1config ARCH 2 string 3 option env="ARCH" 4 5config KERNELVERSION 6 string 7 option env="KERNELVERSION" 8 9config DEFCONFIG_LIST 10 string 11 depends on !UML 12 option defconfig_list 13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14 default "/etc/kernel-config" 15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18 19config CONSTRUCTORS 20 bool 21 depends on !UML 22 23config IRQ_WORK 24 bool 25 26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 27 bool 28 29config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 30 bool 31 help 32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 35 36 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 38 39menu "General setup" 40 41config BROKEN 42 bool 43 44config BROKEN_ON_SMP 45 bool 46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 47 default y 48 49config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 50 int 51 default 32 if !UML 52 default 128 if UML 53 help 54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 56 57 58config CROSS_COMPILE 59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 60 help 61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 65 66config COMPILE_TEST 67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 68 depends on !UML 69 default n 70 help 71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 75 drivers to compile-test them. 76 77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 79 drivers to be distributed. 80 81config LOCALVERSION 82 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 83 help 84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 85 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 89 be a maximum of 64 characters. 90 91config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 93 default y 94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 95 help 96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 98 top of tree revision. 99 100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 104 105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 106 by running the command: 107 108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 109 110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 111 112config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 113 bool 114 115config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 116 bool 117 118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 119 bool 120 121config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 122 bool 123 124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 125 bool 126 127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 128 bool 129 130choice 131 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 132 default KERNEL_GZIP 133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 134 help 135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 140 141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 144 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 145 146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 148 size matters less. 149 150 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 151 152config KERNEL_GZIP 153 bool "Gzip" 154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 155 help 156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 157 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 158 159config KERNEL_BZIP2 160 bool "Bzip2" 161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 162 help 163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 168 169config KERNEL_LZMA 170 bool "LZMA" 171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 172 help 173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 176 177config KERNEL_XZ 178 bool "XZ" 179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 180 help 181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 187 188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 190 and LZO. Compression is slow. 191 192config KERNEL_LZO 193 bool "LZO" 194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 195 help 196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 199 200config KERNEL_LZ4 201 bool "LZ4" 202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 203 help 204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 207 208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 210 faster than LZO. 211 212endchoice 213 214config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 215 string "Default hostname" 216 default "(none)" 217 help 218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 221 system more usable with less configuration. 222 223config SWAP 224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 225 depends on MMU && BLOCK 226 default y 227 help 228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 231 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 232 233config SYSVIPC 234 bool "System V IPC" 235 ---help--- 236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 242 you'll need to say Y here. 243 244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 247 248config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 249 bool 250 depends on SYSVIPC 251 depends on SYSCTL 252 default y 253 254config POSIX_MQUEUE 255 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 256 depends on NET 257 ---help--- 258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 263 264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 266 operations on message queues. 267 268 If unsure, say Y. 269 270config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 271 bool 272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 273 depends on SYSCTL 274 default y 275 276config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 278 depends on MMU 279 default y 280 help 281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 284 See the man page for more details. 285 286config USELIB 287 bool "uselib syscall" 288 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 289 help 290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 294 running glibc can safely disable this. 295 296config AUDIT 297 bool "Auditing support" 298 depends on NET 299 help 300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 302 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 303 on architectures which support it. 304 305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 306 bool 307 308config AUDITSYSCALL 309 def_bool y 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 311 312config AUDIT_WATCH 313 def_bool y 314 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 315 select FSNOTIFY 316 317config AUDIT_TREE 318 def_bool y 319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 320 select FSNOTIFY 321 322source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 323source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 324 325menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 326 327config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 328 bool 329 330choice 331 prompt "Cputime accounting" 332 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 333 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 334 335# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 336config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 337 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 338 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 339 help 340 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 341 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 342 granularity. 343 344 If unsure, say Y. 345 346config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 347 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 348 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 349 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350 help 351 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 352 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 353 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 354 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 355 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 356 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 357 systems. 358 359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 360 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 361 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 362 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 363 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 364 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 365 help 366 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 367 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 368 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 369 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 370 overhead. 371 372 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 373 dynticks subsystem development. 374 375 If unsure, say N. 376 377endchoice 378 379config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 380 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 381 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 382 help 383 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 384 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 385 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 386 small performance impact. 387 388 If in doubt, say N here. 389 390config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 391 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 392 depends on MULTIUSER 393 help 394 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 395 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 396 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 397 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 398 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 399 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 400 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 401 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 402 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 403 404config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 405 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 406 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 407 default n 408 help 409 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 410 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 411 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 412 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 413 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 414 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 415 416config TASKSTATS 417 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 418 depends on NET 419 depends on MULTIUSER 420 default n 421 help 422 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 423 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 424 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 425 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 426 space on task exit. 427 428 Say N if unsure. 