions to call on what tags. 1991 1992source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1993 1994config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 1995 bool 1996 1997config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 1998 bool 1999 2000# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 2001# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 2002# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 2003# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 2004# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 2005# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 2006# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 2007config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 2008 def_bool n 2009