1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28b59cd81SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_VERSION_TEXT 38b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada string 48b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada default "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" 58b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada help 68b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada This is used in unclear ways: 78b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 88b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada - Re-run Kconfig when the compiler is updated 98b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada The 'default' property references the environment variable, 108b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada CC_VERSION_TEXT so it is recorded in include/config/auto.conf.cmd. 118b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada When the compiler is updated, Kconfig will be invoked. 128b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 13f9c8bc46SBhaskar Chowdhury - Ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 14ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada include/linux/compiler-version.h contains this option in the comment 150e0345b7SAlexey Dobriyan line so fixdep adds include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT into the 16ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada auto-generated dependency. When the compiler is updated, syncconfig 17ce6ed1c4SMasahiro Yamada will touch it and then every file will be rebuilt. 188b59cd81SMasahiro Yamada 19a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_GCC 20aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = GCC) 21a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 22a4353898SMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_VERSION 23a4353898SMasahiro Yamada int 24aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_GCC 25a4353898SMasahiro Yamada default 0 26a4353898SMasahiro Yamada 27469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_IS_CLANG 28aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(cc-name)" = Clang) 29b744b43fSSami Tolvanen 30469cb737SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CLANG_VERSION 31469cb737SMasahiro Yamada int 32aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default $(cc-version) if CC_IS_CLANG 33aec6c60aSMasahiro Yamada default 0 34469cb737SMasahiro Yamada 35ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_GNU 36ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = GNU) 37ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 38ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_IS_LLVM 39ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(as-name)" = LLVM) 40ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 41ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamadaconfig AS_VERSION 42ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada int 43ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada # Use clang version if this is the integrated assembler 44ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default CLANG_VERSION if AS_IS_LLVM 45ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada default $(as-version) 46ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada 4702aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_BFD 4802aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = BFD) 4902aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5002aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_VERSION 5102aff859SMasahiro Yamada int 5202aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_BFD 5302aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 5402aff859SMasahiro Yamada 5502aff859SMasahiro Yamadaconfig LD_IS_LLD 5602aff859SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(success,test "$(ld-name)" = LLD) 57c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 58d5750cd3SNathan Chancellorconfig LLD_VERSION 59d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor int 6002aff859SMasahiro Yamada default $(ld-version) if LD_IS_LLD 6102aff859SMasahiro Yamada default 0 62d5750cd3SNathan Chancellor 636e74c6b5SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION 646e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda int 65af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-version) 666e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda help 676e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda It does not depend on `RUST` since that one may need to use the version 686e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda in a `depends on`. 696e74c6b5SMiguel Ojeda 702f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh) 722f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 732f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This shows whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available (found). 742f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for instructions on how 76eacf96d2SColin Ian King to satisfy the build requirements of Rust support. 772f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 782f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda In particular, the Makefile target 'rustavailable' is useful to check 792f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda why the Rust toolchain is not being detected. 802f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 81af0121c2SGary Guoconfig RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION 82af0121c2SGary Guo int 83af0121c2SGary Guo default $(rustc-llvm-version) 84af0121c2SGary Guo 851a927fd3SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_CAN_LINK 869371f86eSMasahiro Yamada bool 87f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT 88f67695c9SElliot Berman default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag)) 891a927fd3SMasahiro Yamada 90f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# Fixed in GCC 14, 13.3, 12.4 and 11.5 91f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 92f2f6a8e8SMark Rutlandconfig GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 93f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland bool 94f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on CC_IS_GCC 95f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION < 110500 96f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 120400 97f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland default y if GCC_VERSION >= 130000 && GCC_VERSION < 130300 98f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland 99587f1701SNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 100f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland def_bool y 101f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on !GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_BROKEN 102f2f6a8e8SMark Rutland depends on $(success,echo 'int foo(int x) { asm goto ("": "=r"(x) ::: bar); return x; bar: return 0; }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 103587f1701SNick Desaulniers 1041aa0e8b1SSean Christophersonconfig CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT 1051aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT 1061aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson # Detect buggy gcc and clang, fixed in gcc-11 clang-14. 107534bd703SAlexandre Belloni 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) 1081aa0e8b1SSean Christopherson 1095cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 1102d122942SWill Deacon def_bool $(success,env "CC=$(CC)" "LD=$(LD)" "NM=$(NM)" "OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY)" $(srctree)/scripts/tools-support-relr.sh) 1115cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 112eb111869SRasmus Villemoesconfig CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE 113eb111869SRasmus Villemoes def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) 114eb111869SRasmus Villemoes 11551c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 11651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 11751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 118f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farrconfig CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY 1195106c650SJan Hendrik Farr bool 120f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # clang needs to be at least 19.1.3 to avoid __bdos miscalculations 121f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 122f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 1235106c650SJan Hendrik Farr default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 190103 1245106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # supported since gcc 15.1.0 1255106c650SJan Hendrik Farr # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108896 1265106c650SJan Hendrik Farr default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 150100 127f06e108aSJan Hendrik Farr 128b688f369SKees Cookconfig CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING 129b688f369SKees Cook def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) 130b688f369SKees Cook 131e7607f7dSNathan Chancellorconfig LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY 132e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description 133e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 134e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 135e7607f7dSNathan Chancellor 13647cb6bf7SXiangfei Dingconfig RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE 13747cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400 13847cb6bf7SXiangfei Ding 13936174d16SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_SPAN_FILE 14036174d16SMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 14136174d16SMiguel Ojeda 1427129ea6eSMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_HAS_UNNECESSARY_TRANSMUTES 1437129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 1447129ea6eSMiguel Ojeda 145613fe169SNathan Chancellorconfig PAHOLE_VERSION 146613fe169SNathan Chancellor int 147613fe169SNathan Chancellor default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE)) 148613fe169SNathan Chancellor 149b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 150b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 151b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 152e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 153fd0a68a2STejun Heo def_bool y if SMP 154e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 15510916706SShile Zhangconfig BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1561dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 1571dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 158c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 159c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 160c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 161c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 162c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 163c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 164c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 165c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 166c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 167c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 168ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 180dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 181dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 18434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1864bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 1874bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 188ea29b20aSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAS_IOMEM 1894bb16672SJiri Slaby help 1904bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 1914bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 1924bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 1934bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 1944bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 1954bb16672SJiri Slaby 1964bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 1974bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 1984bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 1994bb16672SJiri Slaby 2003fe617ccSLinus Torvaldsconfig WERROR 2013fe617ccSLinus Torvalds bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors" 202b339ec9cSMarco Elver default COMPILE_TEST 2033fe617ccSLinus Torvalds help 2043fe617ccSLinus Torvalds A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this 2052f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags 206e1789d7cSXin Li to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools 207e1789d7cSXin Li such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as 208e1789d7cSXin Li well. 2093fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 210e1789d7cSXin Li However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd 211e1789d7cSXin Li and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, 2123fe617ccSLinus Torvalds you may need to disable this config option in order to 2133fe617ccSLinus Torvalds successfully build the kernel. 2143fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 2153fe617ccSLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 2163fe617ccSLinus Torvalds 217d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamadaconfig UAPI_HEADER_TEST 218d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada bool "Compile test UAPI headers" 219fcbb8461SMasahiro Yamada depends on HEADERS_INSTALL && CC_CAN_LINK 220d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada help 221d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada Compile test headers exported to user-space to ensure they are 222d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada self-contained, i.e. compilable as standalone units. 223d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 224d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the exported 225d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N. 226d6fc9fcbSMasahiro Yamada 2271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 237aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 238aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 239aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 240ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 241aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 242aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 2436e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 2446e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 245aaebf433SRyan Anderson 246aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 2476e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 248aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 2496e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 250aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2510f9c608dSRasmus Villemoes (The actual string used here is the first 12 characters produced 2526e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 2536e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2546e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2556e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 2566e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 257aaebf433SRyan Anderson 2589afb719eSLaura Abbottconfig BUILD_SALT 2599afb719eSLaura Abbott string "Build ID Salt" 2609afb719eSLaura Abbott default "" 2619afb719eSLaura Abbott help 2629afb719eSLaura Abbott The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting 2639afb719eSLaura Abbott this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id. 2649afb719eSLaura Abbott This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the 2659afb719eSLaura Abbott build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default. 