429 430config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 431 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 432 depends on TASKSTATS 433 select SCHED_INFO 434 help 435 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 436 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 437 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 438 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 439 440 Say N if unsure. 441 442config TASK_XACCT 443 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 444 depends on TASKSTATS 445 help 446 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 447 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 448 449 Say N if unsure. 450 451config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 452 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 453 depends on TASK_XACCT 454 help 455 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 456 task has caused. 457 458 Say N if unsure. 459 460endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 461 462config CPU_ISOLATION 463 bool "CPU isolation" 464 default y 465 help 466 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 467 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 468 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 469 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 470 471 Say Y if unsure. 472 473source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 474 475config BUILD_BIN2C 476 bool 477 default n 478 479config IKCONFIG 480 tristate "Kernel .config support" 481 select BUILD_BIN2C 482 ---help--- 483 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 484 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 485 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 486 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 487 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 488 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 489 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 490 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 491 492config IKCONFIG_PROC 493 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 494 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 495 ---help--- 496 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 497 through /proc/config.gz. 498 499config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 500 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 501 range 12 25 502 default 17 503 depends on PRINTK 504 help 505 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 506 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 507 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 508 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 509 510 Examples: 511 17 => 128 KB 512 16 => 64 KB 513 15 => 32 KB 514 14 => 16 KB 515 13 => 8 KB 516 12 => 4 KB 517 518config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 519 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 520 depends on SMP 521 range 0 21 522 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 523 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 524 depends on PRINTK 525 help 526 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 527 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 528 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 529 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 530 e.g. backtraces. 531 532 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 533 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 534 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 535 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 536 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 537 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 538 539 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 540 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 541 542 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 543 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 544 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 545 546 Examples shift values and their meaning: 547 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 548 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 549 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 550 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 551 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 552 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 553 554config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 555 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 556 range 10 21 557 default 13 558 depends on PRINTK 559 help 560 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages 561 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would 562 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are 563 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock. 564 The value defines the size as a power of 2. 565 566 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 567 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 568 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 569 570 Examples: 571 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 572 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 573 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 574 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 575 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 576 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 577 578# 579# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 580# 581config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 582 bool 583 584config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 585 bool 586 587# 588# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 589# balancing logic: 590# 591config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 592 bool 593 594# 595# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 596# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 597# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 598# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 599# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 600# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 601config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 602 bool 603 604# 605# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 606# 607config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 608 bool 609 610# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 611# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 612# 613config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 614 bool 615 616config NUMA_BALANCING 617 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 618 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 619 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 620 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 621 help 622 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 623 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 624 it has references to the node the task is running on. 625 626 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 627 628config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 629 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 630 default y 631 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 632 help 633 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 634 machine. 635 636menuconfig CGROUPS 637 bool "Control Group support" 638 select KERNFS 639 help 640 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 641 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 642 controls or device isolation. 643 See 644 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 645 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 646 and resource control) 647 648 Say N if unsure. 649 650if CGROUPS 651 652config PAGE_COUNTER 653 bool 654 655config MEMCG 656 bool "Memory controller" 657 select PAGE_COUNTER 658 select EVENTFD 659 help 660 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 661 662config MEMCG_SWAP 663 bool "Swap controller" 664 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 665 help 666 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 667 668config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 669 bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 670 depends on MEMCG_SWAP 671 default y 672 help 673 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 674 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 675 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 676 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 677 parameter should have this option unselected. 678 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 679 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 680 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 681 682config BLK_CGROUP 683 bool "IO controller" 684 depends on BLOCK 685 default n 686 ---help--- 687 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 688 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 689 policies. 690 691 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 692 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 693 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 694 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 695 696 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 697 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 698 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 699 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 700 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 701 702 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 703 704config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 705 bool "IO controller debugging" 706 depends on BLK_CGROUP 707 default n 708 ---help--- 709 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 710 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 711 712config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 713 bool 714 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 715 default y 716 717menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 718 bool "CPU controller" 719 default n 720 help 721 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 722 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 723 tasks. 