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 TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 93 def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 94 95config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 96 def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 97 98config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 99 def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 100 101config PAHOLE_VERSION 102 int 103 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 104 105config CONSTRUCTORS 106 bool 107 108config IRQ_WORK 109 bool 110 111config BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 112 bool 113 114config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 115 bool 116 help 117 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 118 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 119 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 120 121 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 122 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 123 124menu "General setup" 125 126config BROKEN 127 bool 128 129config BROKEN_ON_SMP 130 bool 131 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 132 default y 133 134config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 135 int 136 default 32 if !UML 137 default 128 if UML 138 help 139 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 140 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 141 142config COMPILE_TEST 143 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 144 depends on HAS_IOMEM 145 help 146 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 147 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 148 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 149 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 150 drivers to compile-test them. 151 152 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 153 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 154 drivers to be distributed. 155 156config WERROR 157 bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 158 default COMPILE_TEST 159 help 160 A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 161 enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 162 to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 163 such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 164 well. 165 166 However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 167 and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 168 you may need to disable this config option in order to 169 successfully build the kernel. 170 171 If in doubt, say Y. 172 173config UAPI_HEADER_TEST 174 bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 175 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 176 help 177 Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 178 self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 179 180 If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 181 headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 182 183config LOCALVERSION 184 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 185 help 186 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 187 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 188 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 189 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 190 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 191 be a maximum of 64 characters. 192 193config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 194 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 195 default y 196 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 197 help 198 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 199 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 200 top of tree revision. 201 202 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 203 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 204 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 205 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 206 207 (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 208 by running the command: 209 210 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 211 212 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 213 214config BUILD_SALT 215 string "Build ID Salt" 216 default "" 217 help 218 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 219 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 220 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 221 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 222 223config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 224 bool 225 226config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 227 bool 228 229config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 230 bool 231 232config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 233 bool 234 235config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 236 bool 237 238config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 239 bool 240 241config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 242 bool 243 244config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 245 bool 246 247choice 248 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 249 default KERNEL_GZIP 250 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 251 help 252 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 253 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 254 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 255 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 256 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 257 258 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 259 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 260 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 261 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 262 263 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 264 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 265 size matters less. 266 267 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 268 269config KERNEL_GZIP 270 bool "Gzip" 271 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 272 help 273 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 274 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 275 276config KERNEL_BZIP2 277 bool "Bzip2" 278 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 279 help 280 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 281 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 282 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 283 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 284 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 285 286config KERNEL_LZMA 287 bool "LZMA" 288 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 289 help 290 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 291 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 292 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 293 294config KERNEL_XZ 295 bool "XZ" 296 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 297 help 298 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 299 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 300 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 301 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 302 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 303 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 304 305 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 306 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 307 and LZO. Compression is slow. 308 309config KERNEL_LZO 310 bool "LZO" 311 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 312 help 313 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 314 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 315 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 316 317config KERNEL_LZ4 318 bool "LZ4" 319 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 320 help 321 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 322 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 323 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 324 325 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 326 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 327 faster than LZO. 328 329config KERNEL_ZSTD 330 bool "ZSTD" 331 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 332 help 333 ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 334 with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 335 decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 336 will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 337 line tool is required for compression. 338 339config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 340 bool "None" 341 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 342 help 343 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 344 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 345 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 346 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 347 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 348 349endchoice 350 351config DEFAULT_INIT 352 string "Default init path" 353 default "" 354 help 355 This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 356 option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 357 not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 358 locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 359 the fallback list when init= is not passed. 360 361config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 362 string "Default hostname" 363 default "(none)" 364 help 365 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 366 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 367 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 368 system more usable with less configuration. 