2669afb719eSLaura Abbott 2672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 2752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 2763ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 2773ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 2783ebe1243SLasse Collin 2797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 2817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 282e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 283e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 284e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 28548f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 28648f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool 28748f7ddf7SNick Terrell 288f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 289f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool 290f16466afSVasily Gorbik 29130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 29230d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 29330d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 29448f7ddf7SNick Terrell 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 29530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 29630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 29730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 29830d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 29930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 30030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 30130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 30330d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 30430d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 30530d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 30630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 30730d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 30830d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 30930d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 31030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 31230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 31330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 31430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 3152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 31630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3177dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 3187dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 31930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 32030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 32130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 3222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 32330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 32430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 3250a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 3262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 3272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 3282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 32930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 33030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 33130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 3322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 33330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 3340a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 3350a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 3360a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 33730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 3383ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 3393ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 3403ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 3413ebe1243SLasse Collin help 3423ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 3433ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 3443ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 3453ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 3467472ff8aSLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, RISC-V, big endian PowerPC, 3477472ff8aSLasse Collin and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than 3487472ff8aSLasse Collin plain LZMA. 3493ebe1243SLasse Collin 3503ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 3513ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 3523ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 3533ebe1243SLasse Collin 3547dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 3557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 3567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 3577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 3580a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 359681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 3607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 3617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 362e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 363e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 364e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 365e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 366e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 367e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 368e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 369e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 370e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 371e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 372e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 373e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 37448f7ddf7SNick Terrellconfig KERNEL_ZSTD 37548f7ddf7SNick Terrell bool "ZSTD" 37648f7ddf7SNick Terrell depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 37748f7ddf7SNick Terrell help 37848f7ddf7SNick Terrell ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression 37948f7ddf7SNick Terrell with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and 38048f7ddf7SNick Terrell decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You 38148f7ddf7SNick Terrell will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command 38248f7ddf7SNick Terrell line tool is required for compression. 38348f7ddf7SNick Terrell 384f16466afSVasily Gorbikconfig KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 385f16466afSVasily Gorbik bool "None" 386f16466afSVasily Gorbik depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED 387f16466afSVasily Gorbik help 388f16466afSVasily Gorbik Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what 389f16466afSVasily Gorbik you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation 390f16466afSVasily Gorbik environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully 391f16466afSVasily Gorbik slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor 392f16466afSVasily Gorbik and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. 393f16466afSVasily Gorbik 39430d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 39530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 396ada4ab7aSChris Downconfig DEFAULT_INIT 397ada4ab7aSChris Down string "Default init path" 398ada4ab7aSChris Down default "" 399ada4ab7aSChris Down help 400ada4ab7aSChris Down This option determines the default init for the system if no init= 401ada4ab7aSChris Down option is passed on the kernel command line. If the requested path is 402ada4ab7aSChris Down not present, we will still then move on to attempting further 403ada4ab7aSChris Down locations (e.g. /sbin/init, etc). If this is empty, we will just use 404ada4ab7aSChris Down the fallback list when init= is not passed. 405ada4ab7aSChris Down 406bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 407bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 408bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 409bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 410bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 411bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 412bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 413bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 414bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 4151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 417a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 430a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 431a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 432a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 433a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 434a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 435a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 4360cbed0eeSGuo Renconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 4370cbed0eeSGuo Ren def_bool y 4380cbed0eeSGuo Ren depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 4390cbed0eeSGuo Ren 4401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 44219c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 443a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 448b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 456bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 457bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 458bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 459bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 460bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 461bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 462c73be61cSDavid Howellsconfig WATCH_QUEUE 463c73be61cSDavid Howells bool "General notification queue" 464c73be61cSDavid Howells default n 465c73be61cSDavid Howells help 466c73be61cSDavid Howells 467c73be61cSDavid Howells This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to 468c73be61cSDavid Howells userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction 469c73be61cSDavid Howells with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device 470c73be61cSDavid Howells notifications. 471c73be61cSDavid Howells 472c02b872aSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst 473c73be61cSDavid Howells 474226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 475226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 476226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 477226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 478226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 479226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 480226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 481a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 482226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 483226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 4841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 486804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 490cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 491cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4937a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 4947a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 4957a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 4961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 497cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 4987a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 49928a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 50074c3cbe3SAl Viro 501d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 502764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 503b24abcffSDaniel Borkmannsource "kernel/bpf/Kconfig" 50487a4c375SChristoph Hellwigsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 505d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 506391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 507391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 508abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 509abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 510abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 511fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 512fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 51302382affSNicholas Piggin default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 514fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 515fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 516fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 517fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 518c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 519fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 520fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 521fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 522fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 523fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 524fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 525fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 526abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 527391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 528c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 529abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 530391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 531391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 532391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 533391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 534391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 535391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 536391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 537391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 538391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 539abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 540abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 54124a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 542554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 543041a1574SArnd Bergmann depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 544abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 54524a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 546abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 547abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 548abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 549abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 550abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 551abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 552abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 553abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 554abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 555abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 556abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 557abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 558b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 559b58c3584SRik van Riel 560fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 561fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 562b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 563fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 564fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 565fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 566fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 567fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 568fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 569fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 570fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 57111d4afd4SVincent Guittotconfig HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ 57211d4afd4SVincent Guittot def_bool y 57311d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 57411d4afd4SVincent Guittot depends on SMP 57511d4afd4SVincent Guittot 576d4dbc991SVincent Guittotconfig SCHED_HW_PRESSURE 57798eb401dSValentin Schneider bool 578fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM && ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY 579fcd7c9c3SValentin Schneider default y if ARM64 58076504793SThara Gopinath depends on SMP 58198eb401dSValentin Schneider depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL 58298eb401dSValentin Schneider help 583d4dbc991SVincent Guittot Select this option to enable HW pressure accounting in the 584d4dbc991SVincent Guittot scheduler. HW pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler 58598eb401dSValentin Schneider that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from 586d4dbc991SVincent Guittot HW throttling. HW throttling occurs when the performance of 587d4dbc991SVincent Guittot a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures as an example. 