724 725if CGROUP_SCHED 726config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 727 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 728 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 729 default CGROUP_SCHED 730 731config CFS_BANDWIDTH 732 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 733 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 734 default n 735 help 736 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 737 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 738 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 739 restriction. 740 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 741 742config RT_GROUP_SCHED 743 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 744 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 745 default n 746 help 747 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 748 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 749 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 750 realtime bandwidth for them. 751 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 752 753endif #CGROUP_SCHED 754 755config CGROUP_PIDS 756 bool "PIDs controller" 757 help 758 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 759 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 760 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 761 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 762 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 763 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 764 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 765 766 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 767 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 768 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 769 attach to a cgroup. 770 771config CGROUP_RDMA 772 bool "RDMA controller" 773 help 774 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 775 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 776 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 777 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 778 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 779 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 780 781config CGROUP_FREEZER 782 bool "Freezer controller" 783 help 784 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 785 cgroup. 786 787 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 788 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 789 790 If you're using cgroup2, say N. 791 792config CGROUP_HUGETLB 793 bool "HugeTLB controller" 794 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 795 select PAGE_COUNTER 796 default n 797 help 798 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 799 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 800 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 801 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 802 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 803 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 804 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 805 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 806 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 807 808config CPUSETS 809 bool "Cpuset controller" 810 depends on SMP 811 help 812 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 813 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 814 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 815 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 816 817 Say N if unsure. 818 819config PROC_PID_CPUSET 820 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 821 depends on CPUSETS 822 default y 823 824config CGROUP_DEVICE 825 bool "Device controller" 826 help 827 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 828 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 829 830config CGROUP_CPUACCT 831 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 832 help 833 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 834 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 835 836config CGROUP_PERF 837 bool "Perf controller" 838 depends on PERF_EVENTS 839 help 840 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 841 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 842 designated cpu. 843 844 Say N if unsure. 845 846config CGROUP_BPF 847 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 848 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 849 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 850 help 851 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 852 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 853 854 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 855 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 856 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 857 inet sockets. 858 859config CGROUP_DEBUG 860 bool "Debug controller" 861 default n 862 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 863 help 864 This option enables a simple controller that exports 865 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 866 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 867 interfaces are not stable. 868 869 Say N. 870 871config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 872 bool 873 default n 874 875endif # CGROUPS 876 877menuconfig NAMESPACES 878 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 879 depends on MULTIUSER 880 default !EXPERT 881 help 882 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 883 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 884 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 885 different namespaces. 886 887if NAMESPACES 888 889config UTS_NS 890 bool "UTS namespace" 891 default y 892 help 893 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 894 uname() system call 895 896config IPC_NS 897 bool "IPC namespace" 898 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 899 default y 900 help 901 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 902 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 903 904config USER_NS 905 bool "User namespace" 906 default n 907 help 908 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 909 to provide different user info for different servers. 910 911 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 912 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 913 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 914 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 915 916 If unsure, say N. 917 918config PID_NS 919 bool "PID Namespaces" 920 default y 921 help 922 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 923 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 924 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 925 926config NET_NS 927 bool "Network namespace" 928 depends on NET 929 default y 930 help 931 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 932 of the network stack. 933 934endif # NAMESPACES 935 936config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 937 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 938 select CGROUPS 939 select CGROUP_SCHED 940 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 941 help 942 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 943 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 944 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 945 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 946 upon task session. 947 948config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 949 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 950 depends on SYSFS 951 default n 952 help 953 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 954 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 955 /sys/block/. 956 957 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 958 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 959 960 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 961 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 962 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 963 964 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 965 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 966 option enabled. 967 968 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 969 need to say Y here. 970 971config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 972 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 973 default n 974 depends on SYSFS 975 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 976 help 977 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 978 979 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 980 option. 981 982 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 983 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 984 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 985 986config RELAY 987 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 988 select IRQ_WORK 989 help 990 This option enables support for relay interface support in 991 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 992 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 993 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 994 user space. 995 996 If unsure, say N. 997 998config BLK_DEV_INITRD 999 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1000 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1001 help 1002 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1003 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1004 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1005 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1006 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1007 1008 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1009 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1010 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1011 1012 If unsure say Y. 1013 1014if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1015 1016source "usr/Kconfig" 1017 1018endif 1019 1020choice 1021 prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1022 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1023 1024config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1025 bool "Optimize for performance" 1026 help 1027 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1028 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1029 helpful compile-time warnings. 