369 370config SYSVIPC 371 bool "System V IPC" 372 help 373 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 374 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 375 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 376 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 377 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 378 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 379 you'll need to say Y here. 380 381 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 382 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 383 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 384 385config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 386 bool 387 depends on SYSVIPC 388 depends on SYSCTL 389 default y 390 391config SYSVIPC_COMPAT 392 def_bool y 393 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 394 395config POSIX_MQUEUE 396 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 397 depends on NET 398 help 399 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 400 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 401 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 402 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 403 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 404 405 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 406 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 407 operations on message queues. 408 409 If unsure, say Y. 410 411config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 412 bool 413 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 414 depends on SYSCTL 415 default y 416 417config WATCH_QUEUE 418 bool "General notification queue" 419 default n 420 help 421 422 This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 423 userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 424 with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 425 notifications. 426 427 See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 428 429config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 430 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 431 depends on MMU 432 default y 433 help 434 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 435 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 436 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 437 See the man page for more details. 438 439config USELIB 440 bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)" 441 default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC 442 help 443 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 444 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 445 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 446 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 447 running glibc can safely disable this. 448 449config AUDIT 450 bool "Auditing support" 451 depends on NET 452 help 453 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 454 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 455 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 456 on architectures which support it. 457 458config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 459 bool 460 461config AUDITSYSCALL 462 def_bool y 463 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 464 select FSNOTIFY 465 466source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 467source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 468source "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 469source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 470 471menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 472 473config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 474 bool 475 476choice 477 prompt "Cputime accounting" 478 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 479 480# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 481config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 482 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 483 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 484 help 485 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 486 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 487 granularity. 488 489 If unsure, say Y. 490 491config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 492 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 493 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 494 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 495 help 496 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 497 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 498 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 499 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 500 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 501 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 502 systems. 503 504config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 505 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 506 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 507 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 508 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 509 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 510 select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 511 help 512 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 513 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 514 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 515 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 516 overhead. 517 518 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 519 dynticks subsystem development. 520 521 If unsure, say N. 522 523endchoice 524 525config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 526 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 527 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 528 help 529 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 530 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 531 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 532 small performance impact. 533 534 If in doubt, say N here. 535 536config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 537 def_bool y 538 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 539 depends on SMP 540 541config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 542 bool 543 default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 544 default y if ARM64 545 depends on SMP 546 depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 547 help 548 Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the 549 scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 550 that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 551 thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of 552 a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. 553 554 If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 555 i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 556 557 This requires the architecture to implement 558 arch_update_thermal_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 559 560config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 561 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 562 depends on MULTIUSER 563 help 564 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 565 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 566 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 567 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 568 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 569 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 570 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 571 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 572 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 573 574config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 575 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 576 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 577 default n 578 help 579 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 580 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 581 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 582 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 583 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 584 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 585 586config TASKSTATS 587 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 588 depends on NET 589 depends on MULTIUSER 590 default n 591 help 592 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 593 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 594 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 595 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 596 space on task exit. 597 598 Say N if unsure. 599 600config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 601 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 602 depends on TASKSTATS 603 select SCHED_INFO 604 help 605 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 606 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 607 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 608 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 609 610 Say N if unsure. 611 612config TASK_XACCT 613 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 614 depends on TASKSTATS 615 help 616 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 617 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 618 619 Say N if unsure. 620 621config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 622 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 623 depends on TASK_XACCT 624 help 625 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 626 task has caused. 627 628 Say N if unsure. 629 630config PSI 631 bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 632 help 633 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 634 and IO capacity are in the system. 