180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 261dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 271dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 281dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 29c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirskiconfig THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 30c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski bool 31c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski help 32c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To 33c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields 34c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski except flags and fix any runtime bugs. 35c65eacbeSAndy Lutomirski 36c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() 37c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). 38c6c314a6SAndy Lutomirski 39ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 51dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 52dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5434ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 5534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5884336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 5984336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 6084336466SRoland McGrath help 6184336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 6284336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 6384336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 6484336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 6584336466SRoland McGrath 664bb16672SJiri Slabyconfig COMPILE_TEST 674bb16672SJiri Slaby bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 68bc083a64SRichard Weinberger depends on !UML 694bb16672SJiri Slaby default n 704bb16672SJiri Slaby help 714bb16672SJiri Slaby Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 724bb16672SJiri Slaby intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 734bb16672SJiri Slaby when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 744bb16672SJiri Slaby developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 754bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to compile-test them. 764bb16672SJiri Slaby 774bb16672SJiri Slaby If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 784bb16672SJiri Slaby here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 794bb16672SJiri Slaby drivers to be distributed. 804bb16672SJiri Slaby 811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 91aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 94ac3339baSAlexey Dobriyan depends on !COMPILE_TEST 95aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 104aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1213ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1223ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1233ebe1243SLasse Collin 1247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1257dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 127e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 128e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool 129e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1332d3c6275SH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1577dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1640a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17030d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1730a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 1740a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 1750a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1773ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1783ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1793ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1803ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1813ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin 1927dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1937dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1947dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1957dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1960a4dd35cSRandy Dunlap Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 197681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 200e76e1fdfSKyungsik Leeconfig KERNEL_LZ4 201e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee bool "LZ4" 202e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 203e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee help 204e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 205e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 206e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 207e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 208e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 209e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 210e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee faster than LZO. 211e76e1fdfSKyungsik Lee 21230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 21330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 215bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 216bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 217bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 218bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 219bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 220bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 221bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 222bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2259361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 248a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 249a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 250a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 251a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 252a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 253a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 25619c92399SKees Cook depends on NET 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 262b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 270bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 271bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 272bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 273bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 274bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 275bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 276226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikovconfig CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 277226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 278226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov depends on MMU 279226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov default y 280226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov help 281226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 282226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 283a2a368d9SGeert Uytterhoeven to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 284226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov See the man page for more details. 285226b4ccdSKonstantin Khlebnikov 286990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 287f76be617SAndi Kleen bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT 288990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 289f76be617SAndi Kleen default y 290990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 291990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 292990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 29969369a70SJosh Triplettconfig USELIB 30069369a70SJosh Triplett bool "uselib syscall" 301b2113a41SRiku Voipio def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 30269369a70SJosh Triplett help 30369369a70SJosh Triplett This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 30469369a70SJosh Triplett dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 30569369a70SJosh Triplett system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 30669369a70SJosh Triplett earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 30769369a70SJosh Triplett running glibc can safely disable this. 30869369a70SJosh Triplett 3091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 311804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 315cb74ed27SPaul Moore logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 316cb74ed27SPaul Moore on architectures which support it. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3187a017721SAKASHI Takahiroconfig HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3197a017721SAKASHI Takahiro bool 3207a017721SAKASHI Takahiro 3211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 322cb74ed27SPaul Moore def_bool y 3237a017721SAKASHI Takahiro depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 325939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 326939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 327939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 328939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 33074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 33174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 33328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 33474c3cbe3SAl Viro 335d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 336764e0da1SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 337d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 338391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckermenu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 339391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 340abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 341abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool 342abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 343fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerchoice 344fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker prompt "Cputime accounting" 345fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 34602fc8d37SStephen Rothwell default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 347fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 348fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 349fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 351c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 352fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 353fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 354fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 355fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker granularity. 356fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 357fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say Y. 358fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 359abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 360391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 361c58b0df1SFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 362abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 363391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 364391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 365391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 366391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 367391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 368391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 369391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 370391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker systems. 371391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 372abf917cdSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 373abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 374ff3fb254SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 375554b0004SKevin Hilman depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 376abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 377abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker select CONTEXT_TRACKING 378abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker help 379abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 380abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 381abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 382abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 383abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker overhead. 384abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 385abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 386abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem development. 387abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 388abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 389abf917cdSFrederic Weisbecker 390b58c3584SRik van Rielendchoice 391b58c3584SRik van Riel 392fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 393fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 394b58c3584SRik van Riel depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 395fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 396fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 397fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 398fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 399fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker small performance impact. 400fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 401fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker If in doubt, say N here. 402fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 403391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 404391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting" 4052813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 406391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 407391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 408391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 409391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 410391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 411391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 412391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 413391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 414391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker up to the user level program to do useful things with this 415391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 416391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 417391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 418391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 419391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 420391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 421391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 422391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 423391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 424391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 425391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 426391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 427391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 428391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 429391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASKSTATS 43019c92399SKees Cook bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 431391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on NET 4322813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 433391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker default n 434391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 435391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 436391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 437391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 438391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 439391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker space on task exit. 440391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 441391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 442391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 443391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 44419c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 445391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 446f6db8347SNaveen N. Rao select SCHED_INFO 447391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 448391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 449391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 450391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 451391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 452391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 453391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 454391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 455391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_XACCT 45619c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 457391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASKSTATS 458391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 459391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 460391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 461391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 462391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 463391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 464391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 46519c92399SKees Cook bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 466391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker depends on TASK_XACCT 467391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker help 468391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 469391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker task has caused. 470391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 471391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker Say N if unsure. 472391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 473391dc69cSFrederic Weisbeckerendmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 474391dc69cSFrederic Weisbecker 475c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 476c903ff83SMike Travis 477c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 478e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 479e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && SMP 480c903ff83SMike Travis help 481c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 482c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 483c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 484c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 485c903ff83SMike Travis 48628f6569aSPranith Kumarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 487e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 488e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if PREEMPT 489f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 490f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 491f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 492f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 493bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 494bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 495f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4969fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you are unsure. 4979fc52d83SPaul E. McKenney 4989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 499e72aeafcSPranith Kumar bool 500e72aeafcSPranith Kumar default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP 5019b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 5029b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 5039b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 5049b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 5059b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 5069b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 50778cae10bSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_EXPERT 50878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" 50978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney default n 51078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney help 51178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make 51278cae10bSPaul E. McKenney expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, 51378cae10bSPaul E. McKenney no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial 51478cae10bSPaul E. McKenney side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all 51578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous 51678cae10bSPaul E. McKenney obscure RCU options to be set up. 51778cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 51878cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. 51978cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 52078cae10bSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 52178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney 52283fe27eaSPranith Kumarconfig SRCU 52383fe27eaSPranith Kumar bool 52483fe27eaSPranith Kumar help 52583fe27eaSPranith Kumar This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version 52683fe27eaSPranith Kumar permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical 52783fe27eaSPranith Kumar sections. 52883fe27eaSPranith Kumar 5298315f422SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TASKS_RCU 53082d0f4c0SPaul E. McKenney bool 5318315f422SPaul E. McKenney default n 53283fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 5338315f422SPaul E. McKenney help 5348315f422SPaul E. McKenney This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 5358315f422SPaul E. McKenney only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 5368315f422SPaul E. McKenney user-mode execution as quiescent states. 5378315f422SPaul E. McKenney 5386bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_STALL_COMMON 53928f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 5406bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney help 5416bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 5426bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 5436bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 5446bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 5456bfc09e2SPaul E. McKenney 54691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING 54791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool 54891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker 54991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 55091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker bool "Force context tracking" 55191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 552d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 5531fd2b442SFrederic Weisbecker help 554d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 555d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 556d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 557d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks working. 558d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 559d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 560d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 561d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 562d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 563d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 564d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 565d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 566d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 567d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker CPUs in the system. 568d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 56999c8b1eaSPaul Gortmaker Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 570d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker architecture backend for the context tracking. 571d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 572d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 573d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker don't want in production. 574d84d27a4SFrederic Weisbecker 575d677124bSFrederic Weisbecker 576c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 577c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 578c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 579c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 58005c5df31SPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 581c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 582c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 583c903ff83SMike Travis help 584c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 585c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 5864d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 5874d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 5884d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 5894d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 5904d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 5914d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 592c903ff83SMike Travis 593c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 594c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 595c903ff83SMike Travis 5968932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 5978932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 5988739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 64 if 64BIT 5998739c5cbSPaul E. McKenney range 2 32 if !64BIT 60047d631afSPaul E. McKenney depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 6018932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 6028932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 6038932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 6048932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 6058932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 6068932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 6078932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 6088932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 6098932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 6108932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 6118932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 6128932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 6138932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 6148932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 6158932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 6168932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6178932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 6188932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6198932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 6208932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6218932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 6228932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 6238bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 6248bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 62578cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT 6268bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 6278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 628c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 629c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 630c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 631c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 632c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 633c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 634c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 6358bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 636c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 637c0f4dfd4SPaul E. McKenney don't care about increased grace-period durations. 