1030 1031config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1032 bool "Optimize for size" 1033 help 1034 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 1035 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1036 1037 If unsure, say N. 1038 1039endchoice 1040 1041config SYSCTL 1042 bool 1043 1044config ANON_INODES 1045 bool 1046 1047config HAVE_UID16 1048 bool 1049 1050config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1051 bool 1052 help 1053 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1054 1055config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1056 bool 1057 help 1058 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1059 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1060 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1061 1062config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1063 bool 1064 help 1065 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1066 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1067 the unaligned access emulation. 1068 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1069 1070config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1071 bool 1072 1073# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1074config BPF 1075 bool 1076 1077menuconfig EXPERT 1078 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1079 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1080 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1081 help 1082 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1083 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1084 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1085 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1086 1087config UID16 1088 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1089 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1090 default y 1091 help 1092 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1093 1094config MULTIUSER 1095 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1096 default y 1097 help 1098 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1099 capabilities. 1100 1101 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1102 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1103 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1104 setgid, and capset. 1105 1106 If unsure, say Y here. 1107 1108config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1109 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1110 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1111 ---help--- 1112 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1113 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1114 architectures. 1115 1116 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1117 1118config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1119 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1120 default y 1121 ---help--- 1122 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1123 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1124 compatibility with some systems. 1125 1126 If unsure say Y here. 1127 1128config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 1129 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 1130 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1131 default n 1132 select SYSCTL 1133 ---help--- 1134 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 1135 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 1136 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 1137 information. 1138 1139 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 1140 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 1141 making your kernel marginally smaller. 1142 1143 If unsure say N here. 1144 1145config FHANDLE 1146 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1147 select EXPORTFS 1148 default y 1149 help 1150 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1151 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1152 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1153 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1154 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1155 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1156 syscalls. 1157 1158config POSIX_TIMERS 1159 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1160 default y 1161 help 1162 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1163 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1164 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1165 1166 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1167 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1168 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1169 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1170 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1171 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1172 1173 If unsure say y. 1174 1175config PRINTK 1176 default y 1177 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1178 select IRQ_WORK 1179 help 1180 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1181 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1182 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1183 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1184 strongly discouraged. 1185 1186config PRINTK_NMI 1187 def_bool y 1188 depends on PRINTK 1189 depends on HAVE_NMI 1190 1191config BUG 1192 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1193 default y 1194 help 1195 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1196 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1197 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1198 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1199 Just say Y. 1200 1201config ELF_CORE 1202 depends on COREDUMP 1203 default y 1204 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1205 help 1206 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1207 1208 1209config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1210 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1211 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1212 select I8253_LOCK 1213 default y 1214 help 1215 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1216 support, saving some memory. 1217 1218config BASE_FULL 1219 default y 1220 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1221 help 1222 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1223 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1224 but may reduce performance. 1225 1226config FUTEX 1227 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1228 default y 1229 imply RT_MUTEXES 1230 help 1231 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1232 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1233 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1234 1235config FUTEX_PI 1236 bool 1237 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1238 default y 1239 1240config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 1241 bool 1242 depends on FUTEX 1243 help 1244 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 1245 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 1246 checks. 1247 1248config EPOLL 1249 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1250 default y 1251 select ANON_INODES 1252 help 1253 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1254 support for epoll family of system calls. 1255 1256config SIGNALFD 1257 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1258 select ANON_INODES 1259 default y 1260 help 1261 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1262 on a file descriptor. 1263 1264 If unsure, say Y. 1265 1266config TIMERFD 1267 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1268 select ANON_INODES 1269 default y 1270 help 1271 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1272 events on a file descriptor. 1273 1274 If unsure, say Y. 1275 1276config EVENTFD 1277 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1278 select ANON_INODES 1279 default y 1280 help 1281 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1282 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1283 1284 If unsure, say Y. 1285 1286config SHMEM 1287 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1288 default y 1289 depends on MMU 1290 help 1291 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1292 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1293 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1294 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1295 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1296 1297config AIO 1298 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1299 default y 1300 help 1301 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1302 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1303 this option saves about 7k. 1304 1305config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1306 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1307 default y 1308 help 1309 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1310 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1311 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1312 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1313 space. 1314 1315config MEMBARRIER 1316 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1317 default y 1318 help 1319 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1320 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1321 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1322 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1323 compiler barrier. 1324 1325 If unsure, say Y. 1326 1327config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1328 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1329 select PROC_CHILDREN 1330 default n 1331 help 1332 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1333 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1334 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1335 entries. 