635 636 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 637 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 638 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 639 delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 640 641 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 642 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 643 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 644 645 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 646 647 Say N if unsure. 648 649config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 650 bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 651 default n 652 depends on PSI 653 help 654 If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 655 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 656 kernel commandline during boot. 657 658 This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 659 paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 660 common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 661 webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 662 scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 663 664 If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 665 used for, say Y. 666 667 Say N if unsure. 668 669endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 670 671config CPU_ISOLATION 672 bool "CPU isolation" 673 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST 674 default y 675 help 676 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 677 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 678 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 679 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 680 681 Say Y if unsure. 682 683source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 684 685config BUILD_BIN2C 686 bool 687 default n 688 689config IKCONFIG 690 tristate "Kernel .config support" 691 help 692 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 693 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 694 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 695 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 696 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 697 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 698 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 699 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 700 701config IKCONFIG_PROC 702 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 703 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 704 help 705 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 706 through /proc/config.gz. 707 708config IKHEADERS 709 tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 710 depends on SYSFS 711 help 712 This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 713 the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 714 or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 715 kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 716 717config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 718 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 719 range 12 25 720 default 17 721 depends on PRINTK 722 help 723 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 724 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 725 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 726 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 727 728 Examples: 729 17 => 128 KB 730 16 => 64 KB 731 15 => 32 KB 732 14 => 16 KB 733 13 => 8 KB 734 12 => 4 KB 735 736config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 737 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 738 depends on SMP 739 range 0 21 740 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 741 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 742 depends on PRINTK 743 help 744 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 745 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 746 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 747 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 748 e.g. backtraces. 749 750 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 751 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 752 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 753 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 754 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 755 so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 756 757 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 758 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 759 760 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 761 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 762 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 763 764 Examples shift values and their meaning: 765 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 766 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 767 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 768 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 769 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 770 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 771 772config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 773 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 774 range 10 21 775 default 13 776 depends on PRINTK 777 help 778 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 779 printed from unsafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 780 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 781 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 782 The value defines the size as a power of 2. 783 784 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 785 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 786 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 787 788 Examples: 789 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 790 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 791 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 792 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 793 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 794 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 795 796config PRINTK_INDEX 797 bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 798 depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 799 help 800 Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 801 at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 802 803 This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 804 /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 805 kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 806 changed or no longer present. 807 808 There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 809 810# 811# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 812# 813config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 814 bool 815 816config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 817 bool 818 819menu "Scheduler features" 820 821config UCLAMP_TASK 822 bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 823 depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 824 help 825 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 826 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 827 828 With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 829 utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 830 the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 831 defines the minimum frequency it should use. 832 833 Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 834 aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 835 enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 836 837 If in doubt, say N. 838 839config UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 840 int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 841 range 5 20 842 default 5 843 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 844 help 845 Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 846 will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 847 number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 848 the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 849 850 For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 851 clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 852 be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 853 effective value to 25%. 854 If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 855 that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 856 it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 857 The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 858 (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 859 that bucket. 860 861 An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 862 example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 863 CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 864 it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 865 clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 866 precision. 867 868 If in doubt, use the default value. 869 870endmenu 871 872# 873# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 874# balancing logic: 875# 876config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 877 bool 878 879# 880# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 881# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 882# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 883# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 884# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 885# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 886config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 887 bool 888 889config CC_HAS_INT128 890 def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 891 892config CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 893 string 894 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 895 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 896 897# Currently, disable gcc-11,12 array-bounds globally. 