58898eb401dSValentin Schneider 58998eb401dSValentin Schneider If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, 59098eb401dSValentin Schneider i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. 59198eb401dSValentin Schneider 59298eb401dSValentin Schneider This requires the architecture to implement 593d4dbc991SVincent Guittot arch_update_hw_pressure() and arch_scale_thermal_pressure(). 59476504793SThara Gopinath 595391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 596391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 5972813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 598391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 599391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 600391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 601391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 602391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 603391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 604391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 605391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 606391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 607391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 608391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 609391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 610391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 611391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 612391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 613391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 614391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 615391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 6163903bf94SRandy Dunlap process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 617391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 618391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 619391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 620391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 621391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 62219c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 623391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 6242813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 625391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 626391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 627391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 628391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 629391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 630391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 631391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 632391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 633391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 634391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 635391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 63619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 637391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 638f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 639391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 640391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 641391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 642391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 643391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 644391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 645391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 646391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 647391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 64819c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 649391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 650391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 651391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 652391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 653391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 654391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 655391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 656391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 65719c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 658391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 659391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 660391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 661391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 662391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 663391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 664391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 665eb414681SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI 666eb414681SJohannes Weiner bool "Pressure stall information tracking" 66798dfdd9eSRandy Dunlap select KERNFS 668eb414681SJohannes Weiner help 669eb414681SJohannes Weiner Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory, 670eb414681SJohannes Weiner and IO capacity are in the system. 671eb414681SJohannes Weiner 672eb414681SJohannes Weiner If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the 673eb414681SJohannes Weiner pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate 674eb414681SJohannes Weiner the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are 675eb414681SJohannes Weiner delayed due to contention of the respective resource. 676eb414681SJohannes Weiner 6772ce7135aSJohannes Weiner In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will 6782ce7135aSJohannes Weiner have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files, 6792ce7135aSJohannes Weiner which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only. 6802ce7135aSJohannes Weiner 681c3123552SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.rst. 682eb414681SJohannes Weiner 683eb414681SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 684eb414681SJohannes Weiner 685e0c27447SJohannes Weinerconfig PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED 686e0c27447SJohannes Weiner bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" 687e0c27447SJohannes Weiner default n 688e0c27447SJohannes Weiner depends on PSI 689e0c27447SJohannes Weiner help 690e0c27447SJohannes Weiner If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled 691428a1cb4SBaruch Siach per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 692428a1cb4SBaruch Siach kernel commandline during boot. 693e0c27447SJohannes Weiner 6947b2489d3SJohannes Weiner This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 6957b2489d3SJohannes Weiner paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 6967b2489d3SJohannes Weiner common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 6977b2489d3SJohannes Weiner webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 6987b2489d3SJohannes Weiner scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 6997b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7007b2489d3SJohannes Weiner If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 7017b2489d3SJohannes Weiner used for, say Y. 7027b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 7037b2489d3SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 7047b2489d3SJohannes Weiner 705391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 706391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 7075c4991e2SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CPU_ISOLATION 7085c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker bool "CPU isolation" 70997577684SOleg Nesterov depends on SMP 7102c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker default y 7115c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker help 7125c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by 7135c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads... 7142c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by 7152c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker the "isolcpus=" boot parameter. 7162c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker 7172c43838cSFrederic Weisbecker Say Y if unsure. 7185c4991e2SFrederic Weisbecker 7190af92d46SPaul E. McKenneysource "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" 720c903ff83SMike Travis 7211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 722f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 723a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 736a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 740f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google)config IKHEADERS 741f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) tristate "Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz" 742f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on SYSFS 74343d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 744f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) This option enables access to the in-kernel headers that are generated during 745f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) the build process. These can be used to build eBPF tracing programs, 746f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) or similar programs. If you build the headers as a module, a module called 747f7b101d3SJoel Fernandes (Google) kheaders.ko is built which can be loaded on-demand to get access to headers. 74843d8ce9dSJoel Fernandes (Google) 749794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 750794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7511c4b5ecbSChristoph Hellwig range 12 25 752f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 753361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 754794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 75523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 75623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 75723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 75823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 75923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 760f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 761f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 762f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 763f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 764f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 765794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 766794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 767794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 76823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 76923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 7702240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 77123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 77223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 773320bf431SYoann Congal default 12 774361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 77523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 77623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 77723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 77823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 77923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 78023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 78123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 78323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 78423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 78523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 78623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 7870f7636e1SPaul Menzel so that more than 16 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 78823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 78923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 79023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 79123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 7935e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 7945e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 79523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 79623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 79723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 79823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 79923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 80023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 80123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 80223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 80323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 80433701557SChris Downconfig PRINTK_INDEX 80533701557SChris Down bool "Printk indexing debugfs interface" 80633701557SChris Down depends on PRINTK && DEBUG_FS 80733701557SChris Down help 80833701557SChris Down Add support for indexing of all printk formats known at compile time 80933701557SChris Down at <debugfs>/printk/index/<module>. 81033701557SChris Down 81133701557SChris Down This can be used as part of maintaining daemons which monitor 81233701557SChris Down /dev/kmsg, as it permits auditing the printk formats present in a 81333701557SChris Down kernel, allowing detection of cases where monitored printks are 81433701557SChris Down changed or no longer present. 81533701557SChris Down 81633701557SChris Down There is no additional runtime cost to printk with this enabled. 81733701557SChris Down 8185cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82438ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 82538ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 82638ff87f7SStephen Boyd 82769842cbaSPatrick Bellasimenu "Scheduler features" 82869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 82969842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK 83069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi bool "Enable utilization clamping for RT/FAIR tasks" 83169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL 83269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 83369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 83469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks scheduled on that CPU. 83569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 83669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi With this option, the user can specify the min and max CPU 83769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi utilization allowed for RUNNABLE tasks. The max utilization defines 83869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the maximum frequency a task should use while the min utilization 83969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi defines the minimum frequency it should use. 84069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Both min and max utilization clamp values are hints to the scheduler, 84269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi aiming at improving its frequency selection policy, but they do not 84369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi enforce or grant any specific bandwidth for tasks. 