1336 1337 If unsure, say N here. 1338 1339config KALLSYMS 1340 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1341 default y 1342 help 1343 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1344 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1345 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1346 1347config KALLSYMS_ALL 1348 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1349 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1350 help 1351 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1352 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1353 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1354 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1355 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1356 1357 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1358 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1359 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1360 something like this). 1361 1362 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1363 1364config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 1365 bool 1366 depends on KALLSYMS 1367 default X86_64 && SMP 1368 1369config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 1370 bool 1371 depends on KALLSYMS 1372 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 1373 help 1374 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 1375 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 1376 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 1377 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 1378 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 1379 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 1380 address encountered in the image. 1381 1382 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 1383 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 1384 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 1385 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 1386 1387# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1388 1389# syscall, maps, verifier 1390config BPF_SYSCALL 1391 bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1392 select ANON_INODES 1393 select BPF 1394 default n 1395 help 1396 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1397 programs and maps via file descriptors. 1398 1399config USERFAULTFD 1400 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1401 select ANON_INODES 1402 depends on MMU 1403 help 1404 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1405 handle page faults in userland. 1406 1407config EMBEDDED 1408 bool "Embedded system" 1409 option allnoconfig_y 1410 select EXPERT 1411 help 1412 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1413 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1414 for configuration. 1415 1416config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1417 bool 1418 help 1419 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1420 1421config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1422 bool 1423 help 1424 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1425 1426config PC104 1427 bool "PC/104 support" 1428 help 1429 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1430 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1431 machine has a PC/104 bus. 1432 1433menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1434 1435config PERF_EVENTS 1436 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1437 default y if PROFILING 1438 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1439 select ANON_INODES 1440 select IRQ_WORK 1441 select SRCU 1442 help 1443 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1444 by software and hardware. 1445 1446 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1447 use of generic tracepoints. 1448 1449 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1450 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1451 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1452 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1453 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1454 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1455 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1456 1457 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1458 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1459 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1460 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1461 capabilities on top of those. 1462 1463 Say Y if unsure. 1464 1465config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1466 default n 1467 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1468 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1469 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1470 help 1471 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1472 1473 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1474 that don't require it. 1475 1476 Say N if unsure. 1477 1478endmenu 1479 1480config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1481 default y 1482 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1483 help 1484 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1485 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1486 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1487 if VM event counters are disabled. 1488 1489config SLUB_DEBUG 1490 default y 1491 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1492 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1493 help 1494 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1495 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1496 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1497 no support for cache validation etc. 1498 1499config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 1500 default n 1501 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 1502 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 1503 help 1504 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 1505 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 1506 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 1507 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 1508 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 1509 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 1510 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 1511 config option determines the parameter's default value. 1512 1513config COMPAT_BRK 1514 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1515 default y 1516 help 1517 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1518 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1519 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1520 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1521 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1522 1523 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1524 1525choice 1526 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1527 default SLUB 1528 help 1529 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1530 1531config SLAB 1532 bool "SLAB" 1533 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1534 help 1535 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1536 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1537 per cpu and per node queues. 1538 1539config SLUB 1540 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1541 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 1542 help 1543 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1544 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1545 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1546 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1547 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1548 a slab allocator. 1549 1550config SLOB 1551 depends on EXPERT 1552 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1553 help 1554 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1555 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1556 does not perform as well on large systems. 1557 1558endchoice 1559 1560config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT 1561 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged" 1562 default y 1563 help 1564 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be 1565 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. 1566 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to 1567 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control 1568 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit 1569 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits 1570 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable 1571 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel 1572 command line. 1573 1574config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1575 default n 1576 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1577 bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1578 help 1579 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1580 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1581 allocator against heap overflows. 1582 1583config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED 1584 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata" 1585 depends on SLUB 1586 help 1587 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and 1588 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance 1589 sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common 1590 freelist exploit methods. 1591 1592config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1593 default y 1594 depends on SLUB && SMP 1595 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1596 help 1597 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1598 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1599 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1600 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1601 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1602 1603config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1604 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1605 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1606 default n 1607 help 1608 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1609 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1610 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1611 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1612 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1613 then the flag will be ignored. 