6388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 6398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 6408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 641c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 64228f6569aSPranith Kumar def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 643c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 644c903ff83SMike Travis help 645f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 64628f6569aSPranith Kumar PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 647f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 648c903ff83SMike Travis 64924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 65024278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 65178cae10bSPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT 65224278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 65324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 65424278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 65524278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 65624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 65724278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 65824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 65924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 66024278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 66124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 66221871d7eSClark Williamsconfig RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 66321871d7eSClark Williams int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 664a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST 665a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST 666a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 1 if RCU_BOOST 667a94844b2SPaul E. McKenney default 0 if !RCU_BOOST 66826730f55SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT 66924278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 67021871d7eSClark Williams This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 67121871d7eSClark Williams assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 67221871d7eSClark Williams used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 67321871d7eSClark Williams real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 67421871d7eSClark Williams running at a real-time priority level, you should set 67521871d7eSClark Williams RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 67621871d7eSClark Williams real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 67721871d7eSClark Williams value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 678c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 679c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 680c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 681c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 682c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 68321871d7eSClark Williams that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 684c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 685c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 686c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 687c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 68821871d7eSClark Williams the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 689c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 69024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 69224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 69324278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 69424278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 69524278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 69624278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 69724278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 69824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 69924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 70024278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 70124278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 70224278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 70324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 70424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 70524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 7063fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU 7079a5739d7SPaul E. McKenney bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 70828f6569aSPranith Kumar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 709be55fa2aSPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL 7103fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney default n 7113fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney help 7123fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 7133fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 7143fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 7153fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney asymmetric multiprocessors. 7163fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 7173fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 7183fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 719a4889858SPaul E. McKenney For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 720a4889858SPaul E. McKenney invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 721a4889858SPaul E. McKenney and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 722a4889858SPaul E. McKenney "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 723a4889858SPaul E. McKenney on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 724a4889858SPaul E. McKenney between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 725a4889858SPaul E. McKenney to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 7263fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 72734ed6246SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 7283fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 7293fbfbf7aSPaul E. McKenney 730911af505SPaul E. McKenneychoice 731911af505SPaul E. McKenney prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 732911af505SPaul E. McKenney default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 7334568779fSStefan Hengelein depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 734911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 735676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 736676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 737676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 738676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 739911af505SPaul E. McKenney 740911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 741911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 742911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 743911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 744911af505SPaul E. McKenney Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 745676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 746676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 747676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 748676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney 749676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 750676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 751676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 752911af505SPaul E. McKenney 753911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 754911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 755911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 756676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 757676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 758676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 759676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 760676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 761676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney context. 762911af505SPaul E. McKenney 763911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 764676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 765676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 766911af505SPaul E. McKenney 767911af505SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 768911af505SPaul E. McKenney bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 769911af505SPaul E. McKenney help 770911af505SPaul E. McKenney This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 771676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 772676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 773676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 774676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 775676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 776676c3dc2SPaul E. McKenney RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 777911af505SPaul E. McKenney 778911af505SPaul E. McKenney Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 779911af505SPaul E. McKenney or energy-efficiency reasons. 780911af505SPaul E. McKenney 781911af505SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 782911af505SPaul E. McKenney 783c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 784c903ff83SMike Travis 785de5b56baSVivek Goyalconfig BUILD_BIN2C 786de5b56baSVivek Goyal bool 787de5b56baSVivek Goyal default n 788de5b56baSVivek Goyal 7891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 790f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 791de5b56baSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 809794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 810794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 811fb39f98dSIngo Molnar range 12 25 812f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 813361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 814794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 81523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 81623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 81723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 81823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 81923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 820f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 821f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 822f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 823f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 824f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 825794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 826794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 827794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 82823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguezconfig LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 82923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 8302240a31dSGeert Uytterhoeven depends on SMP 83123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez range 0 21 83223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 83323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez default 0 if BASE_SMALL 834361e9dfbSJosh Triplett depends on PRINTK 83523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez help 83623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 83723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 83823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 83923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 84023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez e.g. backtraces. 84123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 84223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 84323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 84423b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 84523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 84623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 84723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 84823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 84923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 85023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 85123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 8535e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case 8545e0d8d59SGeert Uytterhoeven scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 85523b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 85623b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez Examples shift values and their meaning: 85723b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 85823b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 85923b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 86023b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 86123b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 86223b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 86323b2899fSLuis R. Rodriguez 864427934b8SPetr Mladekconfig NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 865427934b8SPetr Mladek int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)" 866427934b8SPetr Mladek range 10 21 867427934b8SPetr Mladek default 13 868427934b8SPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK_NMI 869427934b8SPetr Mladek help 870427934b8SPetr Mladek Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary 871427934b8SPetr Mladek stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context 872427934b8SPetr Mladek to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2. 