898# We may want to target only particular configurations some day. 899config GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 900 def_bool y 901 902config GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 903 def_bool y 904 905config CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 906 bool 907 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 110000 && GCC_VERSION < 120000 && GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 908 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 130000 && GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 909 910# 911# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 912# 913config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 914 bool 915 916# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 917# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 918# 919config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 920 bool 921 922config NUMA_BALANCING 923 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 924 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 925 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 926 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 927 help 928 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 929 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 930 it has references to the node the task is running on. 931 932 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 933 934config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 935 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 936 default y 937 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 938 help 939 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 940 machine. 941 942menuconfig CGROUPS 943 bool "Control Group support" 944 select KERNFS 945 help 946 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 947 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 948 controls or device isolation. 949 See 950 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 951 - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 952 and resource control) 953 954 Say N if unsure. 955 956if CGROUPS 957 958config PAGE_COUNTER 959 bool 960 961config CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 962 bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 963 help 964 This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 965 which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 966 as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 967 hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 968 969 Say N if unsure. 970 971config MEMCG 972 bool "Memory controller" 973 select PAGE_COUNTER 974 select EVENTFD 975 help 976 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 977 978config MEMCG_KMEM 979 bool 980 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB 981 default y 982 983config BLK_CGROUP 984 bool "IO controller" 985 depends on BLOCK 986 default n 987 help 988 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 989 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 990 policies. 991 992 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 993 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 994 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 995 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 996 997 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 998 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 999 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1000 CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1001 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1002 1003 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 1004 1005config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 1006 bool 1007 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 1008 default y 1009 1010menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1011 bool "CPU controller" 1012 default n 1013 help 1014 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1015 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1016 tasks. 1017 1018if CGROUP_SCHED 1019config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1020 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1021 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1022 default CGROUP_SCHED 1023 1024config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1025 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1026 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1027 default n 1028 help 1029 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1030 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1031 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1032 restriction. 1033 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1034 1035config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1036 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1037 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1038 default n 1039 help 1040 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1041 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1042 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1043 realtime bandwidth for them. 1044 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 1045 1046endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1047 1048config SCHED_MM_CID 1049 def_bool y 1050 depends on SMP && RSEQ 1051 1052config UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 1053 bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 1054 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1055 depends on UCLAMP_TASK 1056 default n 1057 help 1058 This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 1059 of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 1060 1061 When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 1062 CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 1063 The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 1064 can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 1065 frequency a task will always use. 1066 1067 When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 1068 specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 1069 specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 1070 be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 1071 1072 If in doubt, say N. 1073 1074config CGROUP_PIDS 1075 bool "PIDs controller" 1076 help 1077 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1078 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1079 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1080 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1081 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1082 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1083 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1084 1085 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1086 to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 1087 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1088 attach to a cgroup. 1089 1090config CGROUP_RDMA 1091 bool "RDMA controller" 1092 help 1093 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 1094 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 1095 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 1096 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 1097 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 1098 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 1099 1100config CGROUP_FREEZER 1101 bool "Freezer controller" 1102 help 1103 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1104 cgroup. 1105 1106 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1107 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1108 1109 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1110 1111config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1112 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1113 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1114 select PAGE_COUNTER 1115 default n 1116 help 1117 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1118 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1119 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1120 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1121 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1122 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1123 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1124 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1125 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1126 1127config CPUSETS 1128 bool "Cpuset controller" 1129 depends on SMP 1130 help 1131 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1132 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1133 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1134 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1135 1136 Say N if unsure. 1137 1138config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1139 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1140 depends on CPUSETS 1141 default y 1142 1143config CGROUP_DEVICE 1144 bool "Device controller" 1145 help 1146 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1147 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1148 1149config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1150 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1151 help 1152 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1153 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1154 1155config CGROUP_PERF 1156 bool "Perf controller" 1157 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1158 help 1159 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1160 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1161 designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 1162 so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 1163 1164 Say N if unsure. 