84469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 84669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 84769842cbaSPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT 84869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi int "Number of supported utilization clamp buckets" 84969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi range 5 20 85069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi default 5 85169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 85269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi help 85369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi Defines the number of clamp buckets to use. The range of each bucket 85469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi will be SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT. The higher the 85569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi number of clamp buckets the finer their granularity and the higher 85669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi the precision of clamping aggregation and tracking at run-time. 85769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 85869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi For example, with the minimum configuration value we will have 5 85969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets tracking 20% utilization each. A 25% boosted tasks will 86069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi be refcounted in the [20..39]% bucket and will set the bucket clamp 86169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi effective value to 25%. 86269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If a second 30% boosted task should be co-scheduled on the same CPU, 86369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that task will be refcounted in the same bucket of the first task and 86469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it will boost the bucket clamp effective value to 30%. 86569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi The clamp effective value of a bucket is reset to its nominal value 86669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi (20% in the example above) when there are no more tasks refcounted in 86769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi that bucket. 86869842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 86969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi An additional boost/capping margin can be added to some tasks. In the 87069842cbaSPatrick Bellasi example above the 25% task will be boosted to 30% until it exits the 87169842cbaSPatrick Bellasi CPU. If that should be considered not acceptable on certain systems, 87269842cbaSPatrick Bellasi it's always possible to reduce the margin by increasing the number of 87369842cbaSPatrick Bellasi clamp buckets to trade off used memory for run-time tracking 87469842cbaSPatrick Bellasi precision. 87569842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87669842cbaSPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, use the default value. 87769842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 87869842cbaSPatrick Bellasiendmenu 87969842cbaSPatrick Bellasi 880be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 881be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 882be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 883be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 884be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 885be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 886be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 887be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 88872b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 88972b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 89072b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 89172b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 89272b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 89372b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 89472b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 89572b252aeSMel Gorman bool 89672b252aeSMel Gorman 897c12d3362SArd Biesheuvelconfig CC_HAS_INT128 8983a7c7331SMasahiro Yamada def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT 899c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel 900dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 901dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva string 902158ea2d2SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 903dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 904dee2b702SGustavo A. R. Silva 9053e00f580SKees Cook# Currently, disable gcc-10+ array-bounds globally. 9060da6e5fdSLinus Torvalds# It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 9073e00f580SKees Cookconfig GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 9085a41237aSLinus Torvalds def_bool y 9095a41237aSLinus Torvalds 910f0be87c4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 911f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds bool 9128e5bd4eaSYury Norov default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 90000 && GCC10_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 913f0be87c4SLinus Torvalds 91402153319SLinus Torvalds# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally. 91502153319SLinus Torvaldsconfig GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 916a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva def_bool y 917a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 918a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 919a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 92002153319SLinus Torvalds default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 921a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 922a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silvaconfig CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 923a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva bool 924a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva default y if CC_IS_GCC && !CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW 925a5e0ace0SGustavo A. R. Silva 92672b252aeSMel Gorman# 927be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 928be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 929be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 930be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 931be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 932be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 933be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 934be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 936be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 937be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 938be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 939be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 940be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 941be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 942554b0f3cSSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT 943be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 944be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 945be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9466d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 947be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 948be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 949be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9506f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9516f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9526f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9536f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9546f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9556f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9566f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9576f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 95821c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryanconfig SLAB_OBJ_EXT 95921c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan bool 96021c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan 96123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9626341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9632bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 964ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 96523964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 969d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst (CFS) 970da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab - Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 97145ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 972ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 973ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 974ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 97523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 97623964d2dSLi Zefan 9773e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9783e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9793e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 9806a010a49STejun Heoconfig CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS 9816a010a49STejun Heo bool "Favor dynamic modification latency reduction by default" 9826a010a49STejun Heo help 9836a010a49STejun Heo This option enables the "favordynmods" mount option by default 9846a010a49STejun Heo which reduces the latencies of dynamic cgroup modifications such 9856a010a49STejun Heo as task migrations and controller on/offs at the cost of making 9866a010a49STejun Heo hot path operations such as forks and exits more expensive. 9876a010a49STejun Heo 9886a010a49STejun Heo Say N if unsure. 9896a010a49STejun Heo 990c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 991a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9923e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 99379bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 99421c690a3SSuren Baghdasaryan select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 99500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 996a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 99700f0b825SBalbir Singh 99825352d2fSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_UNSAFE 99925352d2fSShakeel Butt bool 100025352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 100125352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 100225352d2fSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && !ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 100325352d2fSShakeel Butt default y 100425352d2fSShakeel Butt 1005940b01fcSShakeel Buttconfig MEMCG_NMI_SAFETY_REQUIRES_ATOMIC 1006940b01fcSShakeel Butt bool 1007940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on MEMCG 1008940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on HAVE_NMI 1009940b01fcSShakeel Butt depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 1010940b01fcSShakeel Butt default y 1011940b01fcSShakeel Butt 1012e93d4166SRoman Gushchinconfig MEMCG_V1 1013e93d4166SRoman Gushchin bool "Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller" 1014c9929f0eSVlastimil Babka depends on MEMCG 1015e93d4166SRoman Gushchin default n 1016e93d4166SRoman Gushchin help 1017e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Legacy cgroup v1 memory controller which has been deprecated by 1018e93d4166SRoman Gushchin cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1019e93d4166SRoman Gushchin which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. If you 1020e93d4166SRoman Gushchin do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 1021e93d4166SRoman Gushchin this option disabled. 1022e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1023e93d4166SRoman Gushchin Please note that feature set of the legacy memory controller is likely 1024e93d4166SRoman Gushchin going to shrink due to deprecation process. New deployments with v1 1025e93d4166SRoman Gushchin controller are highly discouraged. 1026e93d4166SRoman Gushchin 1027fcb4824bSValdis Kletnieks Say N if unsure. 102884c07d11SKirill Tkhai 10296bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 10306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 10316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 10322bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 1033a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 10346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 10356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 10366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 10372bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 10386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1042e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10467baf2199SKrzysztof Kozlowski CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1049da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst for more information. 10506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10516bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10536bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1055e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10567c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1057a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10587c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10597c941438SDhaval Giani help 10607c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10617c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10627c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10637c941438SDhaval Giani 10647c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 1065e179e80cSTejun Heoconfig GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 1066e179e80cSTejun Heo def_bool n 1067e179e80cSTejun Heo 10687c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10697c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10707c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1071e179e80cSTejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 10727c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10737c941438SDhaval Giani 1074ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1075ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1076ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1077ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1078ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1079ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1080ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1081ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1082ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1083d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information. 1084ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10857c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10867c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10877c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10887c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10897c941438SDhaval Giani help 10907c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 109132bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10927c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10937c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 1094d6a3b247SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst for more information. 