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