1165 1166config CGROUP_BPF 1167 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1168 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1169 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1170 help 1171 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 1172 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 1173 1174 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 1175 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 1176 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 1177 inet sockets. 1178 1179config CGROUP_MISC 1180 bool "Misc resource controller" 1181 default n 1182 help 1183 Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1184 1185 Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1186 which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1187 tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1188 attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1189 1190 For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1191 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1192 1193config CGROUP_DEBUG 1194 bool "Debug controller" 1195 default n 1196 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1197 help 1198 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1199 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 1200 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 1201 interfaces are not stable. 1202 1203 Say N. 1204 1205config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 1206 bool 1207 default n 1208 1209endif # CGROUPS 1210 1211menuconfig NAMESPACES 1212 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1213 depends on MULTIUSER 1214 default !EXPERT 1215 help 1216 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1217 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1218 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1219 different namespaces. 1220 1221if NAMESPACES 1222 1223config UTS_NS 1224 bool "UTS namespace" 1225 default y 1226 help 1227 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1228 uname() system call 1229 1230config TIME_NS 1231 bool "TIME namespace" 1232 depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1233 default y 1234 help 1235 In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1236 The time will keep going with the same pace. 1237 1238config IPC_NS 1239 bool "IPC namespace" 1240 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1241 default y 1242 help 1243 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1244 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1245 1246config USER_NS 1247 bool "User namespace" 1248 default n 1249 help 1250 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1251 to provide different user info for different servers. 1252 1253 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1254 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1255 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1256 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1257 1258 If unsure, say N. 1259 1260config PID_NS 1261 bool "PID Namespaces" 1262 default y 1263 help 1264 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1265 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1266 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1267 1268config NET_NS 1269 bool "Network namespace" 1270 depends on NET 1271 default y 1272 help 1273 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1274 of the network stack. 1275 1276endif # NAMESPACES 1277 1278config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1279 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 1280 depends on PROC_FS 1281 select PROC_CHILDREN 1282 select KCMP 1283 default n 1284 help 1285 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1286 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1287 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1288 entries. 1289 1290 If unsure, say N here. 1291 1292config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1293 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1294 select CGROUPS 1295 select CGROUP_SCHED 1296 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1297 help 1298 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1299 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1300 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1301 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1302 upon task session. 1303 1304config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1305 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1306 depends on SYSFS 1307 default n 1308 help 1309 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1310 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1311 /sys/block/. 1312 1313 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1314 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1315 1316 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1317 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1318 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1319 1320 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1321 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1322 option enabled. 1323 1324 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1325 need to say Y here. 1326 1327config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1328 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1329 default n 1330 depends on SYSFS 1331 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1332 help 1333 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1334 1335 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1336 option. 1337 1338 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1339 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1340 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1341 1342config RELAY 1343 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1344 select IRQ_WORK 1345 help 1346 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1347 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1348 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1349 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1350 user space. 1351 1352 If unsure, say N. 1353 1354config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1355 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1356 help 1357 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1358 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1359 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1360 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1361 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1362 1363 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1364 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1365 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1366 1367 If unsure say Y. 1368 1369if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1370 1371source "usr/Kconfig" 1372 1373endif 1374 1375config BOOT_CONFIG 1376 bool "Boot config support" 1377 select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1378 help 1379 Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 1380 complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 1381 The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 1382 with checksum, size and magic word. 1383 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 1384 1385 If unsure, say Y. 1386 1387config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1388 bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1389 depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1390 help 1391 Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1392 kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1393 image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1394 help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1395 1396 If unsure, say N. 1397 1398config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1399 string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1400 depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1401 help 1402 Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1403 This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1404 bootconfig in the initrd. 1405 1406config INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 1407 bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 1408 default y 1409 help 1410 Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 1411 enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 1412 setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 1413 1414 If unsure, say Y. 1415 1416choice 1417 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1418 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1419 1420config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1421 bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1422 help 1423 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1424 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1425 helpful compile-time warnings. 1426 1427config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1428 bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1429 help 1430 Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1431 in a smaller kernel. 1432 1433endchoice 1434 1435config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1436 bool 1437 help 1438 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 1439 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 1440 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 1441 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 1442 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 1443 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 1444 1445config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1446 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1447 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 1448 depends on EXPERT 1449 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1450 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 1451 help 1452 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 1453 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 1454 and linking with --gc-sections. 