10957c941438SDhaval Giani 1096e34e0131SMichal Koutnýconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED 1097e34e0131SMichal Koutný bool "Require boot parameter to enable group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1098e34e0131SMichal Koutný depends on RT_GROUP_SCHED 1099e34e0131SMichal Koutný default n 1100e34e0131SMichal Koutný help 1101e34e0131SMichal Koutný When set, the RT group scheduling is disabled by default. The option 1102e34e0131SMichal Koutný is in inverted form so that mere RT_GROUP_SCHED enables the group 1103e34e0131SMichal Koutný scheduling. 1104e34e0131SMichal Koutný 1105e34e0131SMichal Koutný Say N if unsure. 1106e34e0131SMichal Koutný 110781951366STejun Heoconfig EXT_GROUP_SCHED 110881951366STejun Heo bool 110981951366STejun Heo depends on SCHED_CLASS_EXT && CGROUP_SCHED 111081951366STejun Heo select GROUP_SCHED_WEIGHT 111181951366STejun Heo default y 111281951366STejun Heo 11137c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 11147c941438SDhaval Giani 1115af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyersconfig SCHED_MM_CID 1116af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers def_bool y 1117af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers depends on SMP && RSEQ 1118af7f588dSMathieu Desnoyers 11192480c093SPatrick Bellasiconfig UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP 11202480c093SPatrick Bellasi bool "Utilization clamping per group of tasks" 11212480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on CGROUP_SCHED 11222480c093SPatrick Bellasi depends on UCLAMP_TASK 11232480c093SPatrick Bellasi default n 11242480c093SPatrick Bellasi help 11252480c093SPatrick Bellasi This feature enables the scheduler to track the clamped utilization 11262480c093SPatrick Bellasi of each CPU based on RUNNABLE tasks currently scheduled on that CPU. 11272480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11282480c093SPatrick Bellasi When this option is enabled, the user can specify a min and max 11292480c093SPatrick Bellasi CPU bandwidth which is allowed for each single task in a group. 11302480c093SPatrick Bellasi The max bandwidth allows to clamp the maximum frequency a task 11312480c093SPatrick Bellasi can use, while the min bandwidth allows to define a minimum 11322480c093SPatrick Bellasi frequency a task will always use. 11332480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11342480c093SPatrick Bellasi When task group based utilization clamping is enabled, an eventually 11352480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified task-specific clamp value is constrained by the cgroup 11362480c093SPatrick Bellasi specified clamp value. Both minimum and maximum task clamping cannot 11372480c093SPatrick Bellasi be bigger than the corresponding clamping defined at task group level. 11382480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11392480c093SPatrick Bellasi If in doubt, say N. 11402480c093SPatrick Bellasi 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 11436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 11456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 11466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 11476bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 11486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 11496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 11506cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 11516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 115398076833SJonathan Neuschäfer to a cgroup hierarchy) will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller, 11546bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 11556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 11566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 115739d3e758SParav Panditconfig CGROUP_RDMA 115839d3e758SParav Pandit bool "RDMA controller" 115939d3e758SParav Pandit help 116039d3e758SParav Pandit Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack. 116139d3e758SParav Pandit It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which 116239d3e758SParav Pandit can result into resource unavailability to other consumers. 116339d3e758SParav Pandit RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening. 116439d3e758SParav Pandit Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup 116539d3e758SParav Pandit hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit. 116639d3e758SParav Pandit 1167b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorstconfig CGROUP_DMEM 1168b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst bool "Device memory controller (DMEM)" 1169e33b5149SMaxime Ripard select PAGE_COUNTER 1170b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst help 1171b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst The DMEM controller allows compatible devices to restrict device 1172b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy. 1173b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 1174b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst As an example, it allows you to restrict VRAM usage for applications 1175b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst in the DRM subsystem. 1176b168ed45SMaarten Lankhorst 11776bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 11786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 11796bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 11816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 11826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1183489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1184489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1185489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1186489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1187489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 11886bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 11896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 11906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 11916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1192afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 11936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 11956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 11966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 11976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 12006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 12016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 12026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1203afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12046bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 12056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 1206e1d4eeecSNicolas Pitre depends on SMP 1207bf9850f6SKuan-Wei Chiu select UNION_FIND 12086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 12106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 12116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 12126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1213afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1215afc24d49SVivek Goyal 12161abab1baSChen Ridongconfig CPUSETS_V1 12171abab1baSChen Ridong bool "Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller" 12181abab1baSChen Ridong depends on CPUSETS 12191abab1baSChen Ridong default n 12201abab1baSChen Ridong help 12211abab1baSChen Ridong Legacy cgroup v1 cpusets controller which has been deprecated by 12221abab1baSChen Ridong cgroup v2 implementation. The v1 is there for legacy applications 1223dae68fbaSMichal Koutný which haven't migrated to the new cgroup v2 interface yet. Legacy 1224dae68fbaSMichal Koutný interface includes cpuset filesystem and /proc/<pid>/cpuset. If you 12251abab1baSChen Ridong do not have any such application then you are completely fine leaving 12261abab1baSChen Ridong this option disabled. 12271abab1baSChen Ridong 12281abab1baSChen Ridong Say N if unsure. 12291abab1baSChen Ridong 12306bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 12316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1232dae68fbaSMichal Koutný depends on CPUSETS_V1 123389e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 123489e9b9e0STejun Heo 12356bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 12366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 12376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 12396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 12406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12416bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 12426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 12436bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12446bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 12456bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 12466bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12476bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 12486bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 12496bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 12506bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12516bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 12526bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 12536546b19fSNamhyung Kim designated cpu. Or this can be used to have cgroup ID in samples 12546546b19fSNamhyung Kim so that it can monitor performance events among cgroups. 12556bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12566bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 12576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 125830070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 125930070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1260483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1261483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 126230070984SDaniel Mack help 126330070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 126430070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 126530070984SDaniel Mack 126630070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 126730070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 126830070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 126930070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 127030070984SDaniel Mack 1271a72232eaSVipin Sharmaconfig CGROUP_MISC 1272a72232eaSVipin Sharma bool "Misc resource controller" 1273a72232eaSVipin Sharma default n 1274a72232eaSVipin Sharma help 1275a72232eaSVipin Sharma Provides a controller for miscellaneous resources on a host. 1276a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1277a72232eaSVipin Sharma Miscellaneous scalar resources are the resources on the host system 1278a72232eaSVipin Sharma which cannot be abstracted like the other cgroups. This controller 1279a72232eaSVipin Sharma tracks and limits the miscellaneous resources used by a process 1280a72232eaSVipin Sharma attached to a cgroup hierarchy. 1281a72232eaSVipin Sharma 1282a72232eaSVipin Sharma For more information, please check misc cgroup section in 1283a72232eaSVipin Sharma /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst. 1284a72232eaSVipin Sharma 12856bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 128623b0be48SWaiman Long bool "Debug controller" 12876bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 128823b0be48SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 12896bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 12906bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 129123b0be48SWaiman Long debugging information about the cgroups framework. This 129223b0be48SWaiman Long controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its 129323b0be48SWaiman Long interfaces are not stable. 12946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 12956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 12966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 129773b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 129873b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 129973b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 130073b35147SArnd Bergmann 130123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1302c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 13038dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 13046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 13052813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 13066a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1307c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1308c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1309c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1310c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1311c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1312c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 13138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 13148dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 131558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 131658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 131717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 131858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 131958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 132058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 132158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1322769071acSAndrei Vaginconfig TIME_NS 1323769071acSAndrei Vagin bool "TIME namespace" 1324660fd04fSThomas Gleixner depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1325769071acSAndrei Vagin default y 1326769071acSAndrei Vagin help 1327769071acSAndrei Vagin In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set. 1328769071acSAndrei Vagin The time will keep going with the same pace. 1329769071acSAndrei Vagin 1330ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1331ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 13328dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 133317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1334ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1335ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1336614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1337ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1338aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 133919c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 13405673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1341aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1342aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1343aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1344e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1345e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1346d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1347d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1348d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1349e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1350aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1351aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 135274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 13539bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 135417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 135574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 135612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1357692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 135874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 135974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1360d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1361d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 13628dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 136317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1364d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1365d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1366d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1367d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 13688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 13698dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 13705cb366bbSAdrian Reberconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 13715cb366bbSAdrian Reber bool "Checkpoint/restore support" 137230341ec9SRen Zhijie depends on PROC_FS 13735cb366bbSAdrian Reber select PROC_CHILDREN 1374bfe3911aSChris Wilson select KCMP 13755cb366bbSAdrian Reber default n 13765cb366bbSAdrian Reber help 13775cb366bbSAdrian Reber Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 13785cb366bbSAdrian Reber In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 13795cb366bbSAdrian Reber data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 13805cb366bbSAdrian Reber entries. 