873427934b8SPetr Mladek 874427934b8SPetr Mladek NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when 875427934b8SPetr Mladek a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select 876427934b8SPetr Mladek 8KB if you want to be on the safe side. 877427934b8SPetr Mladek 878427934b8SPetr Mladek Examples: 879427934b8SPetr Mladek 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 880427934b8SPetr Mladek 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 881427934b8SPetr Mladek 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 882427934b8SPetr Mladek 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 883427934b8SPetr Mladek 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 884427934b8SPetr Mladek 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 885427934b8SPetr Mladek 8865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 8885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 8895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 8905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 8915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 89238ff87f7SStephen Boydconfig GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 89338ff87f7SStephen Boyd bool 89438ff87f7SStephen Boyd 895be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 896be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 897be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# balancing logic: 898be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 899be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 900be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 901be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 902be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 90372b252aeSMel Gorman# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 90472b252aeSMel Gorman# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 90572b252aeSMel Gorman# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 90672b252aeSMel Gorman# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 90772b252aeSMel Gorman# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 90872b252aeSMel Gorman# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 90972b252aeSMel Gormanconfig ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 91072b252aeSMel Gorman bool 91172b252aeSMel Gorman 91272b252aeSMel Gorman# 913be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 914be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra# 915be5e610cSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 916be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra bool 917be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra 918be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 919be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 920be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli# 921be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 922be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool 923be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 924be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeliconfig NUMA_BALANCING 925be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 926be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 927be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 928be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 929be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli help 930be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 931be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 9326d56a410SPaul Gortmaker it has references to the node the task is running on. 933be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 934be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 935be3a7284SAndrea Arcangeli 9366f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 9376f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 9386f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V default y 9396f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V depends on NUMA_BALANCING 9406f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V help 9416f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 9426f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V machine. 9436f7c97e8SAneesh Kumar K.V 94423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 9456341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Control Group support" 9462bd59d48STejun Heo select KERNFS 947ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 94823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 9495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 9505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 9515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 9525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 9539991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation 95445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 955ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 956ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 957ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 95823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 95923964d2dSLi Zefan 9603e32cb2eSJohannes Weinerconfig PAGE_COUNTER 9613e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner bool 9623e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner 963c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG 964a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Memory controller" 9653e32cb2eSJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 96679bd9814STejun Heo select EVENTFD 96700f0b825SBalbir Singh help 968a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 96900f0b825SBalbir Singh 970c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP 971a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller" 972c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG && SWAP 973c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 974a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 975a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner 976c255a458SAndrew Mortonconfig MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 977a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 978c255a458SAndrew Morton depends on MEMCG_SWAP 979a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 980a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 981a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 982a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 98343d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 98407555ac1SMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 985a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 986a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 987a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 98800a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 989c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig BLK_CGROUP 9916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller" 9926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLOCK 9932bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V default n 9946bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 9956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 9966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 9976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner policies. 9982bc64a20SAneesh Kumar K.V 9996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 10006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 10016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 10026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1003e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 10056bf024e6SJohannes Weiner One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 10066bf024e6SJohannes Weiner enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 10076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 10086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 10096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10109991a9c8Sseokhoon.yoon See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 10116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10126bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 10136bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "IO controller debugging" 10146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on BLK_CGROUP 10156bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 10166bf024e6SJohannes Weiner ---help--- 10176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 10186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 10196bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10206bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_WRITEBACK 10216bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool 10226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 10236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default y 1024e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 10257c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1026a0166ec4SJohannes Weiner bool "CPU controller" 10277c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10287c941438SDhaval Giani help 10297c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 10307c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 10317c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 10327c941438SDhaval Giani 10337c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 10347c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 10357c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 10367c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10377c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 10387c941438SDhaval Giani 1039ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 1040ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1041ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1042ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 1043ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 1044ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1045ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1046ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1047ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 1048ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1049ab84d31eSPaul Turner 10507c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 10517c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 10527c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 10537c941438SDhaval Giani default n 10547c941438SDhaval Giani help 10557c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 105632bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 10577c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 10587c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 10597c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 10607c941438SDhaval Giani 10617c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 10627c941438SDhaval Giani 10636bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PIDS 10646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "PIDs controller" 10656bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10666bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 10676bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 10686bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 10696bf024e6SJohannes Weiner is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 10706bf024e6SJohannes Weiner conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 10716bf024e6SJohannes Weiner system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 10726cc578dfSParav Pandit PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening. 10736bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10746bf024e6SJohannes Weiner It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 10756cc578dfSParav Pandit to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller), 10766bf024e6SJohannes Weiner since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 10776bf024e6SJohannes Weiner attach to a cgroup. 10786bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 10796bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 10806bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Freezer controller" 10816bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10826bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 10836bf024e6SJohannes Weiner cgroup. 10846bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 1085489c2a20SJohannes Weiner This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory 1086489c2a20SJohannes Weiner controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default. 1087489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 1088489c2a20SJohannes Weiner If you're using cgroup2, say N. 1089489c2a20SJohannes Weiner 10906bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_HUGETLB 10916bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "HugeTLB controller" 10926bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 10936bf024e6SJohannes Weiner select PAGE_COUNTER 1094afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 10956bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 10966bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 10976bf024e6SJohannes Weiner When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 10986bf024e6SJohannes Weiner The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 10996bf024e6SJohannes Weiner support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 11006bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 11016bf024e6SJohannes Weiner HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 11026bf024e6SJohannes Weiner beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 11036bf024e6SJohannes Weiner control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 11046bf024e6SJohannes Weiner that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1105afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11066bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CPUSETS 11076bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Cpuset controller" 11086bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11096bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 11106bf024e6SJohannes Weiner allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 11116bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 11126bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1113afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11146bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 1115afc24d49SVivek Goyal 11166bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 11176bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 11186bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on CPUSETS 111989e9b9e0STejun Heo default y 112089e9b9e0STejun Heo 11216bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 11226bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Device controller" 11236bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11246bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 11256bf024e6SJohannes Weiner devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 11266bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11276bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 11286bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 11296bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11306bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 11316bf024e6SJohannes Weiner total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 11326bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11336bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_PERF 11346bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Perf controller" 11356bf024e6SJohannes Weiner depends on PERF_EVENTS 11366bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11376bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 11386bf024e6SJohannes Weiner to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 11396bf024e6SJohannes Weiner designated cpu. 11406bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11416bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N if unsure. 