1455 1456 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 1457 code and static data, particularly for small configs and 1458 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 1459 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 1460 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 1461 own risk. 1462 1463config LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1464 def_bool y 1465 depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1466 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1467 depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1468 1469config LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1470 string 1471 depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1472 default "error" if WERROR 1473 default "warn" 1474 1475config SYSCTL 1476 bool 1477 1478config HAVE_UID16 1479 bool 1480 1481config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1482 bool 1483 help 1484 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1485 1486config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1487 bool 1488 help 1489 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1490 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1491 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1492 1493config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1494 bool 1495 help 1496 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1497 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1498 the unaligned access emulation. 1499 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1500 1501config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1502 bool 1503 1504# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1505config BPF 1506 bool 1507 select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 1508 1509menuconfig EXPERT 1510 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1511 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1512 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1513 help 1514 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1515 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1516 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1517 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1518 1519config UID16 1520 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1521 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1522 default y 1523 help 1524 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1525 1526config MULTIUSER 1527 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1528 default y 1529 help 1530 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1531 capabilities. 1532 1533 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1534 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1535 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1536 setgid, and capset. 1537 1538 If unsure, say Y here. 1539 1540config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1541 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1542 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1543 help 1544 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1545 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1546 architectures. 1547 1548 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1549 1550config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1551 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1552 default y 1553 help 1554 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1555 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1556 compatibility with some systems. 1557 1558 If unsure say Y here. 1559 1560config FHANDLE 1561 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1562 select EXPORTFS 1563 default y 1564 help 1565 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1566 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1567 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1568 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1569 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1570 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1571 syscalls. 1572 1573config POSIX_TIMERS 1574 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1575 default y 1576 help 1577 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1578 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1579 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1580 1581 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1582 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1583 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1584 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1585 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1586 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1587 1588 If unsure say y. 1589 1590config PRINTK 1591 default y 1592 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1593 select IRQ_WORK 1594 help 1595 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1596 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1597 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1598 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1599 strongly discouraged. 1600 1601config BUG 1602 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1603 default y 1604 help 1605 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1606 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1607 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1608 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1609 Just say Y. 1610 1611config ELF_CORE 1612 depends on COREDUMP 1613 default y 1614 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1615 help 1616 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1617 1618 1619config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1620 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1621 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1622 select I8253_LOCK 1623 default y 1624 help 1625 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1626 support, saving some memory. 1627 1628config BASE_FULL 1629 default y 1630 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1631 help 1632 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1633 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1634 but may reduce performance. 1635 1636config FUTEX 1637 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1638 depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 1639 default y 1640 imply RT_MUTEXES 1641 help 1642 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1643 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1644 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1645 1646config FUTEX_PI 1647 bool 1648 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1649 default y 1650 1651config EPOLL 1652 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1653 default y 1654 help 1655 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1656 support for epoll family of system calls. 1657 1658config SIGNALFD 1659 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1660 default y 1661 help 1662 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1663 on a file descriptor. 1664 1665 If unsure, say Y. 1666 1667config TIMERFD 1668 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1669 default y 1670 help 1671 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1672 events on a file descriptor. 1673 1674 If unsure, say Y. 1675 1676config EVENTFD 1677 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1678 default y 1679 help 1680 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1681 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1682 1683 If unsure, say Y. 1684 1685config SHMEM 1686 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1687 default y 1688 depends on MMU 1689 help 1690 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1691 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1692 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1693 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1694 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1695 1696config AIO 1697 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1698 default y 1699 help 1700 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1701 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1702 this option saves about 7k. 1703 1704config IO_URING 1705 bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1706 select IO_WQ 1707 default y 1708 help 1709 This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 1710 applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 1711 completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 1712 1713config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1714 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1715 default y 1716 help 1717 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1718 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1719 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1720 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1721 space. 1722 1723config MEMBARRIER 1724 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1725 default y 1726 help 1727 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1728 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1729 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1730 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1731 compiler barrier. 