13815cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13825cb366bbSAdrian Reber If unsure, say N here. 13835cb366bbSAdrian Reber 13845091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 13855091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 13865091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 13875091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 13885091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 13895091faa4SMike Galbraith help 13905091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 13915091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 13925091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 13935091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 13945091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 13955091faa4SMike Galbraith 13967af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 13977af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 139826b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 13997af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 14007af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 14017af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 14027af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 14037af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 14047af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 14057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 14067af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 14077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1408f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1409f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1410f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1411f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1412f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1413f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1414f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 14158c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1416f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1417f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1418f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1419f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1420f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1421f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1422f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1423c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1424c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1425dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1426dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1427c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1428c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 142976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG 143076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu bool "Boot config support" 1431a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu select BLK_DEV_INITRD if !BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 143276db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu help 143376db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu Extra boot config allows system admin to pass a config file as 143476db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu complemental extension of kernel cmdline when booting. 14350947db01SMasami Hiramatsu The boot config file must be attached at the end of initramfs 143685c46b78SMasami Hiramatsu with checksum, size and magic word. 14370947db01SMasami Hiramatsu See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst> for details. 143876db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 143976db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say Y. 144076db5a27SMasami Hiramatsu 1441b743852cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE 1442b743852cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing" 1443b743852cSPaul E. McKenney depends on BOOT_CONFIG 14446ded8a28SPaul E. McKenney default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1445b743852cSPaul E. McKenney help 1446b743852cSPaul E. McKenney With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried 1447b743852cSPaul E. McKenney out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted. 1448b743852cSPaul E. McKenney In fact, with this Kconfig option set, there is no way to 1449b743852cSPaul E. McKenney make the kernel ignore the BOOT_CONFIG-supplied kernel-boot 1450b743852cSPaul E. McKenney parameters. 1451b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1452b743852cSPaul E. McKenney If unsure, say N. 1453b743852cSPaul E. McKenney 1454a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1455a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Embed bootconfig file in the kernel" 1456a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG 1457a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1458a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Embed a bootconfig file given by BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE in the 1459a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu kernel. Usually, the bootconfig file is loaded with the initrd 1460a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu image. But if the system doesn't support initrd, this option will 1461a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help you by embedding a bootconfig file while building the kernel. 1462a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1463a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 1464a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 1465a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsuconfig BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE 1466a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu string "Embedded bootconfig file path" 1467a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED 1468a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu help 1469a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu Specify a bootconfig file which will be embedded to the kernel. 1470a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other 1471a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu bootconfig in the initrd. 1472a2a9d67aSMasami Hiramatsu 14731274aea1SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME 14741274aea1SDavid Disseldorp bool "Preserve cpio archive mtimes in initramfs" 14751274aea1SDavid Disseldorp default y 14761274aea1SDavid Disseldorp help 14771274aea1SDavid Disseldorp Each entry in an initramfs cpio archive carries an mtime value. When 14781274aea1SDavid Disseldorp enabled, extracted cpio items take this mtime, with directory mtime 14791274aea1SDavid Disseldorp setting deferred until after creation of any child entries. 14801274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 14811274aea1SDavid Disseldorp If unsure, say Y. 14821274aea1SDavid Disseldorp 148383c0b272SDavid Disseldorpconfig INITRAMFS_TEST 148483c0b272SDavid Disseldorp bool "Test initramfs cpio archive extraction" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 148583c0b272SDavid Disseldorp depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD && KUNIT=y 148683c0b272SDavid Disseldorp default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 148783c0b272SDavid Disseldorp help 148883c0b272SDavid Disseldorp Build KUnit tests for initramfs. See Documentation/dev-tools/kunit 148983c0b272SDavid Disseldorp 1490877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1491877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 14922cc3ce24SUlf Magnusson default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1493877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1494877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 149515f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for performance (-O2)" 1496877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1497877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1498877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1499877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1500877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1501c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 150215f5db60SMasahiro Yamada bool "Optimize for size (-Os)" 1503c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 1504ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada Choosing this option will pass "-Os" to your compiler resulting 1505ce3b487fSMasahiro Yamada in a smaller kernel. 1506c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1507877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1508877417e6SArnd Bergmann 15095d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15105d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool 15115d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15125d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 15135d20ee31SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 15145d20ee31SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 15155d20ee31SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 15165d20ee31SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 15175d20ee31SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 15185d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15195d20ee31SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15205d20ee31SNicholas Piggin bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15215d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 15225d20ee31SNicholas Piggin depends on EXPERT 1523e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) 1524e85d1d65SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) 15255d20ee31SNicholas Piggin help 15268b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with 15278b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, 15288b9d2712SMasahiro Yamada and linking with --gc-sections. 15295d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 15305d20ee31SNicholas Piggin This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel 15315d20ee31SNicholas Piggin code and static data, particularly for small configs and 15325d20ee31SNicholas Piggin on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing 15335d20ee31SNicholas Piggin silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not 15345d20ee31SNicholas Piggin present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your 15355d20ee31SNicholas Piggin own risk. 15365d20ee31SNicholas Piggin 153759612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN 153859612b24SNathan Chancellor def_bool y 153959612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 154059612b24SNathan Chancellor depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn) 1541e1789d7cSXin Li depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error) 1542e1789d7cSXin Li 1543e1789d7cSXin Liconfig LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL 1544e1789d7cSXin Li string 1545e1789d7cSXin Li depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1546e1789d7cSXin Li default "error" if WERROR 1547e1789d7cSXin Li default "warn" 154859612b24SNathan Chancellor 15490847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 15500847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 15510847062aSRandy Dunlap 1552657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1553657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1554657a5209SMike Frysinger 1555657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1556657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1557657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1558657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1559657a5209SMike Frysinger 1560657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1561657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1562657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1563657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1564657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1565657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1566657a5209SMike Frysinger 1567657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1568657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1569657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1570657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1571657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1572657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1573657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1574657a5209SMike Frysinger 1575c443279aSChristian Braunerconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 1576c443279aSChristian Brauner bool "Sysfs syscall support" 1577c443279aSChristian Brauner default n 1578c443279aSChristian Brauner help 1579c443279aSChristian Brauner sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1580c443279aSChristian Brauner Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1581c443279aSChristian Brauner compatibility with some systems. 