11426bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 114330070984SDaniel Mackconfig CGROUP_BPF 114430070984SDaniel Mack bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups" 1145483c4933SAndy Lutomirski depends on BPF_SYSCALL 1146483c4933SAndy Lutomirski select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 114730070984SDaniel Mack help 114830070984SDaniel Mack Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2) 114930070984SDaniel Mack syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH. 115030070984SDaniel Mack 115130070984SDaniel Mack In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type 115230070984SDaniel Mack of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using 115330070984SDaniel Mack BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of 115430070984SDaniel Mack inet sockets. 115530070984SDaniel Mack 11566bf024e6SJohannes Weinerconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 11576bf024e6SJohannes Weiner bool "Example controller" 11586bf024e6SJohannes Weiner default n 11596bf024e6SJohannes Weiner help 11606bf024e6SJohannes Weiner This option enables a simple controller that exports 11616bf024e6SJohannes Weiner debugging information about the cgroups framework. 11626bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 11636bf024e6SJohannes Weiner Say N. 11646bf024e6SJohannes Weiner 116573b35147SArnd Bergmannconfig SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 116673b35147SArnd Bergmann bool 116773b35147SArnd Bergmann default n 116873b35147SArnd Bergmann 116923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 1170c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1171067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1172067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 11732e13ba54SIago López Galeiras select PROC_CHILDREN 1174067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 1175067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 1176067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1177067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1178067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1179067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 1180067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 1181067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 1182067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 11838dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 11846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 11852813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 11866a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 1187c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 1188c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1189c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1190c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1191c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 1192c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 11938dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 11948dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 119558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 119658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 119717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 119858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 119958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 120058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 120158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 1202ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 1203ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 12048dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 120517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1206ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 1207ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1208614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1209ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 1210aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 121119c92399SKees Cook bool "User namespace" 12125673a94cSEric W. Biederman default n 1213aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 1214aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1215aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 1216e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1217e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1218d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that 1219d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount 1220d886f4e4SJohannes Weiner of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. 1221e11f0ae3SEric W. Biederman 1222aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 1223aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 122474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 12259bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 122617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 122774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 122812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1229692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 123074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 123174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 1232d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 1233d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 12348dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 123517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 1236d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 1237d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1238d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 1239d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 12408dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 12418dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 12425091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 12435091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 12445091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 12455091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 12465091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 12475091faa4SMike Galbraith help 12485091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 12495091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 12505091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 12515091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 12525091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 12535091faa4SMike Galbraith 12547af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12555d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 12567af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12577af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12587af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12597af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 12607af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 12617af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 12627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12637af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 12647af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 12657af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12667af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 12677af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 12687af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 12697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12707af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 12717af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 12727af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 12737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12747af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12757af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 12767af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12777af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 12785d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 12797af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 12807af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 12817af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 12827af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12837af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 12847af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12857af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 12867af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 12877af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12887af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 12897af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 12907af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 12917af37becSDaniel Lezcano 12927af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 12937af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 129426b5679eSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12957af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 12967af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 12977af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 12987af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 12997af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 13007af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 13017af37becSDaniel Lezcano 13027af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 13037af37becSDaniel Lezcano 1304f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 1305f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1306f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1307f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 1308f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1309f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1310f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1311f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 13128c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details. 1313f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1314f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1315f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1316f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1317f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1318f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 1319f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 1320c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 1321c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1322dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 1323dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 1324c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 1325c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 1326877417e6SArnd Bergmannchoice 1327877417e6SArnd Bergmann prompt "Compiler optimization level" 1328877417e6SArnd Bergmann default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1329877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1330877417e6SArnd Bergmannconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE 1331877417e6SArnd Bergmann bool "Optimize for performance" 1332877417e6SArnd Bergmann help 1333877417e6SArnd Bergmann This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building 1334877417e6SArnd Bergmann with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most 1335877417e6SArnd Bergmann helpful compile-time warnings. 1336877417e6SArnd Bergmann 1337c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 133896fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 1339c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 134031a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 134131a4af7fSMasahiro Yamada your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1342c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 13433a55fb0dSKirill Smelkov If unsure, say N. 1344c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 1345877417e6SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1346877417e6SArnd Bergmann 13470847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 13480847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 13490847062aSRandy Dunlap 1350b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 1351b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 1352b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1353657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_UID16 1354657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1355657a5209SMike Frysinger 1356657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1357657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1358657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1359657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1360657a5209SMike Frysinger 1361657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1362657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1363657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1364657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1365657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1366657a5209SMike Frysinger about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1367657a5209SMike Frysinger 1368657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1369657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1370657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1371657a5209SMike Frysinger Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1372657a5209SMike Frysinger Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1373657a5209SMike Frysinger the unaligned access emulation. 