1732 1733 If unsure, say Y. 1734 1735config KALLSYMS 1736 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1737 default y 1738 help 1739 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1740 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1741 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1742 1743config KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 1744 bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 1745 depends on KALLSYMS 1746 default n 1747 help 1748 Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 1749 kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 1750 kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 1751 1752 Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 1753 "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 1754 displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 1755 1756config KALLSYMS_ALL 1757 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1758 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1759 help 1760 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1761 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1762 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1763 enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1764 when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1765 variables from the data sections, etc). 1766 1767 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1768 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1769 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1770 something like this). 1771 1772 Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1773 1774config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1775 bool 1776 depends on KALLSYMS 1777 default X86_64 && SMP 1778 1779config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1780 bool 1781 depends on KALLSYMS 1782 default !IA64 1783 help 1784 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1785 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1786 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1787 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1788 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1789 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1790 address encountered in the image. 1791 1792 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1793 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1794 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1795 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1796 1797# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1798 1799# syscall, maps, verifier 1800 1801config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 1802 bool 1803 1804config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 1805 bool 1806 1807config KCMP 1808 bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1809 help 1810 Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1811 user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1812 share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1813 memory space. 1814 1815 If unsure, say N. 1816 1817config RSEQ 1818 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1819 default y 1820 depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1821 select MEMBARRIER 1822 help 1823 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1824 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1825 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1826 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1827 per-CPU data. 1828 1829 If unsure, say Y. 1830 1831config DEBUG_RSEQ 1832 default n 1833 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1834 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1835 help 1836 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1837 1838 If unsure, say N. 1839 1840config EMBEDDED 1841 bool "Embedded system" 1842 select EXPERT 1843 help 1844 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1845 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1846 for configuration. 1847 1848config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1849 bool 1850 help 1851 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1852 1853config GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 1854 bool 1855 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1856 1857config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1858 bool 1859 help 1860 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1861 1862config PC104 1863 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1864 help 1865 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1866 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1867 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1868 1869menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1870 1871config PERF_EVENTS 1872 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1873 default y if PROFILING 1874 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1875 select IRQ_WORK 1876 help 1877 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1878 by software and hardware. 1879 1880 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1881 use of generic tracepoints. 1882 1883 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1884 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1885 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1886 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1887 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1888 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1889 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1890 1891 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1892 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1893 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1894 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1895 capabilities on top of those. 1896 1897 Say Y if unsure. 1898 1899config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1900 default n 1901 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1902 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1903 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1904 help 1905 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1906 1907 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1908 that don't require it. 1909 1910 Say N if unsure. 1911 1912endmenu 1913 1914config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1915 def_bool n 1916 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1917 select KEYS 1918 select CRYPTO 1919 select CRYPTO_RSA 1920 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1921 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1922 select ASN1 1923 select OID_REGISTRY 1924 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1925 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1926 help 1927 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1928 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1929 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1930 verification. 1931 1932config PROFILING 1933 bool "Profiling support" 1934 help 1935 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1936 by profilers. 1937 1938config RUST 1939 bool "Rust support" 1940 depends on HAVE_RUST 1941 depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 1942 depends on !MODVERSIONS 1943 depends on !GCC_PLUGINS 1944 depends on !RANDSTRUCT 1945 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 1946 select CONSTRUCTORS 1947 help 1948 Enables Rust support in the kernel. 1949 1950 This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 1951 to be selected. 1952 1953 It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 1954 written in Rust. 1955 1956 See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 1957 1958 If unsure, say N. 1959 1960config RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 1961 string 1962 depends on RUST 1963 default $(shell,command -v $(RUSTC) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(RUSTC) --version || echo n) 1964 1965config BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 1966 string 1967 depends on RUST 1968 default $(shell,command -v $(BINDGEN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && $(BINDGEN) --version || echo n) 1969 1970# 1971# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1972# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1973# 1974config TRACEPOINTS 1975 bool 1976 1977endmenu # General setup 1978 1979source "arch/Kconfig" 1980 1981config RT_MUTEXES 1982 bool 1983 default y if PREEMPT_RT 1984 1985config BASE_SMALL 1986 int 1987 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1988 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1989 1990config MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 1991 def_bool n 1992 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1993 1994source "kernel/module/Kconfig" 1995 1996config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1997 bool 1998 help 1999 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 2000 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 2001 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 2002 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2003 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 2004 2005source "block/Kconfig" 2006 2007config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2008 bool 2009 2010config PADATA 2011 depends on SMP 2012 bool 2013 2014config ASN1 2015 tristate 2016 help 2017 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2018 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2019 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2020 functions to call on what tags. 2021 2022source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2023 2024config ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 2025 bool 2026 2027config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2028 bool 2029 2030# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 2031# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 2032# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 2033# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 2034# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 2035# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 2036# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 2037config ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 2038 def_bool n 2039