1614 1615 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1616 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1617 1618 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1619 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1620 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1621 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1622 1623 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1624 1625config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1626 def_bool n 1627 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1628 select KEYS 1629 select CRYPTO 1630 select CRYPTO_RSA 1631 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1632 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1633 select ASN1 1634 select OID_REGISTRY 1635 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1636 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1637 help 1638 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1639 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1640 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1641 verification. 1642 1643config PROFILING 1644 bool "Profiling support" 1645 help 1646 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1647 by profilers such as OProfile. 1648 1649# 1650# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1651# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1652# 1653config TRACEPOINTS 1654 bool 1655 1656source "arch/Kconfig" 1657 1658endmenu # General setup 1659 1660config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1661 bool 1662 default n 1663 1664config RT_MUTEXES 1665 bool 1666 1667config BASE_SMALL 1668 int 1669 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1670 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1671 1672menuconfig MODULES 1673 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1674 option modules 1675 help 1676 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1677 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1678 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1679 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1680 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1681 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1682 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1683 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1684 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1685 1686 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1687 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1688 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1689 this). 1690 1691 If unsure, say Y. 1692 1693if MODULES 1694 1695config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1696 bool "Forced module loading" 1697 default n 1698 help 1699 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1700 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1701 is usually a really bad idea. 1702 1703config MODULE_UNLOAD 1704 bool "Module unloading" 1705 help 1706 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1707 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1708 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1709 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1710 1711config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1712 bool "Forced module unloading" 1713 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 1714 help 1715 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1716 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1717 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1718 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1719 If unsure, say N. 1720 1721config MODVERSIONS 1722 bool "Module versioning support" 1723 help 1724 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1725 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1726 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1727 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1728 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1729 unsure, say N. 1730 1731config MODULE_REL_CRCS 1732 bool 1733 depends on MODVERSIONS 1734 1735config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1736 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1737 help 1738 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1739 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1740 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1741 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1742 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1743 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1744 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1745 1746config MODULE_SIG 1747 bool "Module signature verification" 1748 depends on MODULES 1749 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1750 help 1751 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1752 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1753 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>. 1754 1755 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1756 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1757 library. 1758 1759 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1760 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1761 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1762 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1763 1764config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1765 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1766 depends on MODULE_SIG 1767 help 1768 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1769 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1770 1771config MODULE_SIG_ALL 1772 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1773 default y 1774 depends on MODULE_SIG 1775 help 1776 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1777 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1778 1779comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1780 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1781 1782choice 1783 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1784 depends on MODULE_SIG 1785 help 1786 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1787 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1788 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1789 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1790 the signature on that module. 1791 1792config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1793 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1794 select CRYPTO_SHA1 1795 1796config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1797 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1798 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1799 1800config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1801 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1802 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1803 1804config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1805 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1806 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1807 1808config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1809 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1810 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1811 1812endchoice 1813 1814config MODULE_SIG_HASH 1815 string 1816 depends on MODULE_SIG 1817 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1818 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1819 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1820 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1821 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1822 1823config MODULE_COMPRESS 1824 bool "Compress modules on installation" 1825 depends on MODULES 1826 help 1827 1828 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1829 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1830 1831 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1832 1833 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1834 compressed upon installation. 1835 1836 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1837 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1838 1839 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1840 1841 If in doubt, say N. 1842 1843choice 1844 prompt "Compression algorithm" 1845 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1846 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1847 help 1848 This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1849 'make modules_install'. 1850 1851 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1852 1853config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1854 bool "GZIP" 1855 1856config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1857 bool "XZ" 1858 1859endchoice 1860 1861config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 1862 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 1863 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 1864 help 1865 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 1866 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 1867 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 1868 many of those exported symbols might never be used. 1869 1870 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 1871 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 1872 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 1873 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 1874 1875 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 1876 1877endif # MODULES 1878 1879config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 1880 def_bool y 1881 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 1882 1883config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1884 bool 1885 help 1886 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1887 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1888 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1889 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1890 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1891 1892source "block/Kconfig" 1893 1894config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1895 bool 1896 1897config PADATA 1898 depends on SMP 1899 bool 1900 1901config ASN1 1902 tristate 1903 help 1904 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 1905 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 1906 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 1907 functions to call on what tags. 1908 1909source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1910