1374657a5209SMike Frysinger see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1375657a5209SMike Frysinger 1376657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1377657a5209SMike Frysinger bool 1378657a5209SMike Frysinger 1379f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1380f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF 1381f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov bool 1382f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 13836a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 13846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1385f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1386f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1393ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 13946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 13952813893fSIulia Manda depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1396ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1397ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1398ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1399ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 14002813893fSIulia Mandaconfig MULTIUSER 14012813893fSIulia Manda bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 14022813893fSIulia Manda default y 14032813893fSIulia Manda help 14042813893fSIulia Manda This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 14052813893fSIulia Manda capabilities. 14062813893fSIulia Manda 14072813893fSIulia Manda If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 14082813893fSIulia Manda possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 14092813893fSIulia Manda system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 14102813893fSIulia Manda setgid, and capset. 14112813893fSIulia Manda 14122813893fSIulia Manda If unsure, say Y here. 14132813893fSIulia Manda 1414f6187769SFabian Frederickconfig SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1415f6187769SFabian Frederick bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1416f6187769SFabian Frederick def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1417f6187769SFabian Frederick ---help--- 1418f6187769SFabian Frederick sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1419f6187769SFabian Frederick no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1420f6187769SFabian Frederick architectures. 1421f6187769SFabian Frederick 1422f6187769SFabian Frederick If unsure, leave the default option here. 1423f6187769SFabian Frederick 14246af9f7bfSFabian Frederickconfig SYSFS_SYSCALL 14256af9f7bfSFabian Frederick bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 14266af9f7bfSFabian Frederick default y 14276af9f7bfSFabian Frederick ---help--- 14286af9f7bfSFabian Frederick sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 14296af9f7bfSFabian Frederick Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 14306af9f7bfSFabian Frederick compatibility with some systems. 14316af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 14326af9f7bfSFabian Frederick If unsure say Y here. 14336af9f7bfSFabian Frederick 1434b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 14356a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 143626a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1437c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1438b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1439b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 144013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 144113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 144213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 144313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1444b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 144513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 144613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 144713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1448b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1449c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1450ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1451baa73d9eSNicolas Pitreconfig POSIX_TIMERS 1452baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT 1453baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre default y 1454baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre help 1455baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel. 1456baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they 1457baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image. 1458baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1459baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be 1460baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, 1461baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer, 1462baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime, 1463baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to 1464baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only. 1465baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 1466baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre If unsure say y. 1467baa73d9eSNicolas Pitre 14681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 14696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 148071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 148171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 148271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 148371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 148471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 148671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 148771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 148871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 148971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 149171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1492d59745ceSMatt Mackall 14934d5d5664SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 14944d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel bool 1495076501ffSRandy Dunlap depends on KALLSYMS 14964d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel default X86_64 && SMP 14974d5d5664SArd Biesheuvel 14982213e9a6SArd Biesheuvelconfig KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE 14992213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel bool 15002213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel depends on KALLSYMS 15012213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT) 15022213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel help 15032213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size, 15042213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries, 15052213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX] 15062213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either 15072213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the 15082213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol 15092213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel address encountered in the image. 15102213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 15112213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%, 15122213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build 15132213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix 15142213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel. 15152213e9a6SArd Biesheuvel 1516d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1517d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 15186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 151974876a98SFrederic Weisbecker select IRQ_WORK 1520d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1521d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1522d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1523d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1524d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1525d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1526d59745ceSMatt Mackall 152742a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig PRINTK_NMI 152842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek def_bool y 152942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on PRINTK 153042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 153142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 1532c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 15336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1534c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1535c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1536c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1537c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1538c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1539c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1540c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1541c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1542708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1543046d662fSAlex Kelly depends on COREDUMP 1544708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 15456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1546708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1547708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1548708e9a79SMatt Mackall 15498761f1abSRalf Baechle 1550e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 15516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 15528761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 155315f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1554e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1555e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1556e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1557e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1558e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 15591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 15686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 157023f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 157603b8c7b6SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 157703b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens bool 157862b4d204SJosh Triplett depends on FUTEX 157903b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens help 158003b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 158103b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 158203b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens checks. 158303b8c7b6SHeiko Carstens 15841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 15856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1587448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1592fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 15936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1594448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1595fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1596fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1597fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1598fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1599fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1600fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1601fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1602b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 16036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1604448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1605b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1606b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1607b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1608b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1609b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1610b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1611b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1612e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 16136a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1614448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1615e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1616e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1617e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1618e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1619e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1620e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1621e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1622f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov# syscall, maps, verifier 1623f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitovconfig BPF_SYSCALL 1624e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1625f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select ANON_INODES 1626f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov select BPF 1627f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov default n 1628f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov help 1629f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1630f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov programs and maps via file descriptors. 1631f89b7755SAlexei Starovoitov 16321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 16336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1643ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 16446a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1645ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1646ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1647ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1648ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1649ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1650ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1651d3ac21caSJosh Triplettconfig ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1652d3ac21caSJosh Triplett bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1653d3ac21caSJosh Triplett default y 1654d3ac21caSJosh Triplett help 1655d3ac21caSJosh Triplett This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1656d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1657d3ac21caSJosh Triplett usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1658d3ac21caSJosh Triplett applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1659d3ac21caSJosh Triplett space. 