1582c443279aSChristian Brauner 1583c443279aSChristian Brauner If unsure say N here. 1584c443279aSChristian Brauner 1585657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1586657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1587657a5209SMike Frysinger 15886a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 15896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1590f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1591f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1598ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 15996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 16002813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1601ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1602ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1603ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1604ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 16052813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 16062813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 16072813893fSIulia Manda default y 16082813893fSIulia Manda help 16092813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 16102813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 16112813893fSIulia Manda 16122813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 16132813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 16142813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 16152813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 16162813893fSIulia Manda 16172813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 16182813893fSIulia Manda 1619f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1620f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1621cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada default PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1622a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1623f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1624f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1625f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1626f6187769SFabian Frederick 1627f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1628f6187769SFabian Frederick 1629d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig FHANDLE 1630d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 1631d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap select EXPORTFS 1632d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1633d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1634d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 1635d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap file names to handle and then later use the handle for 1636d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 1637d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 1638d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 1639d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 1640d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap syscalls. 1641d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1642baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1643baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1644baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1645baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1646baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1647baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1648baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1649baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1650baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1651baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1652baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1653baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1654baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1655baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1656baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1657baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1658baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1659d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1660d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 16616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 166274876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1663d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1664d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1665d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1666d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1667d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1668d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1669d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1670c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 16716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1672c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1673c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1674c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1675c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1676c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1677c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1678c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1679c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1680708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1681046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1682708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 16836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1684708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1685708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1686708e9a79SMatt Mackall 16878761f1abSRalf Baechle 1688e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 16896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 16908761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 169115f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1692e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1693e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1694e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1695e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1696e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 169727021649SYoann Congalconfig BASE_SMALL 169827021649SYoann Congal bool "Enable smaller-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 170027021649SYoann Congal Enabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 17056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 17063f2bedabSArnd Bergmann depends on !(SPARC32 && SMP) 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1708bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre imply RT_MUTEXES 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1714bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitreconfig FUTEX_PI 1715bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre bool 1716bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES 1717bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre default y 1718bc2eecd7SNicolas Pitre 1719*9a57c377SSebastian Andrzej Siewior# 1720*9a57c377SSebastian Andrzej Siewior# marked broken for performance reasons; gives us one more cycle to sort things out. 1721*9a57c377SSebastian Andrzej Siewior# 172280367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewiorconfig FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH 172380367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior bool 172480367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on FUTEX && !BASE_SMALL && MMU 1725*9a57c377SSebastian Andrzej Siewior depends on BROKEN 172680367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y 172780367ad0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior 1728c042c505SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUTEX_MPOL 1729c042c505SPeter Zijlstra bool 1730c042c505SPeter Zijlstra depends on FUTEX && NUMA 1731c042c505SPeter Zijlstra default y 1732c042c505SPeter Zijlstra 17331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 17346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1740fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 17416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1742fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1743fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1744fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1745fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1746fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1747fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1748fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1749b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 17506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1751b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1752b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1753b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1754b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1755b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1756b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1757b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1758e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 17596a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1760e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1761e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1762e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1763e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1764e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1765e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1766e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 17671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 17686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1778ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 17796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1780ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1781ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1782ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1783ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1784ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1785ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 17862b188cc1SJens Axboeconfig IO_URING 17872b188cc1SJens Axboe bool "Enable IO uring support" if EXPERT 1788561fb04aSJens Axboe select IO_WQ 17892b188cc1SJens Axboe default y 17902b188cc1SJens Axboe help 17912b188cc1SJens Axboe This option enables support for the io_uring interface, enabling 17922b188cc1SJens Axboe applications to submit and complete IO through submission and 17932b188cc1SJens Axboe completion rings that are shared between the kernel and application. 17942b188cc1SJens Axboe 17951802656eSJens Axboeconfig GCOV_PROFILE_URING 17961802656eSJens Axboe bool "Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem" 17971802656eSJens Axboe depends on GCOV_KERNEL 17981802656eSJens Axboe help 17991802656eSJens Axboe Enable GCOV profiling on the io_uring subsystem, to facilitate 18001802656eSJens Axboe code coverage testing. 18011802656eSJens Axboe 18021802656eSJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 18031802656eSJens Axboe 18041802656eSJens Axboe Note that this will have a negative impact on the performance of 18051802656eSJens Axboe the io_uring subsystem, hence this should only be enabled for 18061802656eSJens Axboe specific test purposes. 18071802656eSJens Axboe 1808d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1809d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1810d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1811d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1812d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1813d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1814d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1815d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1816d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1817d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 18185b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 18195b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 18205b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 18215b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 18225b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 18235b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 18245b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 18255b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 18265b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 18275b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 18285b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 18295b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 1830a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig KCMP 1831a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable kcmp() system call" if EXPERT 1832a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1833a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the kernel resource comparison system call. It provides 1834a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space with the ability to compare two processes to see if they 1835a751ea34SRandy Dunlap share a common resource, such as a file descriptor or even virtual 1836a751ea34SRandy Dunlap memory space. 1837a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1838a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1839a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1840a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig RSEQ 1841a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1842a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1843a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on HAVE_RSEQ 1844a751ea34SRandy Dunlap select MEMBARRIER 1845a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1846a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a 1847a751ea34SRandy Dunlap user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which 1848a751ea34SRandy Dunlap speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space, 1849a751ea34SRandy Dunlap as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on 1850a751ea34SRandy Dunlap per-CPU data. 1851a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1852a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 1853a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1854a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig DEBUG_RSEQ 1855a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default n 1856a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT 1857a751ea34SRandy Dunlap depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL 1858a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1859a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call. 1860a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1861a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 1862a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1863a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig CACHESTAT_SYSCALL 1864a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "Enable cachestat() system call" if EXPERT 1865a751ea34SRandy Dunlap default y 1866a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1867a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Enable the cachestat system call, which queries the page cache 1868a751ea34SRandy Dunlap statistics of a file (number of cached pages, dirty pages, 1869a751ea34SRandy Dunlap pages marked for writeback, (recently) evicted pages). 1870a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1871a751ea34SRandy Dunlap If unsure say Y here. 1872a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1873a751ea34SRandy Dunlapconfig PC104 1874a751ea34SRandy Dunlap bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT 1875a751ea34SRandy Dunlap help 1876a751ea34SRandy Dunlap Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1877a751ea34SRandy Dunlap selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1878a751ea34SRandy Dunlap machine has a PC/104 bus. 1879a751ea34SRandy Dunlap 1880d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS 1881d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1882d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap default y 1883d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1884d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1885d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1886d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1887d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 188830f3bb09SZhen Leiconfig KALLSYMS_SELFTEST 188930f3bb09SZhen Lei bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms" 189030f3bb09SZhen Lei depends on KALLSYMS 189130f3bb09SZhen Lei default n 189230f3bb09SZhen Lei help 189330f3bb09SZhen Lei Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as 189430f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the 189530f3bb09SZhen Lei kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. 