1660d3ac21caSJosh Triplett 1661a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeliconfig USERFAULTFD 1662a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1663a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli select ANON_INODES 1664a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli depends on MMU 1665a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli help 1666a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1667a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli handle page faults in userland. 1668a14c151eSAndrea Arcangeli 1669657a5209SMike Frysingerconfig PCI_QUIRKS 1670657a5209SMike Frysinger default y 1671657a5209SMike Frysinger bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1672657a5209SMike Frysinger depends on PCI 1673657a5209SMike Frysinger help 1674657a5209SMike Frysinger This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1675657a5209SMike Frysinger bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1676657a5209SMike Frysinger unaffected by PCI quirks. 1677657a5209SMike Frysinger 16785b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyersconfig MEMBARRIER 16795b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 16805b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers default y 16815b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers help 16825b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 16835b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 16845b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 16855b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 16865b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers compiler barrier. 16875b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16885b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say Y. 16895b25b13aSMathieu Desnoyers 16906befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 16916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 16925d2acfc7SJosh Triplett option allnoconfig_y 16936befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 16946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 16956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 16966befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 16976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 16986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1699cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17000793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1701018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1702018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 17030793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1704906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1705906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1706906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1707906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1708906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1709ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig PC104 1710ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "PC/104 support" 1711ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray help 1712ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for 1713ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target 1714ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray machine has a PC/104 bus. 1715ad90a3deSWilliam Breathitt Gray 171657c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 17170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1718cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 171957c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1720392d65a9SRobert Richter default y if PROFILING 1721cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 17224c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1723e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 172483fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 17250793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 172657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 172757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 17280793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1729dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 173057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 173157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 173257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 173357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 17340793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 17350793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 17360793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 17370793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 17380793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 17390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 174057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1741dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 174257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 17430793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 17440793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 17450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 17460793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 17470793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1748906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1749906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1750906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1751cb307113SMichael Ellerman depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1752906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1753906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1754906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1755906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1756906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1757906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1758906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1759906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1760906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 17610793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 17620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1763f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1764f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 17656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1766f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 17672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 17682aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 17696a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 17702aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1771f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 177241ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 177341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 17746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1775f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 177641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 177741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 177841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 177941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 178041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 178141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1782*1663f26dSTejun Heoconfig SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON 1783*1663f26dSTejun Heo default n 1784*1663f26dSTejun Heo bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT 1785*1663f26dSTejun Heo depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG 1786*1663f26dSTejun Heo help 1787*1663f26dSTejun Heo SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each 1788*1663f26dSTejun Heo allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory 1789*1663f26dSTejun Heo cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup 1790*1663f26dSTejun Heo caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these 1791*1663f26dSTejun Heo caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead 1792*1663f26dSTejun Heo to a very high number of debug files being created. This is 1793*1663f26dSTejun Heo controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this 1794*1663f26dSTejun Heo config option determines the parameter's default value. 1795*1663f26dSTejun Heo 1796b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1797b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1798b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1799b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1800b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1801b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1802b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1803692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1804b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1805b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1806b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1807b943c460SRandy Dunlap 180881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 180981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1810a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 181181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 181381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 181481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 181581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 181604385fc5SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 181781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 181881819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 181934013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 182002f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 182181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 182281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 182381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1824ed18adc1SKees Cook select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 182581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 182681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 182781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 182881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 182981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 183002f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 183102f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 183281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 183381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 18346a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 183581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 183681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 183737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 183837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 183937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 184081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 184181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 184281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1843c7ce4f60SThomas Garnierconfig SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM 1844c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier default n 1845210e7a43SThomas Garnier depends on SLAB || SLUB 1846c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier bool "SLAB freelist randomization" 1847c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier help 1848210e7a43SThomas Garnier Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This 1849c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab 1850c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier allocator against heap overflows. 1851c7ce4f60SThomas Garnier 1852345c905dSJoonsoo Kimconfig SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1853345c905dSJoonsoo Kim default y 1854b39ffbf8SUwe Kleine-König depends on SLUB && SMP 1855345c905dSJoonsoo Kim bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1856345c905dSJoonsoo Kim help 1857345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1858345c905dSJoonsoo Kim that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1859345c905dSJoonsoo Kim in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1860345c905dSJoonsoo Kim which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1861345c905dSJoonsoo Kim Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1862345c905dSJoonsoo Kim 1863ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1864ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 18656a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1866ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1867ea637639SJie Zhang help 1868ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1869ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1870ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1871ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1872ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1873ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1874ea637639SJie Zhang 1875ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1876ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1877ea637639SJie Zhang 1878ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1879ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1880ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1881ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1882ea637639SJie Zhang 1883ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1884ea637639SJie Zhang 1885091f6e26SDavid Howellsconfig SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1886091f6e26SDavid Howells def_bool n 1887091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1888091f6e26SDavid Howells select KEYS 1889091f6e26SDavid Howells select CRYPTO 1890d43de6c7SDavid Howells select CRYPTO_RSA 1891091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1892091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1893091f6e26SDavid Howells select ASN1 1894091f6e26SDavid Howells select OID_REGISTRY 1895091f6e26SDavid Howells select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1896091f6e26SDavid Howells select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 189782c04ff8SPeter Foley help 1898091f6e26SDavid Howells Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1899091f6e26SDavid Howells trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1900091f6e26SDavid Howells module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1901091f6e26SDavid Howells verification. 190282c04ff8SPeter Foley 1903125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1904b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1905125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1906125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1907125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1908125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19095f87f112SIngo Molnar# 19105f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 19115f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 19125f87f112SIngo Molnar# 191397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 19145f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 191597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1916fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1917fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 19181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1920ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1921ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1922ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1923ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1924158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1925158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1926158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 19270f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1928158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1929158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1930ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 19316341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1932ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 19331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 193866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 194011097a03SYann E. MORIN option modules 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19590b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 19600b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1961826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1962826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1963826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1964826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 196591e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 196691e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 196791e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1968826e4506SLinus Torvalds 19691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 19701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1974f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1975f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 197919c92399SKees Cook depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 19880d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 199756067812SArd Biesheuvelconfig MODULE_REL_CRCS 199856067812SArd Biesheuvel bool 199956067812SArd Biesheuvel depends on MODVERSIONS 200056067812SArd Biesheuvel 20011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2012106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG 2013106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Module signature verification" 2014106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULES 2015091f6e26SDavid Howells select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 2016106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2017106a4ee2SRusty Russell Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 2018106a4ee2SRusty Russell is simply appended to the module. For more information see 2019106a4ee2SRusty Russell Documentation/module-signing.txt. 2020106a4ee2SRusty Russell 2021228c37ffSDavid Howells Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 2022228c37ffSDavid Howells kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 2023228c37ffSDavid Howells library. 2024228c37ffSDavid Howells 2025ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 2026ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 2027ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 2028ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 2029ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2030106a4ee2SRusty Russellconfig MODULE_SIG_FORCE 2031106a4ee2SRusty Russell bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 2032106a4ee2SRusty Russell depends on MODULE_SIG 2033106a4ee2SRusty Russell help 2034106a4ee2SRusty Russell Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 2035106a4ee2SRusty Russell key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 2036ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2037d9d8d7edSMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_ALL 2038d9d8d7edSMichal Marek bool "Automatically sign all modules" 2039d9d8d7edSMichal Marek default y 2040d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 2041d9d8d7edSMichal Marek help 2042d9d8d7edSMichal Marek Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 2043d9d8d7edSMichal Marek modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 2044d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2045d9d8d7edSMichal Marekcomment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 2046d9d8d7edSMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 2047d9d8d7edSMichal Marek 2048ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellschoice 2049ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 2050ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells depends on MODULE_SIG 2051ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells help 2052ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 2053ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 2054ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 2055ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 2056ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells the signature on that module. 2057ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2058ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA1 2059ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 2060ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA1 2061ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2062ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA224 2063ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 2064ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2065ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2066ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA256 2067ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 2068ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA256 2069ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2070ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA384 2071ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 2072ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2073ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2074ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsconfig MODULE_SIG_SHA512 2075ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 2076ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells select CRYPTO_SHA512 2077ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 2078ea0b6dcfSDavid Howellsendchoice 2079ea0b6dcfSDavid Howells 208022753674SMichal Marekconfig MODULE_SIG_HASH 208122753674SMichal Marek string 208222753674SMichal Marek depends on MODULE_SIG 208322753674SMichal Marek default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 208422753674SMichal Marek default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 208522753674SMichal Marek default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 208622753674SMichal Marek default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 208722753674SMichal Marek default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 208822753674SMichal Marek 2089beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS 2090beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "Compress modules on installation" 2091beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULES 2092beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2093beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2094b6c09b51SRusty Russell Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 2095b6c09b51SRusty Russell xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 2096beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2097b6c09b51SRusty Russell module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 2098beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2099b6c09b51SRusty Russell Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 2100b6c09b51SRusty Russell compressed upon installation. 2101beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2102b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 2103b6c09b51SRusty Russell to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 2104beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2105b6c09b51SRusty Russell Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 2106b6c09b51SRusty Russell 2107b6c09b51SRusty Russell If in doubt, say N. 2108beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2109beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinchoice 2110beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin prompt "Compression algorithm" 2111beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 2112beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2113beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin help 2114beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin This determines which sort of compression will be used during 2115beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 'make modules_install'. 2116beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2117beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 2118beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2119beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 2120beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "GZIP" 2121beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2122beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinconfig MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 2123beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin bool "XZ" 2124beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2125beb50df3SBertrand Jacquinendchoice 2126beb50df3SBertrand Jacquin 2127dbacb0efSNicolas Pitreconfig TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS 2128dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" 2129dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS 2130dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre help 2131dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for 2132dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending 2133dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, 2134dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre many of those exported symbols might never be used. 2135dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2136dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from 2137dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities 2138dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing 2139dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. 2140dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 2141f1cb637eSValdis Kletnieks If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N. 2142dbacb0efSNicolas Pitre 21430b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 21440b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 21456c9692e2SPeter Zijlstraconfig MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 21466c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 21476c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 21486c9692e2SPeter Zijlstra 214998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 215098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 215198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 21525f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 21535f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 215498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 215598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2156692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 215798a79d6aSRusty Russell 21583a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 2159e98c3202SAvi Kivity 2160e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2161e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 2162e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 216316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 216416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 216516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 216616295becSSteffen Klassert 21674520c6a4SDavid Howellsconfig ASN1 21684520c6a4SDavid Howells tristate 21694520c6a4SDavid Howells help 21704520c6a4SDavid Howells Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 21714520c6a4SDavid Howells that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 21724520c6a4SDavid Howells inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 21734520c6a4SDavid Howells functions to call on what tags. 21744520c6a4SDavid Howells 21756beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2176