189630f3bb09SZhen Lei 189730f3bb09SZhen Lei Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing 189830f3bb09SZhen Lei "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is 189930f3bb09SZhen Lei displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete. 190030f3bb09SZhen Lei 1901d1b069f5SRandy Dunlapconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 1902d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1903d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1904d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap help 1905d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1906d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1907bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only if you want to 1908bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach enable kernel live patching, or other less common use cases (e.g., 1909bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (i.e., names of 1910bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach variables from the data sections, etc). 1911d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1912d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1913d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1914d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1915d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap something like this). 1916d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1917bdf0fe33SBaruch Siach Say N unless you really need all symbols, or kernel live patching. 1918d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 1919d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu 1920d1b069f5SRandy Dunlap 19213ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS 19223ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers bool 19233ccfebedSMathieu Desnoyers 192470216e18SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 192570216e18SMathieu Desnoyers bool 192670216e18SMathieu Desnoyers 19275796d396SJeff Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 19285796d396SJeff Xu bool 19295796d396SJeff Xu help 19305796d396SJeff Xu Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture. 19315796d396SJeff Xu 19325796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 19335796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 19345796d396SJeff Xu 19355796d396SJeff Xu To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their 19365796d396SJeff Xu special mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm 19375796d396SJeff Xu that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life 19385796d396SJeff Xu time of the process. The existence of this flag for an architecture 19395796d396SJeff Xu implies that it does not require the remapping of the system 19405796d396SJeff Xu mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe 19415796d396SJeff Xu from a kernel perspective. 19425796d396SJeff Xu 19435796d396SJeff Xu After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set 19445796d396SJeff Xu CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. 19455796d396SJeff Xu 19465796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 19475796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 19485796d396SJeff Xu 1949cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19500793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1951018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1952018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 19530793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19542aef6f30SSean Christophersonconfig GUEST_PERF_EVENTS 19552aef6f30SSean Christopherson bool 19562aef6f30SSean Christopherson depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 19572aef6f30SSean Christopherson 1958906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1959906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1960906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1961906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1962906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 196357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 19640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1965cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 196657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1967392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1968cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1969e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 19700793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 197157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 197257c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 19730793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1974dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 197557c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 197657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 197757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 197857c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 19790793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 19800793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 19810793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 19820793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 19830793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 19840793a61dSThomas Gleixner 198557c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1986dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 198757c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 19880793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 19890793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 19900793a61dSThomas Gleixner 19910793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 19920793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1993906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1994906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1995906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1996cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1997906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1998906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1999906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 2000906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2001906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 2002906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 2003906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 2004906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 2005906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 20060793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 20070793a61dSThomas Gleixner 2008091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2009091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 2010091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 2011091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 2012091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 2013d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 2014091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 2015091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 2016091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 2017091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 2018091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 2019091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 202082c04ff8SPeter Foley help 2021091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 2022091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 2023091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 2024091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 202582c04ff8SPeter Foley 2026125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 2027b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 2028125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 2029125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 2030f8408264SViresh Kumar by profilers. 2031125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 20322f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUST 20332f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool "Rust support" 20342f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on HAVE_RUST 20352f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST_IS_AVAILABLE 2036ac61506bSSami Tolvanen select EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS if MODVERSIONS 2037ac61506bSSami Tolvanen depends on !MODVERSIONS || GENDWARFKSYMS 2038f1385dc6SNeal Gompa depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 20392f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on !RANDSTRUCT 20405daa0c35SMatthew Maurer depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || (PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE && !LTO) 20418b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on !CFI_CLANG || HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 2042ca627e63SMatthew Maurer select CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS if CFI_CLANG 2043af6017b6SMiguel Ojeda depends on !CALL_PADDING || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108100 2044f64e2f3aSMatthew Maurer depends on !KASAN_SW_TAGS 204593e34a0bSAlice Ryhl depends on !(MITIGATION_RETHUNK && KASAN) || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108300 20462f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 20472f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda Enables Rust support in the kernel. 20482f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20492f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This allows other Rust-related options, like drivers written in Rust, 20502f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda to be selected. 20512f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20522f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda It is also required to be able to load external kernel modules 20532f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda written in Rust. 20542f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20552f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda See Documentation/rust/ for more information. 20562f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20572f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda If unsure, say N. 20582f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20592f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT 20602f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20612f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20625134a335SMiguel Ojeda default "$(RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT)" 20635134a335SMiguel Ojeda help 20645134a335SMiguel Ojeda See `CC_VERSION_TEXT`. 20652f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20662f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT 20672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda string 20682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda depends on RUST 20699e98db17SMiguel Ojeda # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0 2070c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0 2071c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed 2072c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 2073c23d1f7eSMiguel Ojeda # both fixed the issue). 2074aacf93e8SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)" 20752f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 20765f87f112SIngo Molnar# 20775f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 20785f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 20795f87f112SIngo Molnar# 208097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 20815f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 2082a363d27cSMathieu Desnoyers select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 208397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 208489cde455SEric DeVoldersource "kernel/Kconfig.kexec" 208589cde455SEric DeVolder 20861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20881572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/Kconfig" 20891572497cSChristoph Hellwig 2090ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 20916341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 20921c6f9ec0SSebastian Andrzej Siewior default y if PREEMPT_RT 2093ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 2094c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig MODULE_SIG_FORMAT 2095c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann def_bool n 2096c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2097c8424e77SThiago Jung Bauermann 209873b4fc92SChristophe Leroysource "kernel/module/Kconfig" 20996c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 210098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 210198a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 210298a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21035f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21045f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 210598a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 210698a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2107692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 210898a79d6aSRusty Russell 21093a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2110e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2111e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2112e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2113e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 211416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 211516295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 211616295becSSteffen Klassert bool 211716295becSSteffen Klassert 21184520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21194520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21204520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21214520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21224520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21234520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21244520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21254520c6a4SDavid Howells 21266beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2127e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers 21280ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 21290ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann bool 21300ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann 21314ff4c745SAndrea Parriconfig ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_SYNC_CORE_CMD 21324ff4c745SAndrea Parri bool 21334ff4c745SAndrea Parri 2134e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyersconfig ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 2135e61938a9SMathieu Desnoyers bool 21361bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski 21371bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the 21387303e30eSDominik Brodowski# SYSCALL_DEFINE() and __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros in <linux/syscalls.h> 21397303e30eSDominik Brodowski# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a 21407303e30eSDominik Brodowski# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the 21417303e30eSDominik Brodowski# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and 21427303e30eSDominik Brodowski# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in 21437303e30eSDominik Brodowski# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>. 21441bd21c6cSDominik Brodowskiconfig ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 21451